A community portal about Bonobo with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Bonobo, until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species...
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A community portal about Bonobo with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Bonobo, until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the chimpanzee genus, Pan. The other species in genus Pan is Pan troglodytes, or the Common Chimpanzee. Both species are chimpanzees, although that term is now frequently used to refer only to the larger of the two species, Pan troglodytes. To avoid confusion, this article follows the growing trend to use "chimpanzee" to refer to both members of the genus.
Makasi, a 4-year-old bonobo, looked after his 14-month-old cousin, Mali, on Friday. Mali recently started exploring the bonobo exhibit at the San Diego Zoo and is often carried around by Makasi.
Loren Coleman on September 29th, 2008 The bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee was first known to Africans, Arabs, and even probably the Egyptians long before so-called "contemporary" Europeans "discovered" the species.
Makasi, a 4-year-old bonobo, provides a helping hand to Mali, his 14-month-old cousin. SAN DIEGO – Bonobo cousins Makasi and Mali bonded Friday as they checked out visitors at the San Diego Zoo. Mali, who is 14 months old, and her half-brother ...
Chimps 'are people, too' In a private facility just outside Des Moine, Iowa , primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is conducting an experiment that has lasted 26 years.
What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month in the Journal of Integrative ...
New findings indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger linguistic competency in ordinary conversation than in controlled experimental settings ScienceDaily: Latest Science News Download time: Sep 2 2008 8:07 AM ...
Submitted by bonobo on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 11:01am. The post below is cross-posted at Blue Bexley , where regular readers know that I have a bit of a love-hate thing going with the Franklin County Board of ...