The Bonobo: A Short Story

-The bonobo is the most recently discovered great ape in modern times.  It was revealed in 1929 by German anatomist Ernest Schwarz that a skull once thought belonging to a juvenile chimpanzee was in fact a new subspecies of chimpanzee known now as the Pan paniscus, or bonobo. (Waal 6)  During the Pleistocene epoch approximately 1.5 million years ago, the Congo River was formed in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (San Diego Zoo 2)  The river geographically segregated groups and individual chimpanzees south of the river resulting in these chimps being reproductively isolated.  Allopatric speciation took place as a response to new

The three sites where hunting has been observed in bonobo populations are Wamba, Lamaki and Lui Kotale. Chimpanzees have been observed more often in hunting prey, and the few cases of hunting in bonobos could be attributed to a lower level of violence found in bonobo populations. At the site of Lui Kotale, in the Salonga national Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo fresh bonobo feces was analyzed on a regular basis to see what the bonobo diet consisted of. The samples are first broken down to find the bigger undigested material, ten run through mesh to pull out anything else.

The bonobo has pink lips, a black face, and black hair that parts straight down the middle of its head. It has tuff, black fur. It’s smaller, leaner, and darker than its cousin, the chimpanzee. Females weigh about 63 pounds and males weigh about 85 pounds. Male bonobos grow to be about 4 feet tall and females grow to be about 3.5 feet tall. They usually live to be about 60 years old. They eat fruits, leaves, flowers, insects, and small mammals. They are secondary consumers because they eat small mammals (primary consumers), leaves (producer), and bonobos are being hunted by humans.

We run until the footsteps of the unknown thing fades to a soft patter and I realise how out of breath I am. looking at the others I see familiar features in the one who demanded we continue running. his face sagged but had a cheerful look. I look at the others they too have something familiar about them, one has a unique hair style- as if practised methodically and coated in hairspray. Another dressed in murky blue overalls- which I could’ve sworn belonged to me, and the last was young and had a look of sadness, hope and longing in his eyes when he looked at me but his features and hair resembled that of the older man. The darkness enclosed them and then the silence was broken with an explosive moan, then the almost inaudible footsteps came pounding louder and louder, closer and closer. we bounded into action running in- as best as we could tell- the opposite direction. Then a high pitched screech came from the woman with the stiffened hair. I turned and stopped to see the young girl being dragged

Out of nowhere, he hears something from the woods behind him. He turns around as quickly as he could and said ,“ Hello, is anyone there?” it was dead silent. His heart started to race and he started to feel scared so, he turned around and started running the opposite side from where he heard the noise from. He kept hearing a walking coming closer and closer almost as there is someone chacing him but everytime he would turn around there was nobody

Why do we say that Bonobo has intelligence? Similar to humans might be a partial reason why Bonobo is classified as intelligence animal. Many evidences show that Bonobo expresses its intelligence in the natural world. Bonobo is highly intelligence and physically similar to human ancestor. Bonobos were discovered in the forest along the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1927. They are named as the “pygmy chimpanzees” because of the similarities in their physical traits with chimpanzees. A lot of people make the same mistake in recognizing Bonobo and Chimpanzee though they have the same height. However, Bonobo come with leaner body, smaller head and longer leg than Chimpanzee. Moreover, they physically feature as the closest primates to human who hold “almost 98.6 percent of their DNA” comparing with human.( http://www.nydailynews.com)

She could just feel the hair raise on the back of her neck as the other drew nearer. She introduced herself as Faith, and told her some very scary things.

One early morning it was bright and sunny, i am lost i must have slept walked a little too far last night. By the way I am Isabelle the goat and i’m the runt of my herd which involves 5 of us there is 3 girls and 2 boy’s that is including me. I try finding my way back to my home, i have no clue which way to go so i’m just going to start walking in one direction to see if i can find someone for help. About 8 miles later I see this massive thing, i have never seen anything like it before.

In one motion, I turn to the sound, bringing the bow and arrow to my shoulder. There’s no one there. No one I can see anyway. Then I spot the tip of a child’s boot just peeking out from behind the trunk of a tree. My shoulders relax and I grin. She can move through the woods like a shadow, you have to give her that. How else could she have followed me? The words come out of my mouth before I can stop them.

The evolution of hairlessness in humans is a problem that puzzled experts for a long time, one which has many hypothesises, but has no clear front-running theory. At first, the loss of most of the body’s hair seems to be an obvious disadvantage, with the forfeit of protection from both UV radiation and cold temperatures (Rantala, 2007). However humans are quite as naked as it first appears as they have the same number of hair follicles, it’s just the density of the hairs is more spread out and size of hairs is much smaller than other apes (Pagel and Bodmer, 2003).

I turned my head as i heard the door creek open, Sophie walked out and for a moment my mind went blank and i nearly forgot how to speak, my breath hitched as i watched

In the darkness of the alleyway, Mackenzie heard a familiar voice. “Stop!” said a voice from behind her. She spun around as fast as she could.

We start running again and find a cave behind a few bushes. We crawl inside after Charlie makes sure there isn’t anything living there. Its getting closer. Watching every move we make. Once we are inside, I sit up and lean my head back onto the

DAMN! I grab the rope, but I’m not fast enough. I call 9-1-1. I run to her. She’s not awake. She must have hit her head. She landed on her arm. I can see blood. Her arm is sticking out at a weird angle. The ambulance comes. They load her in. I follow them in my truck.

“RUN” I screamed!!! They were terrified, afraid and lost.I am panicking.Then I saw a shadow by a grave.They silently ran.They didn’t say a word cause it would look.Creepy.