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60 Minutes

12/6/2015: Confidential Informants, Bonobos

60 Minutes

CBS News

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42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Correspondent Lesley Stahl investigates the controversial use of young, small-time drug dealers as untrained undercover informants in the war on drugs. And correspondent Anderson Cooper reports on bonobos, a unique species of great apes that live in female-dominated groups. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It felt like I had a gun to my head. Have you told them yet that you had nothing to do with this?

0:39.0

They almost convince you that you're guilty.

0:42.5

He's talking about police pressuring him into becoming a confidential informant.

0:47.4

And he did.

0:48.9

On his college campus, he went to work helping police catch drug dealers.

0:53.7

It's a practice we discovered is going on across the country involving young people.

0:59.0

You can't tell anybody you're working from you.

1:01.0

Sometimes with tragic consequences.

1:03.0

They shot her five times when they found the wire in a purse and dumped their body in a ditch 50 miles away.

1:10.0

Bonobos are unique among great and dumped their body in a ditch 50 miles away.

1:17.3

Bonobos are unique among great apes because they're not dominated by males.

1:20.0

It's the females who run the show.

1:26.8

Here, if you try to be in an alpha male, you will be, as the Congolese say, corrected by the females.

1:30.2

Not just by one female, but by sort of alliance of females. That's right.

1:31.2

Once more, bonobos have never been observed to kill each other.

1:34.7

The same can't be said of chimpanzees or of humans, for that matter.

1:41.3

Those high-pitched screeches are a sophisticated form of communication, and their gestures are unmistakable.

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