Male bonobos are big, loud animals—and they can be aggressive. Yet, despite the males being larger and stronger than their female counterparts, bonobos live in female-dominated societies, a fact that ...

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, forcing ...

Girl power is not just a human thing; bonobos might’ve figured it out first. In the heart of the Congo rainforest, bonobos challenge everything we know about dominance in the animal world. While most ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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

The study measured “rank” within the bonobo communities by tallying how many times females won conflicts with males. Females usually came out on top. Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding ...

Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Female bonobos find strength ...

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 ...