will become available for mating again much sooner. In contrast, bonobo society is marked by the strong bonds that develop between unrelated females and by almost constant sexual activity amongst ...

Bonobos aren’t as mellow as scientists long ... for how and why the primates behave as they do, such as negotiating mating rights and hierarchies, Gisela Kaplan, an animal behavior researcher ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago.

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 ...