Culture | May 21, 2008 | 12 comments

Monkeys, that's what we are...

source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=a15KgyXBX24

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  • damnneargenius
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    • As hippies had Altamont, so bonobos have Salonga National Park, where scientists have witnessed the supposedly peace-loving primate hunting and eating monkey children.

      The finding could transform both popular and scientific understanding of bonobos, which like chimpanzees share 98 percent of their DNA with humans. But unlike chimps, bonobos have been considered gentle and good-natured: they don't engage in inter-tribal warfare or primate cannibalism, are dominated by females rather than males, and exchange sexual acts with the casualness of humans talking about the weather.

      Parker's article and author of a study, published yesterday in Current Biology, that describes bands of bonobos tracking, killing and eating young monkeys.

      This may be shocking news to bonobo-idealizing humans, but less so to scientists, who have inferred the primate-cannibalizing capacity of bonobos from the presence of monkey fingers in their droppings. For them, the findings provide an opportunity to reconfigure their understanding of a species separated from humans by a mere four million years.

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    • Did anyone see on discovery where packs of chimps go and attack rival groups of chimps and savagely kill them? And people think they are all innocent.

      I think they ate parts of the animals they killed.

      Below is stuff about some chimps that are the most friendly of all species...

    • 3 years ago
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