Bonobo

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Bonobo

Bonobos, formerly called 'pygmy chimpanzees' are the least known of the great apes. Their scientific name Pan paniscus reveals that they share the same genus with common chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes. The species was not formally recognized until the late 1920s, more than a decade after mountain gorillas, when a museum skull was distinguished from common chimpanzees.

Bonobos and common chimpanzees (collectively 'chimpanzees') are recognized as the closest living relatives to humans. Depending on what regions of the genome are being looked at, their DNA is somehwere between 98 and 99.4% identical to humans.[1] This raises interesting and hotly debated questions about how humans and their ancestors should fit into the phylogenetic tree of great apes.

Bonobos relevance to sasquatch investigation is that: 1) along with common chimpanzees, they are currently considered mankind's closest living relative, and 2) they are the most bipedal of all extant apes