Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are unreliable. Researchers tracking wild bonobos in the Congo discovered that males ...

Male bonobos can decipher females’ unreliable fertility signals, allowing them to focus their efforts on matings with the highest chance of conception, according to a study by Heungjin Ryu at Kyoto ...

Learn how male bonobos use subtle behavioral and reproductive cues to pinpoint the fertile window, even when the usual swelling signal gives them almost no useful information. Female bonobos send one ...

One study from 2015, found that 70% of gifts are duds. No matter. The wrapping keeps the female occupied as the male mounts ...

Video by @cincinnatizooDaisy the baby bonobo is almost four months old! Bonobo babies typically stay with their mothers for four to five years, but their bond remains strong well beyond ...

Humans may be far more monogamous by nature than previously thought, researchers say. Monogamy in humans is comparable more to the exclusive mating seen in meerkats and beavers than in our primate ...

When it comes to courtship in the animal kingdom, frogs peep, crickets chirp, and cicadas click. But nothing on Earth compares to the ruckus rendered by a male Canada lynx defending his mate. Amos ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. This study shows that the wheat major QTL gene-encoded ...