Bonobo People (Part 1 of 4)

[@munchkin1966]

I love the smiles and the noises he is making lol

[@dkeith45]

Great video. Thx for posting. I wish there was a Bonobo sanctuary near Chicago, would love to visit one someday.

[@MikePuorro]

"They made me build a fire and make hamburgers. All I wanted to do was play with my ball and eat some peaches."

[@pomponi0]

Kanzi seems perfectly capable of communicating, but there's a clear divide between his wants and the researchers'. He knows it's meal time but he would rather be foraging than sit and wait till the burgers are done.

[@tinobemellow]

And I don't blame him! In his mind, everything the humans are doing is pointless and strange, and his main motive is to obtain their unique delicacies. Forget about waiting for the hairless weirdos burning the flesh on the red death, when there's fresh food surrounding them all?

[@wumboism]

7:00 "oh pardon me, back to science" LMAOOO

[@dirtymogerdy7508]

lol😂

[@RobertaPeck]

Thank you Sue for all your efforts

[@bryanzambrano6859]

I wonder whatever happened to the lexigram keyboard these bonobos used. Ive seen a couple of them in various documentaries from early 90s, leading me to assume they were built from the late 80s-early 90s. It looks like the company "OKI" made the portable ones (Pause at 5:10 ) but they don't seem to mention it in their website or on Wikipedia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oki_Electric_Industry They also appear to use other non-portable Lexigram boards by the name of "All-Talk-#" (the # indicates which one was being used as there were many made.) A company called Lingraphica also has an aac system called All Talk, so I'm guessing they've made custom lexigram boards for these bonobos as well.

[@XlAnonymousUserlX]

14:02 That smile is adorable.

[@bornfreetreks]

The way Kanzi smiled after doing work❤️❤️😊

[@tatertott2390]

Konzi used a lighter to start a campfire AND cut up apples with a knife! What a amazing bonobo

[@stanlee2200]

It's horrible how they ended up taking Kanzi from Dr.Sue. They basically kicked her out and wouldn't let her see him again. I wonder what happened for them to take such extreme measures to separate the two who obviously cared about each other.

[@terminator-from-another-planet]

she probably got pissed off at Kanzi

[@nikolaiiscoolguyproduction4807]

The accusations covered a lot of mistreatment occurrences, although all of them seem like a result of mistakes and poor judgment. I don't think anything was done as punishments, and personally I don't know what the best course of action for the incestuous behavior would have been.

[@stanlee2200]

@@nikolaiiscoolguyproduction4807 and?

[@nikolaiiscoolguyproduction4807]

@@stanlee2200 And what?

[@rosswhitehill3207]

@@nikolaiiscoolguyproduction4807 incestuous? what the fuck was going on

[@brownrabbit61]

I love Kanzi. He's a bald headed old man now ☺️❤

[@hoptoit5910]

Yes. His head hair/fur started to slowly recede just like some humans and now the whole top of his head is bald. He’s still Kanzi with those kind, gentle eyes 🥰

[@Spiritual_AJ01]

It’s so sad how all our closest relatives are close to extinction

[@nathankrush3289]

Sad that it's our fault.

[@nathankrush3289]

Sad that it's our fault.

[@CarolynDenison]

#359 on likes,. 1993 Wow in 1993 my mother was still alive. She would also love watching these primates. I miss her from the deepest depth's of my soul. Every single hour of the day. Kanzi help's me feel better though. My Bonobo Buddy.

[@Sssssssslf]

aww bless you 💕

[@DroneToTable]

I don't even think I could learn all those symbols at this age so I hope Matata didn't beat herself up about that..

[@fancysfolly554]

Konzi has a squeaky, high pitched voice...this is so interesting...amazing just how smart he is..

[@waperoni9443]

*kanzi

[@fancysfolly554]

ryan s thanks kid!

[@hollykane4000]

That’s how bonobos communicate

[@dan74695]

@@hollykane4000 They also use facial expressions and gestures.

[@bmell1252]

From about 10:30 - 13:30+ You can certainly tell that Kanzi would rather be watching someone else cook his dinner for him while he snacks and plays with his ball. He’s is so above this. 😂❤️😁

[@MandyDeeB]

I don't exactly get why it was symbols rather than pictures of the actual item on the chart

[@pomponi0]

I suppose it was made so they could test the Bonobos' ability for abstract thought. Had they been unable to learn the symbols, the researchers would probably switch to pictograms. Besides, how would one make a symbol for "good", "bad" or "fake"?

[@I_report_scammers_spammers]

And how is that ANY different from reading hieroglyphics??

[@sarahgrace8085]

Because they were testing their ability to use symbols for communication, similar to language. If it resembled the object you assume they’re making the connection because of the item. They didn’t want that.

[@I_report_scammers_spammers]

@@sarahgrace8085 hieroglyphics frequently don't resemble whatever it is they represent. Nor do Chinese characters.

[@sarahgrace8085]

Diana Haas yeah I know that’s my point. . That’s why they used them and didn’t use pictures of apples to represent apples or pictures of trees to represent trees

[@alexisg1028]

Ok but the way she broke that huge mf stick on command 😳

[@TheKdcool]

Part 2 is missing!

[@susanwaltzer9166]

I am so in love with bonobos

[@hollykane4000]

Kanzi is so depressed now. The research center got rid of dr Sue. So all they do is sit outside with their heads down they don’t even communicate He misses her so much. Dr. Sue has tried everything to get bk to them. It’s really sad

[@stanlee2200]

Yeah I just commented that myself..I wonder what happened for them to split them up like that...I think I heard they got new management but I'm not sure. Do you know what happened to make them fire her in such A way?

[@anon6514]

These apes are probably smarter than me :( How many animal languages have you guys learned recently?

[@leoflorida95]

I love how he bites a big chunk of hamburger and puts it into the pan

[@search895]

Are racists even people

[@search895]

Do racists realize they are apes too

[@leoflorida95]

@@search895 what?

[@dirtymogerdy7508]

​@@search895what?

[@jeremyjasonpage5863]

Bonobos really rock 🎉😂

[@Martin_Z555]

WHERE'S PART 2???????? :(

[@lancelotxavier9084]

I use a stick to scratch my back. No one taught me.

[@sparkimoto]

I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to teach any of the ape species to write? It would seem the have the same abilities as humans to 'move a pen' and create symbols. The question would be if they could be taught to associate symbols with letters of the alphabet and be able to understand their grouping as words, and word groups as sentences and so on? It appears that they are doing something similar to what I am suggesting here. Comparing learning ability paralleled with human infants of the same age could give us some answers on this topic.

[@stanlee2200]

I kinda doubt they have that dexterity. If you notice how kanzi touches the padto talk his hands are limp wristed...I think it would be alot easier to teach them art that way it's not too frustrating for them bc writing requires very small precise finger movements and although I think they maybe could I really don't think they have the patience to master writing and spelling for that matter bc they have to know the whole alphabet to spell correctly and all of the rules we have on spelling like i before e and sometimes y crap lol.

[@Archive90911]

I know that many great apes like to paint, there was one that would name his paintings and they somewhat resembled what he named them, he'd also get very mad if his painting was taken away when he wasn't done.

[@lilah3078]

Panbanisha learned to write some of the lexigrams. Sadly, she passed away years ago.

[@DrFaust-pr8vw]

Is that a Norwegian Elkhound?

[@tammytrotter8873]

I think this is great to treat them like us maybe now they won’t become extinct

[@coultonelliott4312]

That’s one big set of balls he has

[@tomsimpson5317]

Seems like they're trying to make him human

[@bethbartlett5692]

Love, Love, Love these fellow no-pedals. They are humans too.

[@gaming4K]

Kanzi is like a kid. Just wants everything right away because doesn't really understand the concept that something is better in this case cooked then raw or maybe he just prefers the raw meat. xD

[@MizTheDonGargon]

they did experiments with chimps that showed not only would they wait for their food to be cooked because they liked it better, but if they knew they'd be able to cook later on in the day, they would put away their food and not eat it

[@mishacol]

outstanding cooking skills.

[@infinitejest441]

We should be more like Bonobos. They aren’t as violent as humans.

[@jennivanrooyen5963]

They can be very violent and eat enemies

[@zehn39]

They hump each other as a greeting. Society would be quite strange if that happened

[@dan74695]

@@jennivanrooyen5963 I have never heard of a bonobo doing that.

[@nobody.7784]

​@@dan74695 yeah they do that, just look it up, they hunt too

[@dan74695]

@@nobody.7784 I know that they hunt, but I haven't seen anything about them killing each other.

[@PURPLE.REIGN.1999]

In the pan!! In the pan!! 😆 🤣 😂

[@wilbertjamodovar323]

Emojies in the earliest stage.

[@jonathanhughes8679]

Bonobos are surprisingly gentle and are very altruistic. They’re kind to strangers, and are not aggressive like Chimpanzees. They also have a matriarchal society, like humans. People say we don’t but we do, because in the wild bonobo females choose who to mate with and who to have sex with because they don’t fight and beat each other but have sex to soothe tensions and to make up. Remember that in order for society to advance and continue to exist, females decide that. In human society why do men chase fame, money and power? All so they look like a good provider in hopes that their genes carry on. People mistake what’s happening around them without knowing why.

[@oneofus5634]

I'm gonna guess you're a male, amirite?

[@haknee]

How sway ?!

[@kel-in5gi]

Yerkes has it's limitations in communication. I'm sure the bonobos could learn English by sight reading and typing. The camping trips should have been more frequent to get kanzi out of the institutional setting

[@yoshit9819]

Panbanisha? holy shit. Where's Laquisha and Lafonda?

[@LightsOn128]

He Don don’t wait. Move in the direction of your heart and the universe will open in amazing ways💕

[@reme001]

huh????////

[@UniteForgetLeftRight]

he can talk but he sure cant cook a burger

[@stevencoardvenice]

AttentionJunkie In many ways he's like a toddler.

[@I_report_scammers_spammers]

Well...in fairness, neither can a dog, or pig, or dolphin... I mean...his line didn't really evolve with cooking ...

[@normacotter3377]

I hate to see this lease on these beautiful babies

[@maroal24]

Yeah right... nice tricks lady, now who's the person under that bonobo costume?

[@oneofus5634]

Look, it's Rudy Giuliani...

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Bonobos are going get us asking the right questions if not providing the answers of human lineage .

[@sobekneferu4041]

We should not be studying any animal in the lab, only in their natural environment, especially such intelligent and sentient beings like great apes. This research is trying to prove that culture is responsible for language acquisition, but thats clearly not the case. Biology has a lot to do with it as well. These animals' intelligence is best studied in the wild

[@martinbarone7252]

Unfortunately they are not safe in the wild. They are very lucky to be where they are, studied or not.

[@kristineturner8067]

I feel like Kanzi sometimes. ...... I see something and want to eat it ...now

[@benjamin_markus]

wtf is that lock

[@Kennephone]

Kanzi had more hair back then, now he has reseeding forehead

[@dan74695]

Yeah. He's getting old.

[@HskHeroReborn]

Not one lick of seasoning

[@livefreeallways]

humans. I thought Bonobos are primarily fruit eaters not processed white chemical glue called bread.

[@meelusine]

Matata is like me : Not feeling like learning anything else now that I am older. Learning is most a children growing thing. So no wonder Matata's son picked everything up from what the lady tried to teach his mother. It is so simple, how they didn't catch that ?!

[@jimmyjamessac7171]

Learning and changing is life are you kidding

[@kieronbevan2949]

She wanted the pine needles for the vitamin C not to play with

[@bustarogers9990]

They have some sort of God complex , Bonobo's will never be Human thank god. Kanzi is one cool mother fucker just let him be , fuck i hope mother nature sorts us out real soon.

[@anteliomonteiroabellan1214]

The leash and collar around the poor monkey says it all: mistreatment! Try putting the same cruel objects on the child!

[@jamesproudlove1527]

Bonobo People? Why? How come? What is the point of this video presentation?

[@lilah3078]

She's part of the Great Ape Project and has been fighting alongside some other scientists and philosophers for great apes to have more rights and freedom. Her work was used in court to curtail biomedical research on apes but it wasn't enough to also convince judges to grant legal personhood to apes. The latter is being pursued because otherwise governments don't see the need to protect the rights of non-human primates.

[@skabootykat]

thanks for turning kanzi into a big tub of lard.

[@searain1573]

I have a question. How come some people considered Bonobos the fourth great ape when they are basically just another type of Chimpanzee? There are also different types of Gorillas and Orangutans, but they aren't divided into completely different ape species like how Common Chimpanzees and Bononos are. Here's the two species that fall under the "Pan" genus category: Common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Bonobos (Pan paniscus) Here's the two species that fall under the "Gorilla" genus category: Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) Eastern gorillas (Gorillia beringei) Here's the three species that fall under the "Pongo" genus category: Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Tapanuli orangutans (Pongo tapanuliensis) So I think it's pretty stupid when Bonobos get treated as the fourth great ape since they are Chimps.

[@mchevre]

I get what you're saying, but I think there are some good reasons for it. First of all, Bonobos split from Chimps I believe 1.5 million years ago if I remember correctly. That's a pretty long time of being distinct species. I don't know how that compares to the other species of other apes you listed, though. If its not because of that reason though, it most certainly would be due to physical and behavioral differences. Bonobos are physically quite distinct from chimpanzees, and are thought to much closer resemble the common ancestor of us and them than chimpanzees do. There are also serious behavioral and cultural differences between bonobos and chimps. Bonobos are matriarchal and not very aggressive, with conflicts solved through wild recreational sex. Chimps are patriarchal and aggression prone, with conflicts solved through violence with the alpha male keeping peace through brute force and bravado. In short, the physical and behavioral differences are large enough to warrant using a different common name, rather than simply calling bonobos chimpanzees. For the other apes, the physical and behavioral differences are quite small between different species of orang or different species of gorilla. This said, I do not think they should be called the "fourth" great ape. I think they should be acknowledged alongside chimps as they are equally our closest ancestor, genetically speaking, and in many ways are more like us than chimpanzees even are.

[@ALEXANDER-nb1cr]

R.I.P Panbanisha :'(

[@goldwingerppg5953]

It’s too bad they had to wear lock and collar around their necks and be subjects of research in an environment not their own.

[@tinamessere5513]

Ride is that Corbin Noble have a padlock around his neck shame on you

[@reneesantiago6496]

That hamburger meat looks horrible.

[@LivingMyBestLifeIAm]

If this was true, the world we be a much better place. Unfortunately, I disagree. We can only wish we were more like Bonobos. WE are much more violent and dark, just like the Chimpanzee.

[@cosmopolitanwonder9675]

to not too.

[@enoughisenough3748]

Thought i was looking at a lil Wayne video.

[@Spiritual_AJ01]

Lol

[@ClemvSt]

Could have been interesting to watch, but the elevator music made it hard to listen to.

[@giovannaiamele2932]

That board nothers me can you imagine how it bothers Kenzy? Just let him live free his normal life!

[@regc4963]

Essa mulher cruel como sempre.E de um cinismo a toda prova.

[@evamoon1800]

Wild animal friend s

[@freeda4100]

The collar around Zanzis neck looks too tight. I still don’t like captive wild animals. If scientists want to know about wild animals they need to go into the wild. Not bore the animals to tears with their inane requests in a science lab.

[@malcolmbliss777]

This is animal abuse. It is cruel. It tells us far more about these human torturers than it will ever tell us about their animal victims.

[@teenabray4701]

Can we adopt bonobos

[@dnmurphy48]

Better if we protected their homelands and allowed them to live their lives in their own ways,

[@puyosshy]

チンパンジーが喋る時代が来てほしい

[@oneofus5634]

Um, ever see a little movie called 'Planet of the Apes'? 😇

[@pauliewalnuts8511]

is the bonobo a vegetarian if so why is she feeding him a burger. much more communication could have been had with a better teacher watched many videos seems this sue wasted time much more could have been taught. I believe the voice vibration could bring out some of these words. kind of like a smoker who had cancer. she should have been compensated for the idea and removed from the position. wasted time. every video seems like the last sos over and over. simple to complete no keypad would be necessary a voice scrambler can fix the issue.

[@lilah3078]

Bonobos are omnivores and also hunt in the wild. It's easy for you to judge when you obviously don't know much about their species and haven't worked with them. The youtube videos also don't show all of their potential as Sue said that the Bonobos were often asked to "perform" the same things over and over again for the cameras and visitors. She got sick of that herself since she saw that the bonobos became bored and frustrated with it. You'd have to read her books to know more but in a nutshell she didn't have as much say as some people think she did.

[@noah7477]

The trainer is kind of mean

[@reme001]

She has to get her point across.

[@ruthr7939]

This is so annoying to me. We all know how intelligent they are just let them be apes. And if we come from apes, like they say why aren't we still Evolving?

[@laserfan17]

We ARE evolving, it just takes so much time that you wouldn’t be able to se it in the first place, nor your grandchildren nor your great grandchildren. Clearly you know nothing about biology nor evolution.

[@laserfan17]

zs 02 It just shows their “I don’t see it, it doesn’t happen” mentality, comparable to a toddler‘s, xD. It’s so interesting how they make this exception for their deities, they can’t see them nor find any evidence for them but they assure they exist.

[@laserfan17]

zs 02 Cognitive dissonance at its finest, that is.

[@Spiritual_AJ01]

Evolution doesnt happen in a lifetime lol it takes millions of years to see change

[@alvaroxex]

I get to be a mouse every once in a while

[@یاورمحمدی-ط8ض]

چرا جواب مردم رادروست نمیدین همش چرت تحویل مردم میدین

[@josephpearson7164]

The narrator needs to be replaced with someone who has some life in them. What a monotonous narration!

[@TheRick8866]

It’s smiling to appease the feminists. Like it has the beginnings of an ego.

[@grammybeth2685]

So afraid to even refer to them as he or she?

[@lindataghon5712]

They have MEMORIZED the words they are taught by their sound, this doesn't mean they TRULY understand what the words MEAN!.., I LOVE all animals and Apes (horses the most) are my fav.., but THIS I KNOW, I came from ADAM and EVE< NOT from apes. Even chickens have much of our DNA, as do MANY animals! I had horses for several decades and I KNOW they were use to my words by their sounds, and my physical body language, therefore they COMPLIED to my requests! But no animal can understand the MEANINGS and DEFINITIONS of what we are speaking about! They are just TRAINED to RESPOND to many words because of REPATITION and the TREATS they get.

[@laserfan17]

Linda Taghon You don’t come from Adam and Eve, they never existed to begin with. Not only do we come from apes, WE are APES and DNA isn’t the only indicator of our relatedness, you are not of divine origin, stop pretending that you are. Also, your cells contain 46 chromosomes, theirs contain 48 chromosomes, you can’t explain that just by arguing a common designer, since there’s no reason for us to be similar even in the way our DNA is stored in our cells, nor is there a reason for us to share the same 11 broken copies of a gene, as well as our incapability of synthesizing Vitamin C, thing that most mammals except for apes (including us) can do. Finally, of course we are far more intelligent than they are, our brain is like 3 to 4 times larger, far more complex and with far more neurons, that doesn’t mean they are not related to us, just like Mantis Shrimps are still related to Shrimps, despite them having ultra complex and far more advanced eyes, but they are still Shrimps.

[@laserfan17]

zs 02 Yeah, it’s sad that something that began as a response to natural curiosity about the origin of the universe (religion) turned into a impediment for their cognitive advancements in light of new discoveries that challenge their dogmas.

[@teenabray4701]

😛😆