"Hippy chimps"?
Mar. 6th, 2006 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
littlelottehttp://community.livejournal.com/anthropologist/854952.html?mode=reply&style=mine
The above is an article on the nearing-extinct bonobos...apes infamous for their use of sex as a social tool. I love how the article quotes somebody saying that bonobos are "an icon for peace and love" (they use sex rather than violence to resolve issues). I think "promiscuous" is a better word for it. Bonobo mothers initiate their own sons into the ways and even use it in a way similar to us shaking hands or hugging upon saying hello.
Just an amusing piece of randomness for the afternoon...
The above is an article on the nearing-extinct bonobos...apes infamous for their use of sex as a social tool. I love how the article quotes somebody saying that bonobos are "an icon for peace and love" (they use sex rather than violence to resolve issues). I think "promiscuous" is a better word for it. Bonobo mothers initiate their own sons into the ways and even use it in a way similar to us shaking hands or hugging upon saying hello.
Just an amusing piece of randomness for the afternoon...
