A new study shows female bonobos team up to fend off males in the wild. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in ...

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

A 30-year study finds that female bonobos dominate males through alliances, clever tactics, and full control over food and ...

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 ...