World Bonobo Day reminds us that one of our closest relatives lives by cooperation, not conflict, and now faces serious ...

A bonobo demonstrated the ability to track imaginary objects in controlled tests, challenging the belief that imagination is uniquely human and hinting at deep evolutionary roots. In a set of ...

Humans aren't the only species that can pretend, a study shows. Scientists offered a bonobo imaginary juice and grapes in a make-believe tea party, and the ape played along.

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ability. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University presented evidence in a new ...

Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of insight compels people to care for these animals.” Humans begin ...

World Bonobo Day is observed every year on February 14 to shine a light on one of the most fascinating yet endangered great apes on Earth, the bonobo. Often lovingly referred to as the 'make love, not ...

Juvenile bonobo embraces a distressed companion during post-conflict consolation. Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether ...