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

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

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

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

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

People are constantly looking at the behavior of others and coming up with ideas about what might be going on in their heads. Now, a new study of bonobos adds to evidence that they might do the same ...

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 ...

The study measured “rank” within the bonobo communities by tallying how many times females won conflicts with males. Females usually came out on top. Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding ...