Bonobo
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- Type: Photograph
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- Period:
- 2010s
- Description: This image shows a female bonobo whose lips are stained with red clay. Bonobos often eat clay to help them digest unripe fruit.
The bonobo is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other being the common chimpanzee. Bonobos are native to the Democratic Republic of Congo, they live to the south of the river Congo and to the north separated by this enormous expanse of water- live their cousins, chimpanzees.
Bonobos are endangered and protected by law, but their numbers continue to drop as they are hunted for bushmeat and the wildlife trade. Their habitat is also increasingly being lost as is shown here by a forest which was recently cleared for slash-and-burn agriculture.
- Dimensions: 63.5cm x 93.5 cm unframed
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store
- Accession Number: 2020.2
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
