Current Events > Study: Wild Bonobo Gorillas are generous and kind due to being female dominated.

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New research suggests that among bonobos, giving is seen as goodand they may just have given the trait of generosity to us.

While chimps are hostile and competitive, bonobos, their lesser-studied ape relatives, share about the same amount of DNA as usand live in the polar opposite society of the blood-and-guts chimp dominance hierarchy.

A recent paperbased on research conducted by Duke University researchers in the Democratic Republic of the Congofound that given a plate of prized fruit and the decision to eat it all on their own, bonobos preferred to unlock an unrelated bonobo from a room with a locked door in order to share to share the food.

Later, the researchers found that when the bonobos were in groups of threecomposed of a bonobo with food, their friend, and a strangerthe subject with food would generally share with the stranger first, followed by the friend.

While humans can be more like chimps this regard, sometimes perceiving strangers as not even of the same species depending on just how far outside their group the stranger is, this bonobo beneficence of treating strangers before in-group members can be found in certain Asian customs, or in the Roman writings on Germanic Tribes of Northern Europe like the Suebi, of whom, the historian Tacitus wrote:

The host welcomes his guest with the best meal that his means allow No distinction is ever made between acquaintance and stranger as far as the right to hospitality is concerned.

NPR details that the bonobo sanctuary in DRC has produced 75 published studies, as the country is the only place on Earth where bonobos can be found in the wild. Here, just as in the wild, the leader of any social circle is the female. Females keep it that way by banding together to banish aggressive males.

When all is quiet, such as when its time to chow down, the hierarchy is enforced through sharing, cooperation, tolerance, and lots and lots of sex, in every capacity imaginable, though usually only for about 13 seconds

Other similarities include the simple tendency observed in both bonobos and humans to yawn following the observation of another social group member yawning, which was suggested as being derived from empathy.

Its likely humans early ancestors acquired many similar strategies, as we now share and cooperate on a massive scale to accomplish things no other species has been able to do despite the fact that we left behind many of our chimp tendencies.

Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bonobos-sense-of-charity-maybe-gave-humans-the-trait-generosity/


Huh, I guess the feminists were right after all

So next time your girlfriend says you're acting like a gorilla, say "What? so I'm being really kind, friendly and generous?"

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prob also because they're not sexually repressed

Raikuro posted...

prob also because they're not sexually repressed

Except they boot out aggressive males

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FEG am I right

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Except they boot out aggressive males

wtf does that have to do with what I said. sex doesn't equal aggression lol

Arent Hyenas also female dominated?

they're mean as fuck

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Gorillas are further genetically from Bonobos than humans are.

Raikuro posted...

wtf does that have to do with what I said. sex doesn't equal aggression lol

It's weird for bonobos. Mating seasons for most mammals do bring usually bring about male aggression for mating competition, but bonobos are weirdos when it comes to community and sex, given how casually it's used.

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Guide posted...

It's weird for bonobos. Mating seasons for most mammals do bring usually bring about male aggression for mating competition, but bonobos are weirdos when it comes to community and sex, given how casually it's used.

right, don't have to fight to get sex because:

Raikuro posted...

they're not sexually repressed

Raikuro posted...

right, don't have to fight to get sex because:

We're talking about wild animals, not humans. The usual case is that aggression doesn't come from sexual repression, they get sexually repressed by failing as competitors. The aggression is there to help them win.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

So next time your girlfriend says you're acting like a gorilla, say "What? so I'm being really kind, friendly and generous?"

But gorillas and bonobos are not alike, so that couldn't be taken as a compliment.

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Guide posted...

they get sexually repressed by failing as competitors

covid will see to that too... only a matter of time. won't be able to perform in bed.
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So theyre a society of soyboys, good for them.

Matriarchal societies tend to be the most productive in animal society. See: Bees and Clownfish.

Must be all that GG rubbing

Also Bonobos are chimps not gorillas

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PBusted posted...

Matriarchal societies tend to be the most productive in animal society. See: Bees and Clownfish.

I suppose the evolutionary counterpoint is that they kind of have to be.

Otherwise the other violent male dominant animals would just have killed them all.

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