Mistress of the Apes (1979) tells the harrowing tale of Susan, an anthropologist who lost her pregnancy and learned of her husband’s murder in Congo Kenya in the same week. But she remained strong, without showing any visible signs of emotion whatsoever, until she learned to love again, in the arms of a Homo habilis her husband had discovered prior to his death (his murder was unrelated).

Content warning: this movie contains multiple scenes involving sexual assault.

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Watch Mistress of the Apes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o9bYwBLBiU

Homo habilis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_habilis

Australopithecus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus

Koko banga saka: https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&text=koko%20banga%20saka&op=translate

African Genesis (1961) by Robert Ardrey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Genesis

Congolian Rainforest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congolian_rainforests

Jimmy Kimmel – Can you name a country? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRh1zXFKC_o

Rick Mercer – Talking to Americans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUWas-yQSw

Timbits: https://company.timhortons.com/ca/en/menu/timbits.php

Writing systems: https://www.britannica.com/topic/writing/Types-of-writing-systems

Ape sign language was a bunch of babbling nonsense: https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/