The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked “monotocous” species, meaning it usually has one offspring per pregnancy, ...

Affairs dominate TV. Human society is based on monogamy, so are there really that many people who stray? Scientists compared humans with other animals and found that humans ranked near the top for ...

Humans may be far more monogamous by nature than previously thought, researchers say. Monogamy in humans is comparable more to the exclusive mating seen in meerkats and beavers than in our primate ...

Humans may be far more monogamous by nature than previously thought, researchers say. Monogamy, or the practice of mating with only one partner at a time, is widely theorised to be a cornerstone of ...

Shawn-Shawn, a history-making primate euthanized this week, made the front page of The New York Times in 1979.

There is a new article making the rounds on the science pages of many online publications. The seemingly shocking claim is that, “Large testicles mean greater infidelity in primates.” In fact, Petter ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was ...

A new study finds how monogamous humans are in the mammal family. In a list ranking the monogamy of mammals, humans stood at ...

Nature occasionally produces animals that seem dipped in gold, their fur, feathers, or scales glowing brilliantly in sunlight. Beyond their dazzling a ...

Nature never ceases to amaze with its wild inventions. Be it a giant of the sea or an outstretched whale that pulls themselves out of the water to catch birds or lizards and deer with flip-out facial ...