NEW YORK — 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 have ...

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 ...

When it comes to bonobo hierarchy, the ladies stick together. New research out of the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior finds that female bonobos team up to keep male bonobos in line, even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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