APY 107 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Family, Masturbation
4 Apr 2014
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Frans b. m. de waal wrote an article, bonobo sex & society that discusses bonobo"s sexual behavior and the differences between the behavior and social systems of bonobo"s and chimpanzees. In the beginning of the article, waal tells us that bonobo"s substitute sex for aggression and they engage in sex in virtually every partner combination (p. 1). However, their rate of reproduction in the wild is the same as the chimpanzees. (waal, 2006, p. 1) this article also discusses how humans share more than 98 percent of the same genes as bonobos and chimpanzees. After that, waal talks about bonobo"s aggression and how the key to their social life is sex, which is completely different compared to chimpanzees. However bonobos use sex to relieve their aggression. Bonobo"s are a strange and intriguing animal to study because of the many differences they have. Sex is something that happens in all animals.
