Female Bonobos, It Turns Out, Aren’t Just Fruit-Eating Pacifists, but Vicious Hunters.

Bonobos, starring in and as themselves

Perhaps it's time to understand chimps and bonobos not as some kind of less-than-human animals that hold clues to the homo sapiens' past, but in themselves, with all their complexity

Female bonobos, it turns out, aren’t just fruit-eating pacifists, but vicious hunters.

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Taylor Brown in The New York Times: Bonobos have long had a reputation as the hippies of the ape world. Famously nonaggressive, their matriarchal societies, strong female friendships and largely vegetarian diets have stood in stark contrast to the macho bloodlust of their two closest relatives — chimpanzees and humans. Until now. New research published in Current Biology upends a deep-seated understanding about bonobos and, as a result, could ch…