New research shows bonobos and chimpanzees comfort others at similar rates, challenging old beliefs about ape empathy.

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos ...

Remote cameras in Africa have captured the first images and video of wild chimpanzees eating and sharing fermented fruit that ...

You don’t have to venture far to observe humans in the wild sharing a ... predecessors millions of years ago — when we last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees. “If chimpanzees do ...

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 ...

The primates’ use of complex compositionality also suggests that certain components of human communication are old, tracing back to the last common ancestor between humans and bonobos. “Our study, ...

Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string together these vocalizations ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees ... our last common ancestor likely ...