similar size to a chimpanizee,a bonobo stretches out in the canopy to eat

Ng grant a boon for bonobos in the great ape family,bonobos are the cheeky,easy going members.Not for them aggressive,chest pounding display of dominance.They are lovers,seldom fighters.In their female-dominated societies,individuals copulate to seattle conflicts.Bonobos also engage in communal sex to ease strains at a new feeding site.To help save tgus singular and endangered primate,found only in the rain forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,the DRC government and the U.S. based Bonobo Conservation Initiative have created a vast sanctuary.Larger than the state of Massachusetts,the 11803 square-mile Sankuru Nature Reserve likely harbors several thousands bonobos out of an estimated population of 50000.Numbers are inexact,as a decade of civil war has kept researchers out of the area. To make the reserve work,local communities have vowed to stop killing bonobos for meat,the chief threat,in return for development aid.Sankuru is the first part in a network of planned reserves to be called the Bonobo Peace Forest.