bonobo
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- noun
- /bəˈnoʊboʊ/
- Specialized
- The bonobo is a small, intelligent species of chimpanzee that thrives in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- bonobo and chimpanzee
- bonobo society
- female bonobos
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Watch on YouTubeYou see, if I may, Bonobos are highly sexual apes.
- You see, if I may, Bonobos are highly sexual apes.
- The key one that I think distinguishes us from bonobos is respect, mutual respect.
- So if like two groups of bonobos meet each other, what they'll have is an orgy, you know, that's their basically their way of, of, of saying hi.
- And meanwhile the chimpanzees and Bonobo ancestor continues in the forest.
- The Bonobo, the Bonobo monkeys, they practice it.
- Why not the bonobos or the chimpanzees?
- So it sounds to me like bonobos can set us free.
- And they shortly bifurcate, though the bonobos, they continue to share throughout the rest of their lives.
- So for good news is for higher level apes like us, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans, we all roughly want consent.
Examples
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Despite its common name, the bonobo is not a pygmy form of chimpanzee.
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The two primates that are most closely related to human beings are chimps and bonobos.
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Or perhaps you prefer bonobo bands meeting for the first time in a forest clearing.
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We decided, therefore, to attract the bonobos to a particular site by providing food for them.
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An interactive map from the Bonobo Conservation Initiative identifies the locations of bonobo protected areas.
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For example, unlike common chimpanzees, bonobos have never been observed to kill others of their kind.
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Compared with common chimpanzees, bonobos seem to be more pacific and gregarious.
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Of all the primates, bonobo monkeys... ...are the closest relatives to human beings... ...both genetically and socially.
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According to some primate specialists, the bonobo may indeed closely resemble the common ancestor of humans and apes.
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And so those great apes include gorillas and chimpanzees and bonobos and orangutans.
Synonyms
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A small ape from central African forests similar to a chimpanzee that lives in groups
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A large ape like a chimpanzee that lives in forests of the Congo Basin, often called the bonobo
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Etymology
Bonobo probably comes from the name of a town, Bolobo, on the Congo River where the animal was first noticed; the spelling changed over time. So the name points to its home in the Congo forests and helps you remember it is a kind of chimpanzee closely related to the common chimp.