Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to help — a cognitive ability never before identified in nonhuman apes, a study found.

Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent. Those high-pitched screeches are a sophisticated form of communication and their gestures are ...

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (with Kanzi in 2003) says her bonobos can communicate with her and each other using more than 348 symbols. Great Ape Trust of Iowa To better understand bonobo intelligence, I ...

Learning From Bonobos. Posted August 5, 2010. DAVID LEVIN: You're listening to a NOVA podcast. I'm David Levin. For an upcoming Web feature we're doing on animal intelligence, we spoke to a bunch ...

Bonobos challenge our perception of ape intelligence, research suggests Researchers found that these primates can communicate unknown information to help humans discover it. By JERUSALEM POST ...

The bonobo is an incredibly intelligent great ape, native to the Democratic Republic of Congo. In bonobo societies, females are in charge, and physical aggression is less common than with chimpanzees.

For example, they are highly empathetic, and remarkably intelligent. I sometimes imagine what would have happened if science had only known the bonobo, and we had never heard of chimps.

Bonobos have gay sex. For bonobos, sex is a mechanism to reduce tension. And you can’t talk about two females rubbing clitorises together until they orgasm in documentaries, intelligent design classes ...

Apparently as intelligent as chimpanzees, bonobos have, however, a far more sensitive temperament. During World War II bombing of Hellabrunn, Germany, ...

Female bonobos team up to suppress male aggression against them -- the first evidence of animals deploying this strategy. In 85% of observed coalitions, females collectively targeted males ...

To better understand bonobo intelligence, I traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, to meet Kanzi, a 26-year-old male bonobo reputedly able to converse with humans.