The Bonobo Behavior of the Orangutan

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Why were eight members of the troop involved in consuming this baby bonobo? The second thing that's very strange is why did they take so long to eat her? And no one really knows the answer to that. It's possible that they found it absolutely disgusting, but nobody wanted to be rude and turn it down like that Christmas fruitcake you try to choke down for half an hour.

We look into the evidence from primatology and archaeology to find the roots of human cannibalism in nature or nurture. Along the way we find shadows our own dual nature between sexy hippy bonobos and hawkish war chimps; learn how homo sapiens slept with their food, visit a stone age cave of nightmares in Britain; and join the debate over what seems to have been a short-lived fad for eating humans among the Ancestral Pueblo.

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