Bonobos, commonly seen as the peace-loving primate, are, together with chimpanzees, the closest living relatives to humans as ...

Though very close in genetic relationship and virtually next-door neighbors, chimpanzees and a less-well-known species called bonobos in Zaire are socially poles apart. Only identified as a ...

but only in the same way we are fish,” at just the time when genetic studies are making us confident about the relatively recent divergence of the ancestors of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos ...

However, the genetic changes that led to the emergence ... Comparing the human genome and those of chimps and bonobos may reveal some clues, for instance the expansion and diversification of ...

Wild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah ...

Bonobos are our closest living relatives, along with chimpanzees, and are only found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The early life trauma of maternal loss and the deprivation from being ...

These subtle yet significant differences can help distinguish the more gracile bonobos from their common chimpanzee cousins. The two species differ from each other by about 0.4% in their genetic code.

Bonobo populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Salonga National Park remained steady between 2002 and 2018, but there are worrying signals of decline, a recent study has found.