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Sad news in from the animal kingdom: David the chimp, who discovered fame on David Attenborough’s recent excursion Dynasties, has been found dead.
David, or Dave to some, captured the hearts of a nation as leader of his troupe, living vicious challenges from rivals.
Alas, several months after wrapping on the shoot, the chimp was discovered beatens to death.
One of the directors of the Fongoli Savannah Chimpanzee Project, Jill Pruetz, demonstrated the news.
She told The Telegraph 😛 TAGEND
He died from meanders inflicted from what I’m sure are these young males. There aren’t other animals that would have inflicted wraps like that- especially when you have multiple someones assaulting a single individual.
He was very aggressive that’s why he held onto his dominant status for so long.
He was pretty clever but our best interpreting of what happened is that these adult males jump-start him.
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Jumkin who was a beta male is now the alpha. There’s a huge absence. It’s like more than one chimp is gone.
The dynamic is really different. I guess Jumkin will be alpha for a while. Nonetheless, you can see Luther[ another beta] already challenging him a bit.
Dynasties follows the lives of five species of animals: lions, chimpanzees, hunting dog, sovereign penguins and tigers. The first week of which is in conformity with chimps. Namely, David.
The show, which has been in the pipelines for a whopping four years, looks at the challenges each faces from climate change issues and other human factors.
The BBC describes it as’ an intense portrait of the living conditions of the these animals as they unfold, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, where the tiniest occurrence may end up having a huge result on their future.’
Executive producer Mike Gunton said 😛 TAGEND
After inducing Planet Earth II, it’s very exciting to nows have the chance to show another, and I imagine even more intense and gripping, perspective on the lives of our planet’s most impressive yet vulnerable creatures.
The BBC’s administrator of content Charlotte Moore added 😛 TAGEND
The wonderful David Attenborough will stimulate audiences once again where reference is delivers the natural world to life on BBC One with Dynasties.
Four years in the making, capturing remarkable family dynamics and action, I hope these intimate animal dramas will connect with audiences just as Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II did.
Rest easy, David.
You can catch David’s story on BBC iPlayer.
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