Showing posts with label Democratic Republic of Congo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democratic Republic of Congo. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Stupid fucking assholes are eating bonobos and destroying their habitats. There are only 15,000 bonobos left. We need to kill the assholes.

Wild bonobos can only be found in forests south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

We share an ancestor with chimpanzee apes and bonobo apes.

Bonobos and chimpanzee apes share an ancestor. They became separated by the Congo River and that's why they evolved differently. This is called speciation.

Google:

How many bonobos are left?

15,000-20,000

Bonobos battle bush meat hunting and shrinking habitats

Throughout their range, bonobos are increasingly at risk from human beings, who have killed them off to the point of endangerment. Today there are an estimated 15,000-20,000 wild bonobos remaining.

The endangered bonobo: Africa's forgotten ape

Saturday, July 11, 2020

"Commercial poaching is the most prominent threat." The solution is obvious. Torture and kill the poachers. Do not take any prisoners. Just kill them. If they beg for mercy, kill them. If these assholes are not killed, there will be zero bonobos on this planet. The assholes have to be killed.

Bonobo[1]
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene – Holocene 
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Male at Apenheul Primate Park
Scientific classificationedit
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Primates
Suborder:Haplorhini
Infraorder:Simiiformes
Family:Hominidae
Subfamily:Homininae
Tribe:Hominini
Genus:Pan
Species:
P. paniscus
Binomial name
Pan paniscus
Schwarz, 1929
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Bonobo distribution

Wikipedia - Bonobo

The bonobo (/bəˈnoʊboʊ, ˈbɒnəboʊ/; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other being the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Although bonobos are not a subspecies of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), but rather a distinct species in their own right, both species are sometimes referred to collectively using the generalized term chimpanzees, or chimps. Taxonomically, the members of the chimpanzee/bonobo subtribe Panina (comprised entirely by the genus Pan) are collectively termed panins.

The bonobo is distinguished by relatively long legs, pink lips, dark face, tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted long hair on its head. The bonobo is found in a 500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi) area of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. The species is omnivorous and inhabits primary and secondary forests, including seasonally inundated swamp forests. Because of political instability in the region and the timidity of bonobos, there has been relatively little field work done observing the species in its natural habitat.

Along with the common chimpanzee, the bonobo is the closest extant relative to humans. As the two species are not proficient swimmers, the formation of the Congo River 1.5–2 million years ago possibly led to the speciation of the bonobo. Bonobos live south of the river, and thereby were separated from the ancestors of the common chimpanzee, which live north of the river. There are no concrete data on population numbers, but the estimate is between 29,500 and 50,000 individuals. The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by habitat destruction and human population growth and movement, though 
commercial poaching is the most prominent threat."Bonobos typically live 40 years in captivity; their lifespan in the wild is unknown, but it is almost certainly much shorter.

Some assholes need to be killed.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bonobos-teach-humans-about-nature-language-180975191/

The rainforests in the Congo River Basin that are home to most of the remaining 20,000 wild bonobos are being torched by palm oil companies to clear the ground for plantations. Demand for the product, which is used in half of all packaged food items in American supermarkets, from pizza dough to ramen noodles, is skyrocketing. Bonobos, already threatened by poachers and loggers, are suffocating in the fires.

Monday, May 18, 2020