#chimps

[bignosebaby]

#great apes #apes #chimps #chimpanzee #lol #meme #funny #primates #james bond

[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

#Monica Szczupider #Cameroon #heart failure #chimps

[lavendercountry]

I've recently noticed an increase in well-meaning people sharing unethical primate memes.

Unfortunately, the primates in these memes were either taken directly from their habitat to be sold or their parents are breeders that were themselves taken from the wild.

Worse yet, when baby primates are taken from the wild often times their older relatives are poached and sold for meat.

This all contributes to the reason why the majority of primates are endangered.

Let's all do our part by thinking before sharing!

Please feel free to share without credit ☺️

#monkey #monkeys #apes #chimps #orangutans #animal rights #macaques #monke #gorillas #infographic #important #primates #meme #reaction image #memes #chimpanzee

[sixpenceee]

Showing how ridiculously strong chimps are | source                         

#chimps

[panthootplex]

maximise your capabilities

#primates #great apes #chimpanzees #chimps

[jasvvy]

I don’t know what she’s building but I believe in her. 

#chimps #chimpanzees #chimpanzee #primates

[thatsbelievable]

#motivation #inspiration #motivational quotes #inspirational quotes #motivational poster #inspirational poster #chimps #chimpanzees

[limbuscompanyegorgsstuff]

A bit of swearing at the fact that the new housamo characters (other than Ame-no-uzume and prometheus) are just awful and extremely crappy. You can tell me, "But hey, it's something different and new, it's so cute.".Then tell me why few people remember Vapula and Beowulf? That's it. They just forgotten by community.

#housamo #tokyo afterschool summoners #lifewonders #horkeu kamui #Belphegor #meme #chimps #doge

[the-cricket-chirps]

Henri Rousseau

The Merry Jesters

1906

#henri rousseau #french art #french artist #french painting #french painter #naïve art #naïve painting #animals in art #chimpanzees #chimps #apes #wildlife #nature #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #aesthetic #beauty

[bignosebaby]

The Fall of the House of Usher: How about that chimp attack?

WARNING for discussion and explicit description of fatal chimp mauling, and pictures of fake gore.

Out of all of the unique and gruesome deaths that occur in Mike Flanagan's Netflix miniseries, I of course took particular notice of the mauling in episode 3; "Murder in the Rue Morgue".

In this episode, Camille L'Espanaye investigates her sister's laboratory where chimpanzees are being used as test subjects for an experimental medical implant. While taking pictures of the lab Camille comes face to face with one of the chimps, who attacks and mauls her to death. So how accurate is this?

While the chimpanzees in this scene are computer generated animation (which is the popular and ethical way to have primates in film), the depiction is largely accurate. It is not at all unlikely that a chimpanzee would maul a person in this setting and circumstance, or indeed in general.

Any setting with captive chimpanzees is attuned to how dangerous they can be even when treated ethically. Chimpanzees are several times stronger than humans and aggression and fighting are natural parts of their lives. As such, chimpanzees are separated from humans by metal mesh to ensure interactions are safe. Here's an example from Chimp Sanctuary Northwest, a very high quality sanctuary:

The chimpanzees are separated from humans by metal mesh barriers with gaps large enough to fit fingers through, but small enough that they couldn't reach through and grab a person, object, or clothing. This way the human caretakers can still interact with the chimps, but the danger is greatly reduced. Wearing scrubs, gloves, a mask, and keeping hair and loose items secured also reduces the risk of danger and are commonplace in primate caretaking. For contrast, this is the lab Camille enters:

These bars are not only spaced so that a chimp could easily reach through and grab a person, but the narrow shape of this room is such that there would actually be very few spots a person could walk or stand where a chimp couldn't grab them. This is definitely not regulation and extremely dangerous, and even if the chimpanzee that mauled Camille didn't make it outside the enclosure it still could have plausibly killed her. Narratively speaking the Usher family is established to violate rules and regulations, including vital health and safety protocols, so it isn't a reach to assume that this lab would not adhere to safety standards.

It is correctly pointed out in this episode that using chimpanzees as test subjects in biomedical research ended in 2015, but it is explained that the Usher family was able to get exemption for the research undertaken at this lab. As such, up to this point I found the episode to be satisfactory in its accuracy.

There is however, one big inaccuracy I couldn't ignore.

Chimpanzee maulings are notoriously brutal. Both chimp-on-chimp incidents and chimpanzee attacks on humans are extremely disturbing. When chimps attack to maim and kill they target the hands, genitals, and faces of their opponents, and cannibalism is common both during and after fatal attacks. Combinations of beating, tearing, and biting both in the initial attack and to the body afterwards mean that many chimp attack victims are rendered all but unrecognizable. While the chimp mauling in The Fall of the House of Usher happens off screen, the audience is shown the aftermath (above) and Camille's body, which is almost entirely obscured by the blood. Later, Camille's body haunts her father which allows us to get a clear look:

As strange as it sounds to say, I was disappointed! After being mauled to death late at night, Camille's body stayed in the lab for several hours until the scene was discovered the next morning. In the initial attack and the hours to follow, it would be very unlikely that her corpse would have even a partially intact face or hands. I will not be including photographs or links to actual chimp mauling victims, but Charla Nash who famously survived a chimp mauling was left with only a few fingers and required a face transplant as her eyes, nose, and jaw were destroyed. After several hours I would expect that Camille's body would have no face or hands, and severely torn clothing.

The chimpanzee attack, like many of the events in this show, have supernatural elements. Obviously not everything has to be perfectly accurate, but I think it would have been an asset not only in building the horror, but from a literary analysis perspective. Kate Siegel (the actress who plays Camille) said in an interview "I would say in the moment my face is removed, that would be the pinnacle of my character", and I have to agree. As the public relations coordinator for the Usher family, Camille controls the metaphorical face of the family, and her hands are the ones that pull the figurative strings. Making it obvious that not only did she meet her end as a result of trying to pull strings and manipulate the family image by digging into the lab, but that the result was the mutilation and loss of her own face and hands could have been not only horrific but a terrific literary device.

Accuracy rating: 8/10

#fothou #tfothou #mike flanagan #kate siegel #tfothou spoilers #chimps #chimpanzees #apes #great apes #camille l'espanaye

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

Hey, check this out! Chimpanzees show each other things just to share the experience.

While it is a common human experience to show a friend or family member something you enjoy, this behavior is not ours alone. In a video filmed recently, an adult wild chimpanzee is enjoying a leaf by picking at it with her fingers and mouth and pauses to hold it out in front of her mothers face. She moves to ensure her mother has seen it, and then continues.

From the article describing the research findings:

“She’s not offering it for food. She doesn’t want her mum to do anything. She just wants them to look at it together, and be like ‘Oh, cool, nice!’,” said Prof Katie Slocombe of the University of York, a co-author of the study. Slocombe and colleagues noted that even close relatives of humans, such as great apes, were [previously] thought only to gesture to objects for particular purposes.

“It is not the first time that we have seen a suggestion that chimpanzees voluntarily point out information to others – I myself have described such incidents – or that they may teach others new information, but this is now the best documented case,” he said. "It signifies that chimpanzees, and perhaps also other apes, grasp that other individuals gather information the way they do themselves, and are willing to share information with others without any prompting or rewards or self-serving purposes.”

#mod j #chimpanzee #chimps #chimpanzees #primate #primate cognition #primate behavior

[gorillawithautism]

i love women

and by women i mean Her

(sue ellen of the fauna foundation)

#primates #chimps #chimpanzees

[animals-do-talk]

Garbo, one of the stars of “Chimp Empire,” is now 67 years old (2023)

#chimps #animals #wildlife #chimpanzees

[panthootplex]

the story of burrito and his frisbee.

link

#chimpanzees #chimps #great apes #primates

[jasvvy]

jambo's hairless rampage (just another day in the life)

vid

#chimps #chimpanzees #primates #apes

[yeahiwasintheshit]

#this could be us #chimps #kiss