One of the world's oldest living chimps is Mimi the Bonobo. Sixty-something-year-old Mimi resides in Skopje Zoo, where she ...

Chimpanzees are our closest relatives and highly intelligent. They use tools, communicate, and live in complex social ...

By quantifying the differences between these groups, the research team found that they can be as different from one another as the most closely-related chimpanzee subspecies. Bonobos, commonly seen as ...

For thousands of years, humans have come together in small group to feast on food. Why is it important – and why do we still ...

Play fosters tolerance, cohesion, bonding, and cooperation. In other species, adult play is typically rare. However, a new study published today (November 21) in Current Biology reveals that some ...

The new strategy aims to ensure the long-term protection of bonobos across their range through the implementation of conservation actions designed to reduce, and if possible eliminate, the direct ...

Recently published research finds that bonobos show a much deeper degree of genetic diversity than previously thought, with the species split into three distinct subgroups that diverged tens of ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are our closest living relatives. The largest population of chimpanzees in Tanzania, the most southern and eastern extent of this species' range, lives in the ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

By comparison, play in adults of other species has been considered rare, and yet a new study shows that some chimpanzees, like people, continue to play often throughout their entire lives and ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...