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

A first-of-its-kind study suggests bonobos, like humans, can understand someone else’s lack of knowledge—and adjust their ...

At other times, he would not be able to see where the treat was, and the bonobo would point to the right cup to help ... is ...

Apes don’t just act on instinct—they recognize when someone lacks information and actively help them out! In a controlled ...

Apes can tell when humans lack knowledge. They help by pointing to hidden treats. This suggests they understand others' ...

Working out how smart or intelligent your partner is, in any given task, is a tricky skill at the best of times. This type of ...

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

The study provides clear evidence that apes can intuit another's ignorance, a trait once thought uniquely human.

The bonobos eagerly pointed out treats to humans who didn’t know where they were, but when humans had watched the treats ...

The bonobo would watch as a second person placed a treat ... "What we've shown here is that apes will communicate with a ...

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 ...