Rainer Gedeit got the urgent page while running errands — a youngster was critically ill with some sort of respiratory illness. As pediatric critical care clinical director at Children's Hospital of ...

POWELL, Ohio — The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is celebrating the birth of a baby bonobo, marking the 18th born at the facility. The male bonobo was born on Aug. 11 to Kibibi, a first-time mother.

Science becomes even more remarkable when something unexpected occurs. Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire recently documented a rare scientific milestone. On September 25 of 2025, mother Yuli gave birth ...

When Bill Fields began working with bonobo chimpanzees eight years ago, it wasn't just a new job. To start with, he became a single parent -- to a baby bonobo. Fields also gained an extended family -- ...

Lola ya Bonobo, the world’s first bonobo sanctuary, was founded in 1994 by Claudine Andre, who came to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at a young age, and who, after a chance meeting with a ...

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 dirt ...

At a juncture in history during which women are seeking equality with men, science arrives with a belated gift to the feminist movement. Male-biased evolutionary scenarios—Man the Hunter, Man the ...