A twenty-year study in Congo’s largest protected park confirms that rangers are effective in preserving the endangered ...

Consider how subtle human aggression can be ... has been an impassable barrier between bonobos and their ape kin. Chimps and gorillas live only on the right bank, bonobos only on the left.

Bonobo society is matriarchal, while males dominate chimpanzee society ... and they must contend with an environment altered ...

Scientists now know how many bonobos live in one of the largest pristine tropical forests, a place believed to be the world's stronghold for the endangered species. The research estimates that between ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

A new study estimates 8,000 to 18,000 bonobos in Salonga National Park, highlighting the importance of forest cover.