Chimp & See Talk

Adult or juvenile?

  • wandawmn by wandawmn

    I classified as an adult chimp but I wasn't sure...
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  • AnLand by AnLand moderator

    Hi @wandawmn,

    you cannot really estimate the age in this video, I guess. It is obviously not what we could call a kid, but at least an adolescent. And it is also from a distance. It could be an older juvenile, a subadult, or a female adult. I also would only guess with this video.

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  • PauDG by PauDG scientist, moderator

    Hi @wandawmn,

    I my notes I have "medium size" because is not very big but is not an juvenile following the criteria in the classification. But is far to say if is just a "medium size adult" or a sub-adult. But I will say adult in the classification.

    But sometimes here, in the ID part, we call "juveniles" to the sub-adults, just to make the difference between a big adult chimp and a old-juvenile or sub-adult of medium-size.

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