Don't forget to watch the totally cute video of Eleke and Sake! and the bonobo in the photo is Semendwa!
Sharing apes: what bonobos have in common with us
If you were drawing up a guest list for an animal dinner party, sex-mad bonobos might not be your first choice, especially as they have recently been shown to cannibalise their own offspring.
But at least they will share food with strangers.
Till now it was thought that humans were the only primates to share food in this way. Chimps, for example, won't do it. But Brian Hare of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Suzy Kwetuenda of the Lola Ya Bonobo refuge for orphaned bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have now shows that bonobos will also "freely" share.
Read the rest of the article here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18477-sharing-apes-what-bonobos-have-in-common-with-us.html
