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Radio 4,1 min

The extraordinary sex lives of the our closest ape relatives

The Life Scientific

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Frans de Waal describes how bonobos have ten second sex to calm each other down. Image: Female bonobos play together at the Planckendael zoo © GEORGES GOBET/AFP/GettyImages

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