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 ...

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

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

Past theories have suggested that animals exhibit SSB to increase group cohesion, to signal dominance among a larger group, ...

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

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.

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

People haven’t realised that same-sex behaviour is as important for the functioning of a society," says wildlife expert ...

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

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