The truth about chimpanzees and empathy – and what it tells us about human behaviour - ANALYSIS: The apes comfort each other ...

New research finds chimpanzees and bonobos comfort each other like humans, challenging long-held views about empathy ...

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

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

A new study published in the journal 'Current Biology', reveals how female bonobos in Congo form powerful alliances to ...

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

Bonobos share a syntactic capacity with humans, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Zurich. The ...

Bonobos create complex, meaningful combinations of calls resembling human language, challenging assumptions about humans’ ...

Empathy Across Species. The study found that bonobos and chimpanzees console at similar rates, with greater variation within ...

Humans surprisingly share a significant portion of their DNA with diverse life forms, from chimpanzees (98.8%) and bonobos ...

The finding challenges long-held assumptions that bonobos are the more empathic ape and instead highlights the variation ...

Female bonobos linked up even when they didn’t have close ties, supporting one another against the males and cementing their ...