Female bonobos team up to suppress male aggression against them -- the first evidence of animals deploying this strategy. In 85% of observed coalitions, females collectively targeted males, forcing ...

NEW YORK — Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study has found. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are among humans’ closest relatives. Scientists ...

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A new study of chimpanzee and bonobo groups at zoos reveals similar levels of aggression. However, scientists found stark sex-based differences between the species. When you purchase through links on ...

Male bonobos are larger and stronger than females, so researchers have found it puzzling that the female apes enjoy high status in bonobo society. After analyzing three decades of behavioral data, ...

When a male bonobo oversteps his bounds — say, by hopping into a tree and shaking the branches while others are trying to feed — females in the troop tend to act fast. They kick him, they chase him, ...

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 ...

Biologically speaking, female and male bonobos have a weird relationship. First, there’s the sex. It’s the females who decide when and with whom they mate. They easily parry unwanted sexual ...