Psychologists from Durham University, UK have found in their study that bonobos produce a variety of signals including "baby-like" signals to strategically display distress when they are attacked by other bonobos.
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2022
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Humans display a capacity for tolerance and cooperation among social groups that is rare in the animal kingdom, our long history of war and political strife notwithstanding. But how did we get that way?
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2022
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New research led by the University of St Andrews reveals bonobo chimpanzee gestures change meaning according to the specific context in which they are used, in the same way humans communicate.
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2021
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When we're talking to another person, we probably wouldn't leave without saying goodbye; that would just be impolite. Apes seem to do something similar, researchers report in a study publishing August 11 in the journal iScience, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2021
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There might be fewer bonobos left in the wild than we thought. For the last 40 years, scientists have estimated the abundance of endangered bonobos by counting the numbers of sleeping nests left by the apes in forests of ...
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Jul 1, 2021
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Chimpanzees and bonobos diverged comparatively recently in great ape evolutionary history. They split into different species about 1.7 million years ago. Some of the distinctions between chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and bonobo ...
Evolution
May 5, 2021
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Scientists have witnessed bonobo apes adopting infants who were born outside of their social group for the first time in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2021
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Bonobos, when abruptly interrupted in a social activity with another bonobo, resume it as soon as the interruption is over with the same partner. This ability—the feeling of mutual obligation when interacting—has previously ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2020
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Chimpanzees and bonobos are sister species that diverged around 1.8 million years ago as the Congo River formed a geographic boundary and they evolved in separate environments. Now, a whole-genome comparison of bonobos and ...
Evolution
Dec 16, 2020
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Mushroom-munching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have introduced scientists to a new species of truffle.
Plants & Animals
Sep 22, 2020
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