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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...