New research has revealed that bonobos and chimps can recognize when humans don’t know something, a skill once thought to be uniquely human. Buzz60’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

New research seems to suggest bonobos could possess some form of theory of mind. But there's a bit more to it than that.

an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University who studies the behavioral ecology of chimps and bonobos, and was not involved in the research. Surbeck said that he wasn’t surprised to learn ...

and that the human might have different information about the location that needed updating by the bonobo. Previously, Crockford and some colleagues found that wild chimps are more likely to emit ...

Bonobos are part of the ape family, alongside chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, humans and gibbons. Apes brains are more complex than monkeys, and are our closest animal relatives, sharing around ...

Bonobos are quick to help a person who doesn’t know what they know, a sign that they can deduce the mental states of others. The capacity to think about what others are thinking, known as theory ...