plural bonobos
: a rare anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus) that has a more slender build and longer limbs than the related common chimpanzee (P. troglodytes) and that inhabits a small geographic region in equatorial Africa south of the Congo River
called also pygmy chimpanzee
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The button board approach with dogs is similar to experimental methods that have been used with chimpanzees and bonobos in the past.
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Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2024
Key among potential insights is what bonobos can teach researchers about humans.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
Caesar, the ape revolutionary who led the chimps, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and gibbons to dominance in the reboot trilogy, is long dead by the time Kingdom’s action begins.
—James Grebey, TIME, 10 May 2024
Such behavior doesn’t appear to be a turn-off for female bonobos, who prefer to mate with more combative males—although bonobo matriarchs may limit the males’ aggressive outbursts, the authors suggest.
—science.org, 8 Apr. 2020
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Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2024
Key among potential insights is what bonobos can teach researchers about humans.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
Caesar, the ape revolutionary who led the chimps, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and gibbons to dominance in the reboot trilogy, is long dead by the time Kingdom’s action begins.
—James Grebey, TIME, 10 May 2024
Such behavior doesn’t appear to be a turn-off for female bonobos, who prefer to mate with more combative males—although bonobo matriarchs may limit the males’ aggressive outbursts, the authors suggest.
—science.org, 8 Apr. 2020
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bonobo
noun
bo·no·bo
bə-ˈnō-bō; ˈbä-nə-bō 
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: a rare anthropoid ape of the genus Pan (P. paniscus) that has a more slender build and longer limbs than the related common chimpanzee (P. troglodytes)
called also pygmy chimpanzee
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