Accomplish Quote by Claudine Andre

Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent.

— Claudine Andre

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

— Frans de Waal

Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

— Andy Dunn

Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

— Claudine Andre

“Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and…

— Francine Prose

“Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous “make love not war” great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.”

— Anonymous

Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to…

— Frans de Waal

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up…

— Dale Jamieson

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky

“For bonobos, a turbocharged sexuality utterly divorced from reproduction is a central feature of social interaction and group cohesion. Anthropologist Marvin Harris argues that…

— Christopher Ryan

Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something;…

— Frans de Waal

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

— Frans de Waal