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 ...

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.

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 ...

Female bonobos call the shots, unlike other social mammals, where size usually dictates status. They decide when and with whom to mate and have no trouble fending off unwanted advances. Males ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Male dolphins will cooperate with other unrelated males to guard females, which increases their own chances of mating. But, unlike with a lot of the bonobo cooperation observed in the new study ...

Bonobos may be one of our closest cousins but chimpanzees dominated ... we do seem to be opening up to alternative mating practices such as consensual non-monogamy in response to a world that is ...