A Baboon Troupe Loses Its Alpha Males and Transforms Forever

A Crow Teaches Man An Important Lesson

When a small boy the author captured a young crow and made a pet of it. The bird became quite well satisfied with its domestic surroundings and learned to perform many tricks requiring considerable intelligence. After the bird was big enough to fly it was permitted to go wherever it pleased. Sometimes it would be gone for many hours, but it always returned home before dark.
One day some wild crows became involved in a fight with an owl in a field near the house where the pet crow lived. As soon as the pet heard the "caw, caw, caw" of its wild relatives it flew up on top of the house, and with signs of great agitation, walked from one end of the house to the other. Finally it took wing and flew in the direction of the "battle." The author followed to see what would happen. In a few minutes he came up with the pet. It was sitting on the lower branches of a tree and two wild crows were sitting on a limb just above, chattering and walking back and forth, acting very much in the same fashion that angry parents behave toward their offspring when chastising them.

As the author approached, the two wild crows flew away, one of them circling around the tree a few times, meanwhile letting out a terrible flow of most abusive language, which, no doubt, was directed at its foolish relative who hadn't enough sense to fly while the flying was good.
The pet was called, but it paid no attention. That evening it returned home, but would not come near the house. It sat on a high limb of an apple tree and talked in crow language for about ten minutes, saying, no doubt, that it had decided to go back to the wild life of its fellows, then flew away and did not return until two days later, when it came back and did some more talking in crow language, keeping at a safe distance meanwhile. It then went away and never returned.
Social heredity had robbed the author of a fine pet!

The only consolation he got from the loss of his crow was the thought that it had shown fine sportsmanship by coming back and giving notice of its intention to depart. Many farm hands had left the farm without going to the trouble of this formality.

The Law Of Success by Napoleon Hill

Are You A Chimp Or A Bonobo?

About a year ago I was attending a dinner event at HM 157 which is an Los Angeles art collective located in the neighborhood of Lincoln Heights. towards the end of the evening one of the other attendees whom I had only met briefly sat down directly in front of me. His name was also Robert and he asked me if i have ever studies the difference between the common Chimpanzee and another member of its same exact species called Bonobos. I told him that I had not and additionally I had no idea what a bonobo was up till that point in time. Robert immediately pulled out a piece of paper and a pen and began his well thought out explanation.

He described the Chimp first as a hierarchical, competitive species that only mated once a year without the fulfillment of reciprocal pleasure. He went on to quote Darwin who claimed animals always compete. He then drew a diagram of a pyramid with a big letter "A" on top to imply that the most alpha chimp ruled. He ended his description of the Chimps by stating that they were "fighters"

Robert then went on to describe the bonobo as peaceful and loving society of chimp who were organized in tribal structures, formed loving relationships and mated all year long. He even drew a simple illustration of both the chimp and bonobo which depicted the bonobos as having much a much larger penis in proportion to their body than the huskier, less endowed chimp. he concluded his brief description of the Bonobo by stating their overall temperament as "lovers".
He then took the piece of paper and placed it before me and asked me which one I was. Then he said that this was his gift to me and politely excused himself from the table and I never saw him again.

Over the next few months I really began to ponder our evening and the information he bestowed upon me. I concluded after astutely observing those whom I came into contact with that we are all either chimps or bonobos or hybrids of both. Personally I had to admit that I was a hybrid of both and that I was always in conflict with these two very different sides of my disposition. The physical attributes of humans possessing bonobo type dispositions as opposed to those resembling chimps became more and more distinguishable as time went on.

One day, while selling goats cheese at a local farmers market in Silver Lake one of the girls who worked at the coffee shop directly across from my booth wandered over to my booth. Somehow we go on the conversation of bonobos and chimps and she told me another important clue that I would like to share with you now. She said that after the second world war had ended the locals of one of the German cities that had been bombed heavily during the liberation had a zoo. The zoo in question had a bonobo and chimp exhibit set up prior to the air raid taking place. She went on to tell me that when they went to the zoo after the bombing had ended to check on the animals they made a startling discovery. The bonobos and chimps had been separated into two separate exhibition spaces. They went to the chimp cage first to discover them jumping up and down, screaming in a heightened state of frenzy; ready to attack anyone who came near them.

When the arrived at the bonobo space they discovered that all the bonobos had died from shock incurred just after the bombing began. Due to the fact that the chimps indoctrinate each other through trauma from a very young age they were conditioned to survive the bombing while the bonobos, being a peaceful and loving species went into shock and died immediately.

There is much more that I would live to expand upon but for now I will leave you with the following image of a land in Africa over a million years ago where all of the asshole aggressive chimps were on one side of the playground and all the peaceful and loving chimps were as far away from the assholes as possible. Suddenly out of nowhere the land began to pull apart and the Congo river filled in an insurmountable divide between the two encampments. I can only imagine the smiles on the faces of the bonobos as they watched their mean spirited peers disappear forever and from that point forward two very different scenes began to define themselves much to the joy of the bonobos:-)

So now I will ask you the same question Robert asked me. Are you a bonobo or a chimp? Are you a lover or a fighter? Let me know your thoughts and thank you to Robert and that girl from the coffee shop for sharing their jewels with me and than you universe for inspiring me to share this with the readers who pay a visit to The Rise Of The Bonobos Site.

Below is some direct source data from Wikipedia about the chimps and bonobos.




The bonobo, previously called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee,is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan. The other species in genus Pan is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee.

Although the name "chimpanzee" is sometimes used to refer to both species together, it is usually understood as referring to the common chimpanzee, while Pan paniscus is usually referred to as the bonobo. It is distinguished by relatively long legs, pink lips, dark face and tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted long hair on its head. The bonobo is found in a 500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi) area of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa.

The species is omnivorous and inhabits primary and secondary forests including seasonally inundated swamp forests.

The bonobo is popularly known for its high levels of sexual behavior. Sex functions in conflict appeasement, affection, social status, excitement, and stress reduction. It occurs in virtually all partner combinations and in a variety of positions. This is a factor in the lower levels of aggression seen in the bonobo when compared to the common chimpanzee and other apes.

Bonobos are perceived to be matriarchal: females tend to collectively dominate males by forming alliances and use sexuality to control males. A male's rank in the social hierarchy is often determined by his mother's rank.

Along with the common chimpanzee, the bonobo is the closest extant relative to humans.

Because the two species are not proficient swimmers, it is possible that the formation of the Congo River 1.5–2 million years ago led to the speciation of the bonobo. They live south of the river, and thereby were separated from the ancestors of the common chimpanzee, which live north of the river.

Observations in the wild indicate that the males among the related common chimpanzee communities are extraordinarily hostile to males from outside the community. Parties of males 'patrol' for the unfortunate neighbouring males who might be traveling alone, and attack those single males, often killing them.[43] This does not appear to be the behavior of bonobo males or females in their own communities, where they seem to prefer sexual contact over violent confrontation with outsiders. In fact, the Japanese scientists who have spent the most time working with wild bonobos describe the species as extraordinarily peaceful, and De Waal has documented how bonobos may often resolve conflicts with sexual contact (hence the "make love – not war" characterization for the species).

Between groups social mingling may occur, in which members of different communities have sex and groom each other, behaviour which is unheard of among common chimpanzees. Conflict is still possible between rival groups of bonobos, but no official scientific reports of it exist. The ranges of bonobos and chimpanzees are separated by the Congo River with bonobos living south of the river and chimpanzees living north of the river.[44][45] It has been hypothesized that bonobos are able to live a more peaceful lifestyle in part because of an abundance of nutritious vegetation in their natural habitat, allowing them to travel and forage in large parties.[46]

The popular image of the bonobo as a peaceful ape does not always apply to captive populations. Accounts exist of bonobos confined in zoos mutilating one another and engaging in bullying. These incidents may be due to the practice in zoos of separating mothers and sons, which is contrary to their social organization in the wild. Bonobo society is dominated by females, and severing the lifelong alliance between mothers and their male offspring may make them vulnerable to female aggression. De Waal has warned of the danger of romanticizing bonobos: "All animals are competitive by nature and cooperative only under specific circumstances" as well as writing that "when first writing about their behavior, I spoke of 'sex for peace' precisely because bonobos had plenty of conflicts. There would obviously be no need for peacemaking if they lived in perfect harmony." There is no eyewitness account of lethal aggression among bonobos, neither in captivity nor in the wild.


CHIMPS

Common chimpanzees live in communities that typically range from 20 to more than 150 members, but spend most of their time travelling in small, temporary groups consisting of a few individuals, "which may consist of any combination of age and sex classes."[19] Both males and females will sometimes travel alone.[19] The common chimpanzee lives in a fission-fusion society and may be found in groups of the following types: all-male, adult females and offspring, consisting of both sexes, or one female and her offspring. Chimpanzees have complex social relationships and spend a large amount of time grooming each other.[37] At the core of social structures are males, who roam around, protect group members, and search for food. Males remain in their natal communities while females generally emigrate at adolescence. As such, males in a community are more likely to be related to one another than females are to each other. Among males, there is generally a dominance hierarchy and males are dominant over females.[38] However, this unusual fission-fusion social structure, "in which portions of the parent group may on a regular basis separate from and then rejoin the rest,"[16] is highly variable in terms of which particular individual chimpanzees congregate at a given time. This is mainly due to chimpanzees having a high level of individual autonomy within their fission-fusion social groups. Also, communities have large ranges that overlap with those of other groups.


Male chimpanzees in Mahale National Park, Tanzania
As a result, individual chimpanzees often forage for food alone, or in smaller groups (as opposed to the much larger "parent" group, which encompasses all the chimpanzees who regularly come into contact and congregate into parties in a particular area). As stated, these smaller groups also emerge in a variety of types, for a variety of purposes. For example, an all-male troop may be organized in order to hunt for meat, while a group consisting of lactating females serves to act as a "nursery group" for the young.[39] An individual may encounter certain individuals quite frequently, but have run-ins with others almost never or only in large-scale gatherings. Due to the varying frequency at which chimpanzees associate, the structure of their societies is highly complicated.

Male chimpanzees exist in a linear dominance hierarchy. Top ranking males tend to be aggressive even during dominance stability.[40] This is likely due to the chimp’s fission-fusion society, with male chimps leaving groups and returning after extended periods of time. With this, a dominant male is unsure is if there has been any "political maneuvering" and must re-establish his dominance. Thus a large amount of aggression occurs 5–15 minutes after reunions.[40][41] During aggressive encounters, displays are preferred over attacks.[40][41] Males maintain and improve their social rank by forming coalitions. These coalitions have been characterized as "exploitive" and are based on an individual’s influence in agonistic interactions.[42] Being in a coalition allows males to dominate a third individual when they could not by themselves, as politically apt chimps can exert power over aggressive interactions regardless of their rank. Coalitions can also give an individual male the confidence to challenge a dominant male. The more allies a male has, the better his chance of becoming dominant. However most changes in hierarchical rank are caused by dyadic interactions.[40] Chimpanzee alliances can be very fickle and one member may turn on another if it serves him.[43] Low ranking males commonly switch sides in disputes between more dominant individuals. Low ranking males benefit from an unstable hierarchy and have increased sexual opportunities.[42][43] In addition, conflicts between dominant males causes them to focus on each other rather than the lower ranking males. Social hierarchies among adult females tend to be weaker. Nevertheless, the status of an adult female may be important for her offspring.[44] Females in Tai have also been recorded to form alliances.[45] Social grooming appears to be important in the formation and maintenance of coalitions.[46] It is more common among adult males than adult females.

Chimpanzees have been described as highly territorial and are known to kill other chimps,[47] although Margaret Power wrote in her 1991 book The Egalitarians that the field studies from which the aggressive data came, Gombe and Mahale, use artificial feeding systems that increased aggression in the chimpanzee populations studied and therefore might not reflect innate characteristics of the species as a whole.[9] In the years following her artificial feeding conditions at Gombe, Jane Goodall described groups of male chimps patrolling the borders of their territory brutally attacking chimps who had split off from the Gombe group. A study published in 2010 found that chimpanzees conduct wars over land, not mates.[48] Patrol parties from smaller groups are more likely to avoid contact with their neighbors. Patrol parties from large groups will even take over a smaller group's territory, gaining access to more resources, food and females.[16][43]

This basic description of the Bonobo is direct source from Wikipedia.