You can bring some scientists in if you want~ Parts of this RP are bound to be a little slowish until escape planning starts, which I'd imagine would happen out of the sight of the scientists so that they don't hear speech or see sign language and understand what they're up to. There should be more interaction between the Apes at that point, but as it is at the moment, Joao is trying to sleep and Cozy isn't too keen on having a conversation because Joao already got angry at him for making noise. When Joao's actually awake, he'll be more inclined to interact with Lexi and Dione than the others since they're both also Bonobos, so there will be that. If we want to, we can have the scientists discover a NPC Chimpanzee sick that morning, so that they can have a reason to be out of the room and our Apes can have a chance to talk instead of being separated out for testing?
If I have the mental map of the cages right according to the posts so far, the cage order goes Joao - Cozy - Abtik and/or Lexi (their posts both said they're next to Cozy?) - Dione. Should we figure this out for sure so that we make sure we can know who can reach into whose cage?