ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photo by @FransLanting | We celebrate World Bonobo Day (February 14) with this image. You’re looking at a female bonobo playing with an infant by balancing it on her feet—a game any human parent can relate to. Bonobos engage in social interactions that we have long associated as exclusively human: They play, and express empathy. Compared with chimps, bonobo brains appear to be more developed in areas vital to emotions, such as feeling empathy and sensing distress in others. I made this image at @Lolayabonobo, a remarkable sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where individual animals confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade are given a new lease on life. Perhaps fewer than 10,000 bonobos live in the jungles of the Congo Basin, the only place where they occur in the wild. Their survival depends on our ability to apply the same kind of compassion for them that we cherish so much in ourselves. Follow me @FransLanting and Christine Eckstrom for more stories about the connections between us and our relatives on the great tree of life. @thephotosociety #Bonobos #Chimps #Apes #Play #WorldBonoboDay」2月14日 20時38分