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Books / magazines featuring the Kokolopori Bonobo Research Site

https://rolandhilgartner.com/index.html

https://vanessawoods.net/assets/images/articles/BBCWBonobos.pdf

Terre sauvage 362, 03/19

 

Drivers of female power in bonobos

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/24/bonobos-female-dominance-coalitions-study/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/science/bonobos-matriarchies-females.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/female-bonobos-fight-male-aggression

 

Compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/turns-out-bonobos-talk-a-lot-like-humans/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/science/communication-language-bonobos.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2474993-bonobos-use-a-kind-of-synt…

 

Differences in patterns of aggression between bonobos and chimpanzees

https://www.science.org/content/article/bonobos-hippie-chimps-might-not…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/science/bonobo-chimpanzee-aggression…

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bonobos-aggressive-c…

 

Differences in maternal styles between bonobos and chimpanzees

Chimpanzees and Bonobos Have Surprisingly Different Parenting Styles | Scientific American

 

Cooperation between members of different groups in bonobos

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/science/bonobos-cooperation-study.ht…

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/bonobos-offer-insight-in…

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/11/16/1213475929/unlike-…

 

Bonobo social system exhibits out-group tolerance

Bonobos’ tolerant, peaceful group relationships paved way for human peacemaking – Harvard Gazette

Could tolerant and peaceful bonobos be the model for human peacemaking? | NationofChange

 

Bonobo prey preferences as potentially cultural trait

https://www.npr.org/player/embed/912044947/912044948

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/bonobo-prey-preference-a…

 

Start of Pan Lab at Harvard

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/getting-to-know-hippie-a…

 

Maternal influence on male reproductive success in bonobos

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/bonobo-moms-care-a-lot-about-their-sons-sex-lives/589795/

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