Chimpanzee Diary - Frodo Meets the Twins

oops, sorry, they appear in the "picking playmates" one. I'm not sure they are in the other one. :)

the twins received so much positive attention from Frodo, the other females probably felt like the twins were a threat to their "status" or positions in the group and so they tried to eliminate that threat by killing the twins. Chimps are very competative and are always fighting to keep as high up in the group as possible. The twins survived that attempt on their lives. There is a video showing them older on here, it's called "chimpanzee diary: chimp championship rivalry", I think.

The two females would probably try to steal the twins, most likely killing them in the process. But if successful this 'forced adoption' would probably lead to favor with the Alpha male.

Did they kill the twins? I didn't see there's an ending or not. Its hard to tell with Youtube. Is there a part 2?

They do not, it is here watch?v=Rv7Oeq7FC5Y

WTF i wanted to see a fight

why are the female insisting on killing the twins? is it so that they gain the attention of the alpha male?

That's unlikely. Females never lack attentions. Fifi and Fanny aren't the kind to try and eat other Chimps baies though it's been witnessed. Why do you say they wanted to kill them?

I was trying to draw similarities between this society and certain human societies where polygamy is practiced ... Usually in societies where the male can marry and have offspring out of more than one female, the females tend to compete over resources for their children and be very aggressive towards the children of the other women with whom they share the male, not to the point of wanting to kill the other babies of course but hostilities occurs nonetheless.