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

Distinct social practices is putting it lightly! 😁 More on reddit.com

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

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. “They were gnawing on his toes. I’d already seen bonobos with digits missing, but I’d thought they would have been bitten off like a dog would bite. But they really chew. There was flesh between their teeth.” 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