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 ...

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

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

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

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

Overall, they examined the behavior of 12 bonobos and 14 chimpanzees by conducting "focal follows," which involved tracking one individual's behavior for an entire day and taking note of how often ...

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, one of humanity’s closest relatives ... but can also modify their behavior accordingly,” the lead author Luke Townrow, a comparative social cognition researcher at Johns Hopkins ...

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 ...