The story
From Bolobo, a village on the Congo River where Europeans first made contact with the species. Bolobo is possibly imitative of the bubbling of the rapids at that section of the Congo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
bonobo
bo·no·boToday it means: A great ape, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river. Full definition →