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Bonobos have some of the most interesting sexual behavior in mammals. An ape closely related to the chimpanzee (and a close relative of man), sex is the cornerstone of the Bonobo's social structure. They engage in sexual behavior in all combination, hetero and homo. They seem to use sex as a means for organizing social structure rather than dominance through violence.
Despite all the sex, their birthrate is consistent with chimpanzees.

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I have to get one of those chairs just so I can sit in it and cry "I am not a number! I am a free man!"

not sure... but I did find a great link entitled Bonobo Sex and Society.

Bonobos are sentient chimpanzees comparable in intelligence to humans. Like dolphins, they are as smart as (or smarter than) humans, but because of their evolutionary niche, they don't need to build machinery of death or destroy their habitats the way humans do. We could learn a lot from Bonobos.

But we haven't. We haven't learned a thing. We persecute them the way we persecute homosexuals, and even for the same reasons. Unlike Christians, Bonobos have no qualms about their sexualities. They live in a state of sexual bliss where all sexual relationships are practiced: heterosexual, homosexual, group, father-daughter, brother-sister, etc. (only apparently excluding mother-son). But just as Texas outlaws sodomy, so do humans hunt and kill Bonobos for their sexual deviance.

The future is pretty bleak for Bonobos. Their populations are getting corraled into smaller and smaller territories. Their numbers are being thinned. In many ways, it resembles the way American Indians were decimated by colonists. It's the genocide of our time.

Can we hope to live in a world free from sexual oppression? Can we hope to live in a world where a primate doesn't have to worry about where she puts her tongue, lest she be caged and lashed? If we cannot protect even the weakest among us, we cannot hope to achieve true justice.

Bonobos are people. They deserve full human rights.

By naming their distribution "Bonobo", the Gnome developers have done a little to bring the public attention to the crisis of Bonobos. But what will happen when the project is given its next codename? What will happen to the Bonobos then?

I don't want to throw stones at Gnome, but I almost want to suggest they chose the name "Bonobo" because they think monkeys are funny and they think it's a funny name. But let me tell you, monkeys are no laughing matter. Have you ever been a monkey? Have you ever experienced what it's like to be a monkey in today's fast-paced world? Have you ever wanted to scream out "But I'm an 'ape', not a 'monkey'!" and had no one listen to your cries?

We have a chance to make tomorrow brighter than today. We can do it piecemeal by giving ecologically conscious names to our distributions, or we can do it wholesale by invading Africa and reclaiming the Bonobos' ancestral tribal homelands in the name of Bonobos everywhere. But at no costs shall we squander this opportunity.

Solidarity!

Oh, and by the way...there is nothing natural about homosexuality...both scientifically (a penis inside an anus serves no reproductive purposes) and religiously (against religious command)

Homosexuality, prostitution, masturbation, oral sex, pedophilia, and in general sex for purposes other than reproduction occur in the animal kingdom as well; just look at bonobo monkeys. If "nature" didn't "want" the penis to be able to ejaculate into an anus, there are all kinds of ways to engineer around that; require some sort of chemical marker found only in the vagina to trigger the ejaculation response, for example. Of course, "nature" doesn't "want" anything, and people who make claims that non-reproductive sex is "unnatural" (claims which are demonstrably false, as such activities occur ammong non-human animals who are somehow "natural" in a way humans aren't) are merely trying to push their personal agenda. Pushing an agenda is fine, but pretending that "nature is on your side" is silly.

Bonobo weren't considered a seperate species when the first series of PotA films were made. I expect that if they are added, and depicted accurately, they will be a race of matriarchal, free-loving, 'pan'-sexual (pun intended) hippies.

For a while, the Gnome team had a bonobo fetish. While technically "bonobo" only refered to the set of CORBA interfaces, lots of other stuff got slapped with similarly inspired names -- hence "Tasty Yellow Banana".