For those who might have wondered why the covers of two recently published books by Francis Levy and Susan Squire featured the same photograph of amorous bonobos, the Observer has your answer. Turns out the photo, featured in a New Yorker article by Ian Parker, was taken by primatologist Frans de Waal – and when both Squire and Levy saw the photo, both asked permission to use it. “I received emails about this cover from both authors or publishers in the same week,” de Waal. “I am not a photo agency, but a busy scientist, so [I] don’t keep very […]