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Bonobo is a 2014 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Matthew Hammett Knott and starring Tessa Peake-Jones , Josie Lawrence and James Norton . The film is about middle-aged widow Judith ( Tessa Peake-Jones ), and her attempts to convince her ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bonobo \bo*no"bo\ (b[-o]*n[=o]"b[=o]), n. an anthropoid ape ( Pan paniscus ), resembling but smaller than the common chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ); -- called also pygmy chimpanzee . It is found in the forests of Zaire. Syn: pygmy chimpanzee, pygmy chimp. ...
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Kanzi, the chimp who learned a little sign language, was a bonobo chimp.
Chimpanion manifested as a male, speaking a pidgin patois of English and French, in a belch-riven bonobo accent.
Our 98 percent of genes shared with both bonobo and common chimps undoubtedly carries some programming for shared worldviews, desires and social certainties.
Unlike the latter species, the bonobo had not been partially monogamous with polygamous and polyandrous tendencies.
However, within any given estrus cycle the norm is for a woman to be involved with a single man, but the norm for a female vervet or bonobo is to be involved with several partners.
He has hair on his chin and dark skin, not as dark as bonobo skin, but not white either.
The appearance of these traits in bonobos hints at what might have been among Homo sapiens, if evolutionary history had been just slightly different.
Our ancestors diverged "only" about seven million years ago from the ancestors of chimpanzees and bonobos, nine million years ago from the ancestors of gorillas, and fourteen million years ago from the ancestors of orangutans.
About fifty yards away in the shadows of the very back of the cul de sac was one of the bonobos!
I apply in vitro fertilization techniques to the bonobos, the same techniques that were developed to increase the fertility of captive mountain gorillas.
Female hyenas were vicious killers, male bonobos and muriquis were gentle cooperators.
Female hyenas were vicious killers, male bonobos and muriquis were gentle co-operators.
Some people called them pygmy chimpanzees but the name was a misnomer because some bonobos were actually larger than some chimpanzees, and they were a distinct species.
Bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) resemble or approach us in many of these latter respects: female receptivity is extended through several weeks of the estrus cycle, sex is mainly recreational, and there is some economic cooperation between many members of the band.
Bonobos, those lithe apes sometimes called pygmy chimpanzees, all sported the same do.