Ainebyona and others involved in chimp conservation in this remote Ugandan rainforest say they aim for the kind of communion ...

Learn how male bonobos use subtle behavioral and reproductive cues to pinpoint the fertile window, even when the usual ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago. Humans ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases ...

This video follows a behavioral experiment in which a bonobo is introduced to the mechanics of Pac-Man. Researchers study how ...

Bonobos and chimps are our closest living links to the six million-year-old ancestor from which both they and we descended. As primatologist Frans de Waal points out, Kano's work "was a major ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

We all love seeing videos of baby animals, and who can resist a video celebrating a little one's first birthday! Cincinnati shared an adorable video of their baby bonobo, Daisy, featuring clips from ...