Humans display a capacity for tolerance and cooperation among social groups that is rare in the animal kingdom, our long history of war and political strife notwithstanding. But how did we get that ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fourteen bonobos have been returned to the wild in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just the second time in history for ...

In the face of threats from other groups, humans, chimpanzees, and a selection of other species get closer to their own. Now an international team led by Kyoto University has shown that even our more ...

The research shows that four neighboring groups of bonobos they studied at the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo maintained exclusive and stable social and spatial borders ...

As humans, we share many characteristics with bonobos, who together with chimpanzees are the ape species that are most closely related to us. There are a lot of similarities in our social behaviour, ...

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Are we moving toward a Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure… or are we racing through a Squid Game in a prequel to A Handmaid’s Tale en route to The Day After Tomorrow? And by the way… Don’t Look Up.

Cooperation is a pillar of human society, promoting an exchange of skills and knowledge between different individuals and social groups. Humans typically do not only cooperate with their own family, ...

Friends of Bonobos released the bonobos in March into Ekolo ya Bonobo Community Reserve, a 120,000-acre protected area. Bonobos share 98.7% of our DNA and are humans' closest living great ape ...