Though very close in genetic relationship and virtually next-door neighbors, chimpanzees and a less-well-known species called bonobos in Zaire are socially poles apart. Only identified as a ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), otherwise known as pygmy chimpanzees, are the only two species of the genus Pan. As they are our nearest relatives, there has been much ...

In his book, Bonobo and Chimpanzee, Takeshi Furuichi describes his observations of both species' behaviour while drawing parallels between humans, bonobos and chimpanzees. Advanced Search Home ...

It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than ...

Human encroachment has not turned chimpanzees and bonobos into warmongers bent on violence and infanticide as many people have theorized. The behavior comes naturally, report 30 international ...

By quantifying the differences between these groups, the research team found that they can be as different from one another as the most closely-related chimpanzee subspecies. Bonobos, commonly seen as ...

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A few years ago, while setting up camp deep in the Congolese rain forest, Dave Morgan and Crickette Sanz heard a ...

The future of chimpanzees depends on smart conservation strategies and that requires data, lots of data. Ecologist Adrienne Chitayat conducted research on chimpanzees in Tanzania and is the first to ...

A horrifying incident took place in Bossou, Guinea, when a well-known chimpanzee, famous for its tool-using abilities, ...

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 ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.