This National Geographic video is called Bonobo Chimps: Girls Rule!
Bonobos are caring because they are led by females: here.
Bonobos Will Share With Strangers Before Acquaintances: here.
About apes: Massive New Rainforest Reserve Established in the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect the Bonobo.
Also in Congo: Ten million trees planted in crucial mountain gorilla habitat. Gorilla evolution: here.
Gorillas Mate Face-to-Face in First Photos: here.
Intelligence of humans vs. chimpanzees: here.
Poaching and deforestation threaten Ugandan chimps: here.
A chimpanzees spatial memory is so precise that it can find a single tree among thousands in a forest: here.
Scientists: Bonobos use different barks and peeps to distinguish between discovery of different foods: here.
Bonobos stay young longer: here.
Related articles
- Apes battle for survival in the Congo (cnn.com)
- Food for friendship: Bonobos share with strangers in exchange for company (eurekalert.org)
- Bonobos Offer Banana Bribes for Friendship (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
- Bonobo Habitat Threatened by Human Activity and Forest Loss (natureworldnews.com)
- Study finds the forgotten ape threatened by human activity and forest loss (eurekalert.org)
- Bonobos Face Shrinking Habitat in Africa (livescience.com)
- Bonobos, Endangered Great Apes, Face Threat from Growing Human Population (scienceworldreport.com)
- The Strange – and Sweet – Chimp Behaviour You Never Knew Existed (spiritandanimal.wordpress.com)
- the bonobotopia. (3quarksdaily.com)
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Humans lose to chimps in number memory
game:
Young chimps have an “extraordinary” ability to
remember numerals, scientists report.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/071203_chimp-memory.htm
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“Peacenik” chimps not always so nice:
A study on bonobo hunting habits challenges
traditional ideas of how aggression originates.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/081014_bonobo
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Rock-hurling zoo chimp stocked ammo in
advance: study:
Researchers have found what they call some of the
first clear evidence that a non-human animal can
spontaneously plan ahead.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090310_chimp
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Scientists explore whether some apes shake
heads for “no”:
Preventing an action by someone else may be one
purpose for which bonobos shake their heads, a study
suggests.
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/100503_bonobos
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Bonobos comfort each other
Young bonobos that are more ‘socially competent’ are more likely to cuddle and calm other apes that are in distress, research has revealed.
November 2013. Scientists in an African sanctuary found that bonobos that recovered quickly from an upsetting experience, such as a fight, were also more likely to comfort others. This mirrors findings from studies in children and suggests bonobos manage their emotions in a similar way.
The researchers, whose findings are published in PNAS journal, captured footage showing ‘emotionally competent’ young apes rushing to hug other juveniles that were screaming after being attacked.
Previous studies documenting bonobos’ responses to others’ emotions have led them to be known as the ‘empathic apes’. Prof Frans de Waal from Yerkes National Primate Research Centre at Emory University in Atlanta said these new results revealed that their ability to console one another was part of this empathy.
He added: “It is almost as if one needs to have one’s own emotional house in order before one is ready to visit the emotional house of another. This is true of children, and apparently also for bonobos.”
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/bonobos013.html
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“Hippie chimp” quickly losing ground to
people: study
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/131126_bonobo.htm
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