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Humans are closely related to bonobos and chimpanzees, but it’s not always easy for us to tell the difference between the other great apes. Here are a few clues.

Chimps and bonobos are known to interbreed in captivity, and a study published in 2016 in the journal Science found that it’s happened in the past among wild populations.

Chimps are notorious for hostility toward chimps from another group. Is that part of the human makeup as well? A new study of bonobos, our other closest relative, offers a more cooperative vision.

Bonobos are often seen “as being the nicer of our cousins,” while chimps get a bad rap, explains Elizabeth Lonsdorf, a primatologist at Emory University, who wasn’t involved in the new paper.

“Bonobos are an icon for peace and love, the world’s ‘hippie chimps,’” Sally Coxe, a conservationist, said in 2006. But these sweeping claims were not based on much data.

Bonobos and chimps offer clues to how our early ancestors had sex for social purposes. by Durham University. Editors' notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X's ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos recognize photos of groupmates they haven't seen for more than 25 years, and respond even more enthusiastically to pictures of their friends, a new study finds.

Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases and sentences, according to findings published on Thursday in the journal Science.

Bonobos and chimpanzees are the species most closely related to humans in evolutionary history, which means all three species could have evolved from a common ancestor with this ability, ...