African Wildlife Foundation
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Bonobo | African Wildlife Foundation
Females become sexually mature after they are 12 years old and may give birth soon after. However, females give birth to a single infant every five to six years, and they tend to nurse and carry their babies for five years. As a result, population growth cannot happen fast enough to counter high levels of poaching, habitat loss, and human encroachment. Our solutions for bonobo conservation are hands-on, up close, and personal:
African Wildlife Foundation
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The endangered bonobo: Africa's forgotten ape | African Wildlife Foundation
February 12, 2022 - Perhaps mainly because they live only in one place, and it is a remote place โ deep in the rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their forest habitat spans about 500,000 sq. kilometers and is demarcated by three rivers, the Congo, ...
Bonobos, a species of Great Ape, are native only to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Until 1929, they were assumed to be chimpanzees, with whom they are closely related but have distinct social practices.
Distinct social practices is putting it lightly! ๐ More on reddit.com
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May 23, 2023Is the bonobo an endangered species?
Bonobos are endangered (as are chimps), but that is entirely because of humans. Bonobos sre separated from chimps by the Congo river, and dont interact in the wild More on reddit.com
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August 29, 2024Turns out bonobos aren't quite as peaceful as their reputation suggests
I think more than one researcher has cautioned in the past about the bonobo hippy love reputation. Behavior is complex. I never thought bonobos were all unicorns and rainbows but I'm not a researcher and atrociously cynical. More on reddit.com
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April 12, 2024The Bonobo - our closest primate relative who exists in matriarchal societies founded on uninhibited sex and compassion.
I was at the San Diego Wild Animal Park once (not the zoo, the park where they keep the animals in larger enclosures) and got into an interesting conversation with one of the park employees. So this park is huge -- it has big grazing grounds for giraffes, gazelles, elephants and really big lion and tiger enclosures. I gathered that they rotate animals between the park and zoo, as there are a lot of animals at the park not on display. As it's in a rural area outside San Diego, there's all kinds of native wildlife around too, most notable a lot deer that wander around the enclosures and inside the human-accessible part of the park. Naturally, I asked the lady I was talking to if any deer had ever gotten into the lion or tiger enclosures. She said fortunately for them, they hadn't, but a deer had recently gotten into the Bonobo enclosure. "Aw Bonobos, they're awesome, why aren't they on display?" was my reply. To this she grimaced and said, "they tore the deer to shreds." Apparently -- and this should come as no shock to anyone who considers Bonobos to be very similar to humans -- Bonobos are dicks. They had recently learned that flipping off their trainers and visitors really pissed the trainers off, so they kept doing it until they were taken off display. They do literally anything they can to fuck with the trainers and ruin their day. That may sound mean, but I don't mean it to be -- if they think at all like humans they'd fight their imprisonment tooth and nail. More from Frans de Waal's story at Skeptic : A typical description was given by Jeroen Stevens, a Flemish biologist, of a gang of five bonobos assaulting a single victim at Apenheul Zoo, in the Netherlands. โThey were gnawing on his toes. Iโd already seen bonobos with digits missing, but Iโd thought they would have been bitten off like a dog would bite. But they really chew. There was flesh between their teeth.โ So the moral of the story is: sure Bonobos fuck a lot and don't kill each other and the women sort things out, but being as closely related to us as they are it is unavoidable that they are also manipulative, greedy, and violent fuckers. More on reddit.com
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BONOBO
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Threats
The threats impacting wild bonobos include: poaching, habitat degradation, human encroachment, and a lack of information about the species. Disease transmission also poses a greater threat as human contact increases; our close genetic relationship ...
Treehugger
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Why Bonobos Are Endangered and What We Can Do
July 13, 2022 - Bonobo numbers are decreasing and illegal hunting remains the primary obstacle to species conservation. Other factors like habitat destruction, disease, and civil unrest in regions with higher densities of bonobo groups also contribute to population ...
Britannica
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Bonobo | Size, Habitat, & Facts | Britannica
4 days ago - The number of bonobos in the wild is shrinking because of human destruction of forests and illegal hunting of bonobos for meat. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources considers the bonobo to be an endangered ...
WWF
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Bonobo | WWF
Although the bonobo is probably our closest relative, we still know very little about the species. The one protected area within bonobo range, Salonga National Park, has been invaded by heavily armed gangs of poachers, and conservation efforts have been hampered by the civil unrest prevailing in the region.
Mongabay
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DRCโs endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria
March 28, 2023 - โDisease is always a huge threat ... numbers, but the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, suggests that hunting and habitat loss could have driven their numbers to as few as 15,000....
New England Primate Conservancy
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Bonobo, Pan paniscus - New England Primate Conservancy
March 8, 2024 - With human developments being so close to the forests, the opportunities for disease transmission between humans and their close genetic relatives are high. Diseases like the Ebola virus can pass from humans to bonobos and threaten entire bonobo communities, especially as bonobos exist in close-knit communities themselves. Itโs unlikely bonobos have natural immunity to diseases like Ebola, and an outbreak can wipe out entire populations. ... The bonobo is listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), an international agreement between governments whose goal is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.
Endangeredspeciesinternational
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Bonobos, our closest relatives, endangered!
The bonobo (Pan paniscus) is an endangered primate endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its vital habitat includes the dense, equatorial forests south of the Congo River. Its historic range is estimated to have been around 565,000 km2, but the species is now severely threatened, ...
one of two species in the genus Pan, along with the common chimpanzee
Wikipedia
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Bonobo - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and is most threatened by habitat destruction, human population growth and movement (as well as ongoing civil unrest and political infighting), with commercial poaching being, by far, ...
World Wildlife Fund
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Bonobos are peaceful and endangered
Like chimpanzees, bonobos are close relatives of humans, & are endangered due to habitat loss and poaching. Learn how WWF protects this vulnerable species.
San Diego Zoo
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Bonobo | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants
Unfortunately, there are few bonobos left in their natural habitat, and so they are considered one of the most endangered of the great apes. Humans continue to move into bonobo habitat, hunting these amazing apes for food and selling their babies into the pet trade.
Reddit
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r/Awwducational on Reddit: Bonobos, a species of Great Ape, are native only to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Until 1929, they were assumed to be chimpanzees, with whom they are closely related but have distinct social practices.
May 23, 2023 - Well, fair enough. Humans have hunted Bonobos for millennia. Itโs one reason why Bonobo are endangered now โ that and habitat destruction.
Friends of Bonobos
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Bonobos and Chimps: The Story of the Great Divide - Friends of Bonobos
June 19, 2025 - Bonobos today are still only found in a tiny part of the world, south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They still donโt encounter chimpanzee or gorilla competitors, but now they have a far more dangerous ape adversary: humans.
Discover Wildlife
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Bonobo guide: where they live, how theyโre related to chimps, and why they have such a fascinating society - Discover Wildlife
November 28, 2022 - Visitors learn that bonobos are an Endangered Species, and that it is illegal to hunt or capture them. When bonobos are rescued from the bushmeat trade, theyโre brought to Lola.
Primate Info Net
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Bonobo
This area, roughly the size of Great Britain, in the central basin of the DRC, contains two river systems that converge to define the extent of bonobo distribution: the Congo-Zaire-Walaba River and the Kwa-Kasai-Sankuru River (Kortlandt 1995). These rivers serve as an effective geographical barrier for the apes as they are not known to swim (though they have been seen wading into waist-deep water) (Kortlandt 1995; Myers Thompson 2002).
BONOBO
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Threats โ BONOBO
Logging in this region contributes to the degradation and destruction of bonobo habitat. It also allows hunters to enter previously inaccessible areas of the forest via logging roads, perpetuating the bushmeat trade. Successful conservation requires a great deal of knowledge about what a species needs for survival and the factors that contribute to its endangerment.
Reddit
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r/zoology on Reddit: Is the bonobo an endangered species?
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When I first heard about the bonobo, my first impression was "They are just a bunch of hippies, but how did they survive to the modern day? surely these pacifists who advocate "make love no war" have no chance against aggressive bandit-like chimpanzees, a pack (or a clan) of chimpanzees can easily defeat, kill and drive out the much larger number of bonobos and take over their territory."
and chimpanzees and bonobos have the same number of chromosomes, and considering the traditional practices among chimpanzees, they may kill (and eat) every male bonobo they see and rape every female bonobo they see, thus eventually causing the species to extinguish and die out.
has this been observed in the wild?
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I think your view of chimpanzees as brutal murder machines is very skewed into one direction without actually researching their behaviour for yourself. What you are talking about was observed in eastern chimpanzees, but very rarely and due to them living in a poorer environment where they need to be highly aggressive and territorial. Western chimpanzees live, much like the bonobo, in a richer environment and are far less aggressive and far less territorial because of it. If you want to learn about chimpanzee behaviour, instead of repeating a random reddit comment that once explained them as brutal murder machines, read the books by primatologist Frans de Waal. They are easy to understand and exciting to read.
The Ecologist
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Bonobo extinction threat
October 31, 2024 - The bonobo is endangered, with ... in the Congo Basin of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where social unrest has constrained research activities....
Friends of Bonobos
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What's a Bonobo? - Friends of Bonobos Peaceful, Endangered Ape| Friends of Bonobos
November 5, 2025 - They are only found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they live in the Congo Basin Rainforest โ the second largest rainforest on the planet. Bonobos are peaceful, cooperative, and welcoming to newcomers. Bonobos are endangered and could go extinct in our lifetime.