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

Japanese macaques are famous for soaking in hot springs during winter, but new research suggests this behavior may serve ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They found that bathing in hot springs subtly reshapes the snow monkeys’ relationships with their parasites and gut microbes. The macaques that bathe showed different lice distributions and gut ...