> >> Bonobos bounce back <<
> Chimps get top-notch council house
>
> Last year, we launched a Save the Bonobo campaign.
> The pygmy chimps who live in the Congo and
> have sex on average every 90 minutes are facing
> extinction. Finally, someone else is joining us
> in trying to help these dirty little beasts.
>
> A group of Bonobos are getting a $10 million,
> 18-room high-tech dream dormitory near Des
> Moines, Iowa. Their crib has touch screens for
> the chimps to chat with human researchers, a
> webcam to see outside, flushing lavatories,
> an indoor waterfall and climbing walls. The
> experiment aims to see if this kind of
> stimulation will help them develop skills in
> language, art and music -- and pass those skills
> on to future generations of chimps.
>
> At the moment the bonobos spend their time
> practicing hetro, homo and paedo shagging...
> And researchers really think they're going
> to give all that up to learn how to read
> and play the piano?
>
>
>(FYI: Vervet monkeys have blue testicles. And the
>ones with the bluest balls are dominant.)