A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

A baby bonobo was born May 30 at the Milwaukee County Zoo, the zoo announced in a news release. Now, it’s ready for visitors.

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo on Wednesday announced that a baby bonobo was born to Elema on May 30. The Milwaukee County Zoo on ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo announced the birth of a baby bonobo. According to a news release, the mom, Elema, and the baby are ...

See that ape looking at you? It knows you’re clueless : Shots - Health News A new study shows that bonobos seem to know a little bit about what's going on in a human companion's mind, and will ...

A study led by Durham University, UK, looked at the effects of rehabilitation by the world's only bonobo sanctuary on the social and emotional development of orphaned bonobo apes across a 10-year ...

Bonobo apes are very similar to the more widely recognized chimpanzees—a smaller species of ape native to the Congo region of Africa and extensively studied due to their complex social ...

Bonobos are great apes that live in female-dominated societies, a relative rarity among mammals, especially in species where males are the larger sex.

Nyota, a 25-year-old male bonobo at Ape Initiative in Iowa, participated in the study. Ape Initiative. If someone is supposed to give you a snack, but you know that they don’t know where that ...

A new edition to the Milwaukee County Zoo: a baby bonobo ape born on May 30, 2025. This is the first baby born to mom Elema, and is the 16th ...