TheStar has a great little article on Bonobos. In particular this little nugget:
However, on top of that heavy social schedule, they still found time to spend about 15 per cent of their hours having sex (with friends, acquaintances and in groups comprising both sexes, often in a jolly tangle of fun and frolics).
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Here’s a cool story. The 3 month old baby Bonobo was rejected by it’s mother and hand reared by keepers at the zoo. A new adoptive mother was found but far away. The Bonobo got a passport (not real but still) and it’s own seat on the Lufthansa flight to it’s new [...]
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Don’t ask me why, but here’s a video of Bonobo’s mating. These guys have more sex than any animal on earth. It’s like a handshake to them.
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Bonobos are long known as the sex addicts of the animal kingdom. To them having sex is like shaking hands is to a politician. They shake every hand they can reach… if you know what I mean. Here’s an interesting study about the other side of these sex machines:
As hippies had Altamont, [...]
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Judy’s got another great video. This time Bonobos at the San Diego zoo. These are really playful guys who seem to be having a lot of fun in that enclosure.
As Bruce Schneier hints, monkeys can have relevance in the topic of security. In particular research on risk preference. The study he notes is pretty interesting:
Because chimpanzees exploit riskier food sources in the wild, we predicted that they would exhibit greater tolerance for risk in choices about food. Results confirmed this prediction: chimpanzees [...]
A nice little article on “bizarre animal mating rituals”. Coming in at #15 is the Bonobo. Read it for details.
It’s not that they are “bizarre”, they just love to do it.
