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'''Bonobos''', or "pygmy [[chimpanzees]]", are an endangered<ref>[http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/bonobo/cons PrimateInfo.Net]</ref> ape species in the genus ''Pan'' (the only other being the common chimp). Bonobos are falsely claimed to be more peaceful and social than the common chimpanzee.

'''Bonobos''', or "pygmy [[chimpanzees]]", are an endangered<ref>[http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/bonobo/cons PrimateInfo.Net]</ref> ape species in the genus ''Pan'' (the only other being the common chimp). Bonobos are more peaceful and social than the common chimpanzee. Bonobos share about 98% of their [[DNA]] with humans and slightly more than the common chimpanzee shares with humans.<ref name="Columbus Zoo">[http://www.colszoo.org/animalareas/aforest/bonobo.html Bonobos] at the Columbus Zoo</ref> Unlike many other apes, they walk upright a significant fraction of the time.  

== Myth and Reality ==

== Anatomy and Behavior ==

Bonobos have been the subject of much elaborate atheopath fiction and justification by perverts for hedonistic practices in human life, mainly because of their supposed connection to humans by the evolutionary tree (as with chimps). They have also been the icon for feminist views due to another popular misconception that their society is entirely dominated by females. Despite the ongoing research of this species which has been actively studied since their discovery in 1926, there are substantial differences between captive and natural bonobo behavior, yet regardless there is much deception regarding their true behavior in both contexts. Researches cite the fact that Jane Goodall, an early primatologist who studied chimps, thought the species to be peaceful even after decades of first-hand research. As with such cases, bonobos are being exposed as not the famous 'hippie chimps' they were purported by evolutionist propaganda. Claims that they have sex purely for pleasure, obsessively, with all sexes and ages, and that their nature was primarily benevolent, have been skewered by recent research.

Females are smaller than males but unlike in many other ape species the female hierarchy of dominance matters more than that of the males. Bonobos pass the mirror test and have facial expressions close enough to those of humans such that humans can often recognize what emotion a bonobo is expressing.<ref name="Columbus Zoo"/> Individual bonobos also have very different facial features such that humans can easily differentiate one bonobo from another.  

'Sexual contact' is a broad term often used in research papers for bonobos. Many sexual acts are much akin to the humping seen on dogs or bull mountings, and the like. Very rarely does such contact last long or involve orgasm. Some are even arguably non-sexual such as back-to-back rubbing.  

Proponents of evolutionary psychology often point to bonobos as examples of an evolutionary adaptation in which a species acquired the strategy of bartering sex to enhance social status or to resolve disputes.<ref>[http://songweaver.com/info/bonobos.html Bonobo Sex and Society]</ref>

Ironically, the secular Atheist website Skeptic Ink posted a review of The Naked Bonobo<ref>[https://skepticink.com/incredulous/2017/10/09/bonobo-myth-demolished/ Skeptic Ink: The Bonobo Myth Demolished]</ref>, a scholarly work by primatologist Lynn Saxon which critiques and debunks many popular conceptions of bonobo behavior. In it, such propaganda is exposed. The author of the article and the book itself were backed by other well known primatologists.

The American Psychiatric Association taught for decades that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be treated, until political pressure compelled it to change its view.  The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) points out that the bonobo behavior is not sexual but rather are aggressive acts to assert dominance much like when a dog mounts a person's leg.<ref>Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, [http://www.narth.com/docs/animalmyth.html "The Animal Homosexuality Myth,"] NARTH.</ref>  Yet homosexual activists have claimed that bonobos are examples of animals who sometimes perform homosexual acts,<ref>Chris Bull, [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n735/ai_20164884 Monkey love - homosexual behavior in primates,] The Advocate, June 10, 1997.3</ref><ref>Steve Sailer, [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_1999_Sept_27/ai_55820853 "Chimps and Chumps : What monkeys don't tell us about man,"] National Review, Sept 27, 1999.</ref>

 

It is also common for adult bonobos to have sex with juvenile bonobos.<ref>De Waal, F. (1990). Sociosexual behavior used for tension regulation in all age and sex combinations among Bonobos. In J. Feierman (Ed.), Pedophilia: Biosocial dimensions (pp. 379–393). New York: Springer.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/125-bonobos/quammen-text|title=The Left Bank Ape|author=Quammen, David|publisher=National Geographic|date=March 2013}}</ref>

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