Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy to see that this helps them stay warm in cold temperatures, but a team of ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy ...

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