Bonobos live in matriarchal societies and are extremly promiscuous.
Ring any bells?
THEM DAMN JEWMONKEYS IS SUBVERTING THE CHIMPS!
almost spat my beer
But do bonobos direct chimps to lash out at their Gorilla oppressors, and sometimes refer to themselves as "my fellow chimp"?
According to the study, they're more closely related to chimps too, which are also somewhat promiscuous but more patriarchal.
Where does it say that in the study though?
Sorry, those are two clauses:
According to the study, they're more closely related to chimps too
Which is shown here(nature.com)
which are also somewhat promiscuous but more patriarchal.
The latter claim is based on what I've read of their behaviour by Jane Goodall: Namely that when a female goes into heat, all the males in the troupe take their turn, in order of social standing. They are patriarchal in the sense that the males make the decisions and the females are treated like chattel. At one point a troupe ended up without females, so they ambushed and killed the males of another troupe and abducted their females.
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Except chimps can understand cause and effect and reason out problems they are presented with. Chimps can also find food when it’s not just given to them.
I watched a documentary about them and promiscuous doesn't really cover it. They literally fuck each other as a hello. From another source:
Furthermore, sexual interactions among bonobos occur in every possible partner combination regardless of age or gender with the notable exception incest among siblings. These interactions reflect a much broader sexual lexicon in bonobos than in chimpanzee; in addition to vaginal, bonobos utilize oral and manual stimulation in a variety of copulation positions, preferring ventro-ventral position as in humans. Together, these differences in behavior suggests that sex in bonobo society serves a fundamentally different purpose than in chimpanzees that is not limited to reproduction. The differences in the behavior of these two species, however, is not limited to sex. Male chimpanzees express dominance over their female counterparts; by contrast, dominance is not strictly ordered by gender in bonobo society despite the fact that female bonobos are smaller than males (de Waal 1995).
Whereas a chimp will tear your balls off for looking at it funny
Anita Ward(express.co.uk)?
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