“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

Male bonobos are able to decipher confusing fertility signals from females, say scientists. Most female mammals are only ...

HUMANS are less likely to cheat than chimps – but are more prone to promiscuity than beavers. They’re the findings of a major ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

Humans are far less likely to sleep around than our primate cousins, reveals new research. We sit comfortably in the "Premier League of monogamy" - between meerkats and beavers - while the vast ...

Learn how male bonobos use subtle behavioral and reproductive cues to pinpoint the fertile window, even when the usual ...

Scroll social media for five minutes and you’ll find a thousand versions of the same claim: dogs who “talk back,” sit like humans, shadow their owners from room to room, and seem more interested in ...

For the study, the researchers worked with two adult male macaques that had previously been trained to tap in time with a metronome. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 With a ...

Macaques can tap along to a musical beat, according to a new study – findings that upend the assumption that only animals with vocal-learning abilities can find and move to a groove. According to the ...

Picture the one friend who is always gearing up to dish the hottest gossip. If you instantly saw someone chewing gum, you already know the type. And somehow, this spider monkey matches it perfectly.

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New ...