Here are the answers to the burning question you most probably have after having watched the first episode of the striking new BBC Studios natural history series, Dynasties, that kicked off on Sunday on BBC Earth (DStv 184) at 16:00, featuring David the chimpanzee, the alpha male of his troop in south-east Senegal.
Viewers were shocked after David got viciously attacked by some of the other males in the troop, leaving him for dead ... but then his one finger moved.
Despite massive injuries and deep gashes, David recovered and travelled many kilometres to rejoin his troop that also faced a wildfire.
TVwithThinus spoke to Rose Thomas, the director and producer of the first episode to get answers to some of the must-know stuff viewers would want to know after you've watched the first episode.
Did you intervene when you discovered that David was attacked and left for dead?
Rose Thomas: No, we can't actually. It was incredibly emotionally difficult for me to see that happen.
Ultimately, by getting involved, we would affect their society and how their society works and their natural behaviour. The scientists studying them don't ever step in and we can't go against what they would normally do.
Also, even though he was injured he was still an incredibly strong and aggressive chimp, and it would have been dangerous for us to. And I'm also not sure what I could have done anyway, even if I had been able to help. So for all of those reasons we can't do anything, but yes it was very difficult to watch.
Were you surprised?
Rose Thomas: It's real, it's what happened.
I'm was as surprised as I think viewers seeing it when it all happened. The fact that he came back in that way was just extraordinary because we all thought he had died. As a crew we thought he had died. And we thought we were searching for a dead body.
Then we found him and he was alive it was just extraordinary.
Why do we see you wearing facemasks?
Rose Thomas: The facemasks are actually to protect the chimps.
Because they share over 90% of our DNA, they are also susceptible to our diseases but they don't have the immune system to fight them, so a common cold could kill a chimp. So we wear the face masks to prevent any disease transmission.
Did you set the wildfire?
Rose Thomas: They weren't set by us. No. The whole area burns every year and some are natural fires.
The chimps actually live on a lot of farmland. A lot of farmland is in their territory and a lot of farmers burn their farmland for crops. There were a lot of fires just naturally.
Then there's tragic news that David died recently.
Rose Thomas: There was the same scenario - the younger males attacked him at night and sadly this time he wasn't strong enough to survive. And Jumkin is actually now alpha male and Luther is second in the hierarchy, and still battling for that top spot.
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