Martin Sorbeck is the lead researcher on numerous new Bonobo published study papers!
A bonobo dictionary was created
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in generally female-dominated societies since the males are physically bigger and stronger.
“It’s very clear that you don’t want to overstep as a male bonobo,” said study author Martin Surbeck from Harvard University.
"There were competing ideas for how," says MPI-AB's Barbara Fruth, who has led the LuiKotale bonobo research station for 30 years,
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Intergroup Cooperation also occurs with Bonobos.... (grooming, feeding).... The Females are dominate in this intergroup cooperation.
The claim is bonobos have "homosexual sex" but I searched the studies for sex - and NO mention of male homosexual occurs. It's only female "homosexual sex" which is physiologically the opposite of males ejaculating together. In fact my previous studies of bonobos confirmed they only ejaculate when they're having sex with females.
And yet, bonobo females famously maintain a high social status compared to their larger male counterparts. Until now, though, nobody knew how this paradoxical dynamic was possible at all.
"There were competing ideas for how," says MPI-AB's Barbara Fruth, who has led the LuiKotale bonobo research station for 30 years, "none of which had ever been tested in wild bonobos living in the jungles in which they evolved."
Female solidarity as a tool for power
Now, a study by Surbeck and Fruth has delivered the first empirical evidence from wild bonobos explaining the rare phenomenon: females maintain power by forming alliances with other females. The study found that females outranked males when they formed gangs, which the authors named "coalitions."
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-wild-bonobos-reveals-females-team.html
The first sign is screaming so unbearably loud "you have to block your ears," says Fruth. It's hard for scientists to know what triggers a coalition as they form within seconds of an event, such as if a male attempts to hurt young. The target male is followed through trees by screaming females who can sometimes cause fatal injuries.
https://voicemalemagazine.org/the-bonobo-sisterhood-revolution-male-allies-welcome/
Bonobos, who share 98.7 percent of their DNA with humans, look very similar to chimpanzees, so much so that they were not recognized as a separate species until 1929. They are found only in the Democratic Republic of Congo and are less studied and less well known than chimpanzees. Nevertheless, the fascinating and developing body of work being done around bonobos reveals possibilities for peaceful coexistence between males and females that we might never have thought possible.
Oct 26, 2016 — A new genetic analysis of chimpanzees and bonobos reveals that these two great ape species likely interbred several hundred thousand years ago.
What's more, similar to Neanderthal genetic patterns in humans, some bonobo genetic information has been deleted in the chimpanzee genome, suggesting that some bonobo genes may have been disadvantageous for chimpanzees.
The two species split sometime between 1.5 and 2.1 million years ago, around the same time that the Congo River system formed. Wild bonobo populations are entirely contained in that river system, separated from two nearby subspecies of chimps, the eastern and central subspecies.
Male Bonobos do NOT form coalitions for violence and support...unlike Chimpanzees.
Instead the higher ranking mother works with her son.
The observations show how female bonobos work together to protect themselves from male violence, said biological anthropologist Laura Lewis with the University of California, Berkeley.
The findings support “the idea that humans and our ancestors have likely used coalitions to build and maintain power for millions of years,” Lewis, who was not involved with the research, said in an email.
Study our original human culture, the San Bushmen and Pygmies - they separated 225,000 years ago as per DNA analysis yet they both rely on female coalitions to stop male violence!! those cultures are still around today also. So in fact Bonobos are the basis for the truth of human culture also. It's just been covered up by the past 10,000 years of farming with hoarding of wealth and male plow patriarchy.
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