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Bonobo in the mirror : Bonobos passed the mirror-recognition test for self-awareness in 1994.

 


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Bonobos Live Only In An Area Of Congo. Map:Courtesy IUCN Red List
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Bonobos share many behavioral traits with common chimpanzees; e.g., they tend to associate in groups, are day-active, build sleeping nests in trees, and eat mostly fruit and other vegetable matter.

Bonobo (Pan paniscus)
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Bonobos are found only within the Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa. Together with common chimpanzees, they are man's closest living relatives.

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Bonobos were identified as a distinct species from chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in 1933. Bonobos have also been referred to as gracile or pygmy chimpanzees, but these terms are less commonly used today.

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Bonobos, arguably our closest relatives, live only in the Congo Basin rainforests of central Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Common Name: Bonobo, dwarf chimpanzee, gracile chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee ...

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"Bonobo" is most likely a misspelling of the word Bolobo, a small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the lone country inhabited by these gracile great apes. Another common name for the creature is "pygmy chimpanzee.

Bonobo communities occupy home ranges of about 22 - 68 sq km (8.5 - 26 sq mi) (Nowak 1999). References ...

Bonobo (Pan paniscus)
Together with the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the bonobo is man's closest living relative. Although a similar size to the better-known... More 24 Images 25 Videos ...

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on the left shore of the Congo-river in Zaïre lives the Bonobo or dwarf-chimpanzee, that only approximately half so heavily, somewhat small and grazi...
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Bonobos are far less common than the common chimpanzees and they face similar population pressures. Unlike chimpanzees, bonobos do not have a viable captive breeding population.

Territory: unlike gorillas, common chimpanzees and bonobos, which live in large social groups, orang-utans lead a mainly solitary life. The males constantly move from one area of forest to another.

There are four species of great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas. Gorillas are the largest ape and like the others, are endangered.

Chimpanzees are great apes, a group that also includes bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas. Chimps use sticks, rocks and other objects as tools for tasks like pulling termites from their mounds and cracking nuts.

A close relative to the chimp, the bonobo (P. paniscus) is restricted to the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(While Chimpanzees, bonobos and Western Lowland Gorillas can climb and nest in trees, they spend most of their lives on the ground.) orangutans’ feet are so well adapted for grasping tree branches, for instance, ...

Another species of chimpanzees, the bonobo (Pan paniscus), is found exclusively in central Democratic Republic of Congo. In East Africa the chimpanzee is found in the wild in Tanzania and Uganda, but only in captivity in Kenya.

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The Great Apes include Gorillas, Orangutans, Chimpanzees, and Bonobos.
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The Great Apes include Gorillas, Orangutans, Chimpanzees, and Bonobos.

Great Ape of Asia: Of the four great apes — gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans — only the orangutan makes its home in Asia; the others come from Africa.

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The method of copulation is quite interesting, in that they are the only known mammals besides humans and bonobo chimpanzees that mate belly to belly. One of the pair stays motionless while the other glides beneath.

This social structure can also be observed in the Hamadryas Baboon,[71] spider monkeys[55] and the Bonobo.[71] The Gelada has a similar social structure in which many smaller groups come together to form temporary herds of up to 600 monkeys.[71] ...

Bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees, arguably our closest relative, may have been hunted so extensively that the survival of the species is at risk, World Wildlife Fund warns. (more) ...

See also: Gorilla, Lemur, Lion, Orangutan, Panda