Apes orphaned by the illegal trade in bushmeat and pets can overcome trauma and develop social abilities like those of their mother-reared peers. A new study led by Durham University, UK, looked at ...

Apes orphaned by the illegal trade in bushmeat and pets can overcome trauma and develop social abilities like those of their mother-reared peers, according to a new study. The Durham University-led ...

Attentive parenting appears across the animal world, but adoption is rarer, especially when youngsters taken in aren’t kin. Now researchers have witnessed bonobos adopting infants from outside of ...

June 5, 2007 -- Even in the arms of his surrogate mother, Yolo looks afraid. The 3-year-old bonobo (a type of chimpanzee) has been through a lot. Yolo is a bushmeat orphan; hunters killed his mother ...

Plenty of mammals will take in an orphaned infant, but few will adopt one from outside their social group. Now, Nahoko Tokuyama at Kyoto University in Japan and her team have documented two wild ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- American researchers who have been studying the rare and threatened bonobo ape will lead monitoring efforts after a group of orphan bonobos are returned to the wild in the Congo for ...