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

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

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

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

Humans share this behavioral strategy with our closest living ape relatives—bonobos and chimpanzees. Now researchers, led by ...

The research team challenged these assumptions by directly comparing the sexual behavior between bonobos and chimpanzees for the first time. “By directly comparing the two species in similar ...

Now researchers, led by Durham University, UK, have undertaken what is thought to be one of the first direct comparisons of sexual behavior among bonobos and chimpanzees during periods of social ...

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 ...