Dr. Ghislaine Pussait, a French primatologist & ethologist, focuses on wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) in Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Homo Bonobo Project is a multimedia presentation by the globe-trotting Belgian primatologist Dr. Ghislaine Pussait, as played by her creator Shelly Mars.
Starting in 2006, Mars began an intensive study of the bonobo apes, the most endangered and least known of the Great Apes. The bonobos have been recently featured in pop culture and the press as “the make-love-not-war apes,” or “the hippie chimps,” because of their nonviolent nature, pansexuality, and matriarchal social structure. Graceful, charming, intelligent-and-tragic-bonobos bear a striking resemblance to humans, and are our closest relatives, sharing 99.5% of our DNA.
Native to only one small area in the Congo, their numbers are being radically reduced by pressures from civil war, poachers, and deforestation. With a grant from the Arcus Foundation, Mars visited bonobo environments and study centers in the US and the Congo. She videotaped and connected with many important primatologists and field workers, and became increasingly fascinated with them and their urgently important work.
more info: homobonoboproject.com
Sunday March 27, 2011 at 7pm
Sunday March 27, 2011 at 7pm
*this addition of Trash Pony's Science is for Mature Audiences Only
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