In humans, hunting is considered a man's endeavor. But in one of our closest living relatives, hunting is primarily women's ...

In humans, hunting is considered a man’s endeavor. But in one of our closest living relatives, hunting is primarily women’s business. A 10-year study of wild bonobos reveals that hunting i ...

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex thoughts in a way that mirrors some elements of human language, a new study ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. An NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo has returned 14 bonobos into the wild — only the second time ever a bonobo group has been reintroduced ...

Newswise — A new study published this week in Science challenges the notion that only humans are capable of forming strong and strategic cooperative relationships and sharing resources across ...

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Bonobos have been dubbed hippies among apes as they tend to be far less violent than their chimpanzee cousins and engage in plenty of mutual grooming behaviours, some of them risqué. In that they ...

There might be fewer bonobos left in the wild than we thought. For the last 40 years, scientists have estimated the abundance of endangered bonobos by counting the numbers of sleeping nests left by ...