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 published in Current Biology shows ...

Female bonobos send one of the most confusing signals in the primate world: a bright pink genital swelling that stays fully inflated long before - and long after - they're actually fertile. It looks ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Male bonobos were observed being particularly aggressive with other males, but not females. From a human perspective, chimpanzees ...

When it comes to bonobo hierarchy, the ladies stick together. New research out of the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior finds that female bonobos team up to keep male bonobos in line, even ...

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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 ...

Learn how male bonobos use subtle behavioral and reproductive cues to pinpoint the fertile window, even when the usual swelling signal gives them almost no useful information. Female bonobos send one ...