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

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

Doug was the leader of his chimpanzee group. He had quickly gained a reputation from human observers as a fair and tolerant ...

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

An analysis reveals how the two primate species use sex to resolve conflicts. This suggests that the social function of sex ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...

Food-sharing is commonplace, and instead of fighting, disputes among bonobos are usually solved with sex. As a result of ...

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 ...

The bonobo watches as a human places a reward under ... Now that they know apes can communicate to change others' behavior based on knowledge, they want to explore whether they can change their ...

Bonobos apparently use sex to reinforce bonds ... The changes in social behavior that occurred in response to this environmental factor may be what led chimps down a different evolutionary path ...

New research suggests that using sex to ease social tension may have roots going back more than six million years.

Humans share this behavioural strategy with our closest living ape relatives – bonobos and chimpanzees. Now researchers, led by Durham University, UK, have undertaken what is thought to be one ...