Mother and baby Chimp
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wandawmn
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AnLand
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Hi @wandawmn,
great find. They are probably Pearl with her infant Flocke. You can see the special way, the infant is riding on its mom, using a protuberance to support its foot. The face of the female is hard to see (maybe better in other videos), but she has a pigmentation problem and is easily to recognize (very white skin with "sprinkles").
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wandawmn
Thanks AnLand, im getting better at recognising the different duikers, but no matter how long and hard I look, the chimps all look the same to me
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AnLand
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in response to wandawmn's comment.
I can totally understand that, but apparently one can learn this. Before starting here, I also had no idea where even to start. If you want to get more familiar with the chimps you should start here with the list of the known and prospective chimps from the site we are working on now: http://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/boards/BCP000000k/discussions/DCP000090p You find pictures and videos about individuals and most often a short description. If you open the video on the talk site, you see in what discussions it was mentioned and can read what has been said additionally.
For recognition (although my first matching idea is always the feeling that I've seen him/her before) it helps me a lot to formalize a bit what I see. Somebody linked earlier this external website of another chimp project http://www.indiana.edu/~semliki/ChimpIDs.shtml and I think the face schematics are awesome. I am not an artistic person, but drawing the features I actually see, helps me a lot to clear my mind and find the same features in others. It's just an idea if you really want to go deeper into the chimps. Verbal descriptions have the same effect, of course. Here is a short list about the features you could (maybe: should) pay attention to: http://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/boards/BCP0000001/discussions/DCP000084r
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