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In some ways, bonobos and chimpanzees are more similar to humans than they are each other and for that reason bonobos can provide an extremely powerful test of ideas about human uniqueness, as well as being crucial to determining the evolutionary processes by which cognitive traits evolve in apes.

A special issue of Behaviour includes twelve empirical studies focusing on the behavior and cognition of both captive and wild bonobos (Pan paniscus). The contributors believe that a renaissance in bonobo research is underway.

Citation: Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour Behaviour volume 152 (2015) nos. 3-4 http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/1568539x/152/3-... 12 February 2015