The rare and marvelous “Make-Love-Not-War” great apes, bonobos are, like common chimpanzees, incredibly close to us; in fact, they are almost 99% genetically similar to humans.

Researchers believe that by analyzing bonobo calls, they will gather more insights about the evolution of language.

If there is one thing I've learned from our friends over at 13.7, it's that bonobo apes are pretty amazing creatures. Ursula Goodenough, a biologist, has written quite a bit about the time she's ...

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Bonobo: 'Forgotten' ape threatened by human activity and forest loss Date: November 26, 2013 Source: Wildlife Conservation Society Summary: The most detailed range-wide assessment of the bonobo ...

Smiling Baby Bonobo Ape Already Knows Her Best Camera Angles and It's Too Cute. Diana Logan. February 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM. ... The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans.

Only later did the lineage of the chimpanzee-bonobo ancestor split into the two ape species we know today. In other words—chimps and bonobos are brothers, and both are our cousins.

Do bonobos really deserve their reputation in popular culture as a peaceful and loving primate, in contrast to violence-prone chimpanzees? Bonobos seem to organize themselves without the use of ...

According to Stoinski, Koba's real-life bonobo brethren are actually some of the most peaceful of the great apes, and likely wouldn't be as violent as they are shown onscreen.

Bonobo apes watch TV as scientists study their preferences at the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. Courtesy: Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart/ S. Kern.

The seven bonobos living at the Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary in Des Moines, Iowa, are a pretty smart bunch of apes. Among other things, they have a vocabulary of about 400 words – they ...