Animal mating rituals of chimpanzees - BBC wildlife

An investigation into the animal mating rituals and socialising of the chimpanzee monkey family from the BBC wildlife team.

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  Pets & Animals

[kanookle]

they look like me

[invaderpink]

what did that have to do with mating rituals LOL :D

[schink24]

I most likely won't, because they wouldn't use generic terms with a scientific approach. But this isn't a scientific study of the animal, every nomenclature doesn't have to be the perfectly spot-on, it's BBC wildlife, a show that does short vulgarized video snippets about certain traits of certain animals.

So using "monkey" instead of "ape" works, it's metonymy, it's the use of a word closely related to a concept, other than it's own name, to refer to it. So for vulgarization purposes, it works.

[parkluck]

What you wrote is wrong on so many levels I'm inclined to think you're pulling my leg, and I don't even know where to start with just 367 characters remaining.

Apes are apes. Monkeys are monkeys. There are many species of monkeys. There are 6 species of apes (Gibbons, chimps, bonobos, gorillas, orang utans, and humans).

Try to find a clip of Jane Goodall, Eugene Cussons, or any other ape researcher referring to an ape as a "monkey."

Go ahead. I can wait.

[schink24]

Not so much, "monkey" is a generic term referring to any ape-like animal with arms and legs that swings in trees and the BBC knows that.

[TheyCallMeElBarto]

grooming is how mating begins....human analogy: massage before sex

[supremgod]

your disgusting i hope you get drop kick and torn apart by a motherfucking silverback

[Nuke Toon]

Then we're disgusting since we're mutated & almost bald chimps

[barbara mcconnell]

awwww the little chimp are so cute

[Justin Walker]

agreed.

[parkluck]

It's a crime that that an official BBC video would call a chimpanzee a "monkey" and not an ape, which it is.

[tabibitosama]

Fred's cute!