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

Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

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

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

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 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 ...

He has been writing professionally for over a decade. Polygon spoke to Simon Green, aka Bonobo, over the phone last week to talk about his experience working with Watanabe, his approach to scoring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Juvenile bonobo embraces a distressed companion during post-conflict consolation. Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether ...