Charles Darwin wrote that "no other member of the whole class of mammals is coloured in so extraordinary a manner as the adult male mandrill". If you've seen The Lion King you might remember the eccentric shaman Rafiki, a beautifully colored male mandrill. Want to learn how mandrills use color, vocalizations, and gestures to communicate? Check out this episode! Instagram: @the.primates.podcast

Sound licensing:

• Circle of Life (Lion King Soundtrack) – Video Game Music KHinsider (https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/lion-king)

• Rafiki Quote - The Lion King Original Audio – BackGround Sound Effects (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEc-e_SIkE

• Gibbons of Dusit – by RTB45 (https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/197567/)

• Electro Ambient Music: Suspension – Pulsating and Futuristic - by Kjartan Abel. Visit https://kjartan-abel.com/library to find free music for your next project. This work is licensed under the following: CC BY-SA 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

While chimpanzees are getting into trouble, bonobos are getting it on. The aggressive, territorial chimpanzees and sexual, cooperative bonobos really represent two sides of the same coin and serve as models for both the positive and negative things that human societies are capable of. This episode skims over the structure of bonobo societies and how they use sexual contact to form and nurture social bonds. Follow us on instagram @the.primates.podcast for more!

Intro/outro sound licensing:

Gibbons of Dusit - by RTB45 (https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/197567/)

Electro Ambient Music: Suspension – Pulsating and Futuristic - by Kjartan Abel.

Visit https://kjartan-abel.com/library to find free music for your next project.

This work is licensed under the following: CC BY-SA 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Think primates are all sunshine and rainbows and cuddle piles? Think again. Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, have an incredible capacity for cognition, culture, and calculated violence. They use tools, teach region-specific techniques to their children, follow strict social rules, and, as evidenced by the great Four Years War in Gombe, Tanzania, are capable of intense, prolonged, inter-group conflict. Learn all about the war in this episode of Primates. Follow us on instagram @the.primates.podcast for more!

Intro/outro sound licensing:

Gibbons of Dusit - by RTB45 (https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/197567/)

Electro Ambient Music: Suspension – Pulsating and Futuristic - by Kjartan Abel.

Visit https://kjartan-abel.com/library to find free music for your next project.

This work is licensed under the following: CC BY-SA 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.