Chimpanzees and bonobos maintain tight inner circles of preferred grooming partners inside their wider social networks, ...
Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...
Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...
We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago. Humans ...
Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas ...
A database of great ape research promises to unlock deeper understanding of their cognition, intelligence and social ...
A Woman Has Been Raising Baby Bonobos for 24 Years in the Only Sanctuary of Its Kind ...
Chimpanzees (often colloquially “chimps”) are African great apes in the genus Pan, which has two living species: the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus). The common ...