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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how male bonobos use subtle behavioral and reproductive cues to pinpoint the fertile window, even when the usual swelling signal gives them almost no useful information. Female bonobos send one ...

The title is probably enough to turn off most casual anime viewers, and the show’s avalanche of sex jokes might vindicate their decision. But the gleefully sacrilegious sequel to Panty & Stocking With ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. This study shows that the wheat major QTL gene-encoded ...

One study from 2015, found that 70% of gifts are duds. No matter. The wrapping keeps the female occupied as the male mounts ...

Snowflake moray eel bodies are distinctive, with black and yellow blotchy markings that resemble snowflakes on a yellow-white ...

From matriarchs who guide entire herds to queens that dominate their hives, the animal kingdom is full of powerful females calling the shots.

Humans may be far more monogamous by nature than previously thought, researchers say. Monogamy in humans is comparable more to the exclusive mating seen in meerkats and beavers than in our primate ...

When it comes to animals romancing in the wild, things get weird—really weird. Some animals offer bizarre gifts, some put on daring dances, and others? Well, let’s just say things get really messy.