A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

Nonhuman primates like bonobos and chimpanzees might engage in same-sex sexual activities to strengthen bonds, particularly ...

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...

The researchers found that same-sex behavior was more common in primate groups with clear hierarchical structures and those ...

Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of ...

Primates form same-sex sexual behavior alliances to gain rank and mating opportunities Male primates use same-sex bonds as ...

Homosexual behavior in primates has a deep evolutionary basis and is more likely to occur in species that live in harsh ...

More than 59 different primate species have been observed participating in some kind of same-sex behaviors, making it ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

Cooperative behaviour and prosociality in nonhuman primates constitute a vital area of research that illuminates the evolutionary origins of complex sociality. Studies indicate that primates employ a ...

Bonobo chimpanzees are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos. … They still showed increased alertness ...

Adaptation and behavior in the primate fossil record / Callum F. Ross ... [et al.] -- Functional morphology and in vivo bone strain patterns in the craniofacial region of primates: beware of ...