Isabel Behncke

Isabel Behncke Izquierdo is a Chilean primatologist who studies the social behaviour, especially play, of bonobos (pan paniscus) the other species, together with Chimpanzee, inside the genus Pan. In 2011 she was a TED Fellow and gave a talk "Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans".

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In October 2013 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. Her hypothetical donation to this fictional museum was "a laughing tree", a tree in which Bonobos congregated and laughed such that the tree itself seemed to laugh.

She is a member of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford. and the Research Center in Social Complexity at the Universidad del Desarrollo