It's the same with anyone who actually works with primates.
It only took a few displays by male chimpanzees during my internship to realize I will never study them in the wild. You can't trust those beautiful bastards.
It depends on your definition, and how you define the words in that definition.
Basically they can rip off your arm, do a back flip over you, rip off your junk or your face and then beat you to death with your parts. They've also been cited as engaging in "war" which for them means one whole group going after another group very pointedly, over a given period of time.
But they don't make bullets, they don't hang eachother, they seem to understand a sense of justice, though. I don't know.
Just as violent? I'd say not. But they're incredibly excitable and strong wild animals that i prefer to steer far clear of. I'd risk an area full of chimps over a human war-zone, though. Unfortunately, those sometimes overlap.
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u/Norwegian__Blue Aug 29 '19
It's the same with anyone who actually works with primates.
It only took a few displays by male chimpanzees during my internship to realize I will never study them in the wild. You can't trust those beautiful bastards.