How to Use bonobo in a Sentence

bonobo

noun

• The one on the right is a bonobo; the one on the left is a chimpanzee.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2012
• In one of the clips, a bonobo gave its comrade a shove.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2023
• Perhaps there are times when the nice bonobo doesn't finish last?
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2018
• To him, chimp and bonobo vocalizations are like a code.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2018
• And then there was Viktor, the young bonobo who couldn’t forget Shields, either.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
• All were welcomed, even a cat on meds stowed with luggage and a pregnant bonobo.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
• And yet, according to one of our studies, 75% of people have no idea what a bonobo is.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2010
• For example, the zoo will be vaccinating a 5-year-old up to a 50 year old bonobo.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2021
• And when new bonobos are born at the zoo nowadays, their names are in one of three languages spoken in the Congo: Swahili, Lingala or French.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2024
• Conservationists hope the find—the first new species of great ape to be discovered since the bonobo in 1929—will help raise awareness of the plight of orangutans.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2017
• Four more animals — one bonobo and three gorillas — got their first shot this month and will get a second one in April.
  — Fox News, 19 Mar. 2021
• As of January, Vernon was the oldest mammal at the Cincinnati Zoo and the oldest male bonobo known to be in human care.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2021
• As the primatologist Frans de Waal has put it, bonobos make love, not war.
  — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• The trio learns these villains are goons for the tyrannical bonobo Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand).
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• Then there are chimpanzees and their close relatives, bonobos.
  — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Since then, his experiments have ranged far and wide, including finding a bonobo at the Jacksonville Zoo that was amenable to banging on a drum to a steady beat.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 26 July 2017
• Some cries came from infant chimpanzees or bonobos calling to their mothers.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• This means war Not every new trait animals exhibit is a noble one—a fact that is borne out by a recent study of bonobos.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
• The authors report that the same process has been shown to effectively re-create the structure of a bonobo brain by morphing a chimpanzee brain, and vice versa.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Female bonobos, chimpanzees, and dolphins are also known to use tools more than their male counterparts.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
• Chimpanzee males intimidate and beat females; bonobo males do not.
  — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• The idea that men are unsuitable for childcare is seemingly supported by the apes closest to us, chimpanzees and bonobos.
  — Time, 17 June 2023
• Another 45 genes underwent this process since humans split off from the ancestors of chimps and bonobos.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2023
• Seventeen months later, the young bonobo had acquired a vocabulary of 50 words.
  — Kevin Miyazaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
• With the new research, scientists found that the lineage that led to humans split off from the one that led to chimpanzees and bonobos between 6.9 million and 9 million years ago, writes Reuters’ Will Dunham.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• One bonobo recognized a face after 26 years — a record for facial memory beyond our species.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are some of our closest living relatives.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
• While the United States had the largest number (1,034) of live animal advertisements, Russia had the most varied list of species including two types of tigers, a crocodile, an ocelot and a bonobo.
  — Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2008
• My anxiety around humans was inversely proportional to my comfort in the cage with the bonobos.
  — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
• Comparing the human genome with the genomes of the living great apes has shown conclusively that we are most closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos, sharing nearly 99 percent of their DNA.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024