For decades, scientists believed that bonobos, one of our closest living relatives, were among the most peaceful primates.

Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a “make love, not war” ethos, in ​contrast to their belligerent cousins, the chimpanzees. But is this ...

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Led by five trackers from the Mongandu tribe, I tread through a remote rain forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the trail of the bonobo, one of the world's most astonishing creatures.

Chimpanzees (often colloquially “chimps”) are African great apes in the genus Pan, which has two living species: the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus). The common ...

World Bonobo Day is observed every year on February 14 to shine a light on one of the most fascinating yet endangered great apes on Earth, the bonobo. Often lovingly referred to as the 'make love, not ...