Both animals occupy fissures in the coastline’s volcanic rock and forage in the ocean. “How could you not fall in love with these birds?” asked the 78-year-old director of the University of ...

Bonobos, which are among our closest living relatives, live in rare societies where females tend to outrank males, even ...

From a tiny snake to Fritz the hippo, zoo babies will be on display during May at the Cincinnati Zoo. (Provided by the Cincinnati Zoo) ...

Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study has found. Three decades of observations in Congo — the only place the endangered bonobos are ...

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

Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding together in coalitions—meaning groups of two or more animals, but usually three to ...

When it comes to bonobo hierarchy, the ladies stick together. New research out of the Max Planck Institute for Animal ...

Bonobos are great apes that live in female-dominated societies, a relative rarity among mammals, especially in species where ...

For decades it had been a mystery how female Bonobos, cousins to humans, claim higher positions than males in their troop ...

Female bonobos team up to suppress male aggression against them -- the first evidence of animals deploying this strategy. In 85% of observed coalitions, females collectively targeted males, forcing ...

A 30-year study finds that female bonobos dominate males through alliances, clever tactics, and full control over food and ...