Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a “make love, not war” ethos, in ​contrast to their belligerent cousins, the chimpanzees. But is this ...

As humans have wondered about their own capacities for thought and imagination, so too have they wondered about the mental ...

Nothing brings a group of primates together, humans included, quite like a threat from outside. Bonobos are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos, even during conflicts with ...

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 ...

To find bonobos in their nests and, once found, follow these extraordinary primates and one throughout the day, without causing the animals stress or prompting them to flee. For the past 18 months, ...

Can animals play pretend? It took a tea party with a bonobo to find out. In a set of experiments, a team of researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi invisible juice and grapes, presenting the tests as ...

But bonobos and chimps are like the two siblings in your family who seemed destined (or determined?) to be as different from each other as possible. Chimps are muscular, cunning, and competitive, led ...