Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics
The Good Fight
Is There Bias in Bonobo Behavior?
Is it true that in one colony of bonobos, what it is to be a female bonobo with the kind of expected gender role is significantly different from what it would be like in a different colony? I don't think we have solid evidence for that, but you would expect it because we do know that there is biased learning going on. For example, recent study of orangutans in the forest showed that young females eat exactly the same fruits as their moms. Young males, they vary and they eat sometimes fruits that the model never touches. That's because they take the example for them, the models are adult males that they see on occasion eating.
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