As anticipated last week, I'm here at the Great Ape Trust in Iowa, where I've spent a fantastic afternoon with Sue-Savage Rumbaugh and seven bonobos. Since I'll also be here tomorrow, I'll blog about ...

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 ...

If Christmas is about anything, it’s about the beauty of kids, from the poignancy of Bethlehem to the wonder of the tree. Teco is a 6-month-old bonobo chimpanzee, already crawling and walking way more ...

A female bonobo of the Hali-Hali community in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve (Democratic Republic of the Congo) relaxes on a branch (members of the Hali-Hali community contributed fecal samples for ...