Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden announced on Monday the birth of a female Plains zebra foal named Lyra.

Male bonobos can decipher females' unreliable fertility signals, allowing them to focus their efforts on matings with the ...

A Galápagos bird species is stunning behaviorists with their “freewheeling” lifestyles. Described in the journal PLOS One, ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Humans have a monogamy rating of 66% full siblings, ahead of meerkats (60%) but behind beavers (73%). Meanwhile, our evolutionary cousins fall at the bottom of the table - with mountain gorillas at 6% ...

Learn how male bonobos use subtle behavioral and reproductive cues to pinpoint the fertile window, even when the usual ...