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The original was posted on /r/biology by /u/Maleficent-Toe1374 on 2025-10-02 14:05:34+00:00.

Humans don’t have any kind of equal (phenotypically or cultural). Our closest relatives Chimps and Bonobos if you put a human in there with them they’d lose their shit. I actually think even a “feral person” would at least know how to use clothing and would recognize that WE ARE NOT CHIMPS.

But how do chimps and bonobos look at each other? Like if you put similar organisms in the same habitat they seem to get along just fine. Like if you had an aquarium and you put a couple of each Dusky, Galapagos, Grey Reef, Caribbean Reef, Silky, etc. They won’t view the different species as different. They’ll probably school with each other just as much as they would with the members of their own kind. If you put different species of Macaw together they don’t kill each other for looking different. I have a feeling they see themselves as “one kind”.

Alligators and Crocodiles are cohabed ALL THE TIME, and even though they are 100 MILLION YEARS apart (yeah you’re more closely related too a kangaroo than they are too each other) and they have absolutely 0 issues with each other and even breed (though they can’t actually produce offspring together).

So basically, How do you think these examples actually look at each other? Different races? Different ethnicities? Honestly do you think they view themselves as humans and the other guys as chimps or bonobos?

Now I know they probably don’t have as complex a hierarchy of superiority as humans do but I am dying to actually know