Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...

Human encroachment has not turned chimpanzees and bonobos into warmongers bent on violence and infanticide as many people have theorized. The behavior comes naturally, report 30 international ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA. Yet, these primates ...

Within-group cooperation (i.e., among closely related individuals), is to varying degrees observed among a significant number of animal species. However, peaceful encounters and cooperation between ...

Zeke also hangs upside down from man-made vines, grasping them with his feet. And that’s typical, too — for a bonobo. Findley, a zoology major at Miami, is spending her summer studying bonobo behavior ...

A new study of bonobos has observed a previously unrecognized trait among these apes: They are kind to strangers. The reputation of bonobos as friendly and warmhearted creatures (plus enthusiastic ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees to comfort others in distress. The study ...

Bonobos are well known for their peaceable relations within family groups, but there’s less scientific consensus about how much tolerance they extend to individuals outside of their core groups. A ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are often thought to reflect two different sides of human nature—the conflict-ready chimpanzee versus the peaceful bonobo—but a new study publishing April 12 in the journal ...

“Be Bonobos; don’t be jerks!” “What a Bonobo brother he is!” “What would a Bonobo do?” “Have I ‘Bonoboed’ today?” Some books are life-changing enough to generate their own lexicon, and Diane Rosenfeld ...

The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans. We share over ninety-eight percent of our DNA with some species of these creatures, and it’s valuable to think of ourselves as being more ...