Bonobo: Survival of the Kindest (Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2024
- Dedicated to Kole and Tembo.
Note: any footage featuring human interaction with bonobos is done by professionals and surrogate mothers at Lola ya Bonobo. I do not condone unregulated close contact between human beings and primates; bonobos are not to be approached or touched by anybody without the qualifications to do so.
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I usually make updates on my Instagram page if you're interested in keeping up with bonobo news and my general thoughts/opinions on conservation.
/ fregward
//References//
- Allanic, M., Hayashi, M., Furuichi, T., & Matsuzawa, T. (2021). Body Site and Body Orientation Preferences during Social Grooming: A Comparison between Wild and Captive Chimpanzees and Bonobos. Folia Primatologica, 92(2), 79-90. doi.org/10.1159/000512901
- De Waal, F. B. M. (2009). Bonobo Sex & Society. Scientific American Mind, 20(3), 4-11. doi.org/10.1038/scientificame...
- Hohmann, G., Ortmann, S., Remer, T., & Fruth, B. (2019). Fishing for iodine: what aquatic foraging by bonobos tells us about human evolution. BMC Zoology, 4(1). doi.org/10.1186/s40850-019-00...
- Koops, K., Furuichi, T., & Hashimoto, C. (2015). Chimpanzees and bonobos differ in intrinsic motivation for tool use. Scientific Reports, 5(1). doi.org/10.1038/srep11356
- Levréro, F., Touitou, S., Frédet, J., Nairaud, B., Guéry, J., & Lemasson, A. (2019). Social bonding drives vocal exchanges in Bonobos. Scientific Reports, 9(1). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36...
- Lucchesi, S., Cheng, L., Wessling, E. G., Kambale, B., Lokasola, A. L., Ortmann, S., & Surbeck, M. (2021). Importance of subterranean fungi in the diet of bonobos in Kokolopori. American Journal of Primatology, 83(9). doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23308
- Samuni, L., Lemieux, D., Lamb, A., Galdino, D., & Surbeck, M. (2021). Tool use behavior in three wild bonobo communities at Kokolopori. American Journal of Primatology, 84(1). doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23342
- Tokuyama, N., Sakamaki, T., & Furuichi, T. (2019). Inter‐group aggressive interaction patterns indicate male mate defense and female cooperation across bonobo groups at Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 170(4), 535-550. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23929
Footage source: Lola ya Bonobo, Ape Initiative, San Diego Zoo
In my research, I discovered this article on Congo Pygmy peoples and their relationship with the bonobos (written in 2005 by Anjan Sundaram): news.mongabay.com/2006/03/con...
Free download of a bonobo textbook pdf: ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/...
I'm very grateful for this documentary about Bonobos. Thank you very much for your efforts.
I didn’t know these People (as Brian Hare says😀) until 6/7 years ago, when I stumbled upon an old documentary and it was love at first sight.
Most of the books about this species are very expensive (mostly from Japan).
I found a few of them affordable and very interesting, though.
For those who are interested I highly recommend this one.
1. Takeshi Furuichi "Bonobos and Chimpanzee" the lessons of Social
Coexistence
This scientist's been studying Bonobos in the wild
for decades.
This book became my "bible".
❤Bonobos
I love Furuichi's work - there is a textbook he edited with Jo Thompson that has also become my "bible", called "The Bonobos: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation" (published by Springer). I like that it doesn't hold back from admitting to the "incompleteness" of the academic consensus on most topics related to bonobos. Thank you for your recommendation; I hope everybody will find it helpful if they want to read more about bonobos. You also make another great point never to be discouraged when it is difficult to find information on a topic that your heart feels strongly about. Always keep digging for more information!!
You can find the textbook I mentioned for free online here: ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/72241/1/133.pdf.pdf
@@Fregward yeah, I know that book...unfortunately it's too expensive for my wallet😪.
Is one of those books I was referring to in my comment.
However I think sharing info is great. It was in this way I found out Furuichi and other researches.
Waiting for your next video!
I saved your work in my playlist.
Greetings from Italy.💚🤍❤️
A documentary about bonobos which does NOT shy away from speaking truth about genocide still affecting bonobos and humans alike?
Lightspeed sub.
Thank you for this comment - I spent months writing the script for this documentary and learning a lot about colonisation and exploitation that I wasn't even aware of. I've omitted information about the pre-colonial Kingdom of the Kongo (which was also exploitative) and Mobutu's leadership, but I'm writing a new script for a video about this and how it continues to effect the precious Rainforest.
Your comment has made me feel like I've achieved what I set out to. Thank you very much ❤️
@@FregwardWhy can't the Bonobo be of Esau ?
@@guymanges3628 because they aren't human and aren't our ancestors. They're more like our distant cousins
Beautiful documentary. Crying my eyes out right from the start. We've failed bonobos.
I absolutely love Bonobo's. They're so peaceful and sweet. I truly hate what humans have done to all great apes. They should be protected and treated with care.
Bonobos aren´t that peaceful. Their hippie image is just myth that people want to hear. But in reality, they are violent both towards bonobos and towards other species such as humans. According to recent studies, male bonobos are in fact more aggressive than chimps. Also, they are much more violent that humans.
Instant sub! Thank you for your efforts at preserving our cousins the Bonobo's.
You're a legend.
Thankfully this hit the algorithm because this is a beautiful video. I hope this video get the views it deserves.
Really good stuff Fregward, it’s very clear that you put an immense amount of effort into this
Thank you, Sensei - and thank you for supporting everything I've tried to do over the past year. Means so much to me xx
Came here from primate appreciator, stoked to check this out
Bonobos need to be brought back in huge numbers 🫡🇺🇸🇬🇧
Then you remember that both Koba and Proximus Caesar are Bonobos...
Then you remember that they are fictional characters
Apes together strong.
Thank You! I’m not A social media sharing type follower, but your documentary truly has shown me that I have a key just through my identification of my love for bonobos that I can do something for them here and anywhere I am. Thank you so very much for Coming at this from so many deep and interesting angles, it has truly reignited my belief, that I can be part of something I truly believe to be so very Special in this life I live. CHOW Y BESOS A todo Los BONOBOS.
Shared this with all my biologist friends. Hope they will enjoy it as much as me. Thanks for this!
this video is absolutely beautiful, praying the algorithm will carry it around because you deserve 100x as many views as you have! there seriously needs to be more talk about the Congo and you've done an excellent job of presenting the issue🙏🏼
This was a well-made documentary very educational. The bonobos are precious let’s protect them just like all great apes all animals deserve to be here.❤😢
This beautiful documentary needs to reach more people! Let’s not forget about the bonobos.
This was fantastic heartfelt work. Thank you, I enjoyed it very much. Save the Bonobies! They're peaceful and cute!
GO OFF!!! Fantastic work, fearless, truthful and unwilling to polish the image of sociopaths for whatever theoretical benefit in reach it might yield. This was wonderfully done, your dedication to weaving the web of our history and present into the plight of these animals, and these animals critical role within their ecosystem was so expertly done. By 10 mins in I felt I could weep! To finally hear someone speak truthfully about exactly who and what got us here and how the forest and it's inhabitants can be made whole again, restored; not slow the destruction, not superficially beautified, not balanced with financial gain but truly restored at the direct and intentional cost and downfall of corporate interest, I feel new hope.
We need more videos like this, more outreach like this. Truly I feel inspired to put in my own effort to do just that, thanks, keep it up!!!
Such a well-made and informative documentary, and lovely footage of the wonderful bonobos!
Ridiculously Good video! Hope you grow soon, more people need to see high quality content like this.
Nice video, glad it popped up on my recommend
Really excellent stuff, ur passion is contagious 🙌
These rock. Good editing and good footage. Everything's explained excellently, love it 👍
Really good stuff, thanks Fregward : )
Awesome documentary!
We can learn alot from bonobos
amazing
Wonderful documentary talking about the issue from many viewspoints. I feel a great kinship with great apes, but with bonobos it's the strongest. It's my dream to someday visit and spend a night at lola ya bonobo and observe them closely. They look the most similar to us and are most hairless, it's very interesting
I loved your descriptions of the scents of the rainforest 🌳
I would share fruit with you anytime. Keep up the good work
Wonderful documentary! And wonderful words
Excellent, thank you
Hell yeah frog man, loved the video
Well crafted. keep it up ❤
Wow what an amazing watch. This was so well done. So many focus on there sexual behavior instead of all the things that make them SOOO amazing!! I have shared to all my social media platforms because this is just so well done . Thank you for your work ans dedication
This is exceptional!
Very pertinent style of documentary
I have a question. If in the wild male bonobos stay with their mothers long after they've matured, how are the orphaned males taught to be normal bonobos when they are taken away from their surrogate mothers who obviously won't keep them for a lifetime.
Great question. Bonobo groups will never reject anyone, not even a stranger. So without mothers, even though a male bonobo will not rank highly in his group, he can still lead a very normal and fulfilling life (that is ONLY if a surrogate mother has raised him and he has been rehabilitated by the program at Lola ya Bonobo, which is the only place currently rehabilitating wild bonobos). It is normal for male bonobos to lose their mothers to old age before they, themselves, die - at which point they are still accepted in their sub-group and treated with kindness by the females.
Hope that helps!
Thank you ❤️🏴
I heard somewhere that there was a troop of kind types who got run over by abrasive males
Eventually they got into some rotten fruit or something. And because they developed no other traits outside of disagreeableness to be discerning all those males ended up dying
Then the kind ones just went on as usual. It just sucks that if theu had even an ounce of authority, they wouldn't have to experience that level of trauma
very beautiful thank you ❤
If you want to watch a very good documentary on the beautiful bonobo watch the national geographic one I think it's called the life of bonobo I believe.its awesome
Thank you for these videos on the peaceful bonobos.
I pray that their numbers increase and that they have more than enough natural habitat to raise many free generations for years and years to come.
May they inherit the earth and take care of it.
Lola ya Bonobo is doing amazing work contributing to that. Before the founder, Claudine André found ways to ensure orphaned babies survival they were always dying in the zoos. Now they have the chance to be rewilded and enjoy their life to the fullest! Claudine works with local community and gives back to it, not to mention the research she faciliates because of her sanctuary. Incredible woman
@@langustajableczna agreed!
😮they look like us
Beautiful
You can go live in the forest if you want but I like to live in civilization.
Would the dominance of feminism in our society lead us to adopt the civilized behavior of Bonobos, rather than the aggressive behavior of chimpanzees?
That is a challenging question - and one that I am still interested in finding the answer to. I would say that we are as fundamentally different to bonobos as bonobos are to chimpanzees; if not, more different. Firstly, I wouldn't say feminism is "dominant" in "our" society, by any means. And "our" society encapsulates all extant human cultures and societies. Bonobos have a far more isolated society - therefore, the cultures between family groups tends to be rather similar. Human beings have grown into an extremely complex species with significant divides between cultures that the West is still attempting to reconcile as they become more aware of things like Indigenous cultures and past prejudice.
The short answer to your question in my opinion is "yes" - but I can't be sure. I believe that matriarchy is more desirable than patriarchy because it functions on a basis of love and trust between individuals. Patriarchy relies on power and, above all, the threat of physical harm to lesser individuals - including weaker males who do not fit the norm of society. Patriarchy is a bully while matriarchy is a nurturing mother. In the feminist bonobo society, powerful women lead through their trust-based bonds with other females (I called this "sisterhoods" or outgroup "coalitions" in the documentary). Therefore, the key to survival is not violence, but love. To rise to the top of bonobo society, a female must love and be loved. Perhaps this is possible to do on a large scale for humans, but I'm not 100% sure.
@@Fregward
I couldn't agree more.
I really like you !
Maybe? Female bonobos form close groups and when a male misbehaves they correct him together. So a closely knitted female group identity would be needed. Or simply the knowledge of violence being always seen and punished and opportunitistic crimes made obsolete. This would be very hard
@@langustajableczna I agree. It would be challenging. For females to successfully lead, there must be a "sisterhood" around them. I mean this is the sense of leadership that is free of male influence. We understand that patriarchy is not just direct control over what women do, but the influence over how women behave based upon the judgement of males. The true extent of patriarchy is complex, influential, and mostly invisible. Even powerful historical matriarchs like Agrippina have had to seize their power by "winning over" the influential males in the society. In my mind, a true matriarchy is different - in a state ruled by women, but independent from male control or influence. This could not be done alone without a sisterhood, as the aggression of males (and the basic nature of their physical strength over women) would prevail in usurping her.
You've made some excellent points that I agree with completely. It's definitely a complex issue, and humans are involved in extremely complex and intricate societies that are beyond all of us to understand fully. "Maybe" is definitely an appropriate answer! Thanks for writing.
@@Fregward I think the biggest issue facing bettering us as a species is another mode of thinking a’la bonobo grouping up on an aggressive male and removing the possibility of getting rid of the though itself that proceeds a crime. When I see a weird situation in public I always react and those guys are always shocked and stop. When they harass and scream at a teenage girl they just don’t conceive of a slightest possibility of someone taking issue with that and that’s why it happens. Now if 5 people surrounded him every time he tried to do something like that it just wouldn’t be possible.
6:47 Neocolonial, not post-colonial. This is an important distinction; we say neocolonial because colonialism never ended, it simply changed techniques. Thank you for your coverage. Free Congo! 🇨🇩
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Well guess what! Bipedalism maybe wasn’t adopted because “man” had to use a spear, but rather “woman” was wading around, clutching her infant, and grazing on water plants (thus necessitating the use of two hands, thus bipedal) and her infants grew up in that watery environment and also walked upright.
I'm am a woman myself and I would argue that a woman could have been using those spears also. The argument that being bipedal is due to females having to hold their infants makes way less sense. Women have found ways to attach their infants to them for a very long time. Plus non human primates infants are born knowing they have to cling to mom. You can tie an infant to you and have the ability to work. You can't tie a spear to yourself and still be able to use it effectively.
bipedalism is the result of preference of hands over tails. Primates who use tails more don't develop a strong grip and thumbs, and are lighter, the tail is like another limb and is prehensive. Those who prefer to use hands develop them more, have stronger grip and intricate movements with fingers. Those are generally larger and stronger. Both move differently and hand-preferance grants them more bipedal modes of function. Orangutans, bonobos, chimps and gorillas do move upright often. The infant in primates is usually holding onto the mother, she just makes sure it is fine with her hand occasionally. No need to hold it constantly. They do hold it of course, hug and kiss to show affection and bond, I think they do love their young. You can see videos of baby orangutans, who are the most arboreal of apes, clinging onto their mothers while she is moving through the trees. Kind of similar how baby pangolins cling to the moms tail. She often puts the baby on a safe branch while foraging within more dangerous trees and the baby waits. Orangutans take care of their young for so long partially because they have to teach them how to effectively move and make nests in the tree tops and that is a very complicated ability
Save bonobos❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✨❤️
It makes me have hope hearing and seeing people like you and their interest in whatever topic they have put their love and admiration into. With as many Bonobos as still exist in the wild and captivity, and all of today's methods through zoo's and all the other nature conservancies... I can possibly agree with Bonobos going extinct in the wild. But to imagine them fully extinct would require way to many things to align in my opinion. People like yourself and many other just as or more pationet would rain fire and brimstone before allowing that to happen. And I know stating it is a scare tactic to bring awareness and absolutely possible if left alone. But nobody is gonna allow that. The other thing I wanted to address was how you refuse to back any privately owned primate conservancy. I agree there are to many that are not properly ran. But there are some extremely good ones and in my opinion doing more and at a higher level of understanding and knowledge of the primates in their care as well as doing more in their efforts to help repopulate the wild and further the overall understanding and well being of the primates involved. So to choose not to back privately owned conservancies I think is more of a bad check mark then good. Being selective about who you choose is a way better idea in my opinion. Overall I am happy for all your doing and so very glad people like you exist. Wish my life was in a different space because I'd be there along side y'all. I will do what I can though. Thank you for all the things you do.
I should specify that by "private zoos" I am distinguishing private, public, and non-profit organisations. While many non-profit organisations could be considered "privately-run", such as San Diego Zoo (whose parent organisation, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, is a private non-profit), I distinguish this as a non-profit, rather than a private zoo. I should've been more clear about this, but I only had a single sentence dedicated to that line in the documentary. By private I am referring to an organisation that is (a) not funded by the government and (b) owned by a single person, family, or corporation. It should also be noted that the land, facilities, and animals at SDZ are all owned by the city, which further distinguishes it from private zoos.
I'll address my stance on private zoos now, I suppose - it is an umbrella stance that I take because I do not think the legality of private zoos distinguishes between good and poor treatment of animals in private organisations/collections. I'm sure there are many good private conservancies - but how do we measure good? Having a consistent and enforceable means by which to determine "good" is what I prefer. I believe the highest standards should be upheld for captive populations of bonobos, which is currently being done well with the Ape Taxon Advisory Group in the United States. As far as I am aware, there are no private organisations housing bonobos in the United States, so we do not have any data to determine whether they are "extremely good" (as you have put it) or not. My negative attitude towards private organisations is only really applicable if those organisations actually house the apes (we may have misunderstood each other here). I think accountability is very important - as is consistency. Laws that allow bonobos to be kept in private zoos (which do not have the proper certifications or oversight) risk traumatising the animals for life, or killing them. High standards must be upheld by any organisation that desires to house great apes. And while the AZA in the United States does actually certify a small amount of private zoos, the ones who aren't do so BECAUSE they are uninterested in participating in SSPs (Species Survival Plans - like the Ape TAG) and don't want to be told what to do. We may get caught up in the debate over private vs public, but I think it is much more important to consider the certifications of organisations, which are almost always better for public ones. Also, the likelihood that a privately owned zoo will favour profit over welfare is far greater than with non-profit or government-owned zoos/sanctuaries - this is always a concern of mine, and saying "some" but not all privately owned zoos are ethical (or "extremely good") leaves the welfare of animals up to differences in opinion, especially if these places aren't correctly certified. There is also an ethical issue in my mind that an animal as intelligent as a bonobo can be privately owned by anybody.
Another thing I will address is that bonobos going extinct in the wild would constitute a loss of the species in my mind. Bonobos are very difficult to rewild, and with such a small and scattered array of populations across zoos and sanctuaries would absolutely risk both inbreeding and many failed attempts at reintroducing the species to the wild. Furthermore, without wild bonobos (who are very important players in seed-dispersal in the Congo Basin Rainforest), incalculable damage would be done to the longevity of other wild plant and animal life. It is not a far-fetched thought that bonobos will soon be extinct; smaller populations and greater human encroachment almost guarantees unhealthy breeding patters in the wild.
Thank you for your kind words, though - I appreciate the nuance you have shown with your comment.
Yes lots of people think the world owes them something simply for existing, lots of entitled people these days.
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Noi umani siamo mostri rovinando tutto intorno 😥😥😥
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The author worships the wrong god.
what do you mean? just wondering
@@the_neanderthal09 "mother earth" etc. but then again that is what Darwinists do.
@@elizabethG633 Charles Darwin lived in the 19th century. Those who are willing to learn about science, history, and culture are not "Darwinists". I believe in the theory of evolution, for which there is evidence that is far more complicated and thorough than what Darwin proposed in the 19th century. To call me a "Darwinist" diminishes the nearly 150 years of evolutionary biology that has followed On The Origin of Species. I hope you will be more open to learning.
The Bonobo could very well be Esau's people... God said in Genesis his blessing for Esau was Nature and the sweet dew from heaven...
THIS!!! OOOHH SO TRUE
Thank you for this beautiful documentary 💜
Please protect Bonobos at all cost 🥹💜