{"id":20693,"date":"2025-04-24T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/these-apes-are-matriarchal-but-it-doesnt-mean-theyre-peaceful\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:57:10","slug":"these-apes-are-matriarchal-but-it-doesnt-mean-theyre-peaceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/these-apes-are-matriarchal-but-it-doesnt-mean-theyre-peaceful\/","title":{"rendered":"These Apes Are Matriarchal, but It Doesn\u2019t Mean They\u2019re Peaceful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with whom we share nearly 99 percent of our DNA, beg to differ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bonobos are great apes that live in female-dominated societies, a relative rarity among mammals, especially in species where males are the larger sex. While females are smaller than their male counterparts, they reign supreme in bonobo societies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists have long wondered how female bonobos maintain their matriarchies. In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42003-025-07900-8\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published Thursday in the journal Communications Biology, researchers who tracked six bonobo communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo over nearly 30 years provided the first evidence-based explanation for how female bonobos gain and sustain dominance over the males within their communities. Females, they found, form coalitions against males to tip the balance of power in their favor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When a male bonobo steps out of line, nearby females will band together to attack or intimidate him. Males who cower in the face of such conflicts lose social rank, while their female adversaries gain it, affording them better access to food, and mates for their sons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bonobos and chimpanzees are our closest living relatives. They were once thought to be a slightly smaller and darker-skinned subspecies of chimpanzee, but scientists determined nearly a century ago that they are separate species. These endangered apes, found only in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are difficult to study in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To conduct this study, Martin Surbeck, a behavioral ecologist at Harvard University, and other scientists spent thousands of hours trudging through dense jungles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou get up around three o\u2019clock in the morning, then walk for an hour or two to find the site where they built their nests the previous night,\u201d Dr. Surbeck said. \u201cAnd then you follow the group for the whole day till they make their nests again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s known among primatologists that bonobos make a lot of love in addition to war. They carry out rather heavy petting, make <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/26\/science\/monkeys-sex-toys-masturbation.html\" title=\"\">sex toys<\/a> and engage in homosexual intercourse. With their sexual activity and lower levels of violence compared with chimpanzees, the idea that bonobos are the hippies of the ape world is pervasive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However, observations by Dr. Surbeck and his team, and those of other researchers, challenge the harmonious stereotyping of these primates. \u201cBonobos are not as peaceful as people might think,\u201d said Maud Mouginot, an anthropologist at Boston University who was not involved in the current study.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That includes conflict between the sexes. From 1993 to 2021, the researchers observed 1,786 instances of a male starting beef with a female. Examples included acting aggressively toward a female or her infant, or monopolizing food<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/13\/science\/bonobos-apes-matriarchy.html\" title=\"\">.<\/a> In roughly 61 percent of these fights, the female teamed up with other females and emerged victorious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such conflicts \u201ccan be very severe,\u201d Dr. Surbeck said. \u201cOn a few occasions, we suspect that the male died as a result of the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Males have been known to lose fingers and toes in such conflicts. In one unfortunate incident, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/13\/science\/bonobos-apes-matriarchy.html\" title=\"\">a male bonobo in the Stuttgart Zoo in Germany<\/a> had his penis bit in half during a battle with two females. A surgeon was able to sew it back together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Drawing on all the data they gathered, Dr. Surbeck and his team tested several hypotheses for how females maintain power in bonobo society. After crunching the numbers, the only one the team found evidence to support was one researchers call the \u201cfemale coalition hypothesis,\u201d which suggests that females work together to overpower males during conflicts, resulting in higher social ranks for the winning females. The average female bonobo, the researchers found, outranks approximately 70 percent of the males in her community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Mouginot said what Dr. Surbeck and his colleagues found affirms what scientists like her have suspected for decades about the source of female power in bonobo society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFor people who\u2019ve been in the field with bonobos, it\u2019s not that surprising \u2014 but it\u2019s really nice to have actual quantitative data from different bonobos communities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists are just beginning to scratch the surface when it comes to what lessons may be drawn from bonobos, Dr. Surbeck said, so protecting them is important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBonobos are an endangered species,\u201d he said. \u201cAs our closest living relative, they help us look into our past. If we lose them, we lose a mirror for humanity. \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But for him, the study also supports the idea that male dominance is not a biological inevitability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhile some people might think that patriarchy and male dominance are somehow an evolutionary trait in our species, that\u2019s really not the case,\u201d Dr. Surbeck said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/science\/bonobos-matriarchies-females.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. 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