Gay chimps

And the one who did it, Zuckerman, a very famous scientist at the time. You know, a chimpanzee or bonobo is adult when they’re 16 years-old, so they have an enormous long lifetime in which they pick up all sorts of behavior, including they model themselves on adults and pick up their behavior. Gender inequality, we are focused on gender. This is actually quite typical, belly-to-belly sex, between male and female in this case, but they also have sex in positions that you will find very hard to imagine, like hanging upside down by their feet, for example, something we cannot do.

That’s nonsense. She liked to do this wrestling game that males do all the time. And I’m going to be speaking at it from the perspective of primatology and biology. Someone who beats you over the head every day and lets you know that he’s boss and so on, and that’s how they see what an alpha male is.

But, you know, most alpha male chimpanzees that I’ve known, and I’ve known many, they are very loved by their community.

Conclusions derived from those biases then became entrenched in future scientific research. People confuse it and our language is beginning to confuse the two. But people say these things. There is stress-relief sex, make-up sex and random hook-up sex. If they’re good alpha males, they keep the peace, they break up fights, they support the underdogs, they support juveniles against adults and females against males, they’re very empathic usually, they share food very easily.

If you have, sometimes happens at a zoo, you have one male and one female bonobo, then the male is dominant. They usually do it afterwards. We know that even baboons in the wild, they don’t fight like that. One instance he cites is Donna, a chimpanzee female who looks and acts decidedly masculine.

FdW: She had female genitalia.

Chimpanzees are very male dominant, first of all, but they’re also very dominance-oriented. In all the primates, the males are dominant over the females.

And finally, there are behavioral potentials that we don’t always get to see but that are clearly present and that blur these sex differences that we see and that we should pay attention to, especially given that we would like to change society.