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Female coalitions are just one mechanism likely to drive the empowerment of female bonobos, the authors say. Female reproductive autonomy almost certainly changes power relations between the sexes.

Biologically speaking, female and male bonobos have a weird relationship. First, there’s the sex. It’s the females who decide when and with whom they mate. They easily parry unwanted sexual ...

Male bonobos are larger and stronger than females, so researchers have found it puzzling that the female apes enjoy high status in bonobo society. After analyzing three decades of behavioral data, ...