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chimpanzees are a fascinating species
and studying their complex behavior
might just give us a window into our own
evolution welcome to watchmojo.com down
the most interesting facts you probably
didn’t know about one of the species of
great ape the chimpanzee number five
chimp travel Spurs innovation sure for
human beings going to college is great
but it’s really that semester you take
off to backpack in Eastern Europe that
really teaches you about life and and
you really figure things out you know
according to a 2016 study by one dr.
Gruber from the University of Geneva
travel also helps chimps figure things
out specifically it helps them become
proficient in building their own tools
Gruber figures that the more energy they
spend traveling the more fuel they need
and so the more creative they get at
accessing hard-to-reach food sources by
innovating tools in one experiment
well-traveled chimps used some folded
leaves as sponges to get honey out of a
hole instead of just inefficiently using
their fingers and props to those chimps
three months volunteering on organic
farms after college and I’m still eating
honey with my hands
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number four the chimp mating ritual is
quick chimps don’t beat around the bush
when they want to mate nor do they play
around during the act itself in fact the
mating process takes approximately 15
seconds give or take and chimps have
even been known to eat during
intercourse as well I’m ravenous after a
night of lovemaking the ritual is quick
extremely quick as the males and females
pick up physical signals and seal the
deal with astonishing efficiency intact
chimpanzees can easily find a potential
mate based on two basic patterns of
behavior the females display an
unmistakable swelling sometimes even
presenting themselves up to males up
close and personal and is it just me or
do we spend a lot of time talking about
animal sex on this series number three
chimps eat clay to detoxify their bodies
in the Budong go forest of uganda
chimpanzees eat and drink clay for one
specific reason better digestion as
noted in a 2015 report by the University
of Oxford the minerals in the clay
helped chimpanzees neutralize the
tannins in their bodies after consuming
leaves some use their hands to gather
the clay but their customized sponge
leaves also provide them a more
effective way to acquire even more
minerals chimps can get minerals from
decomposing swamp trees but a clay diet
works as well
the practice of consuming the earth is
actually called geology and humans
typically resort to such a diet when
living in poverty but weirdly bathing in
mud is a luxurious spa treatment
reserved for the wealthy
number two chimps prefer cooperation to
competition this revelation comes
courtesy of researchers from Emory
University and overturns what previous
research seemed to indicate in 2014 they
demonstrated that in complex social
settings chimpanzees can spontaneously
assist one another to achieve a shared
goal
the chimps even set aside their
pre-existing relationships and group
social dynamics to work together in
transport and food in 2016 Emory
published more research which supported
these findings and also found that
chimps use a number of strategies to
discourage competition and freeloading
scientific literature often says that
human cooperation is unique but the
study’s authors say that chimps have
shown us that’s just not true
number one chimpanzee wars are not
caused by human interference Jane
Goodall originally documented chimp on
chimp violence in the 1970s shocking the
world with the stories of chimpanzee
communities waging war on each other
saddest part of learning all that is
that it made them seem even more like us
than they had before many in the
scientific community thought that human
intervention specifically feeding the
chimps and destroying their habitats
were what sparked these Wars but a 2014
analysis of 50 years of chimp research
argued that the conflicts actually
stemmed from quote an adaptive Fitness
strategy meaning that monkeys is just
trying to get in shape no actually
that’s fitness as in survival of the
fittest the Apes are using violence to
get more food and territory seems
cooperating isn’t their only strategy so
are you more surprised by chimps level
of violence or of cooperation for more
highly evolved top tens and scoop honey
on my movies top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
[Music]
Oh
chimpanzees are a fascinating species
and studying their complex behavior
might just give us a window into our own
evolution welcome to watchmojo.com down
the most interesting facts you probably
didn’t know about one of the species of
great ape the chimpanzee number five
chimp travel Spurs innovation sure for
human beings going to college is great
but it’s really that semester you take
off to backpack in Eastern Europe that
really teaches you about life and and
you really figure things out you know
according to a 2016 study by one dr.
Gruber from the University of Geneva
travel also helps chimps figure things
out specifically it helps them become
proficient in building their own tools
Gruber figures that the more energy they
spend traveling the more fuel they need
and so the more creative they get at
accessing hard-to-reach food sources by
innovating tools in one experiment
well-traveled chimps used some folded
leaves as sponges to get honey out of a
hole instead of just inefficiently using
their fingers and props to those chimps
three months volunteering on organic
farms after college and I’m still eating
honey with my hands
[Music]
number four the chimp mating ritual is
quick chimps don’t beat around the bush
when they want to mate nor do they play
around during the act itself in fact the
mating process takes approximately 15
seconds give or take and chimps have
even been known to eat during
intercourse as well I’m ravenous after a
night of lovemaking the ritual is quick
extremely quick as the males and females
pick up physical signals and seal the
deal with astonishing efficiency intact
chimpanzees can easily find a potential
mate based on two basic patterns of
behavior the females display an
unmistakable swelling sometimes even
presenting themselves up to males up
close and personal and is it just me or
do we spend a lot of time talking about
animal sex on this series number three
chimps eat clay to detoxify their bodies
in the Budong go forest of uganda
chimpanzees eat and drink clay for one
specific reason better digestion as
noted in a 2015 report by the University
of Oxford the minerals in the clay
helped chimpanzees neutralize the
tannins in their bodies after consuming
leaves some use their hands to gather
the clay but their customized sponge
leaves also provide them a more
effective way to acquire even more
minerals chimps can get minerals from
decomposing swamp trees but a clay diet
works as well
the practice of consuming the earth is
actually called geology and humans
typically resort to such a diet when
living in poverty but weirdly bathing in
mud is a luxurious spa treatment
reserved for the wealthy
number two chimps prefer cooperation to
competition this revelation comes
courtesy of researchers from Emory
University and overturns what previous
research seemed to indicate in 2014 they
demonstrated that in complex social
settings chimpanzees can spontaneously
assist one another to achieve a shared
goal
the chimps even set aside their
pre-existing relationships and group
social dynamics to work together in
transport and food in 2016 Emory
published more research which supported
these findings and also found that
chimps use a number of strategies to
discourage competition and freeloading
scientific literature often says that
human cooperation is unique but the
study’s authors say that chimps have
shown us that’s just not true
number one chimpanzee wars are not
caused by human interference Jane
Goodall originally documented chimp on
chimp violence in the 1970s shocking the
world with the stories of chimpanzee
communities waging war on each other
saddest part of learning all that is
that it made them seem even more like us
than they had before many in the
scientific community thought that human
intervention specifically feeding the
chimps and destroying their habitats
were what sparked these Wars but a 2014
analysis of 50 years of chimp research
argued that the conflicts actually
stemmed from quote an adaptive Fitness
strategy meaning that monkeys is just
trying to get in shape no actually
that’s fitness as in survival of the
fittest the Apes are using violence to
get more food and territory seems
cooperating isn’t their only strategy so
are you more surprised by chimps level
of violence or of cooperation for more
highly evolved top tens and scoop honey
on my movies top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
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