As though to mirror the "peaceful" tendencies of the bonobo, this door says, in white chalk, in French, "Be Polite Please". This was photographed when I was a volunteer in the Peace Corps -- the site was Omendjadi, and the resident was a fellow teacher.Omendjadi, smack dab in the center of Zaire, (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), is within the range of the bonobo, although bonobos are not found there now. No one is certain, but they were probably hunted out long ago. As one goes further north, deeper into the rain forest, one encounters the bonobo. Research is ongoing throughout the historical range of the bonobo to figure out what and where their numbers actually are.
Photo by D. Messinger
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