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Date Posted: Wednesday, August 08, 10:08:45am
Author: Chani
Author Host/IP: 87-231-7-227.rev.numericable.fr / 87.231.7.227
Subject: First French-born baby Bonobo



Baby was born on Saturday in La Valley des Singes near Poitiers.

http://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2012/08/07/premiere-naissance-en-france-d-un-bonobo-dans-un-zoo-de-la-vienne_838341

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[> Bonobos are not normally zoo animals, are they? -- AS, Wednesday, August 08, 03:49:11pm (d99-199-122-58.bchsia.telus.net/99.199.122.58)

Just wondering, I know many years ago that we saw gorillas in the Calgary zoo but apes are generally underrepresented in most zoos. Could be wrong though, it's been a long time since I have been to one.


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[> [> Re: Bonobos are not normally zoo animals, are they? -- Chani, Wednesday, August 08, 03:55:49pm (87-231-7-227.rev.numericable.fr/87.231.7.227)

There are very few bonobos living in zoological parks indeed, but it's an endangered species (much more than gorillas)so I think they try to have more and more of them now.

They don't reproduce well in captivity so that birth was a big event.

My dream is to see them in Congo some day...


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[> That's good to hear.... -- Lij, Wednesday, August 08, 09:18:19pm (adsl-99-14-209-100.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.14.209.100)

The wars in the Congo have caused a severe depletion in bonobo numbers. They are easy to find, bands seem to stay in defined territories, and they've been hunted for food.

That almost seems like cannibalism.

:~/

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[> [> Yeah -- Chani, Thursday, August 09, 06:04:40am (87-231-7-227.rev.numericable.fr/87.231.7.227)

After all we (chimps, bonobos and humans)are all hominini.

A few years ago there were rumours of "true" cannibalism in the DRC forests anayway, pygmies (of the homo sapiens variety not bonobos that used to be called pygmy chimps)would have been killed and eaten in order to be completely destroyed.


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