What are bonobos?
If you know what a bonobo is, or can tell a bonobo apart from a chimpanzee, then you are one of a few very special people. Not many people know that we have another close relative besides the chimpanzee. Like chimpanzees, bonobos share 98.7% of our DNA. Chimpanzees and bonobos look very similar. But if you look closely, you’ll see that bonobos are a little smaller, with pink lips, black faces, and a very attractive hairstyle with long black hair neatly parted in the middle. The first two toes of bonobos have a little bit of webbing. While chimpanzees have low, loud voices, bonobos are very high pitched. Also, bonobo mothers have breasts that look a lot like humans. Make Love Not War! But when you get to know bonobos, you’ll see they couldn’t be more different. Like humans, chimpanzees have war. The males are in charge, and they can occasionally be very violent. Sometimes they even kill each other. Bonobos do not kill each other. The females are in charge of the group and they seem to k
