In a viral ad campaign, producers of the upcoming film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" have released a series of videos showing weapon-wielding apes. Stylized to look like documentary footage out of Africa, one video features a chimp shooting an AK-47 at a group of off-duty soldiers who had been taunting it. Another clip shows a chimp hacking a carcass to bits with a machete. The shocking footage is most likely intended to make the premise of the new film (intelligence-enhanced apes rising up and taking control of Earth, enslaving humans in the process) frighteningly plausible. But can chimps really wield weapons? [Watch Video of Chimp with AK-47] https://www.livescience.com/15120-planet-apes-chimps-shoot-guns.html
Was this a fake PR setup? Were those maybe just dummy rounds that the chimp appeared to be firing? Running the video slowed to 0.25x at time 0:26 shows what could be some nice special effects work but no hill for a climber in the hands of a pro fx studio.