Living place: Around 10 000 Bonobos are only found around the Congo river, in the democratic republic of the Congo, living in the humid forests.
Physical description: Bonobo male weighs 40kg and stands around 85 cm. Bonobo female weighs 30 kg and average 78 cm.
Diet: Fruit is central to the diets. But Bonobo also eats nuts, seeds, young leaves, and insects.
Lifespan and reproduction: Female are able to give birth by age 11 or 12 and male turns sexually mature at 15 years old. The gestation period lasts 228 days and the female has one child.
Longevity: Bonobo lives older than 40 years in the wild and close to 60 in captivity.
Group life: Bonobo lives in troops of 20 to 50 animals. They aren't agressiv one another unlike chimpanzees. Bonobo 's group is seen as an egalitarian society in which males do not automatically outrank females in the group. On the contrary, their life is based on a matriarcal system in which male keeps staying with their mother during his entire life, and the female has to join another group when she reachs puberty.Sex is a social motor in group life, by easing tensions and creating alliances.
More informations: Bonobo is the smalest Great Apes. Humans and Bonobos share between 99 and 99.6% of their genetic makeup.
Physical description: Bonobo male weighs 40kg and stands around 85 cm. Bonobo female weighs 30 kg and average 78 cm.
Diet: Fruit is central to the diets. But Bonobo also eats nuts, seeds, young leaves, and insects.
Lifespan and reproduction: Female are able to give birth by age 11 or 12 and male turns sexually mature at 15 years old. The gestation period lasts 228 days and the female has one child.
Longevity: Bonobo lives older than 40 years in the wild and close to 60 in captivity.
Group life: Bonobo lives in troops of 20 to 50 animals. They aren't agressiv one another unlike chimpanzees. Bonobo 's group is seen as an egalitarian society in which males do not automatically outrank females in the group. On the contrary, their life is based on a matriarcal system in which male keeps staying with their mother during his entire life, and the female has to join another group when she reachs puberty.Sex is a social motor in group life, by easing tensions and creating alliances.
More informations: Bonobo is the smalest Great Apes. Humans and Bonobos share between 99 and 99.6% of their genetic makeup.
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