I recently discovered that de Waal is a rather controversial figure in primatology circles. I’m probably getting this wrong since IANA(P|Z|B)[0] but I believe

I recently discovered that de Waal is a rather controversial figure in primatology circles. I’m probably getting this wrong since IANA(P|Z|B)[0] but I believe the gist was that he’d studied Bonobos in captivity and made all kinds of sweeping generalizations and questionable extrapolations based on his observations, and it turned out that the same animals studied in the wild behaved quite differently and a lot of people think his conclusions are not only wrong but dangerous, in that a lot of lay people use his work to give scientific legitimacy to popular but distinctly unscientific ideas. FWIW I too dislike human exceptionalism, I just happen to have run across the “de Waal controversy” recently and thought I’d mention it. [0]: Primatologist? Zoologist? Biologist? But at least I’m a primate!