Young Chimp Learns How to Deal With a Snake | Animals With Cameras | BBC Earth

From her traumatic start in life, Kimbang has come a very long way. But before Mimi feels completely confident about releasing her into a family group, she wants to see if Kimbang can recognise and respond to danger. So we've come up with an experiment using a plastic predator. I've never seen her see a snake, so I hope that she doesn't get too close and that she lets us know that it's there and we'll make a small noise like, ooh, ooh, so that we know that there's something that she shouldn't go near. Okay. See, I'm really excited to find out exactly how she reacts to this. Good girl, Kimbang. What's that? Good girl. Can you figure out what she's actually doing? She's stopped, so she must have seen it. Is she looking at it? Yeah, she definitely knows something's not quite right. Yeah, that she's moved right round. She hasn't gone actually near the snake, she's just checking it from every angle. This response is entirely based on instinct. There's a lot of snakes in this forest, so if she'd just gone and grabbed it, then it would be really worrying. See, she just touched the bush to see if it'll move. Yeah, yeah. Which is great. Kimbang adopts a defensive strategy. She's even using the bush to make herself look even bigger. Good girl. She's improvising, using every tool at her disposal. Oh, that's good, she's trying to hit it with the camera. That's great. But will she make an alarm call to announce the danger? Yes, that is brilliant. It's great that she's let us know that it's there. That is good. So I think we should make an alarm call so she knows we've seen it, and then she'll leave with us. It's the perfect response. One that could have saved her in a real-life snake encounter.