I'm shocked at not only ignorant some of you people are, but you didn't even attempt to do any research on the chimp species before making such harsh statements. Chimps are a patriarchal society. The alpha-males are the only ones in the family with the right to mate with the females. They 'display' which looks violent, but is their way of showing who is boss. The females don't have babies because the sanctuary does not have the proper licenses to do so. Also, they were taken from their own families at such a young age that they wouldn't even know how to protect an infant and it's likely a male would kill a male infant preventing him from becoming a future challenge to his dominance. Last thing, because I may have used too many big words already, but those half-hour episodes only show moments of the female to male introductions. They can see each other in their sleeping quarters for months before physically meeting. Then they meet indoors, in a controlled environment several times before being let outside.
If you're not going to do any real research on something you don't know about, there's always wikipedia.
This is the type of post that is begging to get you cussed out. First of all, everything that you've said has already been covered by other posters, therefore you really haven't enlightened anyone with any new information so you can stop trying to act like The Chimp Whisperer, now.
Secondly, nobody made you read the post on this thread, nor were you made to respond. I don't recall anyone asking you, personally, to explain anything or reply at all so why must you come across as some azzhole, who's annoyed because you have an obligation to inform everyone of your extensive knowledge of chimp behavior? What were you expecting, anyway, a bunch of "oohs" and "aahs"? Did you think that your knowledge of chimp life would be impressive to everyone? When you discover the seed that will grow a money tree in my back yard, then I will be impressed but you are going to have to come up with something a lot more significant than your expertise of chimp society and behavior if you're expecting some type of enthusiasm.
Thirdly, if someone is uneducated in chimp society that does not mean that they are totally ignorant to everything in life. All people have different interest and no one person knows everything. The same people who you're trying to belittle because they aren't knowledgeable in the behavior of wild apes, could be doing something more important with their lives (i.e., doing research on a cure for cancer, trying to make society safer by putting criminals behind bars or even teaching your child how to read and write) so you making the comment, "Last thing, because I may have used too many big words already" just because some people may not be as informed about chimps as you are, was just an ignorant and unnecessary statement to make.
Lastly, as much as you think you know about chimps, you obviously don't know everything about them. For one thing, your comment about the female chimps being prevented from reproducing because they wouldn't know how to care for or protect their young is ridiculous. Motherhood, for wild animals, is not so much of a learned behavior, as it is a natural and instinctive behavior. Although there are some mothers that will reject their young, it's not because they do not know how to care for it. It's usually because of a birth defect or an illness in the infant or even an illness with the mother. By your logic, none of these chimps will ever be good mothers because they missed out on the opportunity to learn from their own mothers so how will they ever learn? Do they offer them planned parenthood and child development classes? Also, male chimps do not kill infants because they are afraid that they will grow up and over power them or take their spot. Adult males will sometimes kill, both the male or female infant offspring of another male, in order to mate with the mother. By killing the offspring, the female's milk will dry up in her breast, her hormones will respond with her menstrual cycle returning, therefore causing her to become fertile again and enabling the male to mate with her.
As you said, "If you're not going to do any real research on something you don't know about, there's always Wikipedia".
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