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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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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 ...

Almost 60 different primate species exhibit same-sex sexual behaviors.