Chimps, on the other hand ... and even reconciliation. Bonobos are the only non-human primates known to engage in tongue ...

Unlike chimpanzees, they have not been observed to hunt monkeys ... contacts in bonobos includes sporadic oral sex, massage of another individuals genitals and intense tongue-kissing.

Humans share this behavioral strategy with our closest living ape relatives—bonobos and chimpanzees ... including body kissing, but sex still constituted a sizable portion of how they reconciled ...

Only identified as a species separate from chimps in 1929, bonobos intrigue biologists with their easygoing ways, sexual equality, female bonding, and zeal for recreational sex. How did bonobos ...

To try to explain these conflicting tendencies, researchers have turned to the chimpanzees and the bonobos for insight. Among the great apes, the chimpanzees and the bonobos are the most ...

Dr. Maud Mouginot, a postdoctoral associate in anthropology at Boston University, led the study, in which observers followed individual chimps and bonobos in the wild from morning to night, keeping ...

Over the years, some researchers — primatologists, evolutionary biologists and others — have tried to make headway by looking to chimpanzees and bonobos ... populations of chimps for 12 ...