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

Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

Gay apes are a thing!

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

Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry ...

Some 60 primate species, including baboons, chimpanzees and vervet monkeys, express homosexuality, according to a new study ...

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

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

Nothing brings a group of primates together, humans included, quite like a threat from outside. Bonobos are unique among ...

Between Nigeria’s Cross River and Cameroon’s Sanaga River lies one of West Africa’s largest remaining blocks of intact ...

A growing body of research suggests same-sex behavior in nonhuman primates is important to social connections.

Same-sex behavior is common across the animal kingdom—more than 1,500 species are estimated to have been observed engaging in ...