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Dr Frans de Waal Unboxing | What Apes Teach Us About Gender & Human Behaviour

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Transgender in Chimpanzees and Bonobos?

There's a whole debate going on about the huge transgender issue that's happening in society. Do you find or do you see in chimpanzees and bonobos, there is other thing as transgender? Well, I describe in my book that you sometimes have males, for example, male chimpanzees who don't want to play the macho game. And you have females. I describe a female chimpanzee named Domawho from very young, she was different from other females. She associated with males, she started to act like a male. So I personally think that the same gender diversity that we see in human society, of homosexual individuals, heterosexual or transgender or cisgender, can probably find in chimpanzees and

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