I want to be a bonobo

http://www.newscient...-their-young.html

So much for the "hippy chimp". Bonobos, known for their peaceable ways and casual sex, have been caught in the act of cannibalism.

An account of a group of wild bonobos consuming a dead infant, published last month, is the first report of cannibalism in these animals Â making the species the last of the great apes to reveal a taste for the flesh of their own kind.

The account comes from a group of primatologists led by Gottfried Hohmann of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The team has studied bonobos in the wild at a site in Salonga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on hundreds of days since 2002. Few were more eventful than 9 and 10 July, 2008.

Early on the morning of 9 July, Andrew Fowler spotted an ape known as Olga with her two daughters: 5 or 6-year-old Ophelia, and Olivia, who was three years her junior. "By 8 o'clock Olivia was dead," says Fowler. She showed no obvious traces of blood or bruises, so it seems unlikely she had been killed by other members of her group.

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Cheers,
Scott.

Post #320,762 by boxley 1/30/10 12:48:09 AM Reply	I want to be a bonobo If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #320,846 by Another Scott 2/1/10 9:51:45 PM Reply	You sure? http://www.newscient...-their-young.html So much for the "hippy chimp". Bonobos, known for their peaceable ways and casual sex, have been caught in the act of cannibalism. An account of a group of wild bonobos consuming a dead infant, published last month, is the first report of cannibalism in these animals Â making the species the last of the great apes to reveal a taste for the flesh of their own kind. The account comes from a group of primatologists led by Gottfried Hohmann of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The team has studied bonobos in the wild at a site in Salonga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on hundreds of days since 2002. Few were more eventful than 9 and 10 July, 2008. Early on the morning of 9 July, Andrew Fowler spotted an ape known as Olga with her two daughters: 5 or 6-year-old Ophelia, and Olivia, who was three years her junior. "By 8 o'clock Olivia was dead," says Fowler. She showed no obvious traces of blood or bruises, so it seems unlikely she had been killed by other members of her group. [...] Cheers, Scott.
Post #320,848 by Andrew Grygus 2/1/10 11:17:32 PM Reply	Also, gangs of females often beat up males. Another activity not mentioned in those rose colored accounts of bonobos.
Post #320,858 by drook 2/2/10 8:39:33 AM Reply	So come back as a female bonobo I read somewhere that early 20th century scientists had fits trying to explain the female-on-female face sitting without concluding that homosexuality was not a uniquely human aberration. -- Drew
Post #320,861 by boxley 2/2/10 8:59:41 AM Reply	what Ihadd in mind considering that I am a lesbian in a male body If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #320,872 by folkert 2/2/10 11:11:51 AM Reply	Documented in Geese and Swan. There has been documented cases of male-male Geese and Swan pairing. Female-Female pairing has not been documented, but is assumed to exist. Suggestions have been made that Ducks should also be similar.

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