Top 31 Quotes About Bonobos: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Bonobos

#1. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.

Susan Block

#2. We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

#3. LOOK, DO YOU really want a detailed description of two sex robots going at it like a pair of bonobos on day release from celibacy camp in front of an audience of jaded aristocrats?

Charles Stross

#4. Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us - and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do - these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane.

Susan Block

#5. Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

Frans De Waal

#6. Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and destroying the planet?

Francine Prose

#7. Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together.

Claudine Andre

#8. Bonobos, related to chimpanzees and native to the Congo, have been found to engage in French kissing.

Karen Shanor

#9. Sex is flagrantly separated from reproduction in a few species, including bonobos and dolphins.

Jared Diamond

#10. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.

Susan Block

#11. Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent.

Claudine Andre

#12. Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other.

Claudine Andre

#13. Since the bigger gorillas leave chimps only a fraction of the quantity of food bonobos get, each chimp must fight ferociously to survive, including killing other chimpanzees

Eliot Schrefer

#14. Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

Susan Block

#15. Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.

Frans De Waal

#16. Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than
bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

Frans De Waal

#17. Humans, bonobos, and chimpanzees comprise a subfamily called Homininae and will be called "hominines," while humans and other extinct members of our direct lineage will be referred to as "hominins" (Table 13.2).

Anonymous

#18. Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

Claudine Andre

#19. It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Louise Leakey

#20. Using information about animal behavior to justify social or political ideology is wrong . . . People need to be able to make decisions about their lives without having to worry about keeping up with the bonobos.

Marlene Zuk

#21. Studies are one thing, but then there's just the way bonobos make you feel. They're so "almost-human" on so many levels that science doesn't even know how to test yet. Just look into any bonobo's big brown eyes, and you may well feel like you're connecting with a living version of the Missing Link.

Susan Block

#22. Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

Frans De Waal

#23. Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.

Frans De Waal