An analysis reveals how the two primate species use sex to resolve conflicts. This suggests that the social function of sex ...

"Without lethal competition between groups, a link between ingroup cohesion and outgroup competition wouldn't be so adaptive, ...

A Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden employee was injured Friday after being bitten by a bonobo, officials said. A member of the zoo's primate care team was performing their morning rounds and ...

The findings support the idea that sex was already being used for social purposes by the last common ancestor of humans, bonobos, and chimpanzees.

What would it be like to converse with a bonobo? According to primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a lead scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, these apes cannot only understand language ...

Wamba was founded in 1974 by a Japanese primatologist named Takayoshi Kano for the study of the bonobo, Pan paniscus, a species of simian unlike any other. The bonobo, in case you haven’t heard ...

Researchers tested this in a game with three bonobos (Pan paniscus) living at Ape Initiative in Iowa, U.S. One bonobo, Kanzi, 44, is famous for his participation in numerous studies and an ability ...