Moving bonobos off the scientifically endangered list
Moving bonobos off the scientifically endangered list
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将倭黑猩猩从科学濒危名单中移出
作者：
Hare;B.;& Yamamoto;S.
这期行为专刊包括12篇新颖的经验性论文，重点关注圈养和野生倭黑猩猩（Pan paniscus）的行为和认知。倭黑猩猩是我们这个物种鲜为人知的近亲，在过去的十年里，倭黑猩猩作为一个焦点物种，已经从很少被研究到越来越受欢迎。我们认为倭黑猩猩已经准备好从科学濒危名单上消失了。这期特刊是展示倭黑猩猩研究复兴正在顺利进行的证据A。在这篇社论中，我们回顾了倭黑猩猩和黑猩猩与人类比彼此更相似的一些特征。我们展示了这意味着倭黑猩猩如何为人类独特性的想法提供了一个非常强大的测试，并且对于确定猿类认知特征进化的进化过程至关重要。本导言将特刊中的12个经验贡献置于它们所贡献的更大的进化背景中。总的来说，这本特刊展示了任何对了解人类或黑猩猩感兴趣的人也必须了解倭黑猩猩。
This Special Issue of Behaviour includes twelve novel empirical papers focusing on the behaviour and cognition of both captive and wild bonobos (Pan paniscus). As our species less known closest relative, the bonobo has gone from being little studied to increasingly popular as a species of focus over the past decade. We suggest that bonobos are ready to come off the scientific endangered list as a result. This Special Issue is exhibit A in showing that a renaissance in bonobo research is well underway. In this Editorial we review a number of traits in which bonobos and chimpanzees are more similar to humans than they are each other. We show how this means that bonobos provide an extremely powerful test of ideas about human uniqueness as well as being crucial to determining the evolutionary processes by which cognitive traits evolve in apes. This introduction places the twelve empirical contributions within the Special Issue in the larger evolutionary context to which they contribute. Overall this Special Issue demonstrates how anyone interested in understanding humans or chimpanzees must also know bonobos.