She told me about experiments she had recently begun with the bonobos in Stuttgart, playing video of them and humans doing various things to figure out which videos and activities they preferred watching (in a follow-up interview, she told me they had loved videos of humans doing modern dance and hated videos of leopards, humans dancing like snakes, and the zoo’s vet, which moved them to kick and slap the video monitor). I was surprised that bonobos liked watching bonobo videos.
