How to Use bonobo in a Sentence

bonobo

noun

• The one on the right is a bonobo; the one on the left is a chimpanzee.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2012
• In one of the clips, a bonobo gave its comrade a shove.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2023
• Perhaps there are times when the nice bonobo doesn't finish last?
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2018
• To him, chimp and bonobo vocalizations are like a code.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2018
• And then there was Viktor, the young bonobo who couldn’t forget Shields, either.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
• All were welcomed, even a cat on meds stowed with luggage and a pregnant bonobo.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
• And yet, according to one of our studies, 75% of people have no idea what a bonobo is.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2010
• For example, the zoo will be vaccinating a 5-year-old up to a 50 year old bonobo.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2021
• And when new bonobos are born at the zoo nowadays, their names are in one of three languages spoken in the Congo: Swahili, Lingala or French.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2024
• Conservationists hope the find—the first new species of great ape to be discovered since the bonobo in 1929—will help raise awareness of the plight of orangutans.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2017
• Four more animals — one bonobo and three gorillas — got their first shot this month and will get a second one in April.
  — Fox News, 19 Mar. 2021
• As of January, Vernon was the oldest mammal at the Cincinnati Zoo and the oldest male bonobo known to be in human care.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2021
• As the primatologist Frans de Waal has put it, bonobos make love, not war.
  — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• The trio learns these villains are goons for the tyrannical bonobo Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand).
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• Then there are chimpanzees and their close relatives, bonobos.
  — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Since then, his experiments have ranged far and wide, including finding a bonobo at the Jacksonville Zoo that was amenable to banging on a drum to a steady beat.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 26 July 2017
• Some cries came from infant chimpanzees or bonobos calling to their mothers.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• This means war Not every new trait animals exhibit is a noble one—a fact that is borne out by a recent study of bonobos.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
• The authors report that the same process has been shown to effectively re-create the structure of a bonobo brain by morphing a chimpanzee brain, and vice versa.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Female bonobos, chimpanzees, and dolphins are also known to use tools more than their male counterparts.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
• Chimpanzee males intimidate and beat females; bonobo males do not.
  — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• The idea that men are unsuitable for childcare is seemingly supported by the apes closest to us, chimpanzees and bonobos.
  — Time, 17 June 2023
• Another 45 genes underwent this process since humans split off from the ancestors of chimps and bonobos.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2023
• Seventeen months later, the young bonobo had acquired a vocabulary of 50 words.
  — Kevin Miyazaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
• With the new research, scientists found that the lineage that led to humans split off from the one that led to chimpanzees and bonobos between 6.9 million and 9 million years ago, writes Reuters’ Will Dunham.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• One bonobo recognized a face after 26 years — a record for facial memory beyond our species.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are some of our closest living relatives.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
• While the United States had the largest number (1,034) of live animal advertisements, Russia had the most varied list of species including two types of tigers, a crocodile, an ocelot and a bonobo.
  — Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2008
• My anxiety around humans was inversely proportional to my comfort in the cage with the bonobos.
  — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
• One bonobo mom groomed her dead infant immediately before eating it with other members of the group.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024