{"id":95,"date":"2004-05-03T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T23:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2004-05-03T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T23:39:11","slug":"why-cant-everyone-be-like-bonobos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/03\/why-cant-everyone-be-like-bonobos\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t everyone be like bonobos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/03\/international\/africa\/03cong.html?pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">New York Times, May 3 2004<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>Genetically, humans and bonobos, a species of chimpanzee, are more than 98 percent similar. Socially, it is another matter. Matriarchal as a rule, bonobos eschew conflict. They do not fight over territory. They do not kill. Any small friction they resolve through sexual contact: a playful rub, oral sex, full intercourse. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <\/p>\n<p>On a Sunday afternoon not long ago, the park&#8217;s 31 young charges did what young bonobos do: chewed on blades of grass, swung from palm fronds, kissed, frolicked and fondled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the hippies of the forest,&#8221; Ms. Andr\u017d said, taking their wrinkled hairy hands in hers. &#8220;When they feel anxious, when they are afraid, they have sex. And they calm down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As if on cue, a big bonobo mounted a small bonobo. They rolled around on the grass, rubbed against each other and went on their merry ways.<\/p>\n<p>Bonobos are not proprietary about mates, and sex is not always about procreation. Homosexuality is au courant, and sexual play begins when they are barely a year old, though intercourse must wait until they are teenagers. Much to Ms. Andr\u017d&#8217;s delight, a teenage orphan, a male, arrived recently. Hopefully, she said, mating will soon begin.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times, May 3 2004: Genetically, humans and bonobos, a species of chimpanzee, are more than 98 percent similar. Socially, it is another matter. Matriarchal as a rule, bonobos eschew conflict. They do not fight over territory. They do not kill. Any small friction they resolve through sexual contact: a playful rub, oral sex, full intercourse. . . . On a Sunday afternoon not long ago, the park&#8217;s 31 young charges did what young bonobos do: chewed on blades&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-1x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}