Ape Expert Rates 10 Monkey And Ape Attacks In Movies And TV | How Real Is It | Insider
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Published 2024-05-14
Mayor debunks common misconceptions about the behavior and appearance of the great apes, such as the brutish strength and massive size of the gorilla-like ape, King Kong, in "King Kong" (2005), with Jack Black and Naomi Watts; the violent rampage of Gordy the Chimpanzee in "Nope," starring Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun, and Keke Palmer; and the intelligence and communication skills of chimpanzees and bonobos in both "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," with James Franco. She looks at the realism of monkey and ape attacks against humans and other animals, such the plausibility of a reptile-like Godzilla fighting an ape-like Kong in "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire"; the fight between a gorilla and leopard in "Tarzan" (1999); and the mandrills attacking humans in "Jumanji: The Next Level," starring Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Awkwafina. Mayor also breaks down the evolution of ape and monkeys, such as the common ancestor of humans and apes, the hominin, in "2001: A Space Odyssey"; the Gigantopithecus in "The Jungle Book" (2016); and the capuchin monkey in "Night at the Museum," with Ben Stiller.
Mayor is a primatologist and explorer who has gone on expeditions to study apes and monkeys such as mountain gorillas, western lowland gorillas, and the white-faced saki monkey. She is a wildlife correspondent for National Geographic, where she was also part of a research expedition that discovered a new species of lemur, considered to be the world's smallest primate. She wrote the book "Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer," with a foreword by Jane Goodall. She is also the executive director for strategic projects and events and director of public policy events at Florida International University.
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Ape Expert Rates 10 Monkey And Ape Attacks In Movies And TV | How Real Is It | Insider
All Comments (21)
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"a very accurate depiction, however i dont like the movie 0/10"
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Clearly an expert but she’s not rating any of this on realism just how much she likes the film.
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These expert react things are so weird. Like obviously King Kong is too big to be a real ape, that's not the point.
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She gave Nope a 0/10 but does she know that a chimp actually mauled a woman’s face in real life? And then she gives Tarzan 10/10 😭??
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How real is it: I disagree with the message so 0/10
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Mayor's Rubric: Apes Good: 10 Apes Bad: 0
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I wish you would rate it on the accuracy not her emotions/opinions
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Insider doesn't usually swing and miss with their guests. This guest was a big whiff.
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Ok, but that chimp attack was based on an actual captive chimp's attack of his owner.
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Really interesting video, but really, I don't even know what she's ranking at this point. Could might as well be the producers' error
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She said Tarzan was inaccurate yet she gave it a higher rating than the accurate night of the museum just because they used a real monkey 😂
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I can't believe she gave a zero to Nope. I know it's not good for chimp PR, but, we've seen chimps in captivity brutally attack people.
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It's as if she's never watched any of these movies. "Caesar's eyes almost look human-like" WELL YEAH LADY, it's literally one of the main plot points in the movie.
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Is the expert giving rating based on her experience and facts or her feelings for the movie?
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The name is "how real is " NOT "how i feel about".
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I'm surprised at the rating for the clip from Nope. While chimps in the wild are not like this at all, that's not the context for the clip. The movie is focused on the themes of trapping and confining wild creatures for entertainment and profit by humans. And instances of violence by chimps in captivity, especially when people keep them as pets, have happened and have been extremely violent and deadly. So I understand not wanting to condone an image of chimps as violent and deadly and dangerous when in the wild as they should be, but I don't think that the evidence agrees that chimps are totally safe when kept as pets or entertainment.
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So you're telling me King Kong is fiction... ?
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The title says ape attacks and the one clip they show of an ape attacking a human she gives a zero for being to violent.
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I don’t think she understood the assignment.
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This is the first video from Insider I’ve ever seen where I don’t understand the guest’s rating. I’m not discounting her credibility or knowledge of apes, but is she just going off her liking of the film’s mentioned? Not wanting to condone certain acts depicted? Like what?! Just stick to the facts of ape behavior in the clips.
