Same-sex copulation and bonding are common in hundreds of species, from bonobo apes to gulls. |
The egalitarian and peaceful bonobo society might have evolved as a result of reduced competition due to the abundance of food in their habitats. |
For example, from a comparison of their DNA, the bonobo and the chimpanzee appear to have split one million years ago, and humans split from the line containing the bonobo and chimpanzee about six million years ago. |
The inventory work confirms that the park harbours important bonobo populations although localized in certain areas, especially the southern part of the southern sector and in the north-western part of the northern sector. |
Animals in Love follows wildlife presenter Liz Bonnin as she meets bonobo chimps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
We'll start with lower ones, and then work up to our closest relatives, the chimpanzee and bonobo. |