Bonobos have prostitution and can learn english.
August 29, 2011 at 1:47 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2011 at 1:52 am by Aegrus.)
Bonobos may be the key to world peace- at least, their DNA may be.
For those of you not familiar with Bonobos, they are my favorite animal by far. They're small apes, resembling mini-chimpanzees, and they share about 98.4% of our DNA. Their world population is only 10,000-35,000 (depending on who you ask), and they are rapidly being hunted to extinction in the one place they live- the Republic of Congo, in Central Africa.
Despite their diminutive stature, these apes may be incredibly important to the progression of the human race. You see, to my knowledge, Bonobos have never been shown to be aggressive to anything other than flying squirrels. They are almost entirely peaceful, being mostly vegetarians and pacifists. (Though, as mentioned, they have been known to hunt small animals such as flying squirrels on occasion.)
I haven't found any studies showing them to ever use deadly force on another Bonobo. The two percent of DNA we don't have in common with them may be the key to ending war and violent crime worldwide.
Aside from being friendly, Bonobos have many other admirable qualities which are very convenient evidence for all manner of anti-creationist arguments.
Bonobos are the only species of ape other than humans to have sex facing each other. In fact, Bonobos have been studied to engage in prostitution, exchanging sex for food. Bonobos are also one of the only species which are sexually active nearly year round, along with humans.
Also notable, Bonobos regularly have gay and lesbian sex. This seems to defeat the creationist's argument that homosexuality is not natural. What's more, Bonobos have sex as much as several times a day, which would seem to be too often for purely reproductive purposes.
Furthermore, Bonobos have mediators for conflicts. If two Bonobos get in a dispute, a third, uninvolved Bonobo is capable of resolving it by allowing both opposing parties to groom the third party and overcome their differences through the joys of eating small insects together.
Interestingly, Bonobos have passed the mirror-self recognition test, making them one of the few animals which is capable of understanding that their duplicate in a mirror is not a different Bonobo on the other side of a window.
One Bonobo, named Kanzi, can supposedly vocalize 500 English words, understand their meanings, and make coherent and original sentences. He can also make tools out of stone.
Untrustworthy sources have claimed that Bonobo children play with toys, but I could not find information on that. If anyone has links about more Bonobo information, please post. Remember- their brains could hold the key to world peace.
My sources are linked below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzi
http://www.zoosociety.org/conservation/B...WhatIs.php
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inters...the-world/
http://www.livescience.com/6033-primates...tingy.html
http://www.ntn24.com/news/videos/female-...nkey-world
For those of you not familiar with Bonobos, they are my favorite animal by far. They're small apes, resembling mini-chimpanzees, and they share about 98.4% of our DNA. Their world population is only 10,000-35,000 (depending on who you ask), and they are rapidly being hunted to extinction in the one place they live- the Republic of Congo, in Central Africa.
Despite their diminutive stature, these apes may be incredibly important to the progression of the human race. You see, to my knowledge, Bonobos have never been shown to be aggressive to anything other than flying squirrels. They are almost entirely peaceful, being mostly vegetarians and pacifists. (Though, as mentioned, they have been known to hunt small animals such as flying squirrels on occasion.)
I haven't found any studies showing them to ever use deadly force on another Bonobo. The two percent of DNA we don't have in common with them may be the key to ending war and violent crime worldwide.
Aside from being friendly, Bonobos have many other admirable qualities which are very convenient evidence for all manner of anti-creationist arguments.
Bonobos are the only species of ape other than humans to have sex facing each other. In fact, Bonobos have been studied to engage in prostitution, exchanging sex for food. Bonobos are also one of the only species which are sexually active nearly year round, along with humans.
Also notable, Bonobos regularly have gay and lesbian sex. This seems to defeat the creationist's argument that homosexuality is not natural. What's more, Bonobos have sex as much as several times a day, which would seem to be too often for purely reproductive purposes.
Furthermore, Bonobos have mediators for conflicts. If two Bonobos get in a dispute, a third, uninvolved Bonobo is capable of resolving it by allowing both opposing parties to groom the third party and overcome their differences through the joys of eating small insects together.
Interestingly, Bonobos have passed the mirror-self recognition test, making them one of the few animals which is capable of understanding that their duplicate in a mirror is not a different Bonobo on the other side of a window.
One Bonobo, named Kanzi, can supposedly vocalize 500 English words, understand their meanings, and make coherent and original sentences. He can also make tools out of stone.
Untrustworthy sources have claimed that Bonobo children play with toys, but I could not find information on that. If anyone has links about more Bonobo information, please post. Remember- their brains could hold the key to world peace.
My sources are linked below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzi
http://www.zoosociety.org/conservation/B...WhatIs.php
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inters...the-world/
http://www.livescience.com/6033-primates...tingy.html
http://www.ntn24.com/news/videos/female-...nkey-world
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