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.

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

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.

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 ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

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 ...

New research shows that free-loving bonobos are unselfishly kind to strangers. 1:04. Bonobo Apes Express Empathy and Willingly Help Strangers. Another Heart-Warming Way Apes Beat Us at Being Human.

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 ...

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 ...