From cnn.com......





Expert: Congo's 'forest hippies' dying out



KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -- Pygmy chimpanzees dubbed "hippies of the forest" for resolving conflicts through sex rather than violence are dying out faster than ever in post-war Democratic Republic of Congo, a conservationist said on Tuesday.



Bonobos, the rarest of all the great apes, are being killed in large numbers by bands of gunmen two years after the vast central African country's most recent war officially ended.



"In 1980, there were about 100,000 bonobos in Congo. In 1990 there were thought to be 10,000," Claudine Andre, founder of the Lola ya Bonobo [Bonobo Paradise] sanctuary just outside Kinshasa, told Reuters in an interview.



"Since then we have had two wars, their habitat has been occupied and the post-conflict period has been even harder, so I fear for what the situation is now," she said, adding that she was still receiving orphans after the war.



Experts warn bonobos, one of man's closest relatives, could die out within 50 years from poaching, logging and disease.



Hundreds of conservationists and policy makers from 23 nations are in Kinshasa this week to map out a survival plan for the world's gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and bonobos.



"Bonobos are the species of great ape that is most likely to disappear," Andre said, calling to the orphaned chimpanzees through a fence separating the thickly forested sanctuary from the encroaching outskirts of the crumbling capital.



Only found in remote corners of Congo -- a vast and inaccessible country that has been torn apart by a decade of war -- the "forgotten ape" is said by scientists to be one of the least hostile primates.



"The bonobo's outlook is to search for peace," Andre said. "All their conflicts are resolved peacefully, often through sex. They are the hippies of the forest."





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Now if only Bush tried to resolve things the same way: Send a detachment of Desperate Housewives into Iraq....... Although perhaps our Muslim friends might not appreciate it, at least it would end that show.

"All their conflicts are resolved peacefully, often through sex.

For a second there I thought they were talking about toomuch'stash and me...

Imagine George and Laura rocking 1600 Pennsylvania. Seriously, if Laura would just put out more, trust me, there would be an exit strategy for Iraq. I know she's trying to set a good example for the kids, but when daddy gets cranky, people die.