@VeroniqueB99

Buy some cheap wood baseball bats and used them wisely…or not so wisely…😎

@VeroniqueB99

I am thinking about this every day.

If you combine that with the event of 1986 in Kenya, when an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis killed off the most aggressive males in a Baboon group which led to a complete culture change in the group

"The most remarkable observation, however, was that the troop had apparently maintained the peace despite a complete turnover in the male population"

https://www.science.org/content/article/kinder-gentler-baboon

@VeroniqueB99

funfact?

That's just the truth and how we are.

funfact

.. humans ..

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post by darebear.23:

Fun fact: Bonobo monkeys,
who we share 98.7% of our
DNA with, are matriarchal
and very peaceful. There
has only been one record of
them killing one of their
own and it was a group of
females beating the brakes
off a male monkey for
touching an infant. In light
of the Epstein files, | do
believe it is time we start
taking notes ladies.

@VeroniqueB99 Unfortunately, we are much more closely related to chimpanzees, which are horrible animals just like us. Every evil known to man that does not require our intellect or dexterity has been witnessed in chimps, including war.

This is the challenge for humanity, to figure out how to overcome our primitive instincts.

@VeroniqueB99 Unfortunately, power also corrupts women, but I do think (without having any proof of it) that women are generally less susceptible to corruption.

Here in Iceland we have a female President, all three leading political parties are lead by women (they call themselves “the valkyries”), the major of our only city is a woman as well and then some of the chiefs of police for various regions are women too. Most of them are doing an excellent job but a couple have been caught abusing their power. I think it just shows how alike the sexes really are. No one is from Mars and no one is from Venus, we’re all humans with our individual strengths and flaws.

@VeroniqueB99

NO, not taking notes! Just start the beatings already!!!!

@VeroniqueB99

really good one, Vee.

@VeroniqueB99 Okey dokey, here we go.

Firstly, Bonobo are chimpanzees, not monkeys. Chimpanzees are apes and part of the Hominidae family while to get to common relatives you have to move up to the order of primates before you get monkeys and apes in the same family tree so to speak.

While bonobos are known for using sexual behavior to resolve conflict, they have the capacity to be just as lethal as any other chimpanzee and there are far more than just one record of them killing their own.

Primate scientists are actually reconsidering some of the original works that labeled them as more peaceful than other chimpanzees as a recent study showed that the wild bonobos in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve were almost three times as violent as other chimpanzees (measured by recorded incidents of punching, kicking, and biting).

Interestingly, group acts of aggression are almost exclusively led by female Bonobo while solo acts of aggression were more commonly carried out by males.

They are definitely less prone to infanticide than other chimpanzees, but again it's been recorded before and they do kill infant chimps of rival groups, just at a much smaller rate than with other chimpanzees.

Anyway...all that being said, I am a huge proponent of people beating the absolute shite out of any of the people found in the Epstein Files to have been a part of the horrible things that were enabled by Epstein and his money. We just don't need to make things up to do so. That all can happen entirely on its own without made-up facts about Bonobos.