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Female bonobos send mixed messages to males

2016-07-06 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: In several species of primates, males often discern when to mate with a female based on cyclical changes in the size and firmness of her sexual swelling -- a visual signal of a female's probability to conceive. Primatologists have now investigated for the first time the relationship between ovarian hormones and sexual swellings in wild female bonobos. The likelihood that a female bonobo ovulates during her maximum swelling phase is much lower than in the closely related chimpanzees. Swellings are...

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