New research shows male bonobos use subtle, hidden cues - not just swelling - to track a female’s fertile days with surprising accuracy.

Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are ...

The authors add, "In this study, we found that bonobo males, instead of trying to predict precise ovulation timing, use a flexible strategy —paying attention to the end-signal cue of the sexual ...

May 21 (UPI) --It's good to be a mama's boy: new research suggests bonobo mothers boost their sons' reproductive success. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...

Many social animals share child-rearing duties, but research publishing May 20 in the journal Current Biology finds that bonobo moms go the extra step and actually take action to ensure their sons ...

Bonobos have been at the forefront of scientific research for ages, and as it would seem, for an excellent reason. Every moment that scientists spend studying bonobos appears to result in some ...

Bonobo mothers help their sons mate in a variety of ways, experts believe, including by directing them toward females who are ovulating. Scientists studied wild bonobos living in the Democratic ...

"This is the first time that we can show the impact of the mother's presence on a very important male fitness trait, which is their fertility," says Martin Surbeck, a primatologist at the Max Planck ...

July 10 (UPI) --Despite their reputation as friendly pacifists, bonobos don't necessarily spread the love around when it comes to reproduction. New research suggests just a few males father most of ...

If you think your mom is laying it on thick about producing grandchildren, take heart: At least you’re not a male bonobo. Bonobo mothers have been seen performing a variety of behaviors that seem to ...

New research finds that bonobo mothers take action to ensure their sons will become fathers. This way bonobo mothers increase their sons' chance of fatherhood three-fold. In many social animal species ...