I know we've viewed a couple of videos discussing primates such as the slow loris, tarsier, and lemur, so here's another TED talk (yay!) specifically about bonobos. Bonobos are a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan. Along with the common chimpanzee, the bonobo is the closest extant relative to humans.
In this video, Susan Savage Rumbaugh describes the apes she works with. The bonobos can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching. This forces us to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology — and how much by cultural exposure.
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