Female bonobos in Congo’s LuiKotale forest have even been recorded using specialized gestures and pantomime to convey their desire for a bit of G-G. The soliciting female will point backwards with a foot towards her sexual swelling and then shimmy her hips in imitation of a rub, at which display the second bonobo will embrace her for the real thing. The authors of the paper note the significance of such gestures in the evolution of language – the ability to point
