00:00If we don't take care of it, it will completely disappear for humanity.
00:19Bonobo is a species that only lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, nowhere
00:45else in the world, and that is in danger of extinction because it is threatened by
00:52poaching and deforestation.
00:55Bonobos are part of the family of great apes, and there are four in the world.
01:00We have the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the orang-outan, and finally the bonobo.
01:07What is special about the bonobo is that it is genetically the closest cousin of man,
01:12with 99% of its behavior.
01:19The bonobo is considered to be an animal that lives in a very developed and well-structured
01:44social structure, but it is also considered to be the most peaceful of the great apes.
01:48The bonobos have a dispute to negotiate by sexual approach.
01:54They get together, they make love during the war, and it involves the males, the females,
02:00the big ones and the little ones.
02:02All the individuals in the group are involved because every time there is a stress in the
02:05group, they have to calm down.
02:07In the society of bonobos, they are females who lead.
02:11They are dominant and powerful.
02:13The goal is to maintain good cohesion, discipline, especially between the males.
02:23With the evolution of testosterone that they have as they grow, it means that the males
02:28have to measure themselves.
02:29The females are there to make peace, to maintain calm, to discipline those who try to show
02:35that they are higher, and to maintain a balance.
02:44Their reproduction is slow and difficult.
02:48The females give birth to a baby every five years of their life.
02:53And as they enter sexual maturity at the age of about 12, they have the chance to have
02:58only 4 to 5 babies in their entire life, given that the spacing is 5 years, and that the
03:04life expectancy goes up to 50 to 60 years.
03:14These are babies who are psychologically traumatized because of the death of their mother
03:19in the wild.
03:20They experience the same shock as a war-victim.
03:23Bonobos babies let themselves die without their mother because the birth depends entirely
03:29on the maternal presence.
03:31And to be able to resolve this trauma, the only initiative is to find them a mother
03:38who, thanks to the affection and maternal love they give them, manages to forget the shock,
03:45the trauma, all the pain they have experienced.
03:57They play all the time, it doesn't stop.
03:59They are full of energy.
04:01Playing is normally a behavior that is experienced until adulthood among bonobos.
04:06And as long as they are small, this is the primary activity, after feeding.
04:19Here, paradise, in fact, primarily ensures this psychological rehabilitation of orphans
04:25in order to allow a good growth, a good aptitude, a good rehabilitation in the social
04:32environment until they are brought back into the wild.
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