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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. [PJC] ||
Wiktionary
n. the pygmy chimpanzee, ''Pan paniscus'', from Africa south of the Congo
WordNet
n. small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species [syn: pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus]
Wikipedia
The bonobo ( or ; Pan paniscus), formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee. Although the name "chimpanzee" is sometimes used to refer to both species together, it is usually understood as referring to the common chimpanzee, whereas Pan paniscus is usually referred to as the bonobo.
The bonobo is distinguished by relatively long legs, pink lips, dark face and tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted long hair on its head. The bonobo is found in a area of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. The species is omnivorous and inhabits primary and secondary forests, including seasonally inundated swamp forests. Political instability in the region and the timidity of bonobos has meant there has been relatively little field work done observing the species in its natural habitat.
Along with the common chimpanzee, the bonobo is the closest extant relative to humans. Because the two species are not proficient swimmers, the formation of the Congo River 1.5–2 million years ago possibly led to the speciation of the bonobo. Bonobos live south of the river, and thereby were separated from the ancestors of the common chimpanzee, which live north of the river. There is no concrete data on population numbers, but the estimate is between 29,500 and 50,000 individuals. The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by habitat destruction and human population growth and movement, though commercial poaching is the most prominent threat. They typically live 40 years in captivity; their lifespan in the wild is unknown. As of June 2016 a total of 119 live in zoos across Europe; 65 distributed between six different German zoos, and a further 54 in zoos in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and England.
Bonobo is a component model for creating reusable software components and compound documents. It was created by the company Ximian (acquired by Novell) for compound documents used in GNOME.
Bonobo was designed and implemented to address the needs and problems of the free software community for developing large-scale applications. It is inspired by Microsoft's OLE and is quite similar to it. Bonobo components are analogous to KParts in KDE. Bonobo is based on the CORBA architecture. Bonobo can, for instance, be used to embed an HTML component to show some text or an SVG component to display statistics taken from a database.
Available components are:
- the Gnumeric Spreadsheet
- a PostScript viewer (ggv)
- a PDF viewer ( xpdf)
- an SVG viewer ( gill)
Simon Green (born 30 March 1976), known by his stage name Bonobo, is a British musician, producer and DJ based in Los Angeles.
Green has recorded and performed solo DJ sets under the name Mr Blue and as Barakas together with Robert Luis from Tru Thoughts as Nirobi and Barakas.
A bonobo is an individual of the species once called pygmy chimpanzees.
Bonobo also may refer to:
- Bonobo (musician), a British producer, musician and DJ
- Bonobo (component model), a component module in the GNOME desktop environment
- Bonobo (film), a British comedy-drama film
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 daughter Lily to leave an alternative commune and return to university. Bonobo premiered at the Raindance Film Festival where it was nominated for Best British Feature.
Usage examples of "bonobo".
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.