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Mourning Chimpanzee Mother On Her Youngs Death

If this video alone does not help you realise the fact that Ape’s and Chimps are juast a self aware as we are, and that at least some sort of habitat need to be saved and dedicated to them. The video is more sombre than i thought it was going to be and i had the beginnings of a lump in my throat around 1.24 where she seems to hopefully check his breath.

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A full report of this event is in press in the American Journal of Primatology (DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20927). This report was a collaborative effort between the Max Planck Institute, Chimfunshi, and Gonzaga University.

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Another Wednesday, another gore-fest.

Clear Vision puts you behind the lens of yet another high powered gun, popping the heads of the subjectively naughty. I’ve never been one of the alarmists who think that violence in movies and sex on TV are ruining the minds of the nation, but there does seem to be an inordinate amount of self righteous stick-figure glee collected around consequence-free death. Are we so pent up that this kind of hedonism is a release for us? Time for a jog around the block… +Continue Reading