A 30-year study finds that female bonobos dominate males through alliances, clever tactics, and full control over food and ...

Male bonobos are big, loud animals—and they can be aggressive. Yet, despite the males being larger and stronger than their ...

Biologically speaking, female and male bonobos have a weird relationship. First, there’s the sex. It’s the females who decide when and with whom they mate. They easily parry unwanted sexual ...

Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place. By Annie Roth Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. A colossal squid is caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea ...

Why do female bonobos often outrank males, especially when the opposite is true for most social mammals, like their close relative the chimpanzee? That’s the question Martin Surbeck and his ...

(Image Credit: Melodie Kreyer / LKBP) Two female bonobos clasp hands during grooming, which strengthens social bonds When it comes to bonobo hierarchy, the ladies stick together. New research out of ...

When a male bonobo oversteps his bounds — say, by hopping into a tree and shaking the branches while others are trying to feed — females in the troop tend to act fast. They kick him ...

Female bonobos team up to suppress male aggression against them -- the first evidence of animals deploying this strategy. In 85% of observed coalitions, females collectively targeted males ...

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NEW YORK – Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are among humans' closest relatives. Scientists ...