Doug was the leader of his chimpanzee group. He had quickly gained a reputation from human observers as a fair and tolerant ...

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

An analysis reveals how the two primate species use sex to resolve conflicts. This suggests that the social function of sex ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...

A Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden employee was injured Friday after being bitten by a bonobo, officials said. A member of the zoo's primate care team was performing their morning rounds and ...

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 ...

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to ...

Wamba was founded in 1974 by a Japanese primatologist named Takayoshi Kano for the study of the bonobo, Pan paniscus, a species of simian unlike any other. The bonobo, in case you haven’t heard ...