May 21 (UPI) --It's good to be a mama's boy: new research suggests bonobo mothers boost their sons' reproductive success. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...

Many social animals share child-rearing duties, but research publishing May 20 in the journal Current Biology finds that bonobo moms go the extra step and actually take action to ensure their sons ...

Bonobo mothers help their sons mate in a variety of ways, experts believe, including by directing them toward females who are ovulating. Scientists studied wild bonobos living in the Democratic ...

Bonobos have been at the forefront of scientific research for ages, and as it would seem, for an excellent reason. Every moment that scientists spend studying bonobos appears to result in some ...

"This is the first time that we can show the impact of the mother's presence on a very important male fitness trait, which is their fertility," says Martin Surbeck, a primatologist at the Max Planck ...

In the forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, scientists noticed something odd happening among wild bonobos. Females were behaving like males during competition over other females — ...

Match-making mothers have meddled, for better or for worse, throughout human history. The innocent suggestion, “I know someone you might like,” can turn into a one-two punch when it’s followed by the ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are often thought to reflect two different sides of human nature -- the conflict-ready chimpanzee versus the peaceful bonobo -- but a new study shows that, within their own ...

If your mum gets too involved in your love life, spare a thought for bonobos. Females of these great apes, which are closely related to chimpanzees, help their sons with hook-ups, guard the young ...

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

New research finds that bonobo mothers take action to ensure their sons will become fathers. This way bonobo mothers increase their sons' chance of fatherhood three-fold. In many social animal species ...