In Salonga, bonobos are relatively safe from the deforestation and commercial hunting that threaten their existence elsewhere. But there’s a problem with Salonga’s title as the bonobo bastion of the ...

What would it be like to converse with a bonobo? According to primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a lead scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, these apes cannot only understand language ...

Studies on intraspecific variation in animal social structures are needed to inform an evolutionary account of human sociality. Here, we study multiple independent bonobo populations (n = 6) in ...

A Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden employee was injured Friday after being bitten by a bonobo, officials said. A member of the zoo's primate care team was performing their morning rounds and ...

The study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) also identifies specific factors that have a positive effect on bonobo numbers, offering concrete measures for ...