![]() ![]() Although she is a primarily knuckle-walking quadruped (walking on all fours), she’s far more comfortable walking upright than a chimpanzee, especially when carrying food.Īmong bonobos, males have long canine teeth, whereas females lack canines altogether, making the bonobo’s female dominance all the more thought-provoking.She’s born with a white patch on her rump unlike chimpanzees, the patch does not darken with age.With a natural middle part, her hair splays outward in a symmetrical coif. In addition, the bonobo’s hair is not susceptible to the same balding some chimpanzees experience with age.Her face is black from birth, whereas the color of a chimpanzee’s face will change over time.With a high forehead and deep-set eyes, a bonobo has a small head, small ears, a thin neck, and narrow shoulders.At a cursory glance, the dark-haired bonobo looks similar to a chimpanzee, with long, lanky limbs and nimble, elegant fingers, but a discerning eye can clearly distinguish between the two: Many comparisons can and have been made between the bonobo and the chimpanzee, the only two species to make up the Pan genus–and perhaps rightly so. In captivity, bonobos live to about 40 years old. In bonobo society, however, it is the females who rule, minimizing a need for male aggression and competition.īonobos are thought to live to about 20 years old in the wild on average, with some accounts of the oldest bonobo in the wild living to about 50 years. Weighing in at about 68 lbs (31kg) for females and 86 lbs (39kg) for males, the bonobo is slimmer than a chimpanzee, and at a length of about 35 in (88cm), appears more gracile and elegant.Īdult bonobo males are about 15% larger than their female counterparts. While this is less extreme than the sexual dimorphism seen in other primates, the size difference is significant enough for males to have dominance, similar to male chimpanzees. At two-thirds the size of a human, however, the bonobo is neither diminutive nor a chimpanzee, and much work has been done to distinguish the bonobo from her common chimpanzee ( P an troglodytes) cousin. As a result, the bonobo has been misunderstood and mislabeled, at times called a pygmy chimpanzee and a dwarf chimpanzee. It wasn’t until 1929 that the bonobo earned its distinction as a separate species. There’s a great deal scientists still don’t know about bonobos (research is challenged by their remote habitat, the discontinuity of the species’ distribution, and civil unrest within the DRC), but conservationists are bringing focus to four distinct bonobo strongholds in protected areas in an effort to both better understand and protect the bonobo species. Its range is hemmed geographically by the Congo, Lualaba, and Kasai-Sankuru rivers.īonobos thrive in moist, undisturbed old-growth forests, where trees bear fruit throughout the year however, they can also be found in the montage of secondary forests, seasonally flooded swamp forests, and forest savanna woodlands common to the entire Congo River Basin, itself a rich mosaic of precariously endangered tropical plants and species. ![]() A highly-threatened great ape, the bonobo is confined to a limited, patchwork area comprising in total about 60,000 square miles (about 156,000 sq km). ![]() The peaceable bonobo ( P an paniscus) makes its home in the lush rainforests of Central Africa, specifically within the borders of one conflict-ridden country-the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DICHOTOMOUS KEY-IDENTIFY TAMARIN AND LEMUR SPECIES.LIFE IN THE WORLD’S TROPICAL RAINFORESTS.THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING HABITIT: THE CANDY CULPRIT.ALPHABET SOUP OF CONSERVATION-VIDEO AND INTRODUCTION.10 OF THE MOST ENDANGERED PRIMATE SPECIES.10 PRIMATE SPECIES YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF.10 OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN PRIMATE SPECIES.“TRUE LEMURS,” BAMBOO LEMURS, RUFFED LEMURS.GRIVET, MALBROUCK, TANTALUS, GREEN, AND VERVET MONKEYS. ![]()
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