For decades it had been a mystery how female Bonobos, cousins to humans, claim higher positions than males in their troop hierarchy.

Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding together in coalitions—meaning groups of two or more animals, but usually three to five—female bonobos both reduce the danger posed by males and catapult ...

Bonobos, which are among our closest living relatives, live in rare societies where females tend to outrank males, even though males are larger and stronger. Scientists compiled decades of observation ...

A bonobo named Louise, born into captivity at the San Diego Zoo, lived with her sister, Loretta, and nephew, Erin, before being transferred to the Japan’s Kumamoto Sanctuary in 1992. In the wild ...

The researchers studied 40 bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 50 chimpanzees at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia. In total, the team logged ...

Kanzi has died at the age of 44. The iconic bonobo reshaped our understanding of ape intelligence, challenging long-held beliefs about what separates humans from our closest living relatives.

In a post on Facebook, the initiative said that Kanzi, a 44-year-old bonobo, died Tuesday afternoon. According to the post, Kanzi didn’t show any signs of discomfort or illness, and had even ...

The authors arrived at their conclusions after studying over 700 recorded wild bonobo sounds. Berthet spent about eight months noting both the sounds and the contexts in which they were made in ...

In a new study published on Thursday in Science, researchers report that bonobo communication is rich in a feature that linguists call compositionality. This refers to the way we string words ...

An infant bonobo named Melumbe was seen cuddling with its mother Malaika at the Cologne Zoo on Thursday (May 8) as it made its debut. Would you eat 3D printed plant-based beef?

A bonobo at the Cincinnati Zoo bit one of their care team member's thumb while they were delivering food and medicine to the troop, causing a "partial amputation," the zoo said in a statement ...