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Bonobos Not Sex Monkeys As Previously Thought

According to the BBC, Bonobos are not having sex all the time. Joe DeVito was on the show last week, and we talked about an Anderson Cooper episode of 60 Minutes where he talks about Bonobos solving all their problems through copulation. Turns out Bonobos are more like humans than previously believed, and by “more like humans” we mean they too have sex hangups.

The reality is more nuanced. The frequency of copulation in bonobos is not as high as most people assume, she says. “In terms of reproduction they are not more sexually active than chimps.”

Source: BBC – Earth – Do bonobos really spend all their time having sex?

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Comic Joe DeVito on Bonobo Monkeys 

Comic Joe DeVito on what he’d be like as a freewheeling bonobo monkey.

Joe DeVito on getting along with people:

It’s kind of like my driving in New York Theory. It works when everyone drives like an asshole. But the moment someone decides to be kind or conscientious everybody starts banging into each other. Because it interrupts the flow of all the hostility that we share with each other. And that system works. You need to drive like a lunatic. And the one person who drives normally and obeys the speed limit– he screws everything up.

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