Finding a Steemian like you is why I love Steemit. We have an in house Primatologist.

How long have you personally been following this group? A great interest of mine has been to follow the observations being made between Chimps, Bonobos and human evolutionary psycology.

I would love to get your take on this subject. What is your knowledge on Bonobos? I know you are studying chimps at the moment, but I'm just wondering if that has been a subject of interest to you as well.

Particularily violence with chimp societies. Have you ever observed violence within the group or towards other groups? I ask because of the General peacefulness within the Bonobo societies. I know that the violent ape hypothesis came from studies partly by Jane Goodal (please correct me if I am wrong). But some people have criticized certain studies they did because of the way they interfered with the environment of the studied groups. Where the reseaerchers were leaving Bananas in a certain location at certain times. The criticism is that the reason the researchers were criticized was because they had created a finite resource for the chimps and had introduced an element of scarcity into the group, generating much more violence. Often seen in humans when there is scarcity present in the environment. Of coarse correct me on any of what I just said. I may as well be talking out of my ass, but that is the extent on my knowledge regarding it.

I'm interested because I find it curious how people will justify human behavior, particularily greedy, violent, egoitistical behavior within our species, because of the Violent primate hypothesis. But they fail to mention the correlation of humans to Bonobos, and there general peaceful society. Considering that Human are equidistant genetically to Bonobos as they are Chimps. Again correct me if I am wrong.

I think Bonobos are an interesting animal because of the lack of violence observed. But do you think Chimps are as violent as we are led to believe? What kind of violence have you seen in your study? And what caused it?

Again sorry if I botched any of that. This is a topic of great interest of mine. Evolutionary psycology.

Keep up the good work!