It is very uncommon to find wild bonobos hunting other animals, especially small mammals. Although, despite this rarity, it has been recorded of happening before. Gottfried Hohmann, an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute “observed one bonobo group hunting small monkeys at the Lui Kotal study site near the Salonga National Park.”(Bonobo Conservation Initiative). In other words, the semi-deciduous forest that support the bonobos is being wiped out. With the destruction of their limited habitat we are annihilating not only their homes but also their main food supply. Clearly, if one species in an ecosystem is suffering, others are slowly following in their footsteps. The world cannot allow the species to go extinct since the whole food web in the African continent would be disrupted, possibly
It is very uncommon to find wild bonobos hunting other animals, especially small mammals. Although, despite this rarity, it has been recorded of happening before. Gottfried Hohmann, an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute “observed one bonobo group hunting small monkeys at the Lui Kotal study site near the Salonga National Park.”(Bonobo Conservation Initiative). In other words, the semi-deciduous forest that support the bonobos is being wiped out. With the destruction of their limited habitat we are annihilating not only their homes but also their main food supply. Clearly, if one species in an ecosystem is suffering, others are slowly following in their footsteps. The world cannot allow the species to go extinct since the whole food web in the African continent would be disrupted, possibly