Our mission is to conduct scientific research and maintain the long-term study of the Ngogo community of chimpanzees … Most wild communities of these apes have 30-80 members, but this group had an astonishing 142, more than any known group in the wild. The photography is solid and workmanlike, nothing special. They wanted to know why and discovered a horrifying truth. Long-term research on the Ngogo chimpanzees was initiated by David Watts (Yale University) in 1993 and John Mitani (University of Michigan) in 1995. And primates? Nature Documentary - A Chimpanzee's Tale - video Dailymotion Deep in an African forest lives a family of chimpanzees, including a baby named Oscar. Posted on December 20, 2012 by namethatchimp. Demoiselle cranes in flight. By 1974, researcher Jane Goodall noticed the community splintering. Heck, you can even adopt your very own bloodthirsty chimp! Along with project founders David Watts (Yale University) and John Mitani (University of Michigan), Langergraber is featured in a documentary about the Ngogo chimpanzees and the researchers who have studied them for the last 25 years. Now a research affiliate with the Institute of … Well, at least there was Hare, and there are others like him. The world is a playground for Oscar and his fellow young chimps, who love creating mayhem. The team observed a loving friendship between two members, Hare and Ellington. Documentary; 15; A look at the true story of the rise of the warrior chimpanzees in Ngogo, Uganda, over a 20-year period. Otters hold hands with their partners while sleeping so they don’t drift apart, and dolphins rescue humans from drowning and sharks possibly out of sheer altruism. Journey deep into the African rainforest and meet Oscar, an adorable young chimp with an entertaining approach to life. Maya Mar-11 M. Bartoli Jul-11. Besides, all this observation was worth it for its contributions to our understanding of the natural world. Using previously unseen archive footage and intimate testimony from the scientists, this is a story of the unbreakable friendships and intense rivalries inside a mighty chimpanzee empire. Watch Chimpanzee - Documentary on DIRECTV. Researchers observed predominantly male patrol groups sent out by a 150-strong chimp group at Ngogo in Kibale National Park in Uganda. ... Every year for the next 5 years you will get updates on your chimp and will be able to watch them grow up! In the not-too-distant future Joel Robinson is held captive by Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank, forced to watch B-Grade movies on the Satellite of Love with the help of his robot friends: Cambot, Gypsy, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. David, a chimpanzee in Senegal, tries to overcome threats to his leadership and ensure an heir. By 2009, the group expanded the size of their territory by 22 percent over the previous decade after killing 13 individuals from a neighboring group. Languages: English Subtitles: English [CC], Arabic Country of origin: United States Over a span of eight months, a large party of chimpanzees separated … Over 23 years, primatologists followed and took footage of the Ngogo chimpanzees of Uganda. Also, researchers knew chimps were omnivores, but they believed that they only ate meat when fruits were scarce. Since its release, the documentary has been an awards darling, garnering praise for its careful and dynamic depiction of the chimpanzee community and researchers. ngogo chimpanzees. If you don't know much about chimpanzees, you'll get a good grasp of some basics here. Ngogo has had a baby boom. Primatologist John Mitani told Time, “[They] weren’t related, yet … they’d share prey with each other rather than compete for it.” He also said that Hare “didn’t want to be with anybody for several weeks” after Ellington’s death in 2002. “He seemed to go into mourning.”. Of course, it’s really subjective to impose manmade ideas of good and evil on nonhuman creatures. Your email address will not be published. You can learn more about and donate to the Ngogo Chimpanzee project here. Between 1996 and 2016, this pack grew from 142 to 202, partly from conquering other packs. WATCH: The Images NASA Picked to Explain Earth to Aliens, Here’s What it’s Like to Enter the Most Humane Prison in the World, Skier Chased By Bear While Taking to the Slopes in Romania, Tiger Woods’ Agent Denounces New HBO Documentary As “Unauthorized And Salacious”, Watch This Incredibly Tiny Little Monkey Get Its Mind Blown By A Moving Leaf Insect. Any chimps they didn’t kill were absorbed into the Ngogos. Need more for your daily fix of primate violence? Stars: Joel Hodgson, Michael J. Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy. As the TV spot proclaims, these chimps are “scheming, power-hungry, war-making, violent, carnivorous killers.”. Male chimpanzee, Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda. Hunting party of banded sea kraits showing co-operative feeding with goatfish and trevally, Gunung Api Island, Banda Sea, Indonesia. Arizona State University researcher Kevin Langergraber knows nearly 200 chimpanzees of the Ngogo community by sight and by name — Jackson, the alpha male; Marlene, the oldest female; and Morton, a particularly aggressive adult male.. Langergraber began learning about the Ngogo chimpanzees in 2001 as a graduate student. Arctic wolf, Ellesmere Island, Canada. Lions at watering hole, Savute National Park, Botswana. the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project’s Facebook page reported, Otters hold hands with their partners while sleeping so they don’t drift apart, dolphins rescue humans from drowning and sharks possibly out of sheer altruism. Here’s a brawl between zoo chimps – and they’re HAIRLESS! Well, as you can see in Discovery Channel UK’s new documentary special Rise of the Warrior Apes, chimps can be pretty nasty themselves. Chimpanzee groups at Fongoli are fairly isolated, so Foudouko’s only chance of finding a mate was to rejoin the group. And primates? Nature’s not exactly big on morality, but wild animals are just as capable of kindness as of evil. But it sure is interesting to see chimpanzees’ brutality and gentility in this preview for Rise of the Warrior Apes. 0. Documentary following endangered species fighting for their survival. It's neat to watch them learning to follow the wild chimps and then actually experience a colobus hunt. (2017) Rise of the Warrior Apes [01:27:08] Filmed over 23 years, tells the story of the largest troop of chimpanzees ever discovered, in Ngogo, Uganda, as they hunt, practice politics, and protect their territory Callas Jul-11. Then the scientists on this project observed them attacking and eating monkeys seemingly when they felt like it. David, a chimpanzee in Senegal, tries to overcome threats to his leadership and ensure an heir. And primates? This tends to happen often for the Ngogo chimpanzees, who have a particularly large group of more than 150 individuals — about three times the number found in chimp communities studied elsewhere. Displaying the playful curiosity and ingenuity of fellow primates, Oscar and his family navigate the forest's complex territory with relative ease. Well, as you can see in Discovery Channel UK’s new documentary special Rise of the Warrior Apes, chimps can be pretty nasty themselves. 14 talking about this. 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John Mitani, a primatologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and his team have observed the Ngogo chimpanzee troop in Uganda’s Kibale National Park for over a decade. The two groups were once unified in the Kasakela community. Image by Kevin Langergraber. Wallauer served both as principle photographer for Rise of the Warrior Apes and as a contributor for the documentary, discussing his experiences observing the Ngogo chimpanzees.