Monday, March 06, 2006

The Bonobo are becoming extinct

The bonobos are dying out.
The bonobo, or pan paniscus, is native only to the vast rain forest in the Congo, living high off the ground in treetop nests. As few as 5,000 may now remain, down from an estimated 100,000 in 1984.
You know what bonobo are, although you probably think of them as chimpanzees.
True chimps, though, are big, often mean, primates. The movie and TV industry prefer to use the smaller, more friendly bonobos.
Tarzan's Cheetah was a bonobo. So are all the chimps you see wearing clothes and doing things in commercials, movies, and TV series.
The Congolese consider them delicious. And they don't believe all the hype about them being endangered.

Shows what a lack of education in the environment will get you.

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