The chimps in the story create the ideas for their religion seemingly on their own with their own brains. So my question if those chimps had been released into the wild would their religious ideas have spread or would the chimps in the wild not be smart enough to comprehend the complex ideas. The chimps in the story were raised very differently from normal chimps in the wild. They were given a way to clearly communicate which most chimps do not have. So I wonder if all chimps would form a religion with a way to understand it or if only these chimps did because they were more intelligent. The one thing about the story that bothered me was the idea that the more information chimps were presented with they could just slowly become more
