Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains ...

The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans. We share over ninety-eight percent of our DNA with some species of these creatures, and it’s valuable to think of ourselves as being more ...

A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight. Kanzi ...

Bonobos, closely related to humans, face threats from poaching and the bushmeat trade. At Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in Kinshasa, orphans are cared for by foster mothers. Despite legal protections, ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

A sanctuary on the outskirts of Congo's capital of Kinshasa is the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, usually ...

Humans may not be the only primates with the power to imagine. During a make-believe tea party, a bonobo named Kanzi kept track of invisible juice and imaginary grapes, researchers report February 5 ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees to comfort others in distress. The study ...

Can animals play pretend? It took a tea party with a bonobo to find out. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In a set of experiments, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans. We share over ninety-eight percent of our DNA with some species of ...