bonobo

Fantastic picture and commentary on bonobo apes from a blog that features a wonderful children's book, I'm Lucy: A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo - profits go to non-profits, Jane Goodall wrote the afterword.

Bonobo Kid's Book and Website Bring Environmental Action to Children and Help to Endangered Species

Jane Goodall wrote the compelling afterword to a children's story about a young bonobo named Lucy who lives in the Jacksonville Zoo.

In the Tshuapa, Lomami and Lualaba river basins in the DRC where the bonobos live, humans have it very rough – we couldn’t say if they have it better or worse than the bonobos. However, we can say that the human women have it worse than the human men in the DRC. In the United States, women are free to get jobs, go to school and live by themselves – you may think it’s strange that we’re even mentioning those things because we are so used to these freedoms!

There are currently about 170 bonobos in zoos across the world. And, while zoos are usually great, sometimes bad things can happen at zoos. On Christmas Day, 2007, a Siberian Tiger escaped from its zoo home and attacked three people in the zoo. Which makes us wonder for the bazillionth time:

Are zoos good or are zoos bad? What do you think?