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 ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In most mammals, females are only receptive to mating during ovulation, allowing males to time their mating efforts to maximize the ...

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 ...