Kanzi the bonobo died Tuesday afternoon. The 44-year-old showed no signs of illness or discomfort before being found ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

Pawn Stars personality Rick Harrison is reflecting on the death of his son, Adam, at the age of 39. Adam died from a fentanyl ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary origins for humans.

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to ...

The bonobo Kanzi, who learned to make stone tools, play Minecraft and communicate at the level of a 2-year-old human, has died.

Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to help — a cognitive ability never before identified in nonhuman apes, a study found.

They observed a range of behaviors: Genital touch, either by hand or foot; genito-genital contact, which saw two apes – most commonly female bonobos – engage in mutual genital rubbing ...

New research suggests that using sex to ease social tension may have roots going back more than six million years.

By Perry Beeman Kanzi, a Des Moines resident bonobo known internationally for his communication skills, died Tuesday, most ...