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

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

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

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

Further, healed fractures in living apes suggest frequent, but largely non-fatal, falls. Today, Hinton’s invention continues to fuel a debate about children’s health, in part because monkey ...

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

"This work should serve as a definitive baseline for future evolutionary studies of humans and our closest living ape relatives." The human genome was first sequenced in 2001, and since then ...