Bonobo females hunt and eat monkeys, researchers find
source: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-bonobos18-2008oct18,0,2472039.story
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Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, writes on a 5-year study of bonobos by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
During the study, scientists observed female bonobos "capturing, killing and eating young monkeys in the lowland evergreen forests of Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo."
Chimpanzees and bonobos are the closest relatives to humans.
"Chimpanzees were the only nonhuman primate species known to hunt monkeys, and scientists had surmised that the jaunts were an elaborate male-bonding exercise... but because bonobo society is dominated by females, researchers had figured that their peaceful demeanor made them disinclined to hunt prey larger than squirrels, rodents and duikers, a small antelope species."
Kaplan writes that "[t]he discovery undermines the conventional wisdom that hunting among primates is an outgrowth of male dominance and aggression, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology."
Full article at link...
During the study, scientists observed female bonobos "capturing, killing and eating young monkeys in the lowland evergreen forests of Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo."
Chimpanzees and bonobos are the closest relatives to humans.
"Chimpanzees were the only nonhuman primate species known to hunt monkeys, and scientists had surmised that the jaunts were an elaborate male-bonding exercise... but because bonobo society is dominated by females, researchers had figured that their peaceful demeanor made them disinclined to hunt prey larger than squirrels, rodents and duikers, a small antelope species."
Kaplan writes that "[t]he discovery undermines the conventional wisdom that hunting among primates is an outgrowth of male dominance and aggression, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology."
Full article at link...
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arcticspirit
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I still don't think I was ever to be related to a monkey.. but if you want to be, please, feel free. (smiles and laughs lightly.)
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Vierotchka
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arcticspirit:
Humans are simians, they are primates, and belong to the Great Apes group alongside their cousins the gorillas, the chimpanzees, the bonobos, and the orang utans, all of whom are termed hominids. Great Apes are not monkeys, although we do share a common ancestor with monkeys.
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