The Bonobo (Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the chimpanzee genus, Pan. The other species in genus Pan is Pan troglodytes, or the Common Chimpanzee. Both species are chimpanzees, though that term is now frequently used to refer only to the larger of the two species,Pan troglodytes. To avoid confusion, this article follows the growing trend to use "chimpanzee ...

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One theory on the origin of the name "Bonobo" is that it is a misspelling of the name of the town of Bolobo on the Congo river. A more likely explanation is that it comes from the name for "Ancestor" in an ancient Bantu language. As noted above, the scientific name for the Bonobo is Pan paniscus. Since the Bonobo DNA is at least 95% equal to that of Homo sapiens, some scientists maintain that they (and the Common Chimpanzee) should be reclassified as members of the genus Homo -- Homo paniscus, Homo sylvestri ...

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One theory on the origin of the name "Bonobo" is that it is a misspelling of the name of the town of Bolobo on the Congo river. A more likely explanation is that it comes from the name for "Ancestor" in an ancient Bantu language. As noted above, the scientific name for the Bonobo is Pan paniscus. Since the Bonobo DNA is at least 95% equal to that of Homo sapiens, some scientists maintain that they (and the Common Chimpanzee) should be reclassified as members of the genus Homo -- Homo panisc ...

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Bonobo, Bonobo - Name, Bonobo - Physical characteristics, Bonobo - Psychological characteristics, Bonobo - Social behavior, Bonobo - Habitat, Bonobo - Closeness to humanity, Bonobo - Strategies for financing protection from extinction

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Professor Frans de Waal, one of the world's leading primatologists, avers that the Bonobo is often capable of altruism, compassion, empathy, kindness, patience and sensitivity. Recent observations in the wild have confirmed that the males among the Common Chimpanzee troops are extrordinarily hostile to males from outside of the troop. Murder parties are organized to "patrol" for the unfortunate males who might be living nearby in a solitary state. This does not appear to be the behavior of the Bonobo males or females, which both seem ...

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Bonobo, Bonobo - Name, Bonobo - Physical characteristics, Bonobo - Psychological characteristics, Bonobo - Social behavior, Bonobo - Habitat, Bonobo - Closeness to humanity, Bonobo - Strategies for financing protection from extinction

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DNA evidence suggests that the Bonobo and Common Chimpanzee species have stayed apart for about 5 million years. The two species separated just 500,000 years after they diverged from the last common ancestor with humans. Since no species other than Homo sapiens has survived from the human line of that branching, the two chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives of humans, sharing approximately 97% of their DNA with humans (the original estimate was 98.5 percent). Bonobos passed the mirror-recognition test for self-awareness ...

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Bonobo, Bonobo - Name, Bonobo - Physical characteristics, Bonobo - Psychological characteristics, Bonobo - Social behavior, Bonobo - Habitat, Bonobo - Closeness to humanity, Bonobo - Strategies for financing protection from extinction

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