IntroductionLike our neighboring living families, chimpanzees and bonobos have been widely used as prototypes of early hominin behavior. However, in modern years, as statistics on the social behaviors or conduct and ecosystem of bonobos have evidently emerged, many interspecific assessments have been made. Chimpanzees have been described in terms of intercommunal fighting, meat-eating, infanticide, anthropology, the struggle for male position, and supremacy over females. Bonobos, meanwhile, have been described as the "creators of love, but not a war ape", classified based on sharing female power, a lack of hostility between characters or groups, sexual behavior occurring without restrictions of a thin window of fertility and the use of sex for communicative determinations. This article evaluates the indication of this contrast and reflects the reasons why distinct representations of the two great apes are advanced. While there are clear differences in social conduct between these two primates, I argue that they are more similar in behavior than most books have. suggested. This book illustrates several reasons why modern views of bonobo and chimpanzee cultures may not mesh well with the data on the ground. Bonobos arise because their behavior was defined later than that of chimpanzees, and it is likely that explanations of the differences between bonobos and chimpanzees are echoes of human male-female alterations. The book shows that these two African apes have been shown to differ intensely in patterns. of sexuality, supremacy, same-sex social connections, and the presence and potency of both intragroup and intergroup hostility. Chimpanzees have been desi... middle of paper... and female transmission is considered important in demonstrating the conduct of common hominoid ancestors. If female bulges are linked to powerful male territoriality because they give females harmless passage between groups, then territoriality could be based on food reserve. In conclusion, perhaps it is not true that male bonobos are not associated with each other; relatively, their connections may be less obvious and perhaps less resilient than female-male bonds tend to be. Therefore, male bonobos are involved in territory protection, and bonobo culture is strongly male philopatric. The emphasis placed on female sexuality and female influence is the consequence of studies that consider the female-female, male-female association and finally the male-male association, the latter being the smallest and most frequent.
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