World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

The bonobo, named Teco, who tended to point at the food a lot in all circumstances, also reminded us of another caution: ...

A new study shows that bonobos seem to know a little bit about what's going on in a human companion's mind, and will try to ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to ...

If the bonobo had witnessed Townrow observing the ... But the new work is the first study to replicate similar behavior in a controlled setting. It also seems to show that apes “can ...

The idiom “monkey see, monkey do” refers to someone copying an action without putting much thought into it. It literally lays ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that ...

People are constantly looking at the behavior of others and coming up with ... During each experimental trial, Townrow sat across from one bonobo, who was in an enclosure, but looking through ...

If someone is supposed to give you a snack, but you know that they don’t know where that snack is, you would—obviously—communicate its location to them. While this might feel ordinary to us, it ...

By Shanna Hanbury Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to ...

New research seems to suggest bonobos could possess some form of theory of mind. But there's a bit more to it than that.