Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are ...

New research shows male bonobos use subtle, hidden cues - not just swelling - to track a female’s fertile days with ...

Male bonobos are able to decipher confusing fertility signals from females, say scientists. Most female mammals are only ...

In most mammals, females are only receptive to mating during ovulation, allowing males to time their mating efforts to maximize the chances of conception. But in some primates, such as bonobos (Pan ...

Learn how male bonobos use subtle behavioral and reproductive cues to pinpoint the fertile window, even when the usual ...

Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place. By Annie Roth Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with whom ...

Bonobos have a reputation of being the hippies of the ape world, due to their propensity to “make love, not war.” But a new study reveals that bonobos, found only in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago. Humans ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are often thought to reflect two different sides of human nature—the conflict-ready chimpanzee versus the peaceful bonobo—but a new study publishing April 12 in the journal ...

Male bonobos can decipher females’ unreliable fertility signals, allowing them to focus their efforts on matings with the ...