pygmy chimpanzees

Who Studied Bonobos?

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Who Studied Bonobos? In 1973, a 35-year-old Japanese researcher named Takayoshi Kano, the first scientist to study bonobos extensively in the wild, spent months trudging through the dank forests of what was then Zaire (formerly the Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) before he finally encountered a foraging party of … Who

What Are The Similarities Between Bonobos And Chimpanzees?

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What Are The Similarities Between Bonobos And Chimpanzees? Chimpanzees use tools, cooperatively hunt monkeys, and will even eat the infants of other chimpanzee groups. Bonobos and Chimpanzees share close to 99% of their genome in common with humans, meaning that their genomes are more similar to that of humans than they are to that of