On Jun. 13, 2012, in a project led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, an international team of scientists announced they had completed the genome of the bonobo – the final great ape to be sequenced. The genome was sequenced from Ulindi, a female bonobo who lives in the Zoo Leipzig, Germany.

The comparison of the genome sequences of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human showed that humans differ by approximately 1.3% from both bonobo and chimpanzee. Chimpanzees and bonobos are more closely related, differing by only 0.4%.