New York (AP) – Female Bonopos A new study discovered that you find strength in numbers, and to cooperate to exchange males in the wild.
along with ChimpanzeeBonopos is among the closest human relatives. Scientists have long wondered why Bonobos lives in general Driving females Societies because males are physically larger and stronger.
Three decades of notes in the Congo – the only place where the endangered Bonobos is found in The Wild – provides support to the idea of brotherhood in which the Bonobos gathered together to confirm its strength.
The researchers found that these girls chased the male bonopos from the trees, securing food for themselves, and the females that gathered higher in the ladder of their community.
“It is very clear that you do not want a male component,” said the author of the study.
The results were published on Thursday in the communications biology journal.
Surbeck said that the joint numbers of Bonobos revolve around the tide against male physical strength. It is one of the rare times that such a strategy allowed reaching the top in the animal kingdom. Hyenas monument was similarly monitored to find strength in groups.
Female Bonopos is associated even when they had no close relationships, supporting each other against males and strengthening their social position. The anthropologist Laura Lewis with the University of California, Berkeley, said that the notes show how females Bonopos work together to protect herself from male violence.
“The idea that humans and our people have most likely used alliances to build and maintain power for millions of years,” said Lewis, who did not participate in the research, in an e -mail.
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