Who knows what a bonobo is?

I'm taking a poll to find out how many people know what bonobos are.

I've found knowledge of bonobos to be almost non-existent regardless of a persons level of education. This is pretty amazing, given our vast knowledge of so many different things. And knowledge of bonobos would seem to be something humans would, and should have, but many don't apparently.

(by the way, a band or a software program isn't the correct answer for this poll)





http://songweaver.com/info/bonobos.html

http://www.bonobo.org/

http://www.unl.edu/rhames/bonobo/bonobo.htm

(heheheh)

That was my guess too (but there are bonobo monkeys.)

They're apes.

;)

has an interest in this area. I am an ameteur fan. :-)

It's a smarter cousin of W.

From what (admittedly) little I know of them, they seem to have a similar social structure to chimps but are less aggressive.

How's that?

They mate early and often.

"Make love not war" makes sense.

social structure among primates.

And they make love, not war.

Like humans, they are perhaps the only other creatures who are sexually receptive at all times, regardless of estrus. They use sex toys.

...except for the sex toys part -- hard to deal with those without thumbs.

Sonny Bonobo

Have a BA in Mechanical Engineering.

the Jimmy Durante-looking schnozz?

Hmmmm...this one looks like our flealess leader.

A whole different species though.

you get introduced to bonobos and other creatures.

Hugh's dad sends it to us. But before that, I didn't know. Never heard of it in my 43 years.

There was a big to do about them not long ago because they have homosexual members that care for the young. I know about them, because I LOOOOOOVE monkeys!

Lead by a female and her female entourage. :-)

Bonobo males still display as other male chimps do, but their little hearts just aren't in it! :rolf: Why not, when you are assured of gettin' some anytime you want with anybody you want!

I believe they used to be called pygmy chimps. They're great apes. Really, really great apes. :)

You are correct, though. I call all animals like that "monkeys." It is not precise, but I do love them (apes too and gorillas, which I sometimes, call big monkeys!).

:)

It's me!

You win!

Still I find it intersting that I can be chatting with a MA in biology and they never heard of bonobos.

It's like someone is keeping you a secret.

Seriously, though, I had a discussion about them yesterday at work. They are taking over the world, you know.

Hit her on the heel as she fled in terror. She was 5. I was 10. Still makes me giggle.

And why 91% of you seem to know this????

This is upsetting me now!

:grr:

the closest living relatives to humans. But for some reason they aren't all that common knowledge. We all know about harp seals, my grade school kids can tell me about various whales and there habits and ranges, we have all heard about and seen chimps, but it was only 10 years ago that I found out about bonobos. I was in my early forties at the time. I heard nothing in college courses about our closest relatives. Never saw the non-existent National Geographic or animal world tv special about them.

If I went and asked my neighbors about bonobos my guess is that they've never heard of them. I've asked wildlife biologists about bonobos and they have never heard of them.

They are physically closer to humans than chimps. They are also the only creatures I know of besides humans who have sex when not in estrus, and have all kinds of different permutations of sex, including partners of either sex, different sex positions, and sex toys.

They could be called tri-sexual, as in they try anything.

They use sex as a means of resolving social tension, instead of aggression.

As I said, I'm impressed that DUers are so informed.

The only reason to know about them is to know more about humans. I've seen videos on aggression that use chimps as models for human society, etc, but never bonobos. It's like it's been taboo in educational circles or something.

They're so cuuutteeee!

:loveya:

Bonobos
are humankind's closest relatives, along with chimpanzees, yet most people don't even know that bonobos exist! They live only in one country: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Bonobos were last great ape species to be discovered, and could be the first to go extinct if we do not act quickly to save them and their rainforest home. Bonobos stand apart from the other great apes in fascinating and important ways. But perhaps the most compelling aspect of bonobos is their society ...

I read that somewhere, or heard it on a nature show.

and still is a chimp. Worlds oldest: http://cheetathechimp.org/

That's one old chimp!

http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1289819.php/Tarzans_Cheetah_celebrates_75th_birthday_with_cake_soda

Movies News
Tarzan's Cheetah celebrates 75th birthday with cake, soda

Apr 11, 2007, 10:24 GMT

Los Angeles - Cheetah, the chimpanzee who starred in the Tarzan movies in the 1930s and who is considered the world's oldest chimp, has celebrated his 75th birthday.

Cheetah, whose coat is now peppered with grey hair, marked the occasion with a party featuring sugar-free cake and diet soda in the California desert town of Palm Springs, famous as a retirement community for old movie stars. He has lived there with his trainer for the last 16 years.

Chimpanzees rarely live past their 40s in the wild but often live into their 60s in captivity. According to his trainer, Dan Westfall, Cheetah's only health problem is that he has been diabetic for about seven years.

Cheetah was brought from Liberia in 1932 as a baby and made his movie debut in 1934. He starred in about a dozen Tarzan films and retired from his film career after appearing in the 1967 picture Dr Doolittle.

Gawd forbid a troop of 'em lands in a local zoo..... Jeebus.

The children, the children!!! Think of the children!

at least my three year old says so.

:hi:

Pacifist, matriarchal, bisexual sex maniacs - what's not to love about them? It's too bad that even though they're so close to us genetically there is such a gulf between our behaviours. It kinda makes you wonder if evolution does sometimes work in reverse, and H. Sap. actually slipped back down off the great-ape peak just a little.

Of course, that definition covers a lot of things.

And they are NOT RELATED TO US! Not! NOT! NOOOOOOOTTTTT!



"La,la,laaaaaa.. all you science types, laaaaa, laaaa, I can't heeeeear yooooouuuuuuu!!!"

Sometimes TV is good for learnin'.

They're highly intelligent, and a matriarchal society, right? That's it.

One of the more intelligent types of primate, I believe.