Curations from the Human Jungle
[Silverback J of the Mendocino Bonobos has contributed some epic yarns to Silverback Digest over the year, although we haven't heard from recently. This story is set against a dramatic backdrop of slow pitch softball, so often a world where the raw emotions of the male of the species simmer just beneath the placid waters... Continue Reading →
[Girls just wanna have fun? We can learn a lot by observing our fellow great apes. Bonobos seem to have figured out a few things that have eluded humans to date. SB SM] https://www.smithsonianmag.com Female Bonobos Assert Their Dominance Over Males by Banding Together, New Study Suggests Bonobos, which are among our closest living relatives,... Continue Reading →
[Silverback John of the Mendocino Bonobos passed this along so that we can get a better sense of where we rank in the order of Great Ape species. SB SM] https://www.scientificamerican.com/ February 3, 2025 Bonobos Can Tell When a Human Doesn’t Know Something An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge... Continue Reading →
The Final Lap, or What It's Like to Be 89 [SB Lloyd is one of those guys who is always taking pains to point out how much cooler he is than you, and the discouraging part is that he is. I keep wondering if I'm going to be around to plant peas this spring, and... Continue Reading →