The female bonobos dictate who gets to mate and when. Females also get first dibs on any food sources, while males wait patiently in the treetops above until the females are finished.

Bonobos have a reputation as lovers, not fighters. But the primate species — perhaps infamous for using sex as a conflict resolution tool — exhibits more complex behavior around mating than previously ...

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 ...

“The sexual swellings of female bonobos appear to send mixed messages to males, making it much harder for males to successfully time their mating effort,” explains Pamela Heidi Douglas, who ...

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 ...

For both chimpanzees and bonobos, more aggressive males had greater mating success. The researchers were surprised to find this in bonobos, which have a co-dominant social dynamic in which females ...

In addition, aggressive bonobos won more opportunities to mate with females. The findings challenge a long-held theory, known as the self-domestication hypothesis, ...

Male chimpanzees also attack females to coerce them into mating, and sometimes even kill infants. Among bonobos, in contrast, females are dominant. Males do not go on patrols, form alliances or ...

Mouginot suspects female bonobos aren't attracted to aggression itself, but instead the high-ranking males who use force to repel competitors when females are ready to mate. (Read how a bonobo was ...

In chimp communities the male-dominated hierarchies can form coalitions that force females into mating. However, in bonobo groups, the females outrank the males in a co-dominant social dynamic.

compares chimpanzee and bonobo society. Although they are close relatives, chimps and bonobos have strikingly different social dynamics: ... will become available for mating again much sooner.

The female bonobos dictate who gets to mate and when. Females also get first dibs on any food sources, while males wait patiently in the treetops above until the females are finished. Apparently, this ...