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Bonobos
This section is all about the lesser-known extant member of genus Pan, the Bonobo. Sometimes called the 'pygmy chimpanzee,' these placid apes are a great study.
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An anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus) of north-central Congo (formerly Zaire), having black hair and more arboreal habits than the common chimpanzee (P. troglodytes). Also called pygmy chimpanzee. For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.
Bonobos eat mostly fruits (40-90% of their diet) and vegetables, but will also eat shoots, leaves, flowers, seeds, barks, pith, herbs, insect larvae, and earthworms. Bonobos do not aggressively hunt mammals. On rare occasions, they have been observed to capture duikers (small antelope) or flying squirrels. They are also known to eat termite clay for essential minerals, and have been recorded to eat 113 different types of plants per year.
According to the New York Times, "The menu for bonobos at the San Diego Zoo includes bananas, broccoli, cabbage, collards, corn, celery, grapes, green beans, kale, lettuce, melons, onion, papaya, pear, spinach and turnips."
Bonobos are also known to eat a large amount of Terrestrial Herbaceous Vegetation (THV) which they consume to provide their main source of protein (duikers are a delicacy).
Why is the bonobo monkey in danger?
First off, that is a picture of an adult male gorilla. Bonobos are endangered due to hunting, and habitat loss. The bushmeat trade, where hunters kill wildlife to be sold and eaten by the elite in cities has decimated their populations, as has the practice of killing mother bonobos to take the baby to sell for zoos, circuses, and pets. The babies are illegally smuggled all over the world.
How does culture differ in different populations of chimpanzees and bonobos?
bonobos use sexual interactions to prevent conflict
They live in tropican and subtropical forest in Central Africa.
What layer of the rainforest does a bonobo chimp live in?
yep. they live in the central area of the Congo rainforest.
One Contributors Opinion.
Actually we do not come from monkeys. Here are a few ways to prove we do not.
1. If you (This is kind of gross.) mated with a monkey you can't reproduce.
2. We have a creator. God!!!! Read the bible!!!
And 3. If we were to be made from any animal we actually would be closer to dogs than monkeys.
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how would humans be closer to dogs? that sounds odd...
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Things to consider:
- Not even die-hard, militant evolutionist claim humans developed from monkeys. Evolution postulates that humans and all other primates descended from a common ancestor.
- Even if it were the Law of Evolution rather than the Theory, the first human was still the first.
- Evolution and Creationism are not mutually exclusive. Consider, the Creator formed the entire universe--okay, there's no way you can truly imagine everything that means, but do what you can--and in doing so made it to follow certain laws and behave in certain ways every time. Okay, that being the case, we are capable of observing the laws and behaviors and understanding then. We know for instance that adaptation and selection are fact, laws if you will. They've been proven, time and again. So, if the universe is designed to obey those laws, and we can see and understand then, it would be pretty foolish to deny.
Bonobos have no natural predators, but humans are driving them to extinction with the bushmeat trade, the practice of eating wild animals, and selling babies on the black market for sale to zoos and circuses and as pets after killing their mothers. There are only about 10,000 left.
Which primate is more intelligent pygmy chimp orangutang bonobo or baboon?
Pigmy Chimpanzee and bonobo are of equal intelligence because they are two names for one animal.
Intelligence can be measured many ways. All animals are intelligence enough for their environment.
Bonobo intelligence matches humans the closest of all animals but are not violent as humans are.
Orangutans are closer to human intelligence than a baboon but are not violent as humans are.
Bonobos greatly resemble Chimpanzees, as both belong to genus Pan. They are somewhat smaller, and often darker, than Chimpanzees.
