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

Krupenye says. The team aspires to tease this question out with future work on bonobos. But these great apes, which are native to the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, are endangered ...

This story appears in the March 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a remote forest sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along the north bank of the Luo River, 50 miles by ...

Caption Female bonobos at Wamba, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kyoto University primatologists report in Animal Behaviour that older bonobo females frequently aid younger females when males behave ...

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

Krupenye told CNN that he hopes the study will help to raise awareness around bonobos, an endangered species found exclusively in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Alexander Piel, a biological ...

An expedition into the Congo examines one of our closest living relatives, the bonobo. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by ...

Bonobos are an endangered species endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they face threats from deforestation, poaching and the pet trade. At least 15,000 to 20,000 individuals live in ...

The bonobo is endangered, with about 20,000 individuals alive in the wild, and are the most understudied great ape as they ...