A five-year-old bonobo is seen near the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo January 25, 2011. — Reuters picWASHINGTON, April 13 — Humankind’s two closest primate relatives are often said to embody contrasting sides of our nature: peace-loving bonobos versus violence-prone chimpanzees.says it’s not that simple. Male bonobos in fact fight each other more often than male chimps do — and the bonobo “bad boys” who have more dust-ups also see greater mating success .
Mouginot and her colleagues focused on three communities at the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and two chimpanzee communities at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. “That’s, I think, the big finding of the paper,” said Mouginot. “And the other thing is, we actually found that more aggressive male bonobos win more copulation with what we call ‘maximally tumescent females,’” meaning females whose genitals have swollen because they are ovulating.Male bonobos were almost exclusively aggressive against other males, while male chimpanzees were more likely to become aggressive with females.
The fact that male bonobo disputes are overwhelmingly one-on-one, rather than one-against-many, might explain why they happen more often, said Mouginot, as the stakes are lower. Bonobos have never been reported to kill each other.
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