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Bonobos are the enigmatic fifth member of the great ape family which also consists of orang-utans, gorillas, common chimpanzees and humans. In the same way as we relate to common chimpanzees, the DNA recipe which makes up humans differs by around 1% to that which makes up bonobos, making them both equally our closest living genetic relatives. Their scientific name (Pan paniscus), means ‘diminutive Pan’: a minute version of the goat-horned and legged Greek forest god, who enjoyed some nymph debauchery while playing the pan flute in mythological times. This term has only been used to designate the bonobo since 1933 as prior to that date, bonobos were largely unknown or misunderstood to be dwarf chimpanzees.
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