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humanodon  ·  4286 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Are Chimpanzees Cultural?

Hmmm. I was reading in the latest issue of National Geographic that the way that bonobos and chimps socialize is very different and it seemed to me as a lay person that the way that chimps socialize is much closer to the way humans socialize than the way bonobos do. In humans, it's pretty clear that culture plays a huge role in how people are socialized and how they socialize with others from outside their culture vs. how they socialize with people from within their culture, but language seems to be a huge part of that, so I wonder, can bonobos and chimps communicate with each other? From the article I read in National Geographic it seems like they don't have much contact with each other.