SciShow
Octopuses Have a Favorite Arm
Most humans might be right-handed, but plenty of other animals have a preferred hand (or whatever they've got instead of hands) too. The more general term is lateralization, and it's found in everything from kangaroos to octopuses.
TED Talks
TED: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores? | Christopher Ryan
An idea permeates our modern view of relationships: that men and women have always paired off in sexually exclusive relationships. But before the dawn of agriculture, humans may actually have been quite promiscuous. Author Christopher...
SciShow
Why Do Animals Have Sex for Pleasure?
Seeking pleasure comes naturally to us humans, and we experience it in various ways, including sex. But it turns out plenty of other organisms also seek out the feeling of sexual pleasure, even outside mating purposes.
TED Talks
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos
Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.
SciShow
Why Humans Feel Disgust, and Why Other Animals Might Too
You might think something is so "icky" that you try avoid it, and scientists think there's a reason humans, and even some other animals, do this.
MinuteEarth
How This River Made Chimps Violent
When a group of apes got split apart, slight differences in their new environments led to big differences in future generations.
SciShow
Fidelity Hormones, Contagious Behavior, and the Meat-Allergy Plague
This week's SciShow News finds Hank up to his elbows in weird disorders and strange behaviors, including a chemical that makes men stay faithful, new insights into what makes some behavior contagious, and the truth about a disease that...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Evolution's great mystery: Language | Michael Corballis
What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing what's in our minds: stories, opinions, questions, the past or future, imagined times or places, ideas. It is fundamentally open-ended, and...
SciShow
6 "Vegetarian" Animals that Will Give You Nightmares
Some of the animals you think of as just cute grass-eating creatures might actually be more interested in chomping on your meaty bones.
SciShow
Saving the Elephants with Carbon Dating
The researchers have found that almost all the illegal ivories are from recent poaching. Meanwhile, humans are not only animals that are farsighted!
Curated Video
Evolving Moral Understanding
Anthropologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, describes how the genetic commonalities between humans, bonobos and chimpanzees cast suspicions on the long-held claim of anthropologists that humans are an extremely aggressive species...
Chungdahm Learning
Bad Animals Episode 5 - Bonobo Baby
Nasty, brutish, and short. That’s life in the wild. Will these animals learn to get along? Follow this hip-hop series and its reflections on the seven deadly sins.... Single lady. Bonobo is looking for love in the jungle. But with so...
Curated Video
Primates: A Fascinating Exploration of Chimpanzees and Bonobos
This video provides an overview of primates, focusing on the differences between common chimpanzees and bonobos. It explores their physical characteristics, social structures, communication methods, mating behaviors, and life cycles. The...
Curated Video
Chimpanzees and Bonobos: A Comparative Study of Behavior and Society
In this video, we delve into the fascinating world of chimpanzees, exploring their evolutionary history, geographical distribution, physical characteristics, and most importantly, their behavior and psychology. Discover how chimpanzees...
Science360
Bonobos Chimpanzees
Duke University anthropologist Brian Hare wants more people to appreciate what the Bonobo chimpanzee can teach us about human nature. The Bonobo is endangered and found in the wild only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along with...
Getty Images
A Bonobo monkey looks around its enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.
A Bonobo monkey looks around its enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Monkeying around in Belgian zoos brings girls out on top
VOICED: Monkeying around in Belgian zoos brings girls out on top
Bloomberg
Why Wal-Mart May Be About to Buy Bonobos
Apr.18 -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is in talks to buy men’s clothing retail startup Bonobos Inc. for about $300 million, according to a person familiar with the situation. Shelly Banjo, a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist, has more on "Bloomberg...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Monkeying around in Belgian zoos brings girls out on top
CLEAN: Monkeying around in Belgian zoos brings girls out on top
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Monkeying around in Belgian zoos brings girls out on top
CLEAN: Monkeying around in Belgian zoos brings girls out on top