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Pan paniscus

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Science and sex: Everything you wanted to know about 'doing it' (NBC News; June 11, 2013)
How Similar Are the Gestures of Apes and Human Infants? More Than You Might Suspect (ScienceDaily; June 6, 2013)
Do primates practice religion? (Salon; June 4, 2013)
Bonobo bliss (Natural History; June 2, 2013)
Apes Get Emotional Over Games of Chance (ScienceDaily; May 29, 2013)
Tracing the roots of human morality in animals (Review of "The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates" by Frans de Waal; NewScientist; May 21, 2013)
Frans de Waal's 'The Bonobo and the Atheist' tells what apes can teach us about morals (Plain Dealer; April 15, 2013)
Animals' natural behaviors often reprehensible for humans (Standard-Examiner; April 2, 2013)
Frans de Waal's Bottom-Up Morality: We're Not Good Because Of God (Review of "The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates" by Frans de Waal; NPR; March 21, 2013)
Primatology: A wild empathy (Review of "The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates" by Frans de Waal; Nature; March 21, 2013)
'Bonobo heaven': Life at a DR Congo ape sanctuary (Physorg; March 17, 2013)
Sign of empathy: Bonobos comfort friends in distress (Emory University News Center; February 4, 2013)
Bonobos Predisposed to Show Sensitivity to Others (ScienceDaily; January 30, 2013)
Bonobos Offer Banana Bribes for Friendship (Smithsonian; January 2, 2013)
Bonobos Share With Strangers Before Acquaintances (Duke Today; January 2, 2013)
Chimpanzees and Bonobos May Reveal Clues to Evolution of Favor Exchange in Humans (ScienceDaily; November 20, 2012)
Bonobos Catch Yawns from Friends (LiveScience; November 14, 2012)
Famed 'talking' ape dies at Iowa sanctuary, others sick (USA Today; November 8, 2012)
Great ape dies at troubled Des Moines center (Des Moines Register; November 7, 2012)
Why are We Eating Bonobos? Can We Save Africa's Vast Wildernesses from Destruction? (National Geographic; October 14, 2012)
Apes Enjoy Slapstick Humor (DiscoveryNews; September 20, 2012)
Iowa Bonobo Sanctuary Mired in Controversy (Science; September 18, 2012)
Savage-Rumbaugh endangered apes, people, dogs with erratic behavior, former staffers allege (Des Moines Register; September 14, 2012)
Un simio que quiere ser humano? (El Intrasigente; August 28, 2012; in Spanish)
Video: Tool-Making Bonobos Give Glimpse of Human Origins (Wired; August 21, 2012)
A Q and A with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Harper's Magazine; August 6, 2012)
Talking Apes Project Faces Cash Crisis (LiveScience; July 12, 2012)
Growing up with tech makes young bonobos language-savvy (MSNBC; July 2, 2012)
The Better Bonobos of Our Nature (Scientific American; June 19, 2012)
Bonobo's genetic code laid bare (BBC News; June 13, 2012)
The Bonobo Genome and Rewinding the Tape of Life (Scientific American; June 14, 2012)
Free-loving 'Hippie Chimps' Face Extinction (Voice of America; June 11, 2012)
Ape sanctuary to stay open - for now (Des Moines Register; May 16, 2012)
Do Bonobos And Chimpanzees Offer A Path To Understanding Human Behavior? (NPR; May 7, 2012)
Ape sanctuary needs $25,000 (Omaha World-Herald; April 19, 2012)
Dr. Derek Wildman completes genome sequence of great ape who understands English, plays music (Prognosis E-News, Wayne State University School of Medicine; April 18, 2012)
Why Chimpanzees Kill (Scientific American; April 19, 2012)
Female Bonobos Have Social Climbing Sex (DiscoveryNews; March 1, 2012)
Did bonobos actually tame themselves? Scientists find that the African apes evolved to become gentler creatures (Daily Mail; January 26, 2012)
If I'd had any inkling, I'd have been scared to do it (NewScientist; January 19, 2012)
Apes' home reclassified as funding dries up (Des Moines Register; January 13, 2012)
Humans And Other Animals: A Voice From Anthropology (NPR; September 15, 2011)
Autism in Another Ape (Scientific American; September 19, 2011)
Monkeying around in Belgian zoos brings girls out on top (AFP; August 24, 2011)
The Troubled Life of Nim Chimpsky (New York Review of Books; August 18, 2011)
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh: What Bonobos Can Teach Us (Time Magazine (via YouTube); June 7, 2001; Video)
Nature's guide to immortality (BBC; June 1, 2011)
Savage-Rumbaugh is mother to the apes (Des Moines Register; May 14, 2011)
Some not convinced of ape language skills (Des Moines Register; May 14, 2011)
Bonobos 'chat' about good foods (BBC; April 28, 2011)
Brain differences may explain varying behavior of bonobos and chimpanzees (Washington Post; April 11, 2011)
What We Can Learn from the Bonobo (BusinessWeek; February 16, 2011)
Conservationist devotes life to bonobos (Marion Star; December 5, 2010)
Study examines primate's guts (Yale Daily News; November 17, 2010)
Bonobo Becomes a Babysitter (Discovery News; October 14, 2010)
Bonobo Females Handier With Tools Than Males (Wired; October 12, 2010)
Going Ape in Central Africa: Meeting Our Closest Cousins in the Near-Wild Within Easy Reach of Major Cities (Huffington Post; October 12, 2010)
Morals Without God? (New York Times; October 17, 2010)
Kanzi the amazing ape who can 'speak' with humans and understands 450 words makes Oprah appearance (Daily Mail; October 6, 2010)
Iowa ape makes 'Oprah' debut (Des Moines Register; October 3, 2010)
Into the Congo: saving bonobos means aiding left-behind communities, an interview with Gay Reinartz (Mongabay; September 23, 2010)
Trouble in the monkey house (New York Times; September 8, 2010)
Mothers matter (e! Science News; August 31, 2010)
The book bonobos deserve (New Scientist; September 10, 2010)
For bonobo males, mom is best wingman (MSNBC; August 31, 2010)
Stress Hormones Could Predict Boxing Dominance (Wired; August 18, 2010)
Who are you calling a dumb animal? (Mail Online; August 12, 2010)
Ape Women: 10 Dedicated Primate Researchers (Mental Floss; July 6, 2010)
Bonobos vs. chimps: Data goes back to Orange Park (Florida Times-Union; June 30, 2010)
Quitting the hominid fight club: The evidence is flimsy for innate chimpanzee--let alone human--warfare (Scientific American; June 29, 2010)
Bonobos have a secret (CultureLab; June 21, 2010)
Our bonobo relatives (New Hampshire Public Radio; June 15, 2010)
Bonobos, humans and life in a violent world (Durham Herald-Sun; June 12, 2010)
Clever critters: Bonobos that share, brainy bugs and social dogs (Scientific American; June 8, 2010)
Just How Much Sex Are We Talking About? (Discovery; June 4, 2010)
Women Against Violence: Be More Bonobo! (Discover; May 31, 2010)
Bonobos: our peaceful primate cousin (Durham News)
What We're Reading: Bonobo Handshake (PBS; May 25, 2010)
Why Bonobos Will Save the World (Discover; May 27, 2010)
Bonobo chimps filmed shaking their head to 'say no' (BBC News; May 5, 2010)
Humans Have a Lot to Learn From Bonobos, Scientist Says (LiveScience; April 23, 2010)
Biologically We Are Just Another Ape (NPR; April 19, 2010)
Bonobo Rescue Leader to Headline Primate Palooza (Duke University Office of News and Communications; April 6, 2010)
Study suggests environment may impact apes' ability to understand declarative communication (Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News; March 15, 2010)
ASU scientists narrow down origins of malaria (ASU News; March 5, 2010)
Bonobos opt to share their food (BBC News; March 5, 2010)
If bonobo Kanzi can point as humans do, what other similarities can rearing reveal? (EurekAlert; March 1, 2010)
Some primates share, but others ... not so much (MSNBC; February 2, 2010)
Developmental Delay May Explain Behavior of Easygoing Bonobo Apes (ScienceDaily; January 29, 2010)
Wild bonobo mother ape eats own infant in DR Congo (BBC; February 1, 2010)
D.C. woman to be honored for work with Congo's bonobos (Washington Post; December 16, 2009)
Bonobos going wild (Charlotte Observer; July 6, 2009)
Reintroducing Bonobo Apes Into The Wild: Researchers To Monitor Progress (ScienceDaily; June 15, 2009)
Chimps, Other Apes Laugh Like People (Discovery News; June 4, 2009)
Ha-Ha! Ape study traces evolution of laughter (GMA News; June 4, 2009)
New rainforest reserve in Congo benefits bonobos and locals (Mongabay; May 25, 2009)
Bonobos rate food on scale from bark to grunt (MSNBC; April 17, 2009)
Bonobos enjoy an enviable work/life/sex balance (Toronto Star; April 3, 2009)
Recherche en laboratoire: limiter l'experimentation animale sans entraver les progres scientifiques (Parlement Europeen; March 31, 2009; in French)
Sexy Beasts: Bonobos Make Love, Not War (ABC News; March 19, 2009)
Genetics Research Sheds Light On Evolution Of The Human Diet (ScienceDaily; February 12, 2009)
The not-so-simple gesture (San Diego Union-Tribune; January 26, 2009)
Male bonding is rife in chimp society too (New Scientist; January 26, 2006)
What Do Women Want? (New York Times; January 22, 2009)
Zoo's youngest bonobo dies; the cause of death is unclear (Florida Times-Union; January 26, 2009)
Baby ape takes flight -- monkey business class (CNN; January 23, 2009)
Nice females also hunt (International Herald Tribune; December 4, 2004)
Expert honoured for bonobo work (BBC News; November 28, 2008)
How warfare shaped human evolution (New Scientist; November 12, 2008)
Despite 'Peacenik' Reputation, Bonobos Hunt And Eat Other Primates Too (ScienceDaily; October 13, 2008)
Young bonobos get to know zoo visitors (San Diego Union-Tribune; October 11, 2008)
Preening bosses mimic behaviour of monkeys (Independent; October 7, 2008)
Linguistic Tools Used To Analyze Human Language Applied To Conversation Between Scientist And Bonobo (ScienceDaily; August 28, 2008)
Chimps Not So Selfish: Comforting Behavior May Well Be Expression Of Empathy (ScienceDaily; June 19, 2008)
Female Monkeys More Dominant In Groups With Relatively More Males (ScienceDaily; July 15, 2008)
Pair want to save 'rare' bonobo (BBC News; July 12, 2008)
Why We're Different: Probing the Gap Between Apes and Humans (Science; January 25, 2008)
Aping Language (Skeptic; October 31, 2007)
Massive New Rainforest Reserve Established in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Yubanet; November 16, 2007)
Read My Slips: Speech Errors Show How Language Is Processed (Science; September 21, 2007)
All Together Now--Pull! (Science; September 7, 2007)
Sanctuaries Aid Research and Vice Versa (Science; September 7, 2007)
Researchers head to Congo to study Bonobo psychology (Mongabay; September 5, 2007)
Best Practice Guidelines for the Re-introduction of Great Apes (IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group)
Bonobo Handshake: What Makes Our Chimp-like Cousins So Cooperative? (ScienceDaily; September 4, 2007)
Bonobos, Left and Right (by Frans de Waal) (eSkeptic; August 8, 2007)
Look Who's Talking (Review of The First Word by Christine Kenneally, New York Times; August 12, 2007)
Humans' language monopoly challenged (San Francisco Chronicle; July 29, 2007)
Swingers (New Yorker; July 30, 2007)
Fields to Direct Bonobo Research at Great Ape Trust (E-Wire; June 29, 2007)
Primatology: Peaceful primates, violent acts (Nature; June 6, 2007)
Hello, How Are You Doing? (ABC News; May 29, 2007)
In Iowa, English 101 for bonobos (USA Today; May 10, 2007)
Ape gestures 'show human links' (BBC News; May 1, 2007)
Like humans, apes can communicate manually (Atlanta Journal-Constitution; May 1, 2007)
Our gaze separates us from the great apes (Regina Leader-Post; April 19, 2007)
'Protected' Congo forest is logged regardless (New Scientist; April 11, 2007)
Bonobos join forces to outdo chimps (New Scientist; April 9, 2007)
Humans ape wild rules on sex and sharing (The Australian; March 23, 2007)
Sex and co-operation - it's the bonobo in you (Sydney Morning Herald; March 23, 2007)
Social Tolerance Allows Bonobos To Outperform Chimpanzees On A Cooperative Task (ScienceDaily; March 8, 2007)
Illegal Loggers Mutilating Congolese Forests (Environment News Service; February 28, 2007)
Bonobo Dies, 12 Sickened at Ohio Zoo (Central Florida News 13; December 31, 2006)
Book: Animals guilty of human vices (UPI; December 15, 2006)
Trust's donations save apes worldwide (Des Moines Register; December 15, 2006)
Did evolution make our eyes stand out? (MSNBC; November 8, 2006)
Monkey business (Carte Blanche; October 29, 2006)
Hansen: Bonobo relatives can teach us a thing or two (Des Moines Register; October 12, 2006)
Chimps 'are people, too' (BBC Horizon; October 10, 2006)
Chimpanzee Experts Gather at L A Zoo for Conference (La Canada Valley Sun; September 28, 2006)
A cognitive strategy shared by human infants and our great-ape kin (EurekAlert; September 5, 2006)
Human great ape genome and the evolution of man (Laboratory Talk, UK; September 4, 2006)
Great Ape Trust Awards $22,000 in Conservation Grants (E-Wire; August 22, 2006)
Human Ancestors May Have Hit the Ground Running (LiveScience; July 24, 2006)
A Voluble Visit with Two Talking Apes (NPR; July 10, 2006)
DM bonobo receives world's first hernia surgery (Des Moines Register; July 7, 2006)
Great Expectations: Businessman, native son creating ape research facility near Des Moines (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier; June 24, 2006)
Great Ape Trust to open for visits (Des Moines Register; June 1, 2006)
Chimpanzee thoughts (Times Online; March 1, 2006)
Scientists narrow time limits for human, chimp split (Physorg.com; December 20, 2005)
Fruit bats may carry Ebola virus (BBC; December 1, 2005)
Our Inner Ape: Sexy, Violent and, Yes, Kind (Bookslut; November 9, 2005)
Disparate theories on evolution (Review of Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal; Sunday Times, UK; November 6, 2005)
Bush-meat traders threaten Nigeria's chimps (Georgia Straight, Canada; November 3, 2005)
Can Chimps Talk? (Forbes; October 24, 2005)
Great apes face Ebola oblivion (New Scientist; November 5, 2005)
Jane Goodall On The Challenges Of Communicating With Chimps (Forbes; October 24, 2005)
Mechanisms of evolution may be associated with disease (News-Medical.net; October 26, 2005)
Noam Chomsky On The Spontaneous Invention Of Language (Forbes; October 24, 2005)
Chimp Haven Opens To Eager Public (KSLA-TV, Shreveport, LA; October 29, 2005)
Contact your inner ape to understand the best of humanity (London Times; October 30, 2005)
New Insight Into Kanzi and How a Great Ape Acquired Language (PR Newswire; October 20, 2005)
Woods Hole Research Center scientist part of international initiatives to save the great apes (EurekAlert; October 11, 2005)
New Conservation Groups Formed at World Wilderness Congress (Environment News Service; October 10, 2005)
Saving the World's Great Apes (NPR; September 9, 2005)
Talking Primates with Dr. Frans de Waal (92Y Blog; August 25, 2005)
Conservationists seek to protect apes (Associated Press; July 27, 2005)
Rare Bonobo Ape Dies in Captivity (The Ledger, Florida; July 26, 2005)
Expert highlights mobile phone threat to great apes (Australian Broadcasting Company; March 10, 2005)
Study links Ebola outbreaks to animal carcasses (EurekAlert; February 14, 2005)
Pygmy chimpanzees on the brink of extinction (Independent Online, South Africa; January 10, 2005)
Fences 'can help apes' survival' (BBC News; May 5, 2004)
African apes being eaten into extinction (Sunday Herald, UK; October 11, 2003)
African `bushmeat' trade raises health, conservation fears (Taipei Times; August 25, 2003)
Balancing Wildlife Conservation with Human Survival (Inter Press Service News Agency; October 11, 2003)
Bonobo Society: Amicable, Amorous and Run by Females
Bonobos' threat: hungry humans (Christian Science Monitor; June 7, 2001)
Dire Outlook for Many Primates (BBC; May 12, 2000)
Eating apes imperils species, spreads AIDS (ABC Science Online, Australia; September 15, 2003)
Great apes in peril (BBC News; May 20, 2001)
Growing demand for 'bushmeat' threatens great apes (CNN; August 11, 1999)
Last chance to save great apes from extinction (Guardian Unlimited; May 21, 2001)

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