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, ...

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 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.

People are constantly looking at the behavior of others and coming up with ideas about what might be going on in their heads. Now, a new study of bonobos adds to evidence that they might do the same ...

explaining that the study builds on previous research into theory of mind in chimpanzees. Next, the team plans to explore the bonobos’ motivations for sharing information and the way that they ...

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 ...

If the bonobo had witnessed Townrow observing the ... from their own,” he adds to New Scientist’s Sophie Berdugo. Wild chimpanzees—which are also great apes and close human relatives ...

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Recent news has emerged that authorities in the DRC ordered the seizure of 12 rescued chimpanzees, to be relocated to a ...