Implications for bonobo mating strategies The results show that males focus their mating efforts on the most fertile females by combining information about the timing of swelling and reproductive ...

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 ...

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. “Chimpanzees and bonobos use ...

Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a “make love, not war” ethos, in ​contrast to their belligerent cousins, the chimpanzees. But is this ...

A new study of our two closest living relatives finds that, at least in zoos, bonobos may not be more peaceful than ...

To find bonobos in their nests and, once found, follow these extraordinary primates and one throughout the day, without causing the animals stress or prompting them to flee. For the past 18 months, ...

Male bonobos can decipher females’ unreliable fertility signals, allowing them to focus their efforts on matings with the highest chance of conception, according to a study by Heungjin Ryu at Kyoto ...