After Surviving a Brutal Attack in the Congo, Dunia Sibomana-Rodriguez Found a New Life, a Loving Family, and a Path to ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

Tensions can sometimes be eased under the duvet when couples argue, but we humans are not the only ones to use sex as an ...

Young female chimpanzees make their nests earlier and more often than young male chimps, demonstrating their independence ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living ancestors, however now researchers say, despite not being able to speak they have a complicated communication system. According to a new study, chimpanzees use ...

Bonobos, often seen as the “make love, not war” apes, are famous for using sexual behavior to smooth over conflicts. Chimps, ...

New research suggests that using sex to ease social tension may have roots going back more than six million years.

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that ...

A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

Using sex to manage social tension dates back over six million years to humans' common ape ancestor, according to a new study. Comparing sister ...

The team found that both bonobos and chimpanzees used sex in similar ways to ease tension and reaffirm social bonds before feeding. Bonobos also often had sex more after fights to repair social ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...