To compare the differences in aggression between bonobo and chimpanzee males, she and her colleagues followed 12 males from three bonobo communities at the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the ...

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to ...

Bonobos, often seen as the “make love, not war” apes, are famous for using sexual behavior to smooth over conflicts. Chimps, ...

The field assistants said, ‘This is an aggression.’ And I was like, ‘Wait, where is the peaceful bonobo in this?’” Mouginot tells National Geographic’s Tim Vernimmen. As the study ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

But the bonobo’s behavior in the wild has been harder to know, and Takayoshi Kano, operating out of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, was among the first scientists aspiring to ...