Bonobos aren’t as mellow as scientists long suspected, new research finds, challenging previously held ideas about the ...

At Lui Kotale, his research site outside Salonga National Park, he and other researchers wear surgical masks to protect against possible transmission of human infections to the bonobos.

corridor of human settlements. Over the years, researchers have used different methods to count bonobos in Salonga. But those surveys have been “too small and patchy,” and over short time ...

What would it be like to converse with a bonobo? According to primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a lead scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, these apes cannot only understand language ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...