You know that ugly, terrible, totally annoying and nerve wrecking itch right between your crotch and your butt - and you are on the street or in a meeting. So you can’t whip down your trousers and simply scratch it or ask some other human to do that for you.

Chimps can. Mutually grooming, scratching, caring and cuddling is an important part of their - and many more primates - favorite social event.

I wish we would be more social like that. Our human culture could use some more backslapping, cuddles and scratching …

Documentary / Channel 4 / 55+ minutes

It’s always good to check from time to time who you are and who we are. Some nice insights about humans, apes, brains and our heritage in this documentary.

We share 96% of our DNA with Chimps (or even 99% according to another study) and a similar amount with many other primates. But we still treat our closet living relatives like shit and many primates face extinction from us.

We should establish a new status in our legal and scientific. Primates should no longer be classified as animals, but subhumans or sentient beings - and have almost human rights and most of all protection.