[lbo-talk] bonobos in danger!

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Wed Dec 15 17:37:41 PST 2004


Samuel Waite wrote:
> Bonobos are chimpanzees.
>

its a *pygmy* chimpanzee i guess:

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Pan&contgroup=Hominidae

bonobo = pan paniscus chimpanzee = pan troglodytes

and the common parent of the bonobo and the chimp is where the fork of humans happened, so perhaps i am wrong: the chimp and bonobo share an equal amount of their DNA with us.

otoh, the below:

http://www.zoo.nsw.gov.au/imagedata/Chimp.pdf

states "pan troglodytes is the closest living living relative".

but at this point i am probably splitting hairs.

http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Pan_troglodytes/

(bonobo sexuality) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10818623&dopt=Abstract

--ravi



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