22-01-2018, 08:53 PM
That's fascinating!
Even though we are genetically closer to Bonobos than to Orangutans (a small difference), if you carefully watch the facial expressions and body language of Orangs and how much they grasp in a social situation, they are hauntingly similar to us. This is especially surprising since they are not social animals in the same sense as bonobos, chimps, and gorillas. They tend to be more solitary than other high-level primates.
Even though we are genetically closer to Bonobos than to Orangutans (a small difference), if you carefully watch the facial expressions and body language of Orangs and how much they grasp in a social situation, they are hauntingly similar to us. This is especially surprising since they are not social animals in the same sense as bonobos, chimps, and gorillas. They tend to be more solitary than other high-level primates.