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« on: November 26, 2011, 01:19:42 PM »

Just watched a documentary about them on TV, and beyond already knowing that they are the 'hippies of the mammal community', here are a few interesting facts:

They are ruled by an alliance of females.

The role of males is mainly to protect the group, especially by being vigilant about possible  exterior dangers. The other big role is to stop females to fight when there is some jealousy about kids, always with the most diplomacy possible. Other than that males seem to be happy with the fact that sex is the way to negotiate almost everything which also turn them into gentlemen and they apparently don't ask much more (amusing to compare it with the evolution of the female condition those last decades during which females took a bigger place in the society while sex became more and more accepted too...).

That would be the only mammal specie to never practice infanticide, the fact that sexuality is so present makes that males can't identify who's the father, then kids are kinda adopted by all the males of the community and can't be used as a way to dominate/own females, as it can often be the case in other animal communities.

They are often described as permanent hippies, which would be quite right when you look at their life model, but beside the fight for kids that can happen between females, rare too, it can happen that males put some mess to kinda play, when females find it's too messy, beware, females can repress by strongly bitting them, spot often targeted: genitalia. ^^ 

When the group of bonobos of the movie met a totally 'foreign' group of bonobos in the documentary, once they met, they made the guests visit their territory. No violence between each other apparently.

They would have a quite big intellectual potential. A group of 6 years old bonobos has  intellectually totally surpassed a whole human panel of the same age. ^^. And they seem to have a quite good potential at identifying words too. The complexity of their 'language' would be handicapped by the position of their larynx.

In the animal community that would be those who are able use tools with the most complexity after human specie.

About death. Once one of their group dies, others in the group moan around it. Females are in charge to hide the body, while males are in charge to prevent kids from seeing it.

Scientists say they would have a great potential then, but, according to them, their biggest handicaps to develop it would be their lack of aggressiveness, and, lol, they also say that sex would turn them stupid (lol, that latter thing is also an amusing conclusion when you look at the recent evolution of Western societies... - it was a French documentary though, not an English one...).

That's all for what I remember, found it worth knowing, and sometimes interesting to compare with the human societies. Amusing to see they are quite the opposite of what seem to be the closest specie from them, chimps, would be interesting to know whether those are 2 different biological species or whether that's the same specie which knew 2 strongly different social evolutions, humans seem be right between those both in term of social practices.

And ironically enough those permanent hippies live in the human country in which war and sexual abuse would have been the most present and the most violent during those last years, DR Congo, they might get interest in the results of elections tomorrow there then, since they are also directly concerned by human events there, in order to know whether they will continue to be considered like meals by people who live there because of war, the govt would have taken measures to protect them during last years though.

About that latter aspect, given big similarities that can exist with the human specie, and some would even speak about a 'more evolved specie than human being' on some realms, the documentary even raised the issue of 'cannibalism' in the end, I'm not the kind to spontaneously run through it, but the issue is worth raising. That is:

Where does 'cannibalism', then the identification to human specie, begin?


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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2011, 03:10:42 PM »

Interesting thoughts about a no-doubt soon-to-be-extinct being, tsingjacquesdutronc.
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2011, 04:28:12 PM »

Epic FFs.
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