Camacan
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Since: Jan, 2001
Oct 8th 2010 at 9:08:18 PM
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Moving this to the discussion page: the fine details of Bonobo Biology is not really pertinent given they aren't examples of the trope.
- Bonobos are commonly mistakenly believed to be pure herbivores when in reality, no African ape is.
- Pop anthropology tends to have a lot of these.
- Bonobos are a hell of a lot more peaceful than their cousins, the chimps, but so is pretty much anything. Chimps eat babies.
- Both Chimpanzee and human. A Chimpanzee will rip a baby from its mother's arms and eat it.
- Interestingly, chimpanzees naive of human contact are far less violent. I wonder what that tells us?
- That even stupid monkeys can learn something from the master, even if they'll never be as good at it as we are.
- Wait, are you sure that is correct? What I've read about it, chimps stop eating babies after prolonged human contact with researchers of a friendly nature.
- The above is correct. Chimapanzees eating babies is a behavior noted almost exclusively in WILD Chimps.
I think fictional examples of these speculative technology would make better examples — perhaps these ideas could be cited if this was converted from a conversation.