Amazon apes

 

A recent study shows that bonobos are just as aggressive as common chimpanzees. Another Boomer hippie myth laid to rest? 

Nah, not so fast. 

First, bonobos are apparently better at making peace than their chimp cousins. Second, there is more variation in bonobo aggression levels (at least in zoos) than among chimps. (That is, aggression levels within different groups.) 

Third - and this is surely the ideological clincher - bonobo females are just as likely to pick a fight as bonobo males, while males are more aggressive among chimpanzees. Indeed, bonobo females often attack ditto males. This has even been observed in the wild. In the Congo, five female bonobos were recently observed viciously attacking a single male!

So apparently the pygmy chimpanzee isn´t a peacenik hippie with a penchant for group sex. It´s an AMAZON APE with flocks ruled by FEMALE COALITIONS. That´s the real take away from this research. 

Bonobos are just as aggressive as chimps

Most extreme case of violence in "hippie" species recorded