BONOBO

Etymology

From Bolobo, a village on the Congo River where Europeans first made contact with the species. Bolobo is possibly imitative of the bubbling of the rapids at that section of the Congo.

Noun

bonobo (plural bonobos)

The pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.

Source: Wiktionary



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