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

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Source: Sofya Dolotovskaya, used with permission. Many birds and mammals are socially monogamous—males and females pair up, live together, and often raise their young together. However, once methods ...

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and love is in the air for humans and wildlife alike. The noun “love” is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. Just as humans feel love, animals ...

In five cases where vertebrates evolved monogamy, the same changes in gene expression occurred each time. In many non-monogamous species, females provide all or most of the offspring care. In ...

Advances in genetics in recent years has revealed that many apparently exclusive pairs in fact sometimes mate with individuals other than their partner, but social monogamy is widespread.