Adult female bonobos are autonomous leaders of their species, enjoying a high level of power and satisfaction through cooperation and support of their fellow females, while ensuring safe and secure survival of their offspring.
Despite a lower intelligence level in comparison to us, they managed to create a successful social system.
The two factors which stick out and differentiate them from us are a prominent clitoris and an attitude of healthy superiority, which together serve the common good of the bonobo species.
Less than 20% of all primate species have a visible ovulation, or estrus, in which the vulva swells up as a sign of fertility. Menstruation and growth of the vulva begin after age 8 with full fertility being achieved by age 14.
The bonobo cycle lasts 60 days, 2/3 of which the female is in estrus. The chimpanzee cycle lasts 36 days, ½ of which the female is in estrus.
Bonobo sexual encounters appear casual, but are conducted in a highly affectionate manner. While the younger and older adults engage in quite versatile sexual techniques, the youngest ones join them by holding on to them any way they can.
Despite a great sense of identification with our powerful female relatives, most of us are incapable of copying their style due to the bonobo female’s exceptionally developed clitoral and orgasmic magnitude. Our average adult female sexuality is somewhere at the level of the bonobo female child.
The most interesting aspect of the female bonobo lifestyle is the direct parallel between their sexual and executive function.
Bonobos live in large groups which split into smaller groups during the day in the search for food. Both, the larger and the smaller groups, are ran by adult females and consist of the adult female‘s young, her sons and their female partners.
Generally female dominance within various species of primates is far more common than previously reported.
Among chimpanzees, female coalitions are more solid and enduring then male ones.
Bonobos and chimpanzees are on average up to 5 times stronger than us, despite a significantly smaller frame. Bonobos are slightly smaller, darker, more slender and youthful than chimpanzees, and walk upright more often.
The primate species emerged 60 million BP (before present). 40 million years later, apes evolved from monkeys, and by 14 million BP, our ape ancestor, Genus Dryopithecus, took ground in Eurasia.
Then, 9 million BP, Dryopithecus split into two species, the Gorillini which evolved into the gorilla, and Hominini, the direct ancestor we share with the chimpanzees.
