#bonobos — Public Fediverse posts
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#Ape cuddles could prevent conflicts
Friendly touches can keep things cool in groups of #chimpanzees or #bonobos under stress
Embraces, pats, hand-holding, genital touches, sticking fingers in each other’s mouths — these buddy-buddy behaviors form the social glue that helps groups stick together, says Zanna Clay, a #primatologist at Durham University in England.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ape-physical-touch-stress-relief-chimps
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Humans and great apes show similar rhythmic pattern in laughter
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#Bonobos are one of our closest living relatives 🦍🩷 Intelligent, sensitive and complex they are endangered by #palmoil #meat #deforestation and #poaching. Help them survive, be #vegan 🥦🥕 #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🩸🧐🙊⛔️ @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/08/13/bonobo-pan-paniscus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Both #chimpanzees and #bonobos use hugs, hand-holding, and other friendly touches to prevent conflict before it starts, not just to resolve it afterward.
Researchers observed five #sanctuary groups in #Zambia and the #Congo, finding that more pre-feeding cuddles meant more peaceful sharing of limited #peanuts.
👉 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ape-physical-touch-stress-relief-chimps
#apes #primatology #animals #behavior #science #nature #research #primates #humans
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦧😂 University of #Warwick researchers recorded #laughter from #orangutans, #gorillas, #chimpanzees, #bonobos, and #humans, finding the same evenly spaced #rhythm across all six species.
The #structure traces back to a common ancestor 15 million years ago and has remained unchanged. Human laughter has evolved faster and more context dependent, possibly a building block for #speech.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/apes-humans-laughter-evolution/
#evolution #greatapes #primatology #vocalization #animals #science #communication #biology
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#News: Delightful #bonobos enjoy having tea parties, loved-up #gorillas enjoy kissing and #chimpanzees have a fascination for crystals. These wonderful beings are similar to us. Protect them! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/23/apes-behaviour-bonobo-chimpanzee-humans-science-aoe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦧😂 University of #Warwick researchers recorded #laughter from #orangutans, #gorillas, #chimpanzees, #bonobos, and #humans, finding the same evenly spaced #rhythm across all six species.
The #structure traces back to a common ancestor 15 million years ago and has remained unchanged. Human laughter has evolved faster and more context dependent, possibly a building block for #speech.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/apes-humans-laughter-evolution/
#evolution #greatapes #primatology #vocalization #animals #science #communication #biology
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"Before tourists can see bonobos, trackers must earn their trust"
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Beautiful #bonobos 🦍🫶🩷💘 serve as a model of non-violent conflict resolution. Yet humans are sending them #extinct 🤯 from #palmoil 🌴🔥 #meat #deforestation 🥩🔥 and #poaching! Fight for them #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/08/13/bonobo-pan-paniscus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
Chimpanzees and bonobos have human-like friend circles, study finds https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260530053432.htm
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🦧 New study on #bonobo #SocialBehavior: Arias-Vélez et al. show that #bonobos actively intervene in #SocialInteractions to enforce group norms and reduce conflict. Rather than reacting only to direct threats, bystanders often stepped in during socially disruptive situations, suggesting a form of third-party social regulation resembling proto-norm enforcement.
📝 https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/1788 (https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads4414)
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#News: Delightful #bonobos enjoy having tea parties, loved-up #gorillas enjoy kissing and #chimpanzees have a fascination for crystals. These wonderful beings are similar to us. Protect them! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/23/apes-behaviour-bonobo-chimpanzee-humans-science-aoe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/23/apes-behaviour-bonobo-chimpanzee-humans-science-aoe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
"Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo
Classic childhood activities like tea parties and sword fights with sticks demonstrate the human ability to generate secondary representations, conditions we know aren’t 'real' but that we nonetheless engage with. Whether nonhuman animals are capable of these types of representations has been difficult to test. Bastos and Krupenye studied a language-trained bonobo, Kanzi, to see whether he could understand and engage with pretend conditions. Across three different experiments, Kanzi was able to identify pretend objects, demonstrating that he could create a secondary representation and showing that humans are not alone in this ability.
Secondary representations enable our minds to depart from the here-and-now and generate imaginary, hypothetical, or alternate possibilities that are decoupled from reality, supporting many of our richest cognitive capacities such as mental-state attribution, simulation of possible futures, and pretense. We present experimental evidence that a nonhuman primate can represent pretend objects. Kanzi, a lexigram-trained bonobo, correctly identified the location of pretend objects (e.g., ‘juice' poured between empty containers), in response to verbal prompts in scaffolded pretense interactions. Across three experiments, we conceptually replicated this finding and excluded key alternative explanations. Our findings suggest that the capacity to form secondary representations of pretend objects is within the cognitive potential of, at least, an enculturated ape and likely dates back 6 to 9 million years, to our common evolutionary ancestors."
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#bonobos #chimpanzees #gender #aggression
"Despite their contrasting reputations, bonobos and chimpanzees show similar levels of aggression in zoos.
Chimpanzees have a reputation for being aggressive, while bonobos are often seen as their peaceful counterparts. This contrast has frequently been used to explain different sides of human nature. However, a new study by Utrecht University behavioural biologists Emile Bryon, Edwin van Leeuwen, Tom Roth and international colleagues shows that, in zoos, chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos. The study was published today in the scientific journal *Science Advances*.
The team of researchers compared the occurrence of aggressive behaviours in 22 zoo-housed groups of chimpanzees and bonobos. While no difference was found in overall aggression, the team did find that the two sister species differ in how the aggression is distributed. Bryon: 'In chimpanzees, aggression mainly comes from males and is directed at everyone. In bonobos, aggression comes from everyone but is mostly directed at males.'”
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17-Feb-2026
#Rhythm during sex in #bonobos provides new insights into the #evolution of #communication -
Today it's #ValentinesDay and #WorldBonoboDay. #Bonobos resolve conflicts thru #peace ☮️ and #love 💕 wisdom #humans could learn from. They're critically endangered due to #poaching #palmoil #deforestation 😿 Help them! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/08/13/bonobo-pan-paniscus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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"Humans may not be the only primates with the power to imagine. During a make-believe tea party, a bonobo named Kanzi kept track of invisible juice and imaginary grapes, researchers report February 5 in Science."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bonobos-imaginary-apes-play-pretend
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🐒🤝 Researchers have found that #bonobos are surprisingly willing to help out other bonobos they’ve never met before.
The behavior suggests that the roots of human-like cooperation might be even deeper in our evolutionary #history than we realized.
👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/bonobos-help-strangers
#primates #wildlife #science #evolution #nature #biology #research #behavior
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Humanity in 2026: still finding new ways to hate each other over borders, politics, and parking spots.
Bonobos (sharing 98.7% of our DNA): We solved it. No in-group killing. We hug, groom, and de-escalate with affection. Common threat? We bond harder.
Nature gave us two primate models. We chose the evil one.
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#Bonobos are the 'make love not war' #ape 🩷🦍 One #study found #bonobo mothers who meddle in their son's sex lives help them father children. Protect these precious intelligent beings #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/03/27/bonobo-mothers-meddle-in-their-sons-sex-lives-making-them-three-times-more-likely-to-father-children/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Just like #human babies, #bonobos reared by their mother are more socially and emotionally well adjusted compared to orphaned #bonobos #primates 🐵🐒🦍😻 #primatology Fight for them! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife and be #Vegan 🥦🍅 @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/09/29/for-primates-having-a-mother-helps-them-learn-social-skills/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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#News: #Bonobos, our peaceful, female-led #primate cousins face #extinction from #poaching #palmoil #deforestation. New “bonobo credits” scheme offers hope by supporting communities to protect them! 🧐🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/19/hippy-apes-hunt-bonobos-congo-river-aoe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
Humans mirror behaviour of others e.g. with yawning 🥱 💤 This is 'emotional contagion' and #Bonobos and other #primates do this too. We must protect our cousins #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸💀❌ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/01/30/contagious-yawns-show-social-ties-in-humans-and-bonobos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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9-Dec-2025
Male #bonobos track females’ reproductive cycle to maximize mating success
Female sexual swelling is an unreliable #fertility signal, but males can time matings anywayhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1108291
#science #primates
