Film: A Family of Chimps



A cute film about chimps in captivity. They live in a zoo in the Netherlands, in a large enclosure with stuff to stimulate them and only natural barriers- moats with water in them is all you need, since chimps can't swim. We were instructed to watch for social interactions between males and females, and also between adults and infants. While watching a chimp determined to get up into a tree and trying to make a ladder out of a stump, we should also think about primate cognition, which is coming up- how intelligent are they? What kind of intelligence are they using?