http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9469000/9469152.stm Peeps as communication

Birds and properties like empathy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1364383/Scientists-say-chickens-empathy-feel-pain.html

European protection relating to apes and when it is OK to do lab things to them

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100908/tsc-uk-eu-primates-ban-011ccfa.html

DNA stuff.

http://7thspace.com/headlines/355944/distinct_patterns_of_mitochondrial_genome_diversity_in_bonobos_pan_paniscus_and_humans.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1302363/How-ve-woefully-underestimated-animals-intelligence.html

A collection of interesting Kanzi observations, etc..

Bonobo and dog

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-inner-bonobo/201004/bonobo-orphan-and-dog

(reminds me of a dog story at Twycross Zoo)

further reading:
http://www.bonobohandshake.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8609192.stm

Australopithecus sediba

around 2 million years ago