Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...

Homosexual behaviour in primates has a deep evolutionary basis and is more likely to occur in species that live in harsh ...

Nonhuman primates like bonobos and chimpanzees might engage in same-sex sexual activities to strengthen bonds, particularly ...

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy ...

The researchers found that same-sex behavior was more common in primate groups with clear hierarchical structures and those ...

That’s why in the future, she thinks, neural prostheses meant for patients with a stroke or paralysis will decode facial ...

Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

Bonobo chimpanzees are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos. … They still showed increased alertness ...