(07-07-2011, 11:51 PM)zenmaster Wrote: This is actually outdated info. The bonobo shares more 12.4% more DNA in common with humans than with chimps. So the bonobo is the most closely-related ape to us.
OK, thanks for the correction. Do you have a link? I'd be interested in reading more. But in any event, bonobos are closely related to chimpanzees and also eat meat.
Quotes below are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Quote:The bonobo Pan paniscus, previously called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan. The other species in genus Pan is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee. Although the name "chimpanzee" is sometimes used to refer to both species together, it is usually understood as referring to the common chimpanzee, while Pan paniscus is usually referred to as the bonobo.
Quote:This primate is mainly frugivorous, but supplements its diet with leaves and meat from small vertebrates such as flying squirrels and duikers, and invertebrates. In some instances, bonobos have been shown to consume lower-order primates. Some claim that bonobos have also been known to practice cannibalism in captivity, a claim disputed by others. However there is at least one confirmed report of cannibalism in the wild as reported by researchers Gottfried Hohmann and Andrew Fowler.