The best anecdote concerns a bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee, at Twycross Zoo in Warwickshire, England, who was poking members of the public with a long bamboo cane she had somehow got hold of.
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Last week, he was at the Milwaukee Zoo, and zookeepers told him about an old, blind pygmy chimpanzee ( or bonobo ) there who gets around with the aid of other, healthy chimps.
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But there is one creature that stands out from the chest-thumping masses as an example of amicability, sensitivity and, well, humaneness : a little-known ape called the bonobo, or, less accurately, the pygmy chimpanzee.
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By such measures, the only species likely to rank as empathic are those we usually judge most humanlike in their behaviors : chimpanzees, bonobos ( also called pygmy chimpanzees ), gorillas, orangutans and, possibly, dolphins.
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He also created specially designed instruments for music played by zebra finches and pygmy chimpanzees, the latter in collaborations with physicist Gordon Shaw, who researched classical music's effect on the brain and introduced the Mozart effect.
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After years of intensive studies with pygmy chimpanzees and other apes, a Georgia State University scientist says their human-like emotions, intellect and ability to acquire language should make the apes eligible for " semi-human " legal status.
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The bonobo, in the past also referred to as the " pygmy chimpanzee ", was given the species name of " paniscus " by Ernst Schwarz ( 1929 ), a diminutive of the theonym " Pan ".
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Orangutans and chimpanzees are the only non-human primates whose males force females to copulate, while males of several other species, such as vervet monkeys and bonobos ( pygmy chimpanzees ), rarely if ever try to coerce females sexually.
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In 1990, Toth and Dr . Schick, working with psychologists at the Language Research Laboratory, operated by Georgia State University and Emory University in Decatur, Ga ., devised an experiment to see whether Kanzi, the pygmy chimpanzee, could make a stone tool.
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In recent years their varied research has included investigating the tool-making ability of a pygmy chimpanzee, again using Kanzi, and reinterpreting the uses of the earliest recognized stone implements, those first identified at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and known as Oldowan tools.
