Bonobo

M. “Bonobo Sex and Society: The behavior of a close relative challenges assumptions about male supremacy in human evolution” www.primates.com/bonobos/bonobosexsoc.html. Accessed Sat. 8 sept. 2017. Evolution: Why Sex? (PBS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Nn-MNC1ik. Accessed Sat. 8 sept. 2017. Hogenboom, Melissa. “Are There…

My popular press article is called Bonobo Monkeys Feel Empathy Too published on August 14, 2014 in the animals section of Nature Would news on the natureworldnews.com website. The original per-reviewed article that corresponds with this article is called Yawn Contagion in Humans and Bonobos: Emotional Affinity Matters More than Species which was published in PeerJ on August 12, 2014. The researchers, Palagi et al (2014) were looking at the evolutionary aspects of empathy. Affective empathy…

alternative possibility to the chimp, arguing that humanity could have turned out to be more docile and with a reduced level of violence. Humanity does, however, already share many traits with the bonobo. Bonobos keep pets, have sex for pleasure, and have tight-knit friendships with many others. Bonobos are the perfect case study for the evolutionary benefit of altruism. In general, for two closely related creatures, if the benefit for one creature outweighs the cost to another, then the helpful…

see her mother, it does not go as planned. Her mother owns a bonobo (a type of monkey) sanctuary, and she leaves to do work in the jungle. Sophie is without her mother, only a few co-workers of hers, and a war breaks out! Many bad events happen, and Sophie is stuck in the wild with her bonobo named Otto. All of the problems that Sophie faced during this time made her stronger as a person. At one point, Sophie had to escape the bonobo enclosure and get inside the sanctuary before the kata-kata…

Chapter thirteen of this book discussed the inequalities and mistreatments faced by women and racial minorities in modern society. Furthermore, it was explained in this chapter that women and minority races face these challenges due to how they presented themselves towards their majority racial and gender counterparts, and how at the same time, men and the dominating races are responsible for the behavior exhibited by women and minority races in history (in this case, women presented themselves…

Social Behavior Among Monkeys May Be More Nature Than Nurture ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2003) — An unusual experiment with monkeys who were switched between mothers shortly after birth has demonstrated the importance of nature over nurture in behavior. Rearing Young monkeys reared by a mother other than their own are more likely to exhibit the aggressive or friendly behavior of their birth mothers rather than the behavior of their foster mothers, a University of Chicago researcher has shown for…

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is an American psychologist who tried, and succeeded, teaching an ape, bonobo, how to use a language. Animals can learn to use a language. One example is Kanzi, a 26-year-old male bonobo. Animals are more intelligent than we think, they don’t talk but they understand each other, scientists have been successful in teaching animals out language, and they can communicate in many different ways. Language is not just talking, in fact, it is how people or animals share their…

Male bonobos form will form alliances with other males so they could help each other fight to have access to a female. For an example, Alcock (2013) noted that forming alliances allows the low ranking males to confront a stronger rival, high ranking male, and…

bone size as well as the top of the pelvis has a bigger butterfly effect to it. The Bonobo and monkey pelvis on the other hand is much smaller in both the pelvis shape and sacrum shape. One of the biggest differences is how at the bottom of the Bonobo pelvis's bones smooth out making it longer whereas the human pelvis seems to arch up making more of that oval shape. This means that the chimps monkeys and bonobos have the ancestral trait because the shape of the pelvis is the same for each…

The apes are as much as capable of kindness as empathy as they are of violence, one such incidence of kindness is was shown by a bonobo named kuni in Twycross Zoo in Great Britain saw that a starling had hit her glass enclosure and had fallen, she went and picked up the bird and gently set it on its feet, but the bird didn’t move, then she threw it little bit but it only fluttered…