Editing Bonobo (section)

== Etymology ==
Formerly the bonobo was known as the "pygmy chimpanzee", despite the bonobo having a similar body size to the common chimpanzee. The name "pygmy" was given by the German zoologist [[Ernst Schwarz (zoologist)|Ernst Schwarz]] in 1929, who classified the species on the basis of a previously mislabeled bonobo cranium, noting its diminutive size compared to chimpanzee skulls.<ref name="Herzfeld2007" />

The name "bonobo" first appeared in 1954, when Austrian zoologist [[Eduard Paul Tratz]] and German biologist [[Heinz Heck]] proposed it as a new and separate generic term for pygmy chimpanzees. The name is thought to derive from a misspelling on a shipping crate from the town of [[Bolobo]] on the [[Congo River]] near the location from which the first bonobo specimens were collected in the 1920s.<ref name="Savage-Rumbaugh1994">{{cite book | vauthors = Savage-Rumbaugh S, Lewin R |year=1994 |title=Kanzi: the ape at the brink of the human mind |url=https://archive.org/details/kanzi00sues |url-access=registration |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-385-40332-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/kanzi00sues/page/97 97]}}</ref><ref name="deWaal2005">{{cite book | vauthors = de Waal F |year=2005 |title=Our Inner Ape |publisher=[[Riverhead Books]] |isbn=978-1-57322-312-6}}</ref>