"unfamiliar monkey"? They were hunting! I had no idea that chimps ate other monkeys! Did I understand that correctly?!?

Chimps are not monkeys. I'm not sure what they mean by "unfamiliar monkey". This implies that there are "familiar monkeys" that chimps don't bother. I presume that chimps as predator omnivores are prepared to eat any monkey they can catch.

So now I know how to catch a monkey, but I'm still lacking a good recipe and thanksgiving is only 2 days away!!

I would love to find out what their success rate is...

By the way, Chimps are vicious animals, with strength to match. They've been know to start wars with neighboring groups, infanticides and cannibalism. So very much like humans.

Monkeys.

You say tom-AY-to I say tom-AH-to.

http://videosift.com/video/Monkeys-A-Short-Movie-About-What-We-Are

>> ^nanrod:

Chimps are not monkeys. I'm not sure what they mean by "unfamiliar monkey". This implies that there are "familiar monkeys" that chimps don't bother. I presume that chimps as predator omnivores are prepared to eat any monkey they can catch.

Yay for jungle (music)!

Heat sensing camera's my arse.

yeah, that heat sensing vid was a digital illustration (and was somewhat deceptive).

I actually wasn't terribly impressed; basically everything that hunts in packs employs group strategy (certainly dolphins and wolves).

^Yeah, very unimpressive. All that work to catch 1 monkey? That's not even enough for breakfast. I could probably have caught 3 of those monkeys all by myself. We should open a hunting school for chimps and teach these primates how it's done.

>> ^TheSofaKing:

Heat sensing camera's my arse.


Haha yeah, look at how they're 'moving' at around 3:30. When it zooms in, the capturing chimp is still walking on the spot!

Still, I guess it illustrates their behaviour. Actually capturing something like that on camera, with a helicopter and ground crew in place, could be incredibly hard to time.

Dystopian: He's not saying that he's unimpressed by the maneuver the chimps 'pulled off' but by the fake 'heat-sensing camera'. At about 3:30 you can clearly see that the chimps are just little light green chimp-shaped animations fake-walking through a dark green background. Watch how the animations rotate to turn. They're just animated sprites (a la GTA 1 and 2.) Now, it's entirely possible that the maneuver as described actually happened and the documentarians dreamed up the 'night-cam' animation to help explain the story, but it's also true that there's no real evidence that what was described actually occurred. There's footage of chimps, and their prey, and there's a bit of a chimp grabbing at its prey, but nothing that proves it happened...

However, if it did, I'm sure he's impressed, as we all probably would be. (:

Good production. Made it look like an army surveillance to compare it with human warfare.

I kind of just believe things are true til I'm told they're not