In this chapter, I describe the experience of conducting research in the field, the challenges and astonishing effects of being granted this kind of opportunity. I contrast the difference between the aspects of research that are “shown,” that is, on the results of research where the aim is to maintain one’s objectivity, and the “untold” stories of the experience of observing nonhuman animals in the field. From a personal perspective, I give an account of how a relationship between researcher and nonhuman animal is built when one spends several months closely following chimpanzees while they engage in their daily routines. I argue that ethnography can serve as a model to introduce additional methodological practices and can help us provide more complex descriptions of the interactions that take place between mothers and infants. I focus on participant observation, an ethnographic methodological approach where researchers engage in direct and sustained contact and participation with the members of the community and the cultural practices held within that community as the best practice to observe a community. I will argue that primatologists who work in the field already exercise a similar methodological practice, as researchers go into the field for long periods of time and become part of the communities.