Bonobos are our closest animal relatives, and they probably play a lot more than we do! The fun and games aren’t just limited to young bonobos, either — it’s also important for adults.

Bonobos are inveterate players throughout their ... or any other sort of activity that meets the not-quite-functional-but-fun ...

Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles. Now, a team of Swiss ...

Bonobos, humans’ closest relatives in the primate family, have a language of their own — and it’s not unlike the communication patterns of their upright cousins. A new study published ...

Some chimpanzees seem to use sexual behaviour like genital rubbing to manage stressful situations, which shows they aren’t as different from hypersexual bonobos – our other closest living ape ...