cringy_flinchy t1_j4x6j43 wrote
Reply to comment by Rapscallious1 in Bonobos, unlike humans, are more interested in the emotions of strangers than acquaintances by giuliomagnifico
Bonobos are not pacifists. They sound less violent because they're often contrasted with warmongering chimpanzees and bonobo's unique way of resolving conflict is mentioned a lot more than their more hostile ways of doing so.
>While bonobos are more peaceful than chimpanzees, it is not true that they are unaggressive. In the wild, among males, bonobos are half as aggressive as chimpanzees, while female bonobos are more aggressive than female chimpanzees. Both bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit physical aggression more than 100 times as often as humans do. Although referred to as peaceful, bonobo aggression is not restricted to each other, and humans have also been attacked by bonobos, and suffered serious, albeit non-fatal, injuries.
Rapscallious1 t1_j4x8n26 wrote
The next line in Wikipedia is
Bonobos are far less violent than chimpanzees, though, as lethal aggression is essentially nonexistent among bonobos while being not infrequent among chimpanzees.
I did not examine any of the primary sources but a lot of these statements are a little vague and potentially open to misinterpretation since they likely have specific relevance only.
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