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 ...

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

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 defying our neat little categories. Take something as common as same-sex ...

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 ...

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

Gay apes are a thing!

They found that bathing in hot springs subtly reshapes the snow monkeys’ relationships with their parasites and gut microbes.

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

Incidents that make us consider the relationship between humans and wild animals are happening all over Japan, from bear ...