Tara Stoinski, chief scientist of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, answers your questions about primates from Twitter. Why do gorillas pound on their chest? How do apes communicate with one another? Why do chimpanzees have wars? Are there social hierarchies within primate groups? Answers to these questions and many more await—it’s Ape Support.
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Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Chris Marshall
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Tara Stoinski
Line Producer: Joseph Buscmie
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: George Zelasko
Sound Mixer: Lee Bailey
Production Assistant: Trent Barfield
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
00:00 Ape Support
00:11 Chest Beat
01:11 Bonobos
01:43 Primates
02:38 Communication
03:25 Planet of the Apes
04:17 Smiling
05:19 Two Foreheads
06:02 Attacks
06:57 Chimpanzee Wars
07:34 King Kong
08:19 New World vs Old World
09:46 Orangutans
11:03 Monogamy
11:49 Gibbons
12:22 Ripped Gorillas
13:27 Social Hierarchies
14:25 Primate Culture
15:14 Slow Loris
15:35 Farts
15:56 Prehensile Tail
16:37 Numerical Order
17:37 Spear Hunting
18:58 Life Span
19:14 Sadness
19:52 Endangered Species
20:49 Dian Fossey
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Does any species have different races like humans of different colours?
She called chimp’s wars as ‘fascinating’. What is ‘fascinating’ about them. Those conflicts reminds of wars, civil wars and genocides that peoples do but just without ideology, propaganda and agitation that we do. Just pure brutality for purpose.
Maybe peoples wars (including civil wars) and commited genocides are also ‘fascinating’?
I understand that they try to popularize biology, zoology and wild nature but do not cover the sh_t as it is something interesting or at least try to be objective and talk about it neutrally. Though it could be interesting as interesting as the actions of serial killer. But in the deliberate killings of your kind just for territory or to eliminate competition isn’t anything ‘fascinating’
I can tell she really like monkeys
I was once in a zoo and watching an enclosure of orangutans. A relatively small female (I think) somehow got her hands on a men’s dress shirt. She was messing with it and examining it, and kept trying to stick her arms through the sleeves, then looking up and then back at the shirt.
I realized that she had noticed a man watching the enclosure was wearing a similar shirt. She was trying to figure out how to put it on like he did. Between the shirt being kind of inside out and twisted around and her arms being much too large to fit through the sleeves, she eventually became frustrated and gave up. But watching her come to the understanding of what it was she had in her hands and what it was for is something I’ll never forget.
I don’t know… but I’m sure you’re going to tell us
Imagine if a scientist analyzed your goon moans
I have a question:
HAVE WE AS HUMAN SPECIES REACHED OUR CEILING OF EVOLUTION BECAUSE WHY ELSE ARE THERE STILL MONKEYS/PRIMATES WITH MONEY OR RELIGION DESTROYING MOTHER EARTH COMPLETELY WITH THEIR PRIMAL GREED?
She called it “polyjamy” 😂
you give orange me you orange
7:30 reminds me of the story of an older male chimp who when confronted with his old chimp buddies refused to fight and was killed by a what were essentially family that he grew up with. Was really sad. Other than us and ants chimps are the only species that go to “war” with each other. Obviously not on the scale that we do but still interesting considering they’re our closest relatives in the ape world.
8:27 What kind of monkey is that? it’s as small as a tarsier but not one.
I’ll never understand why people feel the need to hunt things to near extinction.
Haven’t we made enough animals go extinct?
ring a thang
16:27 better posture than most humans 🤣
bonobos solving issues by being bisexual
Fake. God, “experts” like this care more about social politics than educating people. Disgraceful.
7:00
Cimps : have wars
Expert : fascinating
I have heard that a male gorilla could snap the spine of a cheetah with a single strike. I know a cheetah isn’t that big. But that’s still bananas.
Humans are Primates!