#CHIMPS

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Doctor Zira 🙉

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BANANA SLAMMA! 🍌

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Suryia and Roscoe

[doppleganger-rental]

Essential

[henk-heijmans]

Dorothy’s funeral: more than a dozen chimps stand in silence watching from behind their wire enclosure as Dorothy, a chimp in her late 40s who died of heart failure, Cameroon, 2008 - by Monica Szczupider, New Zealander

[panthootplex]

maximise your capabilities

[thepersonalwords]

Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!

Mehmet Murat ildan

[nesmie]

Studies of chimpanzees: Two sketches with charcoal on paper & one digitally colourized. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with some chimpanzees at a zoo for a short period of time. Great apes are highly intelligent beings with distinct personalities... they absolutely deserve a good life in a natural environment.

[woodswalker96]

Don’t take the wrong way. This franchise (specifically the rebooted version) is up there with my favorite franchises.

But I have one critique that has been eating me up lately since I saw the newest one: I want the apes to be, in a way, more ape-like.

Let me explain: I simply want them to incorporate more of the species-specific behaviors we recognize in the apes to shine through in conjunction with their heightened intelligence.

For example, if modern gorillas have a social structure dominated by a dominant male (the silverback), with a harem of females and associated lesser males (known as blackbacks), then I’d like to see that translated into a higher intelligence gorilla society. Perhaps you could have them be a largely agrarian species with a focus on agriculture (since they’d still be vegetarian) and a strength based culture where a wanderer male could ritualistically challenge a silverback for the harem.

Another example could be how in some species, it’s the females who leave to find new troops, so perhaps there could be ceremonies where different ape tribes (of appropriate species) come together and exchange females.

Another thing related to this statement is that I want the main ape characters to look more ape-like. Like you can literally see it in Caesar and Noa how the creative team made them more appealing to the human audience (I get why they did this, I’m not stupid, but I just want them to appear just a little more like actual chimpanzees). Such traits I focus on are the eyes. If you look at a chimpanzee, they have instead of whites in their eyes, they have “darks”. I wish this would’ve been more incorporated into the designs. The other apes also have whites but in some species this may be present versus with chimps. And if it isn’t then it’s done less obviously than with the main ape characters.

Anyways, those are my only two real critiques, which aren’t even really critiques as in nitpicks or “this is how I would’ve done it”. I was a little sparse about the details about ape eyes and social structure but that’s because I primarily know only bare basics of those subjects and did not have time to research them properly (this was written on the fly). I may rewrite this and add more details later if this is received well.

Thank you.

[wiseandoldman]

Bruce Springsteen If He Was A Great Ape

Oh honey, chimps like us

Baby, we were born to run

Come on with me, chimps like us

Baby, we were born to run

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Dudes will see this and say Hell Yeah

[masteroffearshusband49020]

I'm not a scientist, just a very curious student with an obsession for psychology.

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