Bonobo Chimpanzee - 1st Person Essay :: essays research papers

A Day in the Life of a Bonobo Chimpin the beginning I show you the first p mount up in my daily diary I must first give you some insight slightly my form, the pigmy chimps, or bonobos, as I prefer to be called. I prefer to be called a bonobo rather than a pygmy chimp, because my kind are not chimpanzees, we are practically humans, 99.6% genetically the comparable to be exact. So please do not refer to me as a pygmy chimp. Were as far from chimps, as chimps are from gorillas. present is the lowdown on my fellow bonobos and I. Males and females look just about the same, except for the obvious, which result be talked about much more later in my story. My kind has black hair covering their entire body, excluding face, hands, and feet. Children pee a discolour spot on their tail stub, while elders hair gets gray with age (another(prenominal) one of those human characteristics). Though we do share the same retentive arm, short leg characteristic as our inferior relatives, the ch imps, we have a more slender body structure than them. We are much little than regular chimpanzees, where the ignorant name pygmy chimp comes from, about 2 to 3 feet tall, nalwaystheless weigh between 65 and 90 pounds, males advisement more. In a daily meal depending on the season we eat up everything from fresh fruit and honey to termites, worms, and even small reptiles and squirrels. When the season gets sizzling and dry we must eat the stems and roots of plants. From the humans I have talked to I have learned that my kind is endangered, or for all of the pie-eyed chimpanzees, there arent very many of us left. One cleaning lady has told me that we are endangered because of our high expectations of financial backing standards. We wouldnt think of living anywhere besides the secondary tropical lowland rainforests in Zaire. She told me another reason that my kind was endangered was because of something called, poaching. I had no clue what that meant, but after she explained i t I was shocked to find that animals other than leopards hunted us. in the end before this female human left I asked her why she wasnt afraid of me and my kind, and she told me that we seemed much more relaxed than any other animal she has ever seen. I though about this for only a second, and I knew why (told later in the story).