Bonobos, which are among our closest living relatives, live in rare societies where females tend to outrank males, even ...

Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study has found. Three decades of observations in Congo — the only place the endangered bonobos are ...

Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding together in coalitions—meaning groups of two or more animals, but usually three to ...

New research out of the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior finds that female bonobos team up to keep male bonobos in line, even though the males are larger and stronger than the females. This ...

For decades it had remained a mystery why females of this primate species, though smaller than males, tend to claim high positions in their troop hierarchy.

I saw a joke on the internet the other day saying that Man-Flu is more painful than childbirth. While some may find that ...