Four of the five Great Apes are found here: Mountain gorillas, Lowland gorillas, Chimpanzees and Bonobos.
Hunters, disease and habitat loss are decimating our closest living relatives--chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos.
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While the scientific name for bonobos is Pan paniscus, "they should be Peter Pan, " Hare said.
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He said the bonobos were probably more vulnerable than common chimps and lowland gorillas.
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However, after the changes, the culture was much more reminiscent of the empathetic, group-oriented ethos of Bonobos.
Online retailers such as men's clothing seller Bonobos and handmade-product marketplace Etsy have opened actual stores or showrooms.
Gorillas are our closest relatives, after chimpanzees and bonobos, having diverged from our common ancestors 8 million years ago.
Bonobos are already known to use head-shaking to initiate interactions with other members of the group, such as playing.
BBC: Earth News - Bonobo chimps filmed shaking their head to 'say no'
Bonobos are endangered and only live around the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.
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An important part of the sanctuary's work is rehabilitating injured bonobos from the forest and, hopefully, one day returning them to the wild.
Dunn would have been happy to keep Bonobos true to its web-only roots but an experiment selling pants in a physical showroom changed his mind.
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"Guys like personalized shopping, " says Andy Dunn, the CEO of Bonobos.
Chimpanzees and bonobos - our closest relatives of the group tended, like the humans, to have longer series of laughs, each made up of shorter calls.
In Africa they represent a particular threat to precious forest fauna, including chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, by connecting forests to the fast-growing cities where bushmeat is prized.
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JustFab is one of a number of new e-commerce or fashion web start-ups such as ShoeDazzle, BeachMint, Trunk Club, Bonobos and Warby Parker.
The sanctuary also aims to educate the public about bonobos.
African great apes such as bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are known to use head gestures such as nodding, bowing and shaking to communicate with other group members.
BBC: Earth News - Bonobo chimps filmed shaking their head to 'say no'
Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos do not generally form fists, and the researchers think they are unable to: when a chimp curls up its fingers it forms a doughnut shape.
Two were groups of chimpanzees, and two were bonobos.
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So researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, decided to compare adult chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos with human children of a year or 18 months in age.
Previously an equity analyst and a portfolio manager and investor at Montgomery Securities (now part of Bank of America Securities), Green became an angel investor in start-ups such as Warby Parker and Bonobos.
As well as destabilizing human communities, logging also threatens to decimate an ecosystem that is critical for the survival of wildlife including forest elephants and endangered apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.
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