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Although older bonobos appeared to maintain their youthful tolerance, chimps tended to be less tolerant with age.

Others use firearms or leave poisoned meat in the forest, silently killing packs of up to 20 bonobos at a time.

By contrast, chimps and bonobos walk more flexibly, 'with their wrists in a bent position as opposed to being stacked-up, ' she said.

Wild bonobos (those few that have been watched carefully, at any rate) do not seem overly promiscuous.

Andy Dunn, chief executive of New York-based clothing company Bonobos. com, recently was chatting with a colleague on his office elevator.

But unfortunately, bonobos are the least understood of the great apes.

In the first experiment, the researchers put a bowl of fruit in an enclosure and allowed pairs of age-matched chimps or bonobos to enter.

They now hope to uncover why the bonobos seem to prefer to share their food.

And a study in the journal Current Biology suggests that their laid-back development keeps bonobos forever young.

One discovery was that wild Bonobos often walk bidpedally.

The findings are interesting because wild bonobos have not been seen to use tools as often or as flexibly as their chimpanzee relatives.

But as far as we know, we're the only upright walking ape that exists on planet Earth today, except for the bonobos.

If both female bonobos and chimps are better at tool use than males, I wonder where the learned helplessness of human females comes from.

Bonobos, a men's apparel e-tailer, designs, develops, sources and merchandises its own clothing brand.

It follows that bonobos and chimpanzees share many human-like morphological, physiological and behavioral traits.

So, infinite common chimps on infinite typewriters might churn out Hamlet. Infinite bonobos would more likely produce South Park.

But bonobos were much more social, approaching experimenters even when they were empty-handed.

Similar patterns have been observed in chimpanzees, bonobos and modern humans.

GORILLAS are gentle giants, chimpanzees aggressive killers and bonobos sex-crazed vegetarians.

Chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos possess self-awareness, feelings and high-level cognitive powers.

Bonobos also have been observed to slap water up from a stream and eat either invertebrates or fish.

In fact, adult bonobos rarely reached the levels of psychological sophistication shown by baby common chimps.

BONOBOS can learn sign language to communicate with humans and invent new combinations of symbols to express thoughts.

She found the majority of adult chimpanzees and bonobos had special wrist features that most gorillas lacked.

We don't buy and sell people any more. Since chimps and bonobos share 98. 7% of our DNA, don't they deserve the same respect?

Chimpanzees, bonobos, elephants, and many birds work together for joint rewards.

Bonobos are, together with chimpanzees, your living closest relative.

SS: We found that the most important thing for permitting Bonobos to acquire language is not to teach them.

'Chimps and bonobos spend a lot of time in the trees. And gorillas do not, ' Schmitt said.

Since bonobos can sheath their penis, nothing is visible most of the time.

One of the major threats to bonobos is that their range lies entirely within the country of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Bonobos are notorious for having sex however and whenever they see an opportunity.

Bonobos are one of some 63 mammalian species known to engage in homosexual behavior.

One special feature observed in bonobo society is the low level of aggression between individual bonobos.

So we want to create an environment in which Bonobos like all of the individuals with whom they are interacting.

But eventually, young female bonobos must leave the troop and find another troop to accept them.

Humans do it, of course. As do bonobos, our close relatives.

Slim-bodied, Bonobos are by nature very gentle creatures.

Sex is the solution to all of the bonobos' problems.

We found these acoustic properties also in bonobos.

Bonobos are built slightly smaller than the chimpanzee.

But then again, we're hardly as sexually carefree as bonobos.

Of course, these pics are just for fun: human bonobos at play.

Wobber now plans to compare social cognition in young chimps bonobos and humans.

But bonobos show us the other side of the coin.

But there is one point he feels bonobos make very strongly. . .

Sisters of feminine bonobos.

Though nothing in the animal kingdom is using what we think of as language, gestures used by bonobos and orang-utans come close.

Bonobos, like humans, love to play throughout their entire lives.

The most aggressive apes of all were the bonobos.

"I hope bonobos win. . . it will be better for everyone, " he added.

Surbeck spent twelve months observing a group of more than 30 wild bonobos at Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

We have eight Bonobos.

SS: He talks to other Bonobos at the lab, long-distance, farther than we can hear.

Among those that sometimes do this: hamsters, beavers, and some primates, such as bonobos and orangutans.

So why do bonobos spend so much time and energy Having sex with so many different kinds of partner?

This is the world of wild bonobos in the jungles of Congo.

The next step, Rekers said, is to study other primate species, such as bonobos.

Bonobos can also laugh, just like we do every day.