Chimps and Bonobos come up on social excitement by rubbing their genitals

Some chimpanzees seem to use sexual behavior as a sex flooring to manage stressful situations that show that they are just as different from hypersxual bonobos – our other closest living room relatives – or actually people as we thought.

Jake Brooker at Durham University, UK, and his colleagues have invested the sexual behavior of non-human primates at Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Tropus in Zambia. Both shrines include a mixture of wild and trapped -born monkeys that can roam and drill freely inside them.

The researchers observed 53 Bonobos (Pan Paniscus) Across three groups on Lola Ya Bonobo and 75 Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) Across two groups at Chimfunshi during feeding events involving a swing that distributes a limited supply of peanuts over a particular area.

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions, which they have to navigate daily,” says team member Zanna Clay, also at Durham University. Premanding such feeding events can be stressful due to competition for who first comes to food.

The researchers observed 107 occurrences of gender contact in Bonobos and 201 in chimpanzees in the 5 minutes before 45 feeding events across the five groups.

“This either puts a hand or foot ontotering prime anogenital region, and it can also involve the genitals affecting each other, just as the genitals rubbish behavior, which Bonobos is very famous for,” says Brooker.

The study also revealed different between the species: “We found that the frequency of sex in these situations was more common in female bonobos with other women, while it was more common among men in chimpanzees,” says Clay. It may be linked to the fact that Bonobos lives in matriarchal groups, while chimpanzees live in patriarchal, she says.

“Using sex as a social tool to navigate all magic forms with social problems has given Bonobos a bit of a reputation as an out of sexy, hippie paper,” says Clay. “This work shows us that differences between the two species may not be as large as previously assumed. Chimpanzees, though known to be aggressive and violent, actually have a really rich repertoire of behavior that they are to lead their social lives.

“Chimpanzees have definitely drawn per short straw in comparison with Bonobos,” says Matilda Brindle at the University of Oxford.

The chimpans use sex in a way that Goyond re -production, and although it is different from sexuality in humans, we also just have sex for reproduction, says Clay. For example, stress reduction has been given as a reason why people have sex.

Kit Opie at the University of Bristol, UK, wonder if the same level of behavior would be seen in wild surroundings rather than shrines.

The work can also sound light on the common ancestor who lived for approx. 5 million to 7 million years ago before humans diverged from chimpanzees and bonobos, he says.

“Given that all three species use sexual behavior to navigate social conditions, the common tribal father we share also did, too,” says Brindle.