Having a defense against aggressive males means that the lady ducks still (mostly) get to pick their mates. They just have to put up with a lot of very unpleasant looking attempts from would-be ...

Despite their species’ friendly reputation, bonobo males lash out at other males much more often than chimpanzee males do, a surprising study finds. In her first week studying bonobos in the ...

Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place. By Annie Roth Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with ...

Animalia These female apes found a way to limit male aggression. For decades it had been a mystery how female Bonobos, cousins to humans, claim higher positions than males in their troop hierarchy.

A bonobo named Louise, born into captivity at the San Diego Zoo, lived with her sister, Loretta, and nephew, Erin, before being transferred to the Japan’s Kumamoto Sanctuary in 1992. In the wild ...

Famously, Kanzi was also a gamer. I first learned of Kanzi in 2006 when I spotted a bootlegged NHK Youtube video showing a bonobo playing Pac-Man with both proficiency and delight. I corresponded ...