Kanzi the bonobo died Tuesday afternoon. The 44-year-old showed no signs of illness or discomfort before being found ...

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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 ...

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

The expert points to one of our closest living relatives in the wild, the bonobo, which has high rates of has same-sex and opposite-sex encounters. Bonobos are one of the few species in which ...

Female chimps lead a life much more solitary than that their bonobo cousins, and are sometimes harassed by the much larger males. Sex is strictly about reproduction, and reproductive tactics can ...