Soy Female bonobos, cousins to humans, team up to assert power over males, study shows

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When a male bonobo oversteps his bounds — say, by hopping into a tree and shaking the branches while others are trying to feed — females in the troop tend to act fast.
They kick him, they chase him, they scream at him — getting so loud, according to behavioral ecologist Barbara Fruth, “you have to block your ears.”


Male bonobos are decidedly bigger than females. Yet unlike in so many other species with large differences in size between the sexes, when it comes to deciding when to mate and who gets first dibs at food, female bonobos tend to be the ones in charge.
For decades, it has been a mystery why females in this species of great apes, one of humanity’s closest living relatives, are perched so high in the hierarchy.

Now, scientists say they’ve found the secret to this paradox: Female bonobos maintain power by forming alliances to suppress male aggression.

“Male dominance is not evolutionarily inevitable,” said Harvard behavioral ecologist Martin Surbeck, who worked with Fruth on a study published Thursday in the journal Communications Biology.

The research shows that physical size and strength alone don’t determine power among these cousins of ours, offering potential lessons for humanity itself.
“Women are often victims of male violence around the globe,” said Laura Lewis, a postdoctoral fellow and biological anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley who was not involved in the research. “This study could provide insight into how women could build power to better protect ourselves from male violence — by forming and maintaining coalitions, or alliances, with one another, just like our bonobo cousins.”

For their study, Fruth, Surbeck and their colleagues examined 30 years of observations of conflicts in six bonobo communities in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At first, Surbeck thought the fact that females hold such sway in bonobo societies was tied to reproduction. Perhaps, he thought, females assert dominance by concealing ovulation from their male counterparts, giving them control over mating opportunities.
The power of female coalition formation came as a surprise to him. The vast majority of coalitions — 85 percent — involved females ganging up on males. And of the nearly 1,800 conflicts observed between males and females, females won about three-fifths of them.

Such attacks can leave males alone and injured for days or weeks. Witnessing one, Surbeck said, “really makes you like, ‘Gosh, male bonobo, I would not overstep certain boundaries.’”
“They’re scary as well for observers,” he added. “It’s a very efficient way to put the man in their place.”

Christopher Krupenye, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies cognition in great apes, praised the study for compiling a huge amount of data to find this statistical link.
But he added that more observations of how bonobo communities change over time are needed to determine whether coalition formation really gives the females power, or is simply a result of their already having power.

“In concert with related work in chimpanzees and other primates, it seems very likely that coalitions have been a tool for building and maintaining power for millions of years, dating back at least to our common ancestor with the other apes,” he said.
Why bonobos, of all animals, are so effective at forming female alliances remains unclear.
“I’m still puzzled,” said Fruth, a professor at Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and senior author on the paper. “We might never know, but it gives me a glimmer of hope that females of our closest living relatives, in our evolutionary line, teamed up to take the reins of power alongside males.”

(((Bonobos))) at it again

 

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even the fucking bonobo foids have in-group preference TAKE ME OFF THIS RIDE

 

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Why bonobos, of all animals, are so effective at forming female alliances remains unclear.
“I’m still puzzled,” said Fruth, a professor at Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and senior author on the paper. “We might never know, but it gives me a glimmer of hope that females of our closest living relatives, in our evolutionary line, teamed up to take the reins of power alongside males.”

A little lesson in human psychology - read the quote and think about what this fucking retard has to presuppose to think like this. For one he has to assume universal female oppression - evidence please? Next, he has to assume that he is somehow the only one who recognizes that "women are oppressed." Why is that a necessary presupposition for him to make the claim?

Let's assume this hypothetical: 100 people strong group exists. 99 of them call 1 person a victim and treat them better to compensate for that persons victimhood disadvantage. This actually privileges the "victim." The only way for the 99 to not realize that the victim is actually priviliged by constant virtue signalling, is for everyone of the 99 to assume that they are somehow unique in recognizing and helping the victim. They have to think they are the knight in shining armor swooping in to save the fair maiden.
Basically it rests on a retarded hero, one man army fantasy.

The guy in the quote has to have such little introspection that he literally believes that he is the only man to think "ooga booga women special, ooga booga me help women." If he in anyway had awareness of the fact that 99% of society views women as victims and therefore treats them better to compensate for their victimhood, THUS ERASING THEIR FUCKING VICTIMHOOD AND GRANTING THEM PRIVILIGE, he couldnt possibly be believing that. So he has to be operating on male hyper-agency, believing that he and his thoughts are somehow special and unique. The irony of an actual professor lacking self-awarness to such a degree is hilarious.

For the record, actual victims are not recognized by society. If a group collectively recognizes a group as victims in need of help, as I laid out, they can no longer be called victims. Actual victims are shunned, ostracized and silenced and the label of "victim" is denied to them by the group.

@reveries @Sergeant Kelly - if you are a man, you are denied the victim label by default. Your only option is to align with an existing victim group. In my case, by having myself designated as mentally ill, I am placed in the same camp as women, since most people that receive the modern day badge of honor called "mental illness diagnosis" are women.​

 

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Let's assume this hypothetical: 100 people strong group exists. 99 of them call 1 person a victim and treat them better to compensate for that persons victimhood disadvantage. This actually privileges the "victim." The only way for the 99 to not realize that the victim is actually priviliged by constant virtue signalling, is for everyone of the 99 to assume that they are somehow unique in recognizing and helping the victim. They have to think they are the knight in shining armor swooping in to save the fair maiden.
Basically it rests on a retarded hero, one man army fantasy.

That's a very good point. This faggot thinks exactly what they want him and everybody else to think - that he's the only enlightened one who recognizes the "oppression", and everyone else doesn't, hence completely missing the fact that, in reality, everybody else thinks the same and treats foids as if they were made of glass, like some delicate flowers, with extra-extra-extra-care and protection and forgiveness that no other social class can ever dream of, only little children come close.

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even the fucking bonobo foids have in-group preference TAKE ME OFF THIS RIDE

God fucking damnit, this fucking gay earth man