Bonobos are not territorial, but do have a home range of about 2200-5800 hecta-acres with a day range of 1200-2400 meters (www.geocities.com). The lack of competition for resources and the ease and abundance of mating opportunities makes territorial protection unnecessary. Bonobos' diet consists primarily of fruit, which tends to be spread out over a relatively large area, causing them to have to travel daily within their day range looking for food, and making territorial protection both unfeasible and unnecessary (Van Elsacker, 2001).

Because of the large size of their day range, bonobos search for new sleeping sites each night, as they build new "beds" made of sticks and leaves. Little to no competition exists between bonobo groups, although some teeth barring and a minimal amount of agonistic behavior has been seen. Usually when meeting a foreign bonobo, the two will first engage in some type of sexual behavior, which has been seen as being done in the place of fighting (Hohmann, 2001). Bonobos' only real predators are humans, who hunt them for bushmeat and who continue to destroy their small habitat. They have no real defense mechanism, for they are very non-confrontational (they prefer sex to fighting) and as they have no non-human predators (de Waal, 1995).