| 单词 | bonobo |
| 例句 | The tired bonobo’s head bobbed as my dad and I talked. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I stared up at the stars, feeling my thoughts slow and my mind grow calm as the bonobos around me stopped shrieking and dozed off. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It smelled like her, and like bonobo, and like blood. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I was no bonobo expert, but he was the ugliest I’d ever seen. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once the bonobos were secured in the truck, it hit me: They had to fly north, then take the cages by dugout canoe up the Congo River until they reached the release site. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My mom held and comforted the adult bonobos while they slowly fell asleep. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As I circle the island, searching for signs of bonobos, my heart races with a sense of all that’s past and all that’s happening now. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I’d hoped Otto would perk up around other bonobos, but he didn’t seem to have attention for anything but my torso. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Given their fear of loud noises, the bonobos had probably fled to the far side as soon as the gunfire started, so I didn’t expect to come across any for a while. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The moment I showed my teeth, all the bonobos tensed, backing up and pounding the earth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobos went about their foraging with a single-mindedness that made me jealous. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Come morning, I marched with Otto to uncramp my legs, and when I returned to the pond I found a handful of bonobos on the opposite edge, sipping at the water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was late afternoon, around the time the bonobos would have been eating their fruit lunch back in the sanctuary, when I first heard a high-pitched call. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z What a sight we must have been, me running with an ape on my back, trailing another bonobo attached by a leash. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Around the nursery, with the oblivious young bonobos pranking one another. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The adult bonobos kept to themselves, hiding away in the center of their large enclosure. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The trafficker hadn’t had time to put the cover back on the cage, and I would forever remember the image of the two little bonobos in back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Those two little bonobos had spent many weeks with that trafficker. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Anastasia had dropped the sapling and was staring at us, the remaining bonobos — probably the aggressive Pink Ladies Mama Brunelle had told me about — again flanking her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Mom told me the bonobos don’t spend much time here, preferring the coverage of trees during the rainy season. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew from my recent reading that if I didn’t look at this bonobo, he would know I wasn’t going to challenge him for dominance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Each was nearly the size of an infant bonobo, and a few breadfruit were enough of a meal for the whole group. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The smaller bonobo had a wide sweet face and ribs stark, like pencils in a row. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I felt bad to desert them all, but bonobos don’t range more than a kilometer a day, and Otto and I needed to go much faster than that. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought a lot about Songololo, and debated whether it would be a good idea to fetch the other bonobos and bring them here. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Young bonobos were mischievous and charming, but the adults were a different story. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If I had taken a healthy young bonobo and shot her, I could repent and atone. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the wild, bonobo infants spend the first five years of their lives virtually attached to their mothers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Most were ruined, but one of the bonobos ran past wearing a dripping-wet military beret over her face. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I suspected that part of the reason I wasn’t attacked was that I was a girl — Mom always said the bonobos had a harder time with men. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Her instant appeal for bonobos appeared not to have diminished one bit. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Of course my dad knew exactly what a bonobo looked like; he had spent plenty of time around the sanctuary back when my parents were together. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I need your help,” I called in Lingala, holding up my open hands to show I meant no harm, the same way the bonobos did. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Normally bonobos weren’t allowed near the offices, since they tended to make a mess anywhere they went, but since Otto was attached to me for the time being, we got special permission. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “This bonobo has lost the taste for milk,” my mom said, her arms still around me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There have always been laws against killing or selling bonobos in Congo, but the government had trouble enforcing them before because there was nowhere to place confiscated infants. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A healthy adult bonobo is much stronger than a human, but this little guy couldn’t have resisted me no matter how hard he tried. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I had one bonobo on each side, and another on my back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Other bonobos started bringing their fruits to me and dropping them at my feet. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Three women approached me, each draped in baby bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The living bonobos were gone and it was only Otto and me facing the men at the windows. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a good place to leave the bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Now that I was in the security of a nest, the sounds of raindrops against the broad leaves and the good-night cries of the other bonobos became soothing instead of alarming. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His voice was back, and he sounded like any other baby bonobo as he cried until I held him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Remove a bonobo from its mother, and it immediately despairs. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It fronted the jungle, and as I investigated it — hoping to find a pot, a lighter, anything — the bonobos joined me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Whether he’d intentionally left us an escape route or simply fallen asleep without remembering to lock the touri and her bonobo in, I didn’t know. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Mademoiselle Biyoya, how can I phrase this? First I could ask this: Do you have a truck to transport bonobos?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once the bonobos were out cold, the men lifted them into the cages and then heaved those into the back of a truck to be transported to the airport. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I heard the shot and the bonobos’ answering screams all at once. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Though I knew there was human suffering out there, it wasn’t like there was a tragedy scale where some things outranked others, or that care given to a bonobo meant less left for people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Go tell the boss,” Patrice said, dismissing Clement with a hand gesture before turning back to the bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Like when I first intruded into the enclosure and a hairy screeching bonobo dropped on me during the middle of a rainy night. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I ripped down a few branches, feeling very bonobo as I did, and headed back to Otto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Then I thought about the bonobos back at the sanctuary, the mothers with their wide-eyed, bald babies wrapped around their bellies, and hoped that by some miracle they, too, were okay. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Although it was totally new to me, this life was routine for the bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I looked up and saw three adult bonobos at the other side of the clearing, muscular and nearly as tall as people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A local tribe served as wardens to keep the bonobos safe from hunters, in return receiving funding for a local school and clinic. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Though I have only a half hour more of sunlight, I cut off the motor and idle; I fear that the noise is chasing the bonobos away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I wish I could have explained it to them, but explanations were something the bonobos had no way to understand. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Our closest animal relatives, the gorillas and chimpanzees and bonobos of Africa, also live in bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But these weren’t wild bonobos — they’d been raised with people, and had been cast out of their tiny familiar world and into a strange planet, where the hunters with guns, those mother-killers, were back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Roused by the activity, Otto crawled out from under my shirt, hopped to the ground, and approached the other bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Back when she had only a few bonobos to take care of, my mom bonded with each one. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There was no response, though; it had been more of a skittering sound than one that a bonobo would make, probably some reptile escaping into the ferns. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the young bonobos was still there. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Not that they would follow me to Kinshasa, no matter what I did — bonobos weren’t pack animals, they were social foragers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They stared for a while, but once they got back to their foraging none of the bonobos seemed at all interested in Otto and me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Female common chimpanzees cannot take lessons from their bonobo relatives and stage a feminist revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d seen it at my mom’s sanctuary — young bonobos spend years hanging on to their mothers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “You,” I said, “have to promise you won’t sell any more bonobos.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I took pleasure in how scrawny the rebels looked, while as far as the bonobos were concerned it was as if the attack had never happened. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Otto finally lost interest in the smaller bonobo and climbed on my back, wrapping his arms around my neck and barking furiously at the dead sister. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the trampled chain-link we could hear bird songs and the hum of crickets, but no bonobo calls. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The male bonobo looked at me quizzically and went back to his snack. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “The trip to the release site. Four more bonobos are going.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Baby bonobos sitting on heads and swaying, trying to jump from one mama to another. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But then I heard bonobo shrieks nearing, and before I knew it, the group had descended on us, drinking from the stream and ripping away their own mangoes from a nearby tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When the bonobos wandered out of the clearing, I would have been happy to let them go and stay a duo with Otto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But we had to keep him out of direct contact with the other nursery bonobos until we knew for sure, so for the time being he and I were each other’s only company. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I sat in the back, the bonobo in my lap. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I imagined those two young bonobos tossed out back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I figured the kata-kata had realized that the enclosure was open, and they’d headed in for the rest of the bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They had likely set the snare for smaller game, like macaque monkeys or antelope, but they’d be happy to eat a bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing. She was mad at me about those two bonobos.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the fence lie the release bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Leaning against a wall was a muscular adult female bonobo; she was sitting there so quietly that I hadn’t noticed her before. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z So they switched over to calling to the bonobos: “Animals, animals, give us meat, meat!” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And though I didn’t like the feeling of leaving them behind, I’d be able to live with the guilt of abandoning the other bonobos if it meant keeping Otto, Songololo, and myself alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Even once the kata-kata got in, the enclosure was large enough that I could secret myself away like the bonobos, taking to the trees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But it turned out that goiters are fairly common in bonobos, and harmless. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Profiting from my hesitation, the bonobo named Songololo scampered over to kick me in the shins and run off again, laughing her head off the whole time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z With their love of novelty, the bonobos swarmed me, poking at the pills. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was cold comfort that the massacre of the remaining bonobos would slow the kata-kata and aid our escape. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As I stepped out with the bonobo, he stared at the butterflies pas- sionlessly, but his eyes did dart around as he watched them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was my buying Otto that encouraged the man to come here with these two more bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Mom. I get what you’re saying. But this bonobo would be dead or missing another finger by now if I hadn’t bought him. He needed to be in your sanctuary. And now he is.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I spent that weekend in a slushy mix of anxiety about the country’s instability and delight at watching Otto fill out into a handsome young bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I heard, from somewhere distant, the calls of the adult bonobos coordinating their foraging. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I assume no one found those two bonobos?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I paid the man, so he can’t get mad. And we helped a bonobo.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Though its purpose was to keep bonobos in, not people out, I figured it would fulfill that new need fine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But there were still bonobos to take care of, even if only two, and so the decision was made: Florence Biyoya was officially back at work. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I gently lifted the bonobo’s hand, but he tugged it away, turning his head to stare quietly out the window, his fingers making knitting motions over his rope. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z That thought, that bonobos saw only behavior and not reasons, had always made me sad. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I found out why when, a few seconds later, a tiny bonobo clumsily pushed through the leaves to join her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Her raging back that she’d founded the only sanctuary in the world devoted to bonobos and couldn’t abandon it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobos weight, which I guess would be no big deal for another bonobo, was crushing me into the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She was so passionate about her bonobos that it seemed selfish to speak up about myself. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I stroked the bonobo’s belly, and for a few moments he half closed his eyes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I pulled Otto from the protesting little girl and wrapped my arms around his sweaty skinny body — Sorry, but the bonobo comes with me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Every time one food source was depleted, the bonobos discovered another. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It disappears almost immediately, and I question what I saw: It was definitely a bonobo, but was it Otto? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I looked up long enough to see branches of trees on the far side of the sanctuary shake as the young bonobos disappeared into the surrounding jungle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Otto had calmed somewhat and was preoccupied with trying to bring the smaller bonobo back to life, lying next to her and murping, blowing on her mouth, trying to get her to react. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Though the sanctuary staff had worked hard to keep the bonobos healthy, I didn’t like the idea of drinking from the same source as they did. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There he was, lying by the water in the classic bonobo relaxation pose, an ankle against the opposite knee. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It takes four men to lift each crate, with its groggy bonobo contents, onto the beach. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Tonight we’ll position the crates on the other side of the electrified gateway, then tomorrow we’ll release these bonobos to join the wild ones. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought not only about these two bonobos but of the stream of homeless refugees, of my dead friends in the sanctuary, of the larger and yet-unknown tragedies elsewhere in the country, in the world. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He still wasn’t ready to meet other bonobos, though. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Some of the bonobos got back into their nests, but most hunched around, holding elephant-ear leaves over their heads to keep the water off. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Usually Mom named the bonobos after towns in Congo, but she liked his name, especially since it was easy for Lingala speakers to pronounce. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I remembered his ratty clothing, his calling the bonobo a friend. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Soup with a bonobo finger in it is supposed to make a pregnant woman give birth to a strong baby. Putting another finger in the bathwater keeps the baby strong.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The smallest of the release bonobos is only seven years old. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I could hear, from afar, the high-pitched cries of the bonobos in their enclosures. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobos had taken to the branches and were already far ahead — I could see fronds waving in the distance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z That night I was able to fall asleep but woke before dawn, mind looping from Mom to Otto to those two little bonobos in the crate. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Saving bonobos is the most important thing for her.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “The networks are down, and she is somewhere on the river with the bonobos.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But beyond the language issue, that kind of reasoning was beyond bonobos, smart as they were. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew she wanted it to be the Ministry of Environment that confiscated bonobos, in order to make it clear that it was the government of Congo taking peoples property, not her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I remembered my mom telling me that a big reason for the bonobos’ peaceful society was how plentiful food is south of the Congo River. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to be like the bonobos: once jolted and forever wary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z By the time I left for college, Otto was a full-on adult bonobo, slender and elegant, with a part right along the center of his head, wiry hair flopping on either side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Pweto used to be our most energetic bonobo,” she said, looking wistfully at him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Mushie and Songololo were paying no attention to the jungle behind them, which made me think they weren’t anticipating any more bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His breathing slowed as if he might fall asleep, but then Clement hit a bump and the bonobo startled. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But this region wasn’t natural bonobo habitat, so it hadn’t crossed my mind that there would be any bushmeat hunters around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Supporting the scrawny bonobo bum with one hand, I pulled the cash out of my pocket and handed it to the man. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Startled, the bonobos leaped and ran around, climbing over one another and shrieking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Of course bonobos didn’t have language, couldn’t trap thoughts and keep them to use on others. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And she was choosing bonobos over family again. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I’d be keeping him in my arms, anyway, since he couldn’t come in direct contact with the other bonobos until his health was cleared. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I kissed the top of the bonobo’s head. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Slowly she’d adapted, though, and had become part of the bonobo society. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z So I took to the trees like a bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z That bonobo mother probably heard Otto’s juvenile cries of distress and came to investigate, fleeing when I arrived. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I looked at my new bonobo companions, puzzled. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I sat on our sleeping rock, watching the bonobos forage while I puzzled how to get out of my predicament. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “If you were starving, I would kill as many bonobos as it took to keep you fed.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I foraged along with the bonobos, making sure to keep clear of Anastasia. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Since the bigger gorillas leave chimps only a fraction of the quantity of food bonobos get, each chimp must fight ferociously to survive, including killing other chimpanzees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once he’d seen that the dead bonobos weren’t going to take all my attention away, he calmed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She has more bonobos living in the wilds of the release site than she has in captivity, an achievement she brings up often. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once there got to be too many bonobos, she hired local women to be full-time ape mothers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The other bonobos were grooming me, probably trying to get to the root of this bizarre and virtually hairless female who’d invaded their enclosure. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew hunters went after bonobos in the evening or the morning, taking advantage of the moments they clustered together and revealed their position by calling out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z While the other bonobos loved to frolic, he barely moved all day. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As the nest pitched downward, my mouth filled with wet bonobo hair and my gut dropped. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I heard the young bonobos patter and make high-pitched calls as they fled. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The other bonobos came over and prized up their own shoots, biting into the pith eagerly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z To keep them safe from people who might come to the island to do them harm, the bonobos mustn’t stay too used to us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z No mention of the bonobo no longer by my side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As Otto and I continued through the field, my eyes on the horizon for any sign of life, the bonobos followed us as best they could from along the jungle line. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As the political upheaval settled down, the mamas would take care of him alongside the other nursery bonobos — but it was only because he’d bonded with me that he’d pulled through and survived. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobos skin was feverish, baking against mine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a bonobo would come over and sit in front of Otto and me, back turned, expecting to be stroked. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I would like this magic. But I cannot release you or the bonobo. You are a gift from my men, and they will not be happy to see you set free.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “What happened?” my mom asked, immediately across the room and crouching next to me, her strong hands on my hair, on the bonobo, warmth everywhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Having suffered the rainstorm, the bonobos appeared to be taking the day off, draped around the clearing like damp towels left to dry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Though the guards must have become accustomed to bonobo calls, they wouldn’t be expecting them from this side of the building. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I had the bottle in hand and was trying to coax the bonobo to drink when my mom came in from the outside, wiping her hands on a rag. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Next to him is a young female bonobo with an infant, also asleep. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The creature rolled and came to its feet, and it took me a second to recognize the bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There are four bonobos in this release group. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Even the youngest bonobos began to help collect food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z To make the bonobos feel secure, we decide to keep them in the crates until morning, sleeping in tents alongside them while we wait for the tranquilizers to wear off. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “He’s an ape. A bonobo,” I said slowly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I was sorry for the two little bonobos and, I guess, obscurely apologizing on my mom’s behalf, for her choosing to stay six years ago and breaking us all up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I prayed that, like most bonobos, he’d be shy of strangers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobo started whimpering again, so I took him back up into my arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z From its spot on its mother’s back, a baby wrapped in a bright shawl peered into the window, waving a thin arm when it saw the bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I lifted the bonobo from the table, gently cut his mangy rope away, and brought him to the sink. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobos still in their nests kept shrieking while those of us nearby gawked at Pweto, He stood still in the clearing, his crippled arm lying in the dirt, and his chest heaving from exertion. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew that I didn’t have a great chance of getting myself out of this alive, less with Otto and Songololo, and much less with thirty bonobos herding alongside me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The project had been a success, and she was adding four more bonobos to the original six. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And once they got there, they had to introduce the bonobos, make sure they were adjusting, and make their way back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The air was full of a sweet, overripe smell and the high-pitched calls of fruit-sticky bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Next to the dead surrogate mother was a young bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Sophie,” my mom said quietly, “no one will be able to save those bonobos. Patrice and Clement are off looking for them, but it doesn’t look good.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There, clutching each other and shivering in a cage, were two baby bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But bonobos can’t swim, so he heads back to land, arms fussily over his head to keep them dry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobo glanced at his master before working up the energy to stand and toddle over to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They were designed to capture antelopes, but I’d seen bonobos at the sanctuary with hands or feet missing from snares like those. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I whispered quiet nonsense to get the bonobos attention. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to send a blood sample to Kinshasa, see what diseases he might have. We’ll have to keep him separate from the other nursery bonobos for a few days, until I get it back.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “He’s a bonobo, you know,” I dared continue. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I told her about entering the enclosure, rescuing Songololo from the nursery, meeting the bonobos for the first time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z This time, I thought I heard a bonobo call over the breeze rustling through the trees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He barely startled — he was becoming such a hardy little bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I kept thinking of those two little bonobos on the back of the bike. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s an essential principle of the project that humans not come in direct contact with the released bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once they’ve heard the commotion, the rest of the semiwild bonobos will soon be here, so my mom decides now is the time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z All human drugs work on bonobos, so whenever his wheezing kept him awake at night I gave him precious cough syrup I bought from the US embassy commissary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Intrigued, Otto made a bonobo version of a shushing sound back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My bonobo, of course, was having none of it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But I was going to get this bonobo to give to my mother. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It would also be useful; a pagne could be worn as clothing, tied to bundle a baby — or a bonobo — onto your back, or serve as a ground cloth for sleeping. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She was the first bonobo my mom had ever met, but it had taken years for her to arrive at the sanctuary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But while I waited it struck me that we’d returned to native bonobo territory. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They’d slaughter the adults for food, keep the young bonobos as pets or for sale, and do who knows what to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I don’t tickle him, though — this little bonobo has never had direct contact with humans, and I’d like to keep it that way. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In response, I tilted the laptop screen so the little bonobo came into the picture. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A real bonobo mother would have been able to catch her son, but I rocked back and fell. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobo either hadn’t been given anything to eat or had refused it — he was so thin. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Now whenever I looked at him I’d see the image of those two little bonobos in the cage. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Now that the immediate threat was over and seemingly forgotten, Anastasia stopped moving and began to forage, taking advantage of the plentiful fruit in an area that had never seen bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There was a main structure, then a thirty-acre electrified enclosure where the adult bonobos lived, and the nursery, where the orphans spent their early years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I made mental notes of everything the bonobos put into their mouths. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “My mom runs the bonobo sanctuary up the road,” I said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “A guy on a bike brought you two bonobos?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the female bonobos shrieked, the other replied, and then the foraging group wandered out of the clearing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We spend the night there on the way to the release site, leaving the bonobos tranquil- ized and snoozing in their transports. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But I was a witch who had power over a bonobo Bouain liked, a bonobo that he felt linked back to his home, so I hoped I might be safe. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve spent years trying to put an end to the market in baby bonobos. Slowly, they stopped appearing in Kinshasa. In one moment, you reestablished it.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Most of the fruits the bonobos ate, though, contained water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “She’s off with the handlers in the enclosure, getting the bonobos ready for sedation. Want to go say hello to her?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobo barely noticed as Patrice took his blood, he was so fixated on my mom. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z At first he resisted, looking around anxiously for the other bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z All great apes were naturally wary, but, because of my mother’s painstaking work, these bonobos had become accustomed to seeing humans as allies. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z For a long time, zoos couldn’t keep any bonobos, because they kept dying. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s well documented among animals, notably our closest relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after, she was gone, and the bonobo and I were closed into her office as the rest of the sanctuary went dark. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A wild bonobo female, infant on her back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I heard seconds tick by on my watch as I waited for the bonobos to decide what to do with me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Patrice left, and Mom sat there quietly for a moment, stroking both me and the bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Mushie was in such a good mood when he returned that the other bonobos crowded around him to see what was the matter. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobo had to feel like it had a mother again, and as soon as possible. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z That man would have disappeared with this bonobo if I hadn’t paid him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I pointed at Otto, who was dangling in the little girl’s arms, and asked if they knew where any more bonobos were. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When the sun got its hottest in the midafternoon, the bonobos sprawled in the grass and relaxed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Mama Brunelle looked like she was going to say something nice, but then another bonobo infant sucked in a mouthful of water from a bucket and spat it at her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z With the soldiers there, my best option remained the same: stay with the bonobos while I waited for my parents to get through and rescue me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Mom wanted Mbandaka, I guess in honor of what the city had gone through, but I refused; I couldn’t think about that horrible place every time I saw this sweet little bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobo looked alarmed, so I held his hand and stroked his scabby forehead. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He placed a cushion on the operating table, which was really just a desk repurposed from the former school, and I laid the bonobo down on it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobos snoozing above me were pretty well doomed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t been around other bonobos for years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Teeth bared, the bonobos jumped and shrieked in the trees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But I wasn’t ready to go rubbing strange bonobos, so instead I sat down where I was. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “The sanctuary doesn’t buy bonobos,” Clement said, stepping between us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The other bonobos remained fixated on the pond, but Songololo came over. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Something about Otto, about the fact that I was protecting a bonobo infant and was therefore somehow like her, had changed our chemistry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But now I asked her everything she knew about bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “He’s a bonobo, right?” the second guard said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My mom’s most recent success had been to get a forested island set aside as a bonobo preserve. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobos were unsure of the change in terrain and stuck to the edge, calling out to me when I stepped into the greenery. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I remember her trudging through our house with a bonobo on each leg and each arm as she got me ready for school. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I could barely make out the shapes of other sleeping bonobos around me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And to the gentlemen, for that matter — such is the way of bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobo reappears on the shallow beach, and I know it’s him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My legs weren’t nearly as agile as a bonobos, but Otto didn’t know what he was missing and was blissed out, closing his eyes in giddy pleasure and wheezing noisily. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I had to see for myself if the other bonobos were alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z By then the rest of the bonobos had given up on the mystery of the missing stake and returned to foraging. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z This quiet, motionless adult was apparently more Otto’s speed than the rowdy nursery bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I trusted that the guards were solid if my mom was okay leaving me with them, but I still figured to stay extra safe I’d barricade myself in her office with the bonobo until morning. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “We will not buy this bonobo! Come back.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The bonobos meant too much to her not to make that point to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Watching my bonobos groom and play, even as their mouths were full of leaves, made me proud. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She whispered against my ear, because she couldn’t hold it in: “Sophie. You know the only way they can get a young bonobo is by killing its family, yes?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel too bad — if I’d been a real bonobo mother I would have struck him a whole lot harder. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to give him some of the purified water, but he was drinking like the bonobos in the sanctuary did, and I figured his system was more tolerant than mine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Eventually Mama Evangeline looked tired of batting bonobos away, so I said good-bye to the mamas and wandered with Otto back to my mom’s office. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He swung the baby bonobo up into his arms and greeted me in Lingala, not the French that Congo’s educated classes use. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Nearby bonobos cried out in surprise and I cringed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She was mimicking what she’d seen the gardeners do — after all, she’d spent more of her life with humans than with bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Despite our efforts to shoo them away, the local children spend hours staring at the bonobos and trying to get them to wake up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If they were still here, those bonobos were probably thirsty, and I had a couple of hours to spare to care for them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The guidelines on how to keep a young bonobo healthy are pretty short: When they’re with their mothers, they’re happy and healthy; when they’re not with their mothers, they begin to die. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Otto lays his arms down, palms open, in the bonobo sign of trust, as little Congo takes a wide-eyed look around and ventures out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I had more chances to get to know the other bonobos as Otto was growing increasingly independent. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Members of a closely related chimpanzee species, bonobos, usually live in more egalitarian groups dominated by female alliances. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in years, the sanctuary’s problem bonobo was an asset. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Like those two young bonobos had made on the back of the trafficker’s bike. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t really a bonobo, but could I eat like one? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the baby Jesus,” I said, bowing my head piously and lifting one of the bonobo’s arms so he made the sign of the cross. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As the high-pitched calls of the young bonobos grew louder, Otto tried to pivot to see what the fuss was. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The newborn, hiding from prying eyes in her mother's arms at Planckendael, is the seventh bonobo born in Europe so far this year. Bashful baby bonobo born in Belgium 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Travel the Serengeti Plain and the deserts of Namibia — encountering bonobos and cheetahs along the way — in Lanting’s nature photographs of Africa. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Unlike chimpanzee societies, in which males typically dominate, bonobo societies turn out to be run by the females. Primate Societies Are Surprisingly Complex. So Are Their Gender Roles. 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Did you ever meet Unga, the bonobo most discussed in the musical? As ‘Come From Away’ Closes, a Newfoundlander Heads Back Home 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z If you are wondering, we shook hands like people, not bonobos. How to enjoy an orgy 2014-03-10T22:57:00Z He was on his way to Congo to do fieldwork with bonobos, his other species of focus. Dog Feats Reach New Heights 2014-04-17T20:22:46Z Neighboring bonobo communities can mix amicably, which almost never happens among chimpanzees. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The last of the great apes to be discovered, bonobos are so physically similar to chimpanzees that their skeletons laid in museums for fifty years before it was noticed that they were a separate species. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Definitely not a bonobo, his head's too big, and he's too utterly useless. Horizon: What Makes Us Human? – TV review 2013-07-04T06:00:11Z She runs a sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo for orphaned and otherwise rescued bonobos, and the film portrays her first efforts to release some of them back into the wild. Review: ‘Bonobos: Back to the Wild,’ a Sanctuary’s Rehab Mission 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Why is the bonobos’ environment more benign than that of the chimps? Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The bonobos in the books do all have distinct personalities but none of them are the evil sort. Water for Elephants Author Sara Gruen 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z The novel follows a group of bonobos as they are moved from a university language lab to the set of their own reality channel. Water for Elephants Author Sara Gruen 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z Unlike chimpanzees, bonobos do not patrol, do not raid, and do not kill their neighbors. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z As the book opens, a family of a half-dozen bonobos is happily ensconced at the fictional Great Ape Language Lab at the University of Kansas. 'Ape House': Sara Gruen's story of apes, humans and other complex characters 2010-09-23T20:19:00Z The film stars Denis Lavant as a man who adopts multiple personas, and includes surrealist scenes, tender moments, a song by pop star Kylie Minogue and the unexpected appearance of bonobo monkeys. Kylie Minogue at Cannes in bizarre 'Holy Motors' 2012-05-23T12:21:15Z In a near and very dire future, a MacArthur “genius” intently studies the sex lives of bonobos — and a sudden disaster changes everything. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The infant is the second bonobo born this year in what zookeepers say is a hopeful sign for the zoo's population of endangered great apes, one of the closest primate species to humans. Bashful baby bonobo born in Belgium 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z He envisions her as “the universal Eve” for a new and improved race of people that will preserve the best qualities of bonobo genetics. Books of The Times: In ?Lucy? by Laurence Gonzales, a New Species 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z She also had the sexual ethics of a bonobo, lying to every lover as a matter of policy. My hero: Anne Lister by Emma Donoghue 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Like other primates, the bonobos are able to communicate with humans through sign language, their comprehension level being roughly that of a preschooler. Review | ‘Theory of Bastards’ is a feminist novel, but not the one you’re expecting 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z De Waal, whose previous books have taken on the emotional life of bonobos and chimpanzees, sets out to discern what humans can learn about gender and sex from other apes. 12 New Books Coming in April 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Apes, particularly bonobos, display many examples of what often goes by the name of “goodness” in human life. Do primates practice religion? 2013-06-04T15:43:00Z There are no mountains south of the Congo River, so no gorillas live there, and bonobos have the food supply all to themselves. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The infant is the second bonobo born this year in what zookeepers say is a hopeful sign for the zoo's population of endangered great apes, one of the closest primate species to humans. Bashful baby bonobo born in Belgium 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z As in "Elephants," the animals in this book are multilingual; they "speak" bonobo and American Sign Language, and understand English. 'Ape House': Sara Gruen's story of apes, humans and other complex characters 2010-09-23T20:19:00Z De Waal — whose sprightly, intelligent, utterly compelling studies of bonobos and chimpanzees have taken on such topics as empathy, grief and compassion — here turns to gender and sex. 17 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Season 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z I just contributed to cheetahs and bonobos and gorillas and elephants. An economist quantifies how valuable whales are to fighting climate change 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Baby gorillas weren’t as victimized by the primate craze of the ’60s and ’70s as chimpanzees and bonobos, when infant apes were raised like children by well-meaning scientists. Answering the Many Questions About ‘The One and Only Ivan’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Humans seem to have a capacity for violent aggression as strong as that of chimpanzees and a capacity for gentleness and docility as strong as that of bonobos. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z We met on OkCupid after I sent her a funny message about how bonobos cope with depression, and here, in this packed pizzeria, we joked as if we’d been dating for years. My sexless soul mate: When men and women really are “just friends” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z “Demonic Males” was written in the wake of two momentous discoveries: the violence of chimpanzees and the pacifism of bonobos. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z While any reasonably good fiction writer might highlight the similarities between humans and bonobos, Schulman — the author of four previous novels, including “Three Weeks in December” — does something more with Mama, Goliath and Tooch. Review | ‘Theory of Bastards’ is a feminist novel, but not the one you’re expecting 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z At 73, Mr. Kent remains a passionate explorer active in conservation projects, including working to save the endangered bonobo apes in Congo. Taking a Path of Conservation to Tourism 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z But socially and behaviorally, chimps and bonobos are worlds apart, even though they only live on opposite banks of the Congo River. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z But none of that diminishes your admiration for Ms. André and the staff members at the sanctuary as they labor to preserve bonobos, one animal at a time. Review: ‘Bonobos: Back to the Wild,’ a Sanctuary’s Rehab Mission 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z He tells us he has “more body hair than a bonobo.” Review: In ‘Hotels of North America,’ Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z He has studied other primates, such as bonobos, a species that split from the chimpanzee lineage about two million years ago. Primate Societies Are Surprisingly Complex. So Are Their Gender Roles. 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The novelist Emma Donaghue once described Lister as having “the sexual ethics of a bonobo, lying to every lover as a matter of policy”. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The point being: our sexual hang-ups are social constructions, and it might be best if we did as the bonobos do. How to enjoy an orgy 2014-03-10T22:57:00Z The book, then, is a conversation about the common ground among atheists and bonobos. Do primates practice religion? 2013-06-04T15:43:00Z Verbally brusque, physically underweight and weak, hardly able to walk because of her stitches, Burke has come to this Foundation to study the bonobos. Review | ‘Theory of Bastards’ is a feminist novel, but not the one you’re expecting 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to bonobos, another species studied by Brian Hare of the Canine Cognition Center at Duke University. Dog Feats Reach New Heights 2014-04-17T20:22:46Z The newborn, hiding from prying eyes in her mother's arms at Planckendael, is the seventh bonobo born in Europe so far this year. Bashful baby bonobo born in Belgium 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z You spent time with bonobos at the Great Ape Trust while researching Ape House and described your conversations with them as "life-changing." Water for Elephants Author Sara Gruen 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z Chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest primate relatives. Study finds vocal flexibility in young chimpanzees, a parallel perhaps denoting language's origins 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z In more than 1,500 animal species, from crickets and sea urchins to bottlenose dolphins and bonobos, scientists have observed sexual encounters between members of the same sex. Same-Sex Behavior Evolved in Many Mammals to Reduce Conflict, Study Suggests 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z For the videos, the researchers chose 10 of the most common gestures used by chimpanzees and bonobos. Humans Can Understand Signals Used by Apes 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In addition to humans, the researchers looked at neuropeptide Y concentrations in the brains of our closest primate relatives, including chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas. Neuropeptide Y May Have Made Humans Smart and Overindulgent 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z In a study published Wednesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers put speakers near crocodiles and played recordings of human, bonobo and chimpanzee infants. Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word — I Think a Crocodile Heard 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z As it happens, no one has actually looked at young chimpanzees or bonobos to see if they show vocal functional flexibility, too. Study finds vocal flexibility in young chimpanzees, a parallel perhaps denoting language's origins 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Much like bonobos, muriqui females are the same size as males, meaning they have a lot of autonomy, and in muriqui societies, females break off from the group to seek partners. A scientist’s 4-decade quest to save the biggest monkey in the Americas 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Chimpanzees and bonobos are two kinds of apes that are closest to humans. Humans Can Understand Signals Used by Apes 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z “We’re separated from chimps and bonobos by six million years,” he says. A mysterious human species may have been the first to bury their dead 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z There are more than 500 species of primates, including lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, Old and New World monkeys, the "small apes" - gibbons and siamangs - and the "great apes" - orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos. What makes us human? Primate genome study offers some clues 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Evidence suggests that chimpanzees and bonobos who suffer early-life traumas in captivity oftentimes go on to develop long-term psychological problems. Gorillas’ Resilience after Early-Life Trauma Holds Lessons for Humans 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z So far this problem has largely escaped the notice of most groups tasked with protecting Africa’s great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, and two species of gorillas. Baby apes are being stolen for pets—and little is being done to stop it 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Scientists have learned the meanings of these gestures by studying chimpanzees and bonobos for years. Humans Can Understand Signals Used by Apes 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Our closest evolutionary relatives - chimpanzees and bonobos - were included, along with the western lowland gorilla and Sumatran orangutan. Ambitious genome project shows how humans fit with other mammals 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Chimpanzees and bonobos are the nearest genetically to humans, sharing roughly 98.8% of our DNA. What makes us human? Primate genome study offers some clues 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The longest spin session lasted 28 revolutions, and the fastest, achieved by a bonobo, clocked in at a brain-scrambling four revolutions per second. Your Thursday Briefing 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The longest spin session lasted 28 revolutions, and the fastest — achieved by a bonobo — clocked in at a brain-scrambling four revolutions per second. Why Do Apes Like to Spin? Maybe for the Same Reasons as People. 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z They wanted to see if humans with no training or experience could understand the gestures of chimpanzees and bonobos. Humans Can Understand Signals Used by Apes 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z If so, that would make them the only known animal besides humans and bonobos to have done so. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z In the videos they analyzed, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos hung on with their hands to ropes or vines and turned through the air at dizzying speeds. Why Primates (Including Humans) Love to Spin Ourselves around until We All Fall Down 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z This is also true of bonobos who indulge in homosexual and heterosexual encounters for pleasure, to maintain pair bonds or to resolve aggressive encounters. Why Snakes Have Two Clitorises and Other Mysteries of Female Animal Genitalia 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z "Nine bonobos were presented alternately with the reflective and non-reflective sides of a mirror," scientists wrote in a 1994 paper published in the International Journal of Primatology. These are the only 8 animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror (besides humans) 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z They show that our species can make a pretty good guess of the meanings of chimp and bonobo gestures, another hint that language may have evolved from an elaborate system of hand and body signals. Humans Can Correctly Guess the Meaning of Chimp Gestures 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Since then, researchers have shown something similar in one of our closest relatives, bonobos. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Humans are naturally able to understand many of the signs - or gestures - that wild chimpanzees and bonobos use to communicate with one another, new research suggests. Watch: The signals great apes use to communicate 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Humans understand the "signs" or gestures wild chimps and bonobos use to communicate with one another. Signs used by apes understood by humans - research 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The study involved a standard mirror test in which bonobos were given mirrors and their reactions observed. These are the only 8 animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror (besides humans) 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z “Humans without any training and without seeing any of the outcomes or surrounding behaviors can understand what chimpanzee and bonobo gestures mean,” Graham says. Humans Can Correctly Guess the Meaning of Chimp Gestures 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Like humans and bonobos, these species have low levels of aggression, and violence within and among groups is relatively rare, the researchers assert. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Scientists from the University of St Andrews, who study communication in chimps and bonobos, tested people's ability to translate the animals gestures in a video playback experiment. Watch: The signals great apes use to communicate 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Volunteers watched videos of the chimps and bonobos gesturing, then selected from a multiple choice list of translations. Signs used by apes understood by humans - research 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Still, that might not keep an animal behavior researcher from wondering from time to time whether an activity considered unique to humans might turn up in some form in chimps, orangutans, bonobos or gorillas. Do Chimps Share Cool Stuff Just for Fun? Uganda Forest Study Provides a Hint That They Might 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z In the forest near Wamba, a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of the last remaining bonobos breed, feed and lounge in the trees. Humans Can Correctly Guess the Meaning of Chimp Gestures 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z In all, the researchers documented 19 cognitive, behavioral, and physiological traits common to humans, bonobos, and elephants, but not other species. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s also the only nation in Africa where all four of the continent’s great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, mountain gorillas and Grauer’s gorillas — live. 3 Chimpanzees Kidnapped for Ransom From Congo Sanctuary 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The participants performed significantly better than expected by chance, correctly interpreting the meaning of chimpanzee and bonobo gestures over 50% of the time. Signs used by apes understood by humans - research 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z But that would be unusual - bonobos mainly eat fruit and only occasionally hunt. Is this monkey really cuddling a pet mongoose? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Scientists have learned that great ape vocabularies overlap extensively: about 95 percent of bonobos’ gestures are the same as those chimpanzees use. Humans Can Correctly Guess the Meaning of Chimp Gestures 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “It’s nice to see the correlations with bonobos and humans and the genetic similarities tied to the reduction of aggression,” says Melinda Zeder, an emeritus archaeologist and domestication expert at the Smithsonian Institution. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Cooperation isn’t exactly rare in the animal kingdom—animals from social insects to lions, wolves and spotted hyenas, and many primates cooperate; some, such as chimpanzees and bonobos, even do so with nonrelatives. Rival teams of male dolphins form the animal world’s biggest social networks, long-running study finds 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Humans are not the only species to use plants for medicinal reasons: the great apes, orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas have all been observed self-medicating with plants. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Christian had been tracking the group of bonobos "chest-deep through flooded forest" in the Salonga National Park for days when he spotted the young male holding a juvenile mongoose in his hand. Is this monkey really cuddling a pet mongoose? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Each test-taker was shown 20 short clips of chimps or bonobos making gestures and asked to decide which of four possible answers described each gesture’s meaning. Humans Can Correctly Guess the Meaning of Chimp Gestures 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z As such, he says, more work will need to be done before scientists add elephants to the exclusive club that seemingly only humans and bonobos belong to. Elephants may be domesticating themselves 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Instead, her team saw the animals socializing, playing and getting frisky across original group lines, behavior more akin to that of bonobos. Dolphin Strangers Met in the Bahamas. Things Went Swimmingly. 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z However, the male Bimini dolphins behaved more like bonobos, primates that are known for their usually peaceful relationships with neighbors. Dolphins make peace and love—not war—when they encounter strangers 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z She does highlight that bonobos are known for their gentle, empathetic and peaceful nature. Is this monkey really cuddling a pet mongoose? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z In one of the clips, a bonobo gave its comrade a shove. Humans Can Correctly Guess the Meaning of Chimp Gestures 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The other great apes, orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas have all been observed self-medicating with plants. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z She said it was possible that “like bonobos, they use sexual behaviors to ease the tension.” Dolphin Strangers Met in the Bahamas. Things Went Swimmingly. 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z So Ryan Johnson got to be a bonobo monkey, and I was a slug. Sally Phillips on daring to star in a sex comedy film 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z "We know from captivity that bonobos care for individuals other than their own species," she says. Is this monkey really cuddling a pet mongoose? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Currently, there are eight non-human species of animals that can innately pass the mirror test: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, bottlenose dolphins, Asian elephants, cleaner wrasse, and magpies. Can any animal recognize itself in a mirror? New studies shake up old ideas 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Moeller and his colleagues collected dung from several groups of African chimps and bonobos, isolating and sequencing microbial DNA in the feces that derives from the gut’s microbes. Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Like both bonobos and chimpanzees, dolphins live in fission-fusion societies where they make strong bonds between individuals but can break those bonds and forge new ones. Dolphin Strangers Met in the Bahamas. Things Went Swimmingly. 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Female chimps and bonobos, on the other hand, are decidedly polyandrous. A microscopic arms race is happening between sperm 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z In the wild, it's unlikely that a bonobo would take care of another species as a long-term pet, she adds. Is this monkey really cuddling a pet mongoose? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z He also demonstrates how a “secondary sisterhood” of unrelated females dominate bonobo society; his detailed descriptions of female leadership in bonobos and chimpanzees are refreshing reminders of the difference between physical and political power. Review | What can the ape world teach us about gender and biology? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Anthropologists have long recognized that exceptionally high degrees of sociality, cooperation and communal care are hallmarks of humankind, traits that separate us from our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos. How a Virus Exposed the Myth of Rugged Individualism 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z A zoo has announced the birth of a bonobo, thought to be the first in the UK since 2019. Endangered bonobo born at Twycross Zoo 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In general, women are less polyandrous than chimps and bonobos and more polyandrous than gorillas. A microscopic arms race is happening between sperm 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z In the end, this mongoose had a happy ending - the bonobo eventually released his "pet", who then got away unharmed. Is this monkey really cuddling a pet mongoose? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z And whatever your views on the Kinsey scale of sexual orientation, ranging from 0 for exclusively heterosexual to 6 for exclusively homosexual, it’s fascinating to learn that every bonobo would score a perfect 3. Review | What can the ape world teach us about gender and biology? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Orangutans, a critically endangered species, belong to the family Hominidae, which includes all four great apes: gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans. Melati, Woodland Park Zoo’s oldest orangutan, dies while recovering from surgery 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Twycross' apes, the only bonobos at a UK zoo, moved into a new, larger enclosure last year, with 24-hour access to outside runs. Endangered bonobo born at Twycross Zoo 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Kyoto University also has a Wildlife Research Center housing chimps and bonobos rescued from biomedical research in a sanctuary in Kumamoto, on the southern island of Kyushu. Kyoto University to close leading primate center over misuse of construction funds 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and bonobos all share versions of the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, the cell surface receptor to which SARS-CoV-2 binds to initiate infections. U.S. chimp sanctuary is poised to give its primates a COVID-19 vaccine—will others follow its lead? 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Four orangutans and five bonobos at the zoo became the first nonhuman primates to be vaccinated against the virus. A San Diego Zoo snow leopard was coughing. A test showed he had covid-19. 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Once or twice a month, bonobos supplement their vegetarian diet with meat, and when these two troops turn carnivorous, they seek out different prey. Meet the Other Social Influencers of the Animal Kingdom 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The zoo vaccinated four orangutans and five bonobos in February, according to National Geographic. Tampa zoo animals may get COVID-19 vaccine in summer or fall, claims 'no cases' so far 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z The zoo arranged for four orangutans and five bonobos to be given the Zoetis vaccine. Covid: Will your pet need a coronavirus vaccine? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Now, researchers need to comb decades of data for bonobos and other species to see whether they, too, adopt motherless infants more often than believed, Zipple says. Gorillas in the wild often adopt young orphaned apes 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Four more animals — one bonobo and three gorillas — got their first shot this month and will get a second one in April. Zoos, scientists aim to curb people giving virus to animals 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z The home ranges of the chimpanzee-like apes overlap considerably, and the bonobo troops meet and mingle frequently, grooming one another, traveling and foraging together, and pausing often for mutual pelvic rubdowns. Meet the Other Social Influencers of the Animal Kingdom 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Four more animals - one bonobo and three gorillas - got their first shot this month and will get a second one in April. Zoos, scientists aim to curb people giving virus to animals 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z After a COVID-19 outbreak at the San Diego Zoo infected eight gorillas in January, zoo officials used an experimental animal vaccine to inoculate four orangutans and five bonobos. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z A study published last week found that two bonobo females adopted infants from another social group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gorillas in the wild often adopt young orphaned apes 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Three bonobos and a gorilla also are expected to receive the vaccine, which is experimental. The Latest: AP poll: Americans back Biden’s virus response 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Liran Samuni, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, and her colleagues have been following two neighboring groups of bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Meet the Other Social Influencers of the Animal Kingdom 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Three bonobos and a gorilla also were expected to receive the vaccine, which is experimental. 9 great apes get COVID-19 vaccinations at San Diego Zoo 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The lucky recipients are four orangutans and five bonobos, who were distracted with treats as they got their shots. Great apes receive COVID-19 vaccine at San Diego Zoo 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z DRC is home to three of the most valuable species—chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos. Largest confiscation of smuggled monkeys sheds light on African trafficking network 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The bonobos are a big part of the plan. In Central Africa, villages join an experiment to save the world's second-largest rainforest 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Another 51 chimps live at Kyoto University’s Wildlife Research Center in Kumamoto, all rescued from biomedical research, along with six bonobos. Famed primatologist fired for mismanagement of funds for chimp habitat 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z “All great apes – gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees – and pangolins are fully protected.” More than 25 apes trafficked from Congo recovered in Zimbabwe 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z They’ll likely join their orangutan and bonobo compatriots in vaccination later in the spring. Great apes receive COVID-19 vaccine at San Diego Zoo 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z In the new study, the researchers scanned DNA for immune genes in six Neanderthals, two Denisovans, and 1000 humans, and looked at dozens of chimps, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans as well. Ancient microbial arms race sharpened our immune system—but also left us vulnerable 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z But bonobos actually are quite different from chimps. ‘Friendliest,’ not fittest, is key to evolutionary survival, scientists argue in book 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Kindness and cooperation work for many species, whether it’s bacteria, flowers or our fellow primate bonobos. Not so random acts: Science finds that being kind pays off 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Yet aside from humans, only a few other species, including orangutans and bonobos, seem to willingly help others. These parrots are the first birds observed showing kindness to others 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Unlike chimpanzees or bonobos, it is not closely related to humans. Missing link found? 'Original Bigfoot' was close relative of orangutan, study says 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The length of the ulna relative to the tibia shows that the forearm of D. guggenmosi was long relative to the leg, similar to a bonobo’s form. Fossil ape hints at how walking on two feet evolved 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z They enjoy sharing food with other bonobos, and never outgrow their willingness to do so, unlike chimpanzees, who become more selfish in adulthood. ‘Friendliest,’ not fittest, is key to evolutionary survival, scientists argue in book 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Many animals, including bonobo apes and pangolins, are protected by international law, but a lack of government oversight means these endangered species are regularly killed. In Congo, part-time hunters boost income with bushmeat 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The study, being published by the Royal Society, put chimpanzees and bonobo monkeys in front of a screen showing a video. Chimps bond after watching movies together 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z New research suggests that bonobos are very pushy mothers and make it their mission for their sons to have as many kids as possible. Can someone please send mushrooms to all the men’s rights activists out there? 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z For a bonobo mother, it is all part of the parenting day, and analysis finds the hard work pays off. Pushy bonobo mothers help sons find sexual partners, scientists find 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “The friendliest male bonobo is more successful than the unfriendliest chimpanzee,” Hare says, referring to reproduction. ‘Friendliest,’ not fittest, is key to evolutionary survival, scientists argue in book 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Researchers already knew that mothers of chimpanzees—bonobos’ close evolutionary cousins—help their sons in male-on-male fights for dominance. Bonobo ‘helicopter’ moms stand guard while their sons mate 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Like the other great apes – orangutans, gorillas and bonobos – chimpanzees are considered to be endangered, threatened by habitat loss, poaching and introduced diseases. Chimpstagram: video of ape browsing app goes viral – what is going on? 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z So far, they’ve worked with bonobos, gorillas, jaguars, alligators, rhinos and tigers, along with giraffes. Research means long hours at the zoo watching giraffes 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z In bonobo society, the lower ranks tend to be gender balanced, but females dominate the top ranks. Pushy bonobo mothers help sons find sexual partners, scientists find 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Among the primates, the most suggestive cases of remorse concern bonobos. Opinion | Your Dog Feels as Guilty as She Looks 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Not ones to leave their genetic legacies to chance, the mothers of male bonobos bring their sons around to fertile females and introduce them, according to researcher observations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bonobo ‘helicopter’ moms stand guard while their sons mate 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z She then let the bonobos spontaneously drum along with human drummers sitting in an adjacent room. How playing music for rhesus monkeys is teaching us about our own brains 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Environmentalists worry that developing oil reserves could threaten the Congo Basin, the world’s second largest rainforest, which contains rare forest elephants, peacocks and bonobos, which are also known as dwarf chimpanzees. Congo's former president awarded oil block in UNESCO heritage site 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z To assess the impact of mothers’ interventions, Surbeck and his colleagues observed several wild bonobo populations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, Uganda and Ivory Coast. Pushy bonobo mothers help sons find sexual partners, scientists find 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Tested in the same way, bonobos refuse to touch banana slices contaminated by feces. Opinion | Your Dog Feels as Guilty as She Looks 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Chimpanzees and bonobos, which inhabit neighboring terrain in Congo and are genetically similar, provide useful living examples of animals that share much of our DNA and exhibit humanlike emotions and behavior. Review | Humans evolved to be peaceful. Why are we still so violent? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Roughly 7 million years ago, our lineage split from the ancestors of chimpanzees and their cousin species, bonobos. Seeking human generosity’s origins in an ape’s gift to another ape 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But the bonobos in the other cage almost never returned the favor. Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In contrast to bonobo mothers, chimpanzee mothers had little impact on their sons’ reproductive success. Pushy bonobo mothers help sons find sexual partners, scientists find 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z We can see this reflected quite clearly if we compare the research on chimpanzees, and on the lesser-known and permanently blissed-out bonobos, who operate on patriarchal and matriarchal structures respectively. Another reason to fight the patriarchy: Life in a matriarchy is so much sexier 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z But while bonobos are relatively peaceful creatures, chimpanzees exhibit no scruples about killing friends, lovers and even infants. Review | Humans evolved to be peaceful. Why are we still so violent? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Chimpanzees and bonobos share a common ancestor that lived about 2 million years ago. Seeking human generosity’s origins in an ape’s gift to another ape 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Each bonobo would sit in a cage, with a mesh wall hanging in front of the door to the hallway. Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z But in the free-for-all that underpins bonobo sex, vigilance is the watchword. Pushy bonobo mothers help sons find sexual partners, scientists find 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z However, research into bonobos, our matriarchal primate cousins, indicates that this is unlikely to be the case. Another reason to fight the patriarchy: Life in a matriarchy is so much sexier 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z In this way, Wrangham argues, chimpanzees and bonobos demonstrate the violence and peacefulness that coexist in humans. Review | Humans evolved to be peaceful. Why are we still so violent? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z It is possible that our common ancestors with bonobos and chimpanzees were already prosocial, at least to a limited extent. Seeking human generosity’s origins in an ape’s gift to another ape 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But bonobos also seem to be less adept with tools. Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z With a high-ranking mother on hand, the odds were particularly stacked in the male bonobos’ favour. Pushy bonobo mothers help sons find sexual partners, scientists find 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z He hung a snapshot-size photo of bonobos on one wall, then a photo of a grid of light bulbs at a light-bulb store on another. The Life and Art of Wolfgang Tillmans 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z In part, chimpanzee violence enabled them to compete with gorillas for resources, whereas the bonobos lived in an area with abundant foliage and little competition. Review | Humans evolved to be peaceful. Why are we still so violent? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z MISSOULA, Mont. — In the summer of 2012, the same year that scientists fully decoded the genome of the bonobo, the last great ape, my partner and I were stalked by a female grizzly bear. Opinion | The Beast in Me 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s possible that our common ancestor with bonobos and chimpanzees were already prosocial, at least to a limited extent. Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The four-year-old gives me a blank stare when I tell her about bonobo habits, so instead we underline again and again the message that a wagging dog is a happy dog. Why do dogs wag their tails? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Jules Howard 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z At Evolang, other researchers zeroed in on bonobos, great apes that show some signs of self-domestication, including low levels of aggression and sensitivity to the gaze of others. Can these birds explain how language first evolved? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Because violent bonobos were not necessary to the evolution of the species, they became more domesticated. Review | Humans evolved to be peaceful. Why are we still so violent? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Yet even atop the highest tower in the most prestigious university we remain animals, directed by the same base-level needs and emotions that motivate living creatures from bonobos to rats. Opinion | The Beast in Me 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Roughly seven million years ago, our lineage split from the ancestors of chimpanzees and their cousin species, bonobos. Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z There are less than 100 bonobos living in captivity in the U.S. Iowa researchers hope to breed, study more bonobos 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z More important for Frankie, though, is the ability to communicate with the bonobos. Into the storm, with a band of bonobos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z According to the zoo, heart disease became known as a major cause of death in the early 1990s among all four great apes: gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos. 40-year-old Leo the gorilla died of heart disease, says Woodland Park Zoo doc 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Another survey found bonobos swallow leaves with rough surfaces to scour parasites from their systems. Elephant 'smoking' footage baffles experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Chimpanzees and bonobos share a common ancestor that lived about two million years ago. Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The initiative’s goal is to learn more about human evolution through the study of bonobos. Iowa researchers hope to breed, study more bonobos 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Visitors are no longer allowed to touch bonobos, and the apes “look healthier.” How Some U.S. Ape Sanctuaries Fail Their Animals and Staff 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z When a bonobo made a common gesture that brought a consistent, satisfying response from others, it was added to the list. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z It is home to rare species including bonobos, forest elephants, dwarf chimpanzees and Congo peacocks. Congo defends right to explore for oil in national parks 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z The scientists put one bonobo in a cage with five nuts. Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Researchers say bonobos are the closest genetic relative to humans. Iowa researchers hope to breed, study more bonobos 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z In 2013, months after Sue Savage-Rumbaugh was reinstated as a resident scientist at the Great Ape Trust, she was barred from accessing the bonobos, her lawyer told me at the time. How Some U.S. Ape Sanctuaries Fail Their Animals and Staff 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z For example, when one bonobo looked at another while loudly scratching one arm, the second often responded by grooming the first. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z It is home to rare species including bonobos, forest elephants, dwarf chimpanzees and Congo peacocks. Congo defends right to explore for oil in national parks 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z The researchers found that the bonobos with the nuts proved generous. Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z A zookeeper at the Cincinnati Zoo recently spotted two bonobos playing in a way that human parents might recognize. Why These Bonobos Are 'Playing Airplane' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Raghanti agrees and is now writing a grant to study the brain tissue of bonobos. Dopamine may have given humans our social edge over other apes 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z A kind of slapping motion used by both chimpanzees and bonobos to tell one another to move away. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, is surprising because bonobos are usually characterized as our cuddly relatives, unlike more aggressive chimps. For bonobos, nice guys finish last 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z According to a study published Thursday in Current Biology, the opposite seems to be true for bonobos. Bonobos Might Not Be So Laid-Back after All 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z It's the first time Phan has seen them engage in this specific behavior, but playing is something he sees all 12 bonobos at the zoo do often. Why These Bonobos Are 'Playing Airplane' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z I began at the source, motoring hundreds of miles upriver in a precarious, pencil-thin canoe in the Democratic Republic of Congo to an area where many bonobos have disappeared. How Not to Talk to an Ape Smuggler 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z But some gestures are clearly learned or altered, not simply inherited, like the very exaggerated arm raise that Shiba, one male bonobo, made while simultaneously thrusting out his chest. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z For today’s study, scientists showed 24 bonobos little skits. For bonobos, nice guys finish last 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z “So we thought if either of them are likely to share with humans this motivation to prefer helpers, it may be bonobos.” Bonobos Might Not Be So Laid-Back after All 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z While the bonobos play with each other often, it's not uncommon for them to get annoyed or simply not be in the mood. Why These Bonobos Are 'Playing Airplane' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z For six months I searched for illicit dealers selling gorillas, orangutans, bonobos or chimps. How Not to Talk to an Ape Smuggler 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z An earlier version of this post misstated the location of the wild bonobos. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Afterward, the scientists offered bonobos apple pieces hidden under cutouts of the various characters. For bonobos, nice guys finish last 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Together with Duke University anthropologist Brian Hare, Krupenye tested a group of 43 bonobos living in a sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bonobos Might Not Be So Laid-Back after All 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The Cincinnati Zoo notes on their website that not many zoos in the U.S. have bonobos. Why These Bonobos Are 'Playing Airplane' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Without waiting for an incentive or cue, many of the bonobos in the first room dropped the fruit into the stranger's room. Another Heart-Warming Way Apes Beat Us at Being Human 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Researchers have now found something similar in bonobos, great apes closely related to chimpanzees but with longer legs, pink lips, and long hair that’s parted in the middle on their heads. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z That would bring to seven the number of great ape species worldwide aside from people, alongside Africa’s eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos. Going ape: new orangutan species identified in Sumatra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z In one experiment 24 bonobos of various ages watched a series of cartoons involving three different animated shapes. Bonobos Might Not Be So Laid-Back after All 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The Democratic Republic of Congo is the only country where bonobos still exist in the wild. Why These Bonobos Are 'Playing Airplane' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Since humans, chimps, and bonobos are so closely related, this study hints at shared ways of dealing with strangers among the three groups, depending on the social scene. Another Heart-Warming Way Apes Beat Us at Being Human 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Because the first bonobo was almost always satisfied by this response, the researchers concluded that a “big, loud scratch” is a request for grooming. Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z |
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