Annotated Bibliography: Bonobo Social Cognition
Introduction: This annotated bibliography was conducted to understand social cognition and interactions within Pan paniscus, commonly known as bonobos. This is a topic that interested me because I was intrigued by the social behaviors of bonobos, which we slightly explored in a previous assignment. Each resource was selected to further explore speech, alliances, empathy, and various other social responses in bonobos.
Clay, Z., & de Waal, B. M. F. (2013). Bonobos respond to distress in others: Consolation across the age spectrum. PLoS ONE, 8(1), 1-13, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055206
The authors of this paper both completed PhD and post-doctoral work on bonobos and other primate communication. …show more content…
This paper was done to determine empathy and social bonding in bonobos using yawn contagion, since it has been well proved to be well correlated with social emotion. The bonobos were observed in the Apenheul Primate Park for around three months. The results were that the contagion is present in bonobos and independent of social contexts. Furthermore, contagion was higher when a female was the one to trigger the response. This can be explained with the close female bonds within bonobos. Finally, the contagion distribution is similar to that of humans—those that had close emotional ties to the trigger were the ones who showed the most …show more content…
He used a group of 22 individuals, with a variety of adolescent and juveniles, both male and female. The fruit that was specifically used for the observations was the Junglesop fruit (Anonidium mannii) because it was abundant and frequently eaten. The results were that, firstly, sharing was conducted a majority of the time and might have been of a reciprocal form—a bonobo might rise in leadership and societal status when sharing is conducted. Certain bonobos would beg others, even though they could easily obtain the food themselves, which could have been done to strengthen social bonds. Females engaged at a higher rate in the sharing than the males, which suggests strong female-female social
Introduction: This annotated bibliography was conducted to understand social cognition and interactions within Pan paniscus, commonly known as bonobos. This is a topic that interested me because I was intrigued by the social behaviors of bonobos, which we slightly explored in a previous assignment. Each resource was selected to further explore speech, alliances, empathy, and various other social responses in bonobos.
Clay, Z., & de Waal, B. M. F. (2013). Bonobos respond to distress in others: Consolation across the age spectrum. PLoS ONE, 8(1), 1-13, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055206
The authors of this paper both completed PhD and post-doctoral work on bonobos and other primate communication. …show more content…
This paper was done to determine empathy and social bonding in bonobos using yawn contagion, since it has been well proved to be well correlated with social emotion. The bonobos were observed in the Apenheul Primate Park for around three months. The results were that the contagion is present in bonobos and independent of social contexts. Furthermore, contagion was higher when a female was the one to trigger the response. This can be explained with the close female bonds within bonobos. Finally, the contagion distribution is similar to that of humans—those that had close emotional ties to the trigger were the ones who showed the most …show more content…
He used a group of 22 individuals, with a variety of adolescent and juveniles, both male and female. The fruit that was specifically used for the observations was the Junglesop fruit (Anonidium mannii) because it was abundant and frequently eaten. The results were that, firstly, sharing was conducted a majority of the time and might have been of a reciprocal form—a bonobo might rise in leadership and societal status when sharing is conducted. Certain bonobos would beg others, even though they could easily obtain the food themselves, which could have been done to strengthen social bonds. Females engaged at a higher rate in the sharing than the males, which suggests strong female-female social