Your Life as a Chimp
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- In this video we discover what your life would’ve been like if you were born as a Chimpanzee
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"You are now an adult chimp and no one likes you anymore." That hit too close for comfort.
Well, they are some of our closest relatives (unfortunately)
@@casualsleepingdragon8501that mfer is not related to me
@@Damnto it might seem crazy what I'm bout to sayy...
True
@@Damnto Fun fact, you are (extremely distantly) related to the bacteria inside your body. All extant life on Earth shares a common ancestor LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor).
Iirc, scientists found that chimps raised in captivity and then released to the wild, outside of the typical patriarchal social structure of wild chimps, were a lot kinder to each other. Could say something about how violence is a perpetual cycle in animals just as much as it is in humans
So... your evidence for less violent chimps is being nurtured by humans?
I think that just proves that we're the less violent creature. I would put the violence scale as this: Chimp>Human>Gorilla>Orangutan
Yet much worse at surviving in the wild.
Be it male or female, every species of mammal need a strong dominant gender. In the case of humans and chimps, it's the males.
I suppose you could say that when we're horrible to each other, we behave like animals. 😉
@@pierrebegley2746 Or the fact that we're more like Orangutans/Bonobos in our chill, but can as easily swing to the other extreme due to our purported morals or even desperation
their environment is what makes them violent, there isn't much food where they live so natural selection did its thing because more violent chimps are more likely to secure food for themselves and thus pass on their genes
"No other species has shown this much aggression towards females"
Male ducks:
Male dolphins:
Male sea otters:
W list
(Editing my comment just for one of my replies. When I say "less evolved" than humans, what I mean is chimps arent as advanced or complex as hominins, and what I describe is what some experts believe is one thing that holds them back from evolving into something more humanlike)
I remember reading on anthropology and they had a chimp expert chime in to say that the main thing holding chimps back from evolving into something more advanced like early species of human is the fact that so many of them do not have the same kind of empathy that humans and even dogs have. For example, you're taking a walk in the park one day and you see someone off the trail who has been pinned under a fallen tree and is begging you desperately to help them. If you're a normal human, theres something inside of you that says you cant just ignore this, and you either attempt to help or call someone to help, even though you do not know this person, they are a stranger to you. And if you DONT help for what ever reason, you may struggle for many years to live with the fact that someone was begging you to save their life and you didnt do anything, and just left them there. Their cries may haunt you in your memories for the rest of your life. This his how the average human is. The human species does have its violent members but the average functioning human does not want to see another human suffer, and will want to help a person who they see is in immediate danger, even if that person is a stranger to them. The human will have the desire to help another human even if the human helping does not receive anything in exchange for helping. We have seen this play out in situations where there is a car accident and someone is pinned under a car, and several people stop their cars on the side of the road and get together to help lift the car off of the person, even though none of them know each other. This is an extremely unique trait among humans as most animals in the wild will only try to rescue members of its own pack/herd/troop
The chimp experts chimps are not like humans in this regard. The average chimp could be sitting on a riverbank and eating fruit, and if it sees another chimp drowning but that chimp is a stranger to the first chimp, that first chimp will not have any instinct or desire to even reach its hand out to save the drowning chimp, even if there is no danger or downsides to helping that other chimp. The chimp will continue what its doing while the other chimp drowns. This chimp would only help other chimps if it already knew that chimp, such as it being a member of its own troop. Experts believe that the reason empathy helped humans evolve was because being only concerned for oneself or ones own group would lead to less cooperation, which would mean overall less members of the species would survive. Human empathy would help in the evolution of language and cooperation and tool use. Empathy also helps us find ways to communicate with other humans who cannot communicate with spoken language, which means more people could be helped and would survive. You couldnt call humans a truly evil species without ignoring the fact that there are people who are able to thrive with disabilities thanks to their fellow humans, disabilities that are normally a death sentence in the animal kingdom
This makes me wonder if psychopathy is a developmental disorder, like they just never developed that evolved part of the brain, so it reverts back to the chimp levels of empathy.
Sort of like a Down Syndrome for emotions.
A lot of words to say "humans are more advanced because we get along better, and cooperation makes stuff happen." Also, chimps are not any less "evolved" than humans, there is no such thing as "less evolved." Evolution makes every organism the best for its own environment, even living fossils are evolved, they just never had a reason to change their lifestyle.
just wrote an ethics paper about using sociobiology and chimps to find origin of human ethics and I wish I would have seen this comment sooner it would have made my paper so much better. thank you for this info though, it is absolutely fascinating
@@bugjams ok but everyone else knew what I meant, even if I chose the wrong wording. What I meant was, they're hominids but they havent evolved into homiNINS. They have the potential to evolve into something similar to a human or australopithecines but what I explained is holding them back from becoming that. What you're correcting me on is like telling someone a tomato is a fruit. We know, but we dont need to be so literal all the time. It looks like everyone knew what I meant
@@TheBluePony3 I didn't mean to offend with my correction, but no, it's not like the tomato = fruit thing. A lot of people I talk to genuinely believe some animals are "more evolved" than others, and when I ask them "How much time has it had to evolve?" I can watch in real time as the light bulb clicks on in their heads. "Ooohhh..." they say.
My comment wasn't meant to be rude, but to point out something for the benefit of people reading these comments who want to learn something.
Fongoli chimp females are the primary hunters of that culture, with females teaching their children to make sharp sticks and hunt with them
These are great hope you find time to make more of these as man i loves the 2 you made so far
Amazing video, looking forward to seeing more uploads from this channel
Thank you! Really happy you liked the video!
TBF, the worst part about the human interactions is being taken to a laboratory.
The fact that the bald chimp was Bezos and not joe rogan actually shocked me.
Why does this resonate with me
🤷♂️
Return to Monke
Soo... familiar....
Because it reminds you of us
Female chimps do hunt. They also tend to use tools more often than males
"A human could never beat a chimp in a 1v1!! Chimps are so much stronger than hu-"
*the Glock-21 in my pocket*
Wow youre so powerful
@@ancientdarkness3102 Nah Tzeentch just gave the me knowledge to manifest a gun into my hand... the gun did the rest
@@somerandommen but khorne can give you the power to face those beasts with an axe and Your bare hands. Thats where real power resides. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
@@ancientdarkness3102 I would be just as dumb as the chimps after 5 years of serving Khorne tho 😔
@@somerandommen who needs to be clever when you have an anti-Magic collar and a big ass axe and can roar like a tiger
Hey, this content is unique, and I love your style, remember me when you get famous.
Sorry I forgot this video was old and ended up looking like a bot
Way more similar to us than I was ready for. How sure are we that the first human community wasn't a bunch of people removing lice and ticks from each other😂
I've been bingeing these since i found them earlier. I'm gonna need more
This channel is so underrated
This gonna blow, calling it now!
The way these vids end are hilarious. 😂😂
2:49 was just too cute lol. You know she aint sleeping with you right champ? 😂😂😂
I absloutely loved this video! You to make more "Your life as a _" videos!
Thank you! That’s the plan
Loved the river joke 🤣
The way you said "thats a shame" at the end really connected with me. Welp
Got recommended this on my fyp! Glad TH-cam is pushing smaller channels
Glad TH-cam is pushing smaller channels too haha
I have a sudden urge to climb trees and eat fruits
You should make another one but about monkeys like capuchins and stuff :D
Just makes me feel depressed.... Even chimps achieve more than me
As a ugandan....the corporate uganda joke is funny and quite accurate 😂😂
I love the Isaac HP reference
Except for humans, lmao
Great video, thanks!
Thank you!
This is almost the same as being humans except for just like less technology and less laws but no taxes
you should do povs for both males and females if their lives are as different as they are in chimps
Now I care about chimps less than I did before
Thank you showing jambos back
The below is solely a hypothesis by a layman.
Pre-Agricultural Revolution:
Female homininians are generally not as physically strong as males and give birth to the most helpless primate offspring on Earth. Pregnant for 9 months + over a year of breastfeeding + a baby that needs carried and protected 24/7 = a mother unable to protect and feed herself and her offspring at the same time. The logical source of protection and nurturing for mom while she's protecting and nurturing the baby is the father. Since nature stuck mom unnegotiably with pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding, dad had to hunt and fight off predators while mom stayed at home.
As fair a division of labor as possible given physical limitations and the technological limitations of the day. Not morally right from an educated perspective but a natural pattern for uneducated primitive homininians to fall into. Then the Agricultural Revolution happened.
Post-Agricultural Revolution:
Now homininians stay in one place growing food. Which leads to homininians developing private property (an evoluton of the common concept of territory and territoriality in the kingdom Animalia). The males' generally superior strength and lack of being hampered by pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding (no birth control or social justice) allows them to take control.
Next, the male homininians who now own private property want to leave it to their own offspring. But with no paternity tests or knowledge of anatomy or how conception works, how can you be sure a female's child is yours? You have to stop her from having sex with other males. How do you do that? You have to completely subdue them and make them subordinate to males.
Eventually, the generations forget the reasoning behind this unequal relationship (if they were ever consciously aware of them at all), but the dominant sex enjoys it, so they have every reason to keep promoting and strengthening it. It eventually turns into the assumption or belief that this is the natural order of things, and any attempt to question or deviate from it is evil. People become more and more zealous about defending and maintaining this societal order without questioning why or if it's necessary or logical. Eventually, the idea that the system is a moral rule that it's wrong to deviate from has been around for so long that questioning whether the system is necessary or logical would be evil. Finally, it's been acceoted as the moral rule for so long that nobody even feels the need to question if it's necessary or logical.
Thousands of years later, science and technology have eliminated ALL the conditions that led to female homininians being hampered by reproduction and raising offspring, making the male and female division of labor completely unnecessary and arbitrary. Birth control and paternity tests mean everyone can have sex as much as they want without a male being tricked into providing for another's offspring. All the conditions that motivated males to dominate females are gone (in first world countries, anyway). But it's to an organism's benefit to have a higher status than others do, so the males fight to maintain their dominant status, and there we are.
Yikes, learn about the still existing variety of other human cultures and learn about bonobo society.
You're accidentally using ideals from one human culture as the example of hominoid(hominid?) evolution.
The world is so much more fascinating when you start learning about how differently humans have lived.
(One simple example. Communal breastfeeding. Wet nurses would be more familiar to the wealthy in our culture, but there are varieties of methods.
That has always freed mothers to do different kinds of work, hunting, and foraging.
One more, for kicks. Male vs female farming.
Some West African cultures viewed farming as women's work. Which conflicted with European ideals of it being men's work.
There are records of some enslaved men being offended by having to farm.
However even in Europe, among poorer people and across different cultures farming was the work of the whole family, male and female.)
History is so much more interesting when you weigh what humans did, rather than what one culture idealized.
@@TragoudistrosMPH Did you not read the very first sentence of their comment?
@@tjarkschweizer yes. A lay argument can still be enriched with new perspectives, right? I did not intend offense if that's your interpretation.
I said the OP accidentally used one culture's ideals and that learning new perspectives makes history all the more interesting.
If you had more to add or things I should consider, I'd always appreciate it.
I'm not a professional historian, either. I'm a medical researcher, though. An advantage of the huge push to learn about cultures and diversity is our professional and lay opinions have more perspectives to work with, so our hypotheses can be stronger.
(The communal breastfeeding example is from:
a friend's Islander family (cousins babysitting did/do that)
An older relative mentioning a hypocrisy of US segregation and previous slavery was that white mothers sometimes used segregated or enslaved women as wet nurses. Couldn't eat together, but could breastfeed their child.
Historical shows sometimes mention nobility and wet nurses.)
Those are lay examples, backed by history, that can enrich someone's speculation.
@@TragoudistrosMPH It seemed to me as if you were taking offense but I guess it's all good.
Your replies certainly enrich this comment.
@@tjarkschweizer aww, that was nice of you to say. Brightens my day 😁
Casual Geographic sent me, now subscribed
Thank you!
Great video! Keep up the good work.
Completely unrelated:
I went to a school with a James Toland.
4 in fact.
James Toland II, James Toland III, and James Toland IV, And James Toland I was a football coach.
Casual Geographic sent me here
I did not expect Chimp Bazos...😂😅
This... this is Chicago.
Can we get a life as a bat vid please
This video just described my life
Next "how to be bonobo".
We need something happy
Sounds surprisingly like any average bloke's life...
Hey, someone needs to remain those chimp who is 'THE BIGGEST CHIMP AROUND' soooo.....
Joe Rogan taking hard notes watching this video
I haven’t watches this yet but I’m assuming it’s going to be horrific, because chimps.
ready now to return to monke
100k-1m subscribers easy possible with this format
Corporate Uganda???
...fair 😏
a video about bonobos will be cool too
Aren't we more closely related to Bonobos than Chimps?
Idk why was this in my recommendations, but I'm so happy it was
Glad you liked it!!
@@Jamestoland I like educational stuff, and I like animation so..
I am in the same boar
Ikr. Same
Return to monke
This is just being a human but in 144p
"I want to be a human."
"You can be a human at home."
Being human at home:
It's like you took a human and just took away all of our redeeming qualities morally speaking
@@kaical8273 and gave them the best steroids imaginable
@@AlexBeyman-j2h what do you mean
That 98% DNA match ain't for nothing.
Just remember that the leader or alpha male is not always the strongest and meanest. They can also be empathetic and protect weaker members of the clan and settle disputes, and thus gain support through acting as a leader. There are mean alphas aswell, but it dose not end well for the bully when they no longer are the strong one.
Its usually in the groups intrest not to have a big bully as a leader.
Females can also hold big influence in the groups by rallying all the other females.
wrong on all of them
only weaker alphas tray to appeasing their clan , so they don't get replaced
strong alphas have no mercy
it is absolutely in clan's interests to have strong alpha, because current alpha constantly wil be challenged and if he lose, new alpha will kill all the children to make room for his children
only happens with weak alphas
@@AmirDarkOne all alpha males want to appease the other chimps within the group because they need alliances to maintain power regardless of how strong they are, that’s the whole point of grooming it’s to make connections and alliances between members of the group. That’s why an alpha male who is just a dick to every other chimp in the group is just going to get overthrown by another male who is good at making allies because nobody likes the alpha male. This is why the most successful alpha males are usually the ones who can both make and maintain allies but are also strong enough to defend their position from potential threats both internal and external.
@@AmirDarkOne sounds like a shit plan for surviving 😂
@@AmirDarkOneOk buddy. You seem to know what you're talking about. What pills are you taking?
@@EdoDave
watched some documentary about chimps years ago
I've always aspired to be a chimp, thanks to you I now know what to expect.... I no longer want to be a chimp :(
😂😂 Happy to help
Try be a bonobo, they’re basically less aggressive chimp
@@No1wochienfan they're more like horny chimp tbh
@@No1wochienfanok i'll try
same.
You're gonna need to make more of these "Your life as an animal" videos, they're great!
500th like
Now we need your life as a bonobo, gorilla and orangutan
Wow. Nice suggestions!
Agreed
so you talking about those ginger monkeys
And gibbon!
Bonobo would be waaay too sexually graphic for TH-cam lmaoo
No other species has been known to show such violence towards their females... Except humans. That hit hard😮😢
From the outset he paints humans as excessively violent. Humans are not violent compared to most animals, and it very rare that we kill each other. We build multi multi million societies, where we hunt down and gently punish those who are violent. When humans on a large scale are being violent to each other, it raises concern with humans on the other side of the planet. Most humans basically never need to live in fear of their fellow humans.
@@Rasayana85Yeah. Even in horrible countries to live in like parts of africa, eastern europe, south america, and the middle east they aren't all too violent compared to other animals. Especially apes.
@@Rasayana85 we are nice because we can be. In times of famine we are less nice. Chimps are always one step away from times of famine, no wonder they act the way they do
@@tillburr6799 better let the crew of the endurance know that.
@@bradpotts1747 Siege of Suiyang
Okay but can we talk about how clever they are to use sticks to inspect bodies?
Basically one step away from building a particle accelerator
@@angmori172
evry giant leap starts with Many small steps......thats how we were 50k years ago as well
More like roughly 1 million years ago@@اسكندرفكار
We literally are 98% similar why is this surprising 💀
@@اسكندرفكار If they figure out fire it's only a matter of time before we have to go to war against them.
bruh , if you keep making videos like this your channel will blow up in no time
Literally like this is the exact kind of videos a guy with 2M subs makes
This was random, but yeah its weird how despite our differences chimps are still quite similar to us, i guess we just learned empathy is stonger than you'd expect but are still stupidly selective about it
Empathy can also get you killed very easily. So ... 50/50?
Not really humans apply empathy much more broadly than a lot of other creatures
Chimps are complete assholes and are WAY more selective when it comes to in-group preference. Even Bonobos are, on average, twice as violent as the average human. Chimps are one of the few creatures I couldn't give a toss less if they go extinct or not. The ecosystem will recover.
You can replace every time he says chimp with human and you’d be 98% accurate
True
"You clean them and eat their parasites"
@@spuburqyou dont do that with your friends? Weird
@spuburq that's in the other 2%
@@spuburqdamn you must have no friends if you’ve never picked out fleas from someone else’s back hair
Saw one of these buggers close to my home one day. He tried climbing my tree but I hurled my lucky rock at his head from my nest.
The weird, hairless, tall and lanky chimp fell pretty hard. He made weird throat noises and ran away.
Chimps 1. Hairless Chimps 0.
based
wait a minute.
Unfortunately for the commenter, the hairless chimp on 2 legs called on his allies who have a more specialized role in their social hierarchy.
Now the commenter is dead, killed by the hairless chimps and their weird looking sticks that make a loud bang.
The timing and editing on this video was definitely an improvement compared to the last one.
2:49
"No other species has been observed to show this much violence towards their females"
Ducks have entered the chat
Dolphins as well
Maybe stay in your lane
@@kristianschuff1723no dolphins are just rap-
@@accurategamer7085 nope they kill each other as well
just discover this channel, and as an animal lover and zoo goer im in it! can you do your life as a pangolin next? i love pangolins
Thank you! I’ve already got the next vid planned, but will put pangolins in the mix for the one after
2019 me: "I love Pangolins!"
2020 me: "I HATE PANGOLINS!"
Pangolier dota
Animal lover and zoo goer are oxymorons
@@daveogfans413good thing it was a lab and not pangolins.
2:36 what a spectacular creature
I like this. I've seen a lot of channels try to copy the Sam onilla style. But this one's more unique, I like it. Keep doing what you're doing mate
Thank you!! Happy to hear you liked it!
@@Jamestolandyeah you never get anywhere off copying. All the new successful ones have their own style, didnt even realise you only have 800 subs cause this is a really good video
Im actually really happy to see you make a full on draw my life video on chimps, they’remy number 1 favourite animals yet i find it pretty difficult to research properly about them so a video like this that puts it in bite-sized easy to digest content is appreciated 👍
I think it still sugarcoats a lot of the true chimp ruthlessness
@@Ares_pbthats why they’re my favourite animals in general, I hear troops of chimps hunt antelopes and even raid gorilla families to eat their babies
Than this is so nostalgic, thank you to bring back the old times
The chimp life sounds close to that of humans. Straight bananas.
you know what, i dont wanna reject humanity and return to monkey
now show me my life as a happy human being in a meaningful relationship and a good enough paying job
Unsure if self-idolatry should also be introduced to chimps through a camera/attention addiction. Animals in the wild who also recognize themselves in a mirror tend to self-obsess but insecurity does not seem to be a thing in non-humans.
Self-worship was never a legitimate evolutionary step, but rather a mark of poor impulse-control and lack of understanding moderation.
What i have never heard such a thing. More likely there’s just fascinated by seeing themselves so clearly and continuously for the first time
would be fun to see the same with bonobos , but i dont think youtube would allow that
😂😂😂 been trying to think of a family friendly way to do it
Amazing how ultra violence is okay but a bit of boink boink isn't huh
@@Jamestoland I'm begging you to make an ape sequel video with bonobos. it would be perfect
Don't want to "return to monke" anymore, it is just like ours ~ less the salary....
If you're a bonobo, it is actualy really different from this.
@@gabrielbarbosa7882
Yeah, I heard getting laid was a way of socializing... Is that true?
Nice video by the way... Do you do the animating?👍
@@luigidisanpietro3720 I'm not involved with the video in any way really, but I enjoyed it too.
The bonobos thing is mostly because, for them, close physical contact is a predominant way of comunicating, expressing itself... that way, quite a lot. But if you think about it, someone caressing your head can be a way of comunicating your closeness to them. So it becomes reasonable to see how their more extreme behavior may have developed, as grooming became just that important.
She didn’t have to throw out his little hat though 😢
Nature’s cruel
Think i have found my favourite youtube channel
Thank you!
I think you've struck gold with this format
You should do a 'your life as a Bonobo next'. Include the gay sex and the fact that your mom will set you up with dates.
Disgusting, I see now where human degenerates get their ideas.
Oh yeah, it’s like an adults only comedy where babes and jocks come to play.
Compared to most other primates, or even mammals as a whole, even in most developing countries, us humans treat women comparatively well. Not saying women weren’t historically disadvantaged, but at the same time, they (usually) weren’t included in drafts, and they are generally the ones that choose which man will be their partner, and not vice versa.
Female chimps also aren’t included in the chimp draft, as he mentioned with the whole hunting and war being done by the males. I mean you are right that we do treat women better than literal chimps, it was obviously a bit hyperbolic and joking when he said that, but I think that idea can just come from the fact that we are so intelligent and aware of what we’re doing, women still go through a lot of abuse and awful things, and if you don’t believe me, if you know more than 5 women in your life you almost certainly know some people who have gone through some terrifying stuff. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I got into my 20s and learned from people I was close to, in my teenage years I always thought the fear for women was exaggerated- now I’m sad to say I can completely understand.
Also, in a lot of the animal kingdom, it’s the males who have to be really colourful and interesting to attract female attention- for humans, it tends to be women who really make themselves look colourful and interesting. Obviously looking good as a man is important too, but just consider female fashion and makeup compared to male fashion and makeup, you understand what I mean. It seems like, broadly speaking, for women it’s more important what you look like, for men it’s more important your social status, economic status, etc, which is similar to the ape/chimp “hierarchical status” thing. This obviously has pluses and minuses for either position- for women, it might mean choosing the man with better status over the one you have more of a connection with but who is just as economically bad off as you are. People might think I’m exaggerating on these things but I think a lot of the time people can come from a very privileged context, coming from a Western European nation, or a place like the USA or Canada. Most of the world doesn’t really work that way, and these are very real issues for large amounts of the population
Yea obviously humans will treat women better than animals do lol. We are able to comprehend right from wrong. Regarding choosing "which man will be their partner" that's incorrect. While (most) women are able to do that now, in middle Eastern countries they don't. There's still arranged marriages that exist and even getting married off as children. Even back then in America women would marry and couldn't even divorce. While women can divorce now, there are many times they feel they can't because of abusive partners (not including arranged marriages, its obvious why they cant). I don't think we can say that we treat women "fairly well" when I think it could always improve, especially since there's still so many problems with how to treat women, but I do think that about everything else in the world too (about things improving). Don't even get me started on this whole "alpha male" movement going on right now as well where a lot of the times it's just talking down on women and wanting to feel like they're overpowering them.
im biology student and once me and my friends started a conversation on animal cruelty and ethics. As ordinary biology students we have all experienced frog dissection and whatnot. So this girl said thats cruelty and started talkin about it. And then said i wouldnt do anything that bad to any animal except dolphins. They are bad and so on. I couldnt say there but dolphins get all that shit and most of other psycho animals left unnoticed. maan all those primates... aggression accompanies with sociality out there in wilds. no wonder we came from same origin
Social Intelligence and Sadism tend to correlate.
It ruffles me when people talk about ethical treatment of animals, and then tarnish the actual debates against cruelty with such lackluster "arguments"...
Animal cruelty is a non issue. They are inferior lifeforms
0:48 lololol those are the worst humans
I was wondering when you would get to the cannibalisms and violence, and I am glad you saved the punch line for later x)
OoOoh OoOoh- Monke 10 million years ago.
being chimp is like being human but you are not the most evil animal on the planet
i already enjoy your choice/form of narrating and deadpan monologue immediatley subscribed
Thank you!
I can confirm the accuracy of this video
I have horrendous ADHD, and I made it to the end of the video. Congrats mate. Good.
You need to do one on Bonobos. Very different in behavior and actually slightly closer to humans than chimps are. Bonobos are led by Alpha females, who keep their sons in check. Bonobos and chimps are now mating and producing viable offspring. If this is possible, then they are still essentially the same species. And that species demonstrates the extremes of human behavior. I'd do one myself but I'm no good with graphics.
Dogs and wolves produce viable offspring. Humans and Neanderthals did too when they were still around. So did Neanderthals and Denisovans, confirmed by a fossil’s DNA. Very closely related species can produce viable offspring so I think Bonobos and the Common Chimpanzee are different species.
watched chimp empire on Netflix and it is very good. w video I am excited for your next post
This is a great video! You deserve more subs! Don't give up and keep making more vids!
Thank you! Really appreciate it!
Finally a tutorial on how to return to monke
I as sent here by casual geogrphic, I liked the concept a lot. Keep them coming!
Thank you, will do!
I was sent here a couple days ago by casual geographic too! :)
What a delightful little gem of a channel I've stumbled upon.😁
Didn't expect this good of a video from such a small channel
Cheers!! I’m glad you liked the video!
What if I was born as a lady chimp though? This video is really "Your life as a MALE chimp", what about the other half of us chimps?
I tried to make the video from both perspectives combined, highlighting any big differences
@@Jamestoland After watching this video again a few months later, I see this more clearly. But I also think that you risk missing out on a huge proportion of the TH-cam audience by spending so little time on female-specific behaviors compared to male-specific behaviors and I'd like it if the things you talked about here could become better known. Some detailed constructive criticism...
Perfectly balanced in the first two minutes, but after that you spent way less time talking about the social behaviors of adult female Chimpanzees than the adult males. The other thing which I found particularly glaring is that when you're referring to life as a male Chimp you usually describe said Chimp in the second person "You", but when referring to female Chimps usually talk about them in the third person "Them" (though you do use the second person at 1:16; everything before adulthood is written perfectly)
I notice that you spend more time discussing male chimp behaviors than female chimp behaviors, and it sometimes is hard to tell whether the behaviors you discuss are specific to males or if they apply to ALL Chimps. It's particularly glaring in the hierarchy section of the video, to the point where I think there's a big risk of confusing or inadvertently misleading viewers. In particular you spend 1:16-2:42 discussing some male behaviors and some behaviors applicable to both sexes (ex. grooming peers), but don't specify which is which.
You do a good job of making it clear that you're only referring to females 2:42-2:55 but that's sooooo much shorter than the section about males. Also the wording is a tad awkward, I think it would have been a lot better to have something like "and if they go to far a dominant male will violently put them back in line", slightly rewording it to specify that the "they" refers to dominant males, rather than males in general or adults in general. I also think something along the lines of "There is no other species where violence by males against females is more frequent...except humans", rather than "No other species has been shown to show this much violence against their females", where you say "other species" despite referring to only adult males rather than Chimps in general, and say "their females" in a manner that implies that in Chimpanzee society females are treated as property, which is not correct.
2:55-3:40 is pretty good but there's a similar albeit less severe problem as 1:16-2:42; it isn't obvious at which point you stopped describing general behaviors and started describing male-specific ones. Honestly the script from 2:55 onwards is almost perfect, the only changes I'd make would be to add just insert the word "male" or "female" at the start of sentences describing sex-specific, and and to either trim down by about 1 minute the length of discussion of male-exclusive behaviors or add 1-to-2 minutes of additional info on female-exclusive behaviors to make things more balanced.
Have to go to work so for now no (detailed) comment on the last three minutes. Hope this comes across as the intended constructive-criticism-in-detail and not, like, an angry rant!!
This is perfectly up my alley, I have no idea why TH-cam didn't recommend me you sooner.