Female bonobos linked up even when they didn’t have close ties, supporting one another against the males and cementing their ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

Read Mongabay’s story on Kanzi “Famous bonobo Kanzi, known for smarts & gaming, dies at age 44” by Kristine Sabillo. Banner image of Kanzi ©️Ape Initiative. 4 Apr 2025 Africa Founder’s ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

An estimated 180 western lowland gorillas have reportedly reside in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo in ...

They also have the greatest number of segmental duplications in comparison to the African great apes ... structures and sizes in chimp and bonobo. Bonobos and chimps diverged about 1.8 million ...

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

Kanzi, a bonobo born in captivity who was given language lessons ... Old World monkeys live in Asia and Africa and have downward-pointing nostrils, while New World monkeys have outward-pointing ...