By: bigfoot

bigfoot — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:39:56 +0000

It’s not just the females…. there’s also a tendancy for adolescent male bonobos to indulge in ‘penis fencing’ (hanging face-to-face from the same branch and, um, ‘fencing’).

By: Mrs Tilton

Mrs Tilton — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:55:33 +0000

It is surely a great pity that none of those attempts to teach the great apes to speak came to very much, because I’d dearly love to see an act fronted by a pygmy chimp called Bonobo Vox.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:21:00 +0000

I agree, and actually most of Ninja Tune’s output is fantastic… They have a new 2D best-of out (at last!) if you want to discover the artists. By the way, one of my favorite French artists, “M”, did a song about the good-natured Bonobos that were overtaken by a more aggressive, nasty kind of monkey (us!): Je t’aime bonobo Musique: Andrée Chedid, M “Je dis aime” J’étais Bonoboo Clama le Bonoboo Pas peu fier en somme De suivre la filière Pas peu fier en somme De suivre la filière Dont tu naquis Petit homme Par étrange bizarrerie de mère nature De maman Lucy {Refrain:} O mes cousins Masculins, féminins O mes benjamins Qui s’prétendent humains Parfois j’me demande Soupire le Bonoboo Si ça valait la peine De s’donner la peine Pour que votre race guerrière Incendiaire, carnassière Occupe toute la scène? C’est ainsi que vaincu Sans une once de venin Sombrant dans sa tanière Disparut bonoboo Tandis que plus malin L’homme passe partout s’emparant de la terre S’inventa un destin.

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