Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are unreliable. Researchers tracking wild bonobos in the Congo discovered that males ...

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 ...

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

Primates form same-sex sexual behavior alliances to gain rank and mating opportunities Male primates use same-sex bonds as ...

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 ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest living relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA, highlighting ...

Video by @cincinnatizooDaisy the baby bonobo is almost four months old! Bonobo babies typically stay with their mothers for four to five years, but their bond remains strong well beyond ...

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When it comes to courtship in the animal kingdom, frogs peep, crickets chirp, and cicadas click. But nothing on Earth compares to the ruckus rendered by a male Canada lynx defending his mate. Amos ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. The florigen activation complex drives the pivotal ...

Recent research indicates that female gorillas can, and often do, overpower males twice their size, especially in non-alpha ...