When compared to Chimpanzees, the Bonobo has less prognathism, in other words, it's face is flatter. The hair on the top of it's head tends to flair out just above it's ears. An easy way to recognize the Bonobo from the Chimpanzee is to refer to it's hair.
#Bonobo vs chimpanzee skin#
At birth the Bonobo has darker skin and entirely black fur, and this remains this way until old age, when some gray begins to appear. Despite the small difference in weight, when standing erectly both sexes are about the same height. The male weighs an average of about 39 kg and the female about 31 kg. This species of ape, unlike others, has very little. Due to this form of walking and the extensive arboreal lifestyle it leads, the fingers and toes of the Bonobo are slightly curved. Rather than walking on the palm of it's hands the Bonobo puts all of it's weight onto it's knuckles, thus termed: knuckle walking. A unique feature to this quadruped's walking is in the use of it's knuckles. The Bonobo is a quadruped, meaning that it walks on all four limbs rather than two like the Homo sapien. According to Mitochondrial DNA research the Chimpanzee and Bonobo species likely split from each other about 1.5 to 2 million years ago. However the Bonobo is in fact an entirely separate species from the Chimpanzee, in fact it is as closely related to them as humans are. The study found the latter to be more gracile in comparison to the former, thus the name was given. The pygmy portion of the name was given after a study of a Chimpanzee's bones and a Bonobo's bones. The Bonobo has commonly been linked to the chimpanzee as a "Pygmy Chimpanzee", however this classification has been deteriorating in use due to the fact that the name gives false implications about the species. 6.3 Specific Behaviors Associated With Copulation.
0 kommentar(er)
