Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.

Imagination is one of our greatest superpowers, but how far back does it go? Scientists from Johns Hopkins University ...

Kanzi, a bonobo with exceptional language skills, took part in a make-believe tea party that demonstrated cognitive abilities ...

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

Discover how an ape playing tea party teaches us humans are not the only beings with complex mental lives.

Not quite a kids nature film, not exactly a grown-up documentary, Alain Tixier's Bonobos: Back to the Wild draws from multiple idioms in its look at Belgian conservationist Claudine Andre's efforts to ...

An endangered bonobo, a primate which is considered the closest living relative of a human, has successfully given birth this week at a UK zoo. The baby was welcomed into the world on 11 September at ...

The last of the great apes to be discovered, it could be the first to become extinct in the wild: in the past few decades, bonobo habitat has been overrun by soldiers, and the apes have been ...