Male bonobos track females' reproductive cycle to maximize mating success - Peer2Peer

Male bonobos track females' reproductive cycle to maximize mating success

Dec 09, 2025

Male bonobos can decipher females' unreliable fertility signals, allowing them to focus their efforts on matings with the highest chance of conception, according to a study by Heungjin Ryu at Kyoto University, Japan, and colleagues published in PLOS Biology.

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-male-bonobos-track-females-reproductive.html

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