BonobosBlog

Hi!

It's time to begin to talk about our project.
The BonobosBlog project is a small contribution by passionnate students in Primatology to present the field they are the most interested in and especially the ones they love spending their time with, the apes! Why a Bonobo name when we hope to talk about the whole family? Maybe because it sounds great, with many oooo, such as the ooooooooo we used to do when we met the cutest things in the world: a baby bonobo? Maybe because we are currently studying them and that they will be the focus of our concern for the next two months at least. We live bonobos, we sleep bonobos, we dream bonobos, and overall we hope bonobos. We hope there will be a future for those apes in particular, for all the apes in general, because we definitely don't want to see them disappearing in the next decades and that we think a spread knowledge about them will help to rise an interest on what they are and on the dangers they fear. Together with our conservative purpose, we want to present the current situation of knowledge about their cognitive abilities, what they teach us about them, but also what they teach us about us as those great cousins of us are a key to our past and our present and can help to understand how we (both species) evolved since our last common ancestor 6 millions years ago.

Well, that should be enough to present the aims of the blog and we hope you'll be interested on what you'll find on this blog! Don't hesitate to leave comments and questions, we'll try to answer as far as we can!


TG