Two juvenile bonobos embrace in Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. New research suggests female bonobos form coalitions to gain or maintain power in their societies.

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 ...

This challenges long-held assumptions that bonobos are the more empathic ape and instead highlights the variation within each species. The researchers studied 40 bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo ...

It isn’t a simple case of strong individuals outmuscling the other. Bonobo females rise to power by sticking together. Giving life to the ‘Apes Together Strong’ scene from Rise of the Planet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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