#  News & Events 

 



**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…](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2474993-bonobos-use-a-kind-of-syntax-once-thought-to-be-unique-to-humans/)

**Differences in patterns of aggression between bonobos and chimpanzees**

[https://www.science.org/content/article/bonobos-hippie-chimps-might-not…](https://www.science.org/content/article/bonobos-hippie-chimps-might-not-be-so-mellow-after-all)

[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/science/bonobo-chimpanzee-aggression…](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/science/bonobo-chimpanzee-aggression.html)

[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bonobos-aggressive-c…](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bonobos-aggressive-chimpanzees-congo)

**Differences in maternal styles between bonobos and chimpanzees**

[Chimpanzees and Bonobos Have Surprisingly Different Parenting Styles | Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chimpanzees-and-bonobos-have-surprisingly-different-parenting-styles/)

**Cooperation between members of different groups in bonobos**

[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/science/bonobos-cooperation-study.ht…](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/science/bonobos-cooperation-study.html)

[https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/bonobos-offer-insight-in…](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/bonobos-offer-insight-into-evolution-of-cooperation/)

[https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/11/16/1213475929/unlike-…](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/11/16/1213475929/unlike-chimps-bonobos-offer-hope-that-maybe-we-can-all-get-along)

**Bonobo social system exhibits out-group tolerance**

[Bonobos’ tolerant, peaceful group relationships paved way for human peacemaking – Harvard Gazette](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/06/bonobos-tolerant-peaceful-group-relationships-paved-way-for-human-peacemaking/)

[Could tolerant and peaceful bonobos be the model for human peacemaking? | NationofChange](https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/07/29/could-tolerant-and-peaceful-bonobos-be-the-model-for-human-peacemaking/)

**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…](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/bonobo-prey-preference-as-potential-sign-of-culture/)

**Start of Pan Lab at Harvard**

[https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/getting-to-know-hippie-a…](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/getting-to-know-hippie-apes-through-martin-surbeck/)

**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/>

 ![Bonobo Surbeck](/sites/g/files/omnuum5861/files/kokolopori/files/img_20190523_164146_01.jpg)

 



 

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