After watching “The New Chimpanzee” and reading all of the content listed in the link for this week’s topic. I was highly intrigued with the documentary about new chimps entering the “New World” In this film, I was able to capture the irresistible moments of what it’s like being a chimpanzee and the strategies they used for survival in the terrestrial wild-life. Furthermore, in the opening scene of this documentary I took it to my perspective to visualize how non-human primates provide information about human evolution. Human Evolution is the evolutionary process that leads to the modern humans through the history of our ancestors being primates. However, while watching this film. I can clearly connect the most important relationship within both non-primates (Chimpanzee) and Humans is the mother and child bond that is shared throughout. If you notice in the film, the mother was the most important figure to a chimp infant’s life. The mother would nurse her child and demonstrate how to crack a nut, or teach them how to hunt for meat. Additionally, the mother would protect her child and have only one or two offspring every couple years because having a child takes a significant amount of energy and responsibility. On the other hand, the male (Usually the father) is the most dominant figure in each family group. They would hunt for food or protect their loved ones. However, the point that I’m trying to get across is that our evolution has already begun through chimpanzees. In similarity, non-human primates have similar body structure and social behaviors in comparison to humans. This is the main source of why I believe that non-human primates is truly our ancestors long before humans existed millions of years ago. However, as I continue watching “The New Chimpanzee” film a certain scene caught my eye in complete shock. I had no idea that it was common for Father’s of a male chimp to be killed by them in order to make aware to the mother that he wants more offsprings. I was utterly shocked when I saw the group of male chimps attack the poor child when they viciously bit his face and started eating the flesh of his body out. This moment was kind of graphic personally, but I learned that chimps live through survival by staying in large groups for protection. Another moment that surprised me was when they form gangs to attack other chimps. At first it sounded too unrealistic from the lecture notes, but when I visually saw them gang up on other chimps it was terrifying! I wasn’t fully aware that the dominant males within family groups would even kidnap a chimp from their home to display a message to the mother. Also, their language is unique like when a chimp rubs a leaf against any part of his/her body it means they would like to be groom at that spot. All in all, I think there are a variety of ways we could understand our own biology behavior. I think the best solution would be to study human behavior through different cultures in large groups of families and compare the unique similarities that us humans share with non-human primates. Another idea could be to continue understanding the culture of non-human primates by how they hunt, relationships within their groups, communications skills, or in general to be able to make connections between humans and non-human primates.