Imagine a world where kindness is so natural, it doesn’t require a reason. In the lush rainforests of Central Africa, bonobos ...

However, observations by Dr. Surbeck and his team, and those of other researchers, challenge the harmonious stereotyping of ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos ...

When a male bonobo oversteps his bounds — say, by hopping into a tree and shaking the branches while others are trying to feed — females in the troop tend to act fast. They kick him ...

The study measured “rank” within the bonobo communities by tallying how many times females won conflicts with males. Females usually came out on top. Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding ...

This image provided by Martin Surbeck shows a female bonobo being groomed by another in the Congo in 2020. (Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project via AP) 33,331 people played the daily ...

This freedom enjoyed by females might sound normal by our standards, but according to Martin Surbeck from Harvard University, it’s “totally bizarre for an animal like a bonobo.” Bonobo males ...

(Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project via AP) “It’s very clear that you don’t want to overstep as a male bonobo,” said study author Martin Surbeck from Harvard University.

The study examined 30 years of demographic and behavioral data across six wild bonobo communities. The study suggests that power isn't solely determined by physical strength. It can be driven by ...