“There is no ‘hippie ape,’” said Maud Mouginot, a biological anthropologist at Boston University who led the analysis. As our closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees can offer us ...

Mysterious "ghost apes" may have interbred with the great apes known as bonobos just as modern humans repeatedly had sex with now-extinct human lineages, a new study finds.

'Hippie' apes make love and war. Wednesday, 15 October 2008 Michael Kahn Reuters. ... Bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, collectively known as the great apes, ...

Cincinnati Zoo bonobos were treated to Valentine's Day goodies. Nicknamed the "hippie ape," bonobos have plenty of love to go around. So it was only fitting the Cincinnati Zoo is celebrating them ...

Bonobos have a reputation among the great apes as "hippie chimps," and new research hints that high levels of a key thyroid hormone may play a role in keeping the animals' aggression in check.

Bonobos have long been the “hippie apes,” using sex to solve problems, while chimpanzees were considered the aggressive, ...

A new study has dealt a blow to the reputation of bonobos as and the most loving and caring of primates.Researchers following the apes through the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo observed ...

Bonobos have a reputation as the peace-loving “hippie” ape, but they can be aggressive, too. Male bonobos will fight among ...

Eastern chimpanzee males walking along the shore of Lake Tanganyika. | Anup Shah/DigitalVision/Getty Images. Bonobos have a reputation as the peace-loving “hippie” ape, but they can be ...

Unlike other apes, bonobos are not known to kill each other. Bonobos’ historic range extends over more than 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles) ...

Smiling Baby Bonobo Ape Already Knows Her Best Camera Angles and It's Too Cute. Diana Logan. February 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM. ... The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans.

Mysterious "ghost apes" may have interbred with the great apes known as bonobos just as modern humans repeatedly had sex with now-extinct human lineages, a new study finds. Previous research ...