"Loving" Bonobos Seen Killing, Eating Other Primates

National Geographic ^ | October 13, 2008 | Matt Kaplan

[Nicholas Conradin]

The behavior of the bonobos as "peaceful" was celebrated by ecologists in contrast with "aggresive" humans.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

So they are more like us then we thought.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

No surprise. We knew bonobos were smelly barefooted peacefreakin’ hippies. Given a little engineering they would be baby-killers and ecoterrorists.

[Doogle]

Groups of the endangered chimpanzee subspecies were observed stalking, chasing, and killing monkeys they later consumed.

..sort of like the MSM when someone disagrees with "the agenda"

[Steamburg]

I didn’t know ACORN was there too!

[whatshotandwhatsnot]

LOL! That explains one of the DUmmies.

[Northern Yankee]

Check to see if they’re registered to vote.

[valkyry1]

‘Cheetah’ was found to be registered in all 57 states

[Ezekiel]

A type of chimpanzee known to use sex for greetings, reconciliations, and favors ...

"That's a good looking chimpanzee." ~ Bill Clinton

[randita]

Somebody ALWAYS beats me to the best punch line. LOL

[Northern Yankee]

LOL... Not to be confused with the Cheetah Girls?

[CE2949BB]

The 'Haight-Ashbury' image of free-loving bonobos has led to a piece of wishful thinking among nice people, who perhaps came of age in the 1960s -- or maybe they are of the 'medieval bestiary' school of thought, in which animals exist only to point moral lessons to us. The wishful thinking is that we are more closely related to bonobos than to common chimpanzees. The Margaret Mead in us feels closer to this gentle role-model than to the patriarchal, monkey-butchering chimpanzee. Unfortunately, however, like it or not, we are exactly equally close to both species.
Source: Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), 92

[winodog]

I have never heard of an Bonobo.

[ikka]

The lefty hippie crowd were always going on about the bonobos and how their matriarchal society is better than our patriarchy. Nice to see them get their comeuppance.

[Steely Tom]

The New Yorker had a huge article about these creatures a couple of years ago. Made ‘em out to be just like Democrats.

[LadyPilgrim]

Sounds like liberals to me.

[Yardstick]

Has ACORN registered these bonobos to vote yet?

[Vinnie]

Maybe it’s just me but it wasn’t too many years ago that I found out chimps eat meat.

Up until that time everything I saw on TV, etc. showed them on a vegetarian diet with a few ants, grubs occasional egg.

[FrogMom]

Is a sub-species of Chimp. VERY endangered.

I saw a film (from San Diego Zoo perhaps?) some years ago that still makes me laugh when I think about it.

Is feeding time. Handlers throw in some leaf-bearing branches. A largish male grabs one and carries it off to the corner to eat. A female tries to grab some from him, he corrects her, she backs away. So she submissively crawls back, not trying to grab the food, lays down in front of him and spreads her legs. He looks down and immediately has sex with her. The expression on his face is priceless, eyes rolling back and all. They finish quickly and, while he’s sitting enjoying the after-glow, she picks up the branch and walks away.

It was the first example recorded, supposedly, of an animal using sex for other-than procreation.

[FrogMom]

One of the lib whackos who sit for months watching the apes, witnessed a chimp killing and eating its child. Was surprised they recorded it, since at the time, they were trying to tell us how wonderful the chimps were and how we should be like them.