[Buddha-l] Peace 'n love bonobo apes not so lovey-dovey after all

[Curt Steinmetz]

It was already well known that Bonobos are not vegetarians. What is the 
significance of the discovery that they eat monkeys?

The only creatures on earth who do not feed off other creatures are 
auto-trophs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotroph

The rest of us are killers.

Curt

jkirk wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/5pzmsj 
>
> Why am I posting this here? 
> Well, it has seemed to this observer that various media
> --including science media-- have tended to try to avoid obvious
> parallels between ape and human primates..even as they (media)
> wallow in sentimentality about some of them, recently the bonobo
> chimps, even as they elsewhere point out there's very little
> difference between ape primate and human primate DNA. The latter
> being the case, the search for ever-lovin' primates (some
> journalism even suggested that bonobos' use of sex to promote
> 'peace' --tell it to Mata Hari-- might provide a model for human
> improvements) seems finally to have come to an end with this
> research report. 
> We are still all in the same ugly sense-objects boat, and the
> bonobos never got a Buddha.
> (Possible content for a new sci-fi novel?)
>  
> Joanna
>
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