Congolese Bonobo (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Congolese Bonobo

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A bonobo, formerly called a pygmy chimpanzee, is eating fruit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bonobos, chimps, gorillas and humans have all evolved their own gut microbes based on an ancestral gut flora in our most recent common ancestor.

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Alexander Georgiev photo, courtesy of Science

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