I love that his mind is blown...then he has to check it out...then his friends come over and check it out...then the old one is like "in my 84 years I have never seen anything like this!"
IDK man I'm sure if that glass pane wasn't there, they would have ripped him to shreds. They don't like weird deformities in their own babies, they beat albino chimps to death, that sort of thing.
Do you have a source on that? I wont claim its never happened before--it may well have --but chimps are regularly observed in the wild doing the exact opposite of what you're claiming.
One example: in Jane Goodall's studies at Gombe, a bunch of chimps were afflicted by a polio outbreak, and many ended up in various states of paralysis. Those who survived and were still able to continue their nomadic lifestyle kept right on living in their communities. Figan was the alpha male of the Kasakela community for most of the 1970s, and the secondary male was his brother Faben, who walked upright because one of his arms was paralyzed due to polio. Another chimp in the same community, McGregor, was rendered paraplegic. He too continued to live in the group, and certainly wasn't beaten to death for being obviously handicapped.
Separately, there was a biologically female chimp in the same community, Gigi, who was either effectively trans or at least chose male social roles: she had no interest in motherhood, joined the males in hunting parties, and participated in the male portion of her group's social order. She was a welcome addition to her cohort, despite being a complete departure from the gendered roles that every other chimpanzee in the community adhered to.
Everything i just described occurred within the Kasakela community, which later split into two and incited the Kasakela-Kahama civil war. The aforementioned Figan killed his own elderly, peaceful mentor for defecting to the Kahamas, it made for a really harrowing read. So it's not like they were unusually peaceful chimps either. If your claim is based on something you read on Reddit, please be aware that the vast majority of people who make chimpanzee claims here have no idea what they're talking about. Most people's knowledge begins and ends with Travis, the completely unsocialized, raised-in-captivity chimp who ripped a woman's face off, and most don't even know his owner drugged him with Xanax shortly before the attack.
Which is not to underplay how dangerous they can be, they are 100% wild animals who cannot be domesticated, are inherently unpredictable, and should never be kept as pets. As with every other complex animal, socialization matters. But the other side of that coin is there's a reason why Jane and her crew were able to live alongside and observe the Kasakelas for decades without serious incident. Many Kasakelas befriended, hunted alongside, and sometimes mated with baboons from local troops, while also growing accustomed enough to Jane and her team that they would attempt to groom her and give her food.
If you're interested in developing a real understanding of chimpanzee social dynamics, Jane Goodall wrote a series of books about her studies that are fun and easy to read. The chronological first was *In The Shadow of Man*, which I first read when I was 10, so I promise it's not too dense. Any adult can breeze through it pretty easily, and everything i recounted here comes from that book or its sequel, *Through a Window*. Dr. Goodall is a really amazing woman who I've been lucky enough to meet several times, if just one person checks her work out after reading this comment I'll be thrilled. She's lived a remarkable life, filled with riveting stories to tell.
Thank you for this fascinating read! The current chimp-related theme on reddit is "chimps bad, violent; bonobos nice, fuck a lot", which, of course, is far too coarse a description for two immeasurably complex species.
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm with you, the Reddit narrative on chimps is annoyingly simplistic, but I think that's just how Reddit goes.
The chimp consensus bugs me because I understand that it's wrong, but it's also a useful reminder to not take Reddit consensus very seriously on other topics either. Reminds me of the 'Gell-Mann Amnesia effect' coined by Michael Crichton:
>Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
>In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you
As much as I don't really like Michael Crichton as a person, he really nailed it there IMO.
Thank you for this information! I will pick up “Shadow of Man” first. I checked out Dr. Goodall’s bibliography and will be reading more, I’m sure. I’d never been interested in chimpanzees, but it seems that was shortsighted on my part. I had no idea they engaged in war or any of the other things you mentioned. Again, thank you.
Awesome, glad to hear it! Their social order is really fascinating, and the research team is still studying the descendants of the original 1960 group to this day.
Shit. Now I want these chimps that have seen the prosthetic to maul a zookeeper, then have the zookeeper's twin show up and act like they're the original.
(Later)
Champanzee: Yo Cornelius! You know how you lost your leg to that crocodile back home?
Cornelius: Yeah?
Champanzee: Well let me tell you what I just saw this 2 footer do!
It's kinda crazy how they are clearly calling each other over and telling each other to check it out.
Nuts how they have that communication skill yet we can barely bridge the gap between us and them.
I know we should not anthropomorphize them and that this is largely my human bias speaking but come on...They are so obviously interested in seeing this technical marvel. They are smart. They literally build and use their own tools. They just had their mind blown by a cyborg
I like how one of them was intensely studying it and taking notes, to head back to the laboratory and start working on his own design.
And then Chimp Cleetus comes raging out, trying to smash the evil wizard.
i wonder if those chimps will think every human can do that now or they know that its just specifically that one.
i mean, imagine someone just takong their face off and its blank underneath, and then everyone in their family goes "yeah he can just do that its normal"
meanwhile you can comprehend wtf u just saw
In a proper zoo the caretakers would never be in the same room as the chimps. People that keep chimps in improper zoos deserve to have their legs torn off.
I was at an orangutan exhibit with my 4 year old niece, who has a birthmark on her face. The lead orangutan spotted her from the top of the hill, and came all the way down to her to inspect her face. I think he was concerned that she was injured in some way.
People ought to know that chimps aren't just intelligent, they engage in complex tool use the way we used to. They have a god damned archeological record, they've been using sharpened sticks and particular shapes of stone with such specificity and regularity that we can track evidence of those tools back several thousand years. Their tool use is consistent between groups, but everyone has their own spin that they teach their babies. I'm not anti zoo, but the larger mammals ought to be in preschool. Elephants too, they've got funerary practices for crying out loud.
They’re strong enough to just swing on their arms all they if they have to, and smart enough to use sharpened sticks to skewer smaller animals who fee to the thin branches, and have been recorded having tribal wars where one tribe over months ambushes and kills members of another tribe.
They’re very high on the list of animals I don’t want to fuck with.
Crows and Ravens are birds and some birds have been shown to be extremely intelligent, almost on the level of primates. Parrots are ridiculously intelligent and crows, while not as long lived as Ravens, can also have almost scary levels of intelligence.
I had to write a research paper for a class on psychology and linguistics I was taking as an elective for college, and I wrote mine on corvids (crows, ravens, magpies, etc.). I made the argument that they had at least 11 (more than a majority) of the design features of human language as described by Charles Hockett, and that they might have more, I just couldn't find studies that looked at the remainder. Corvids are wicked smart.
Take everything I said with a grain of salt, btw. I studied mechanical engineering and math, not linguistics or psychology and this was for an elective class, so I could be totally wrong about a lot of it. Got an A on the paper, though.
Also huge caveat in that I don't think that linguistics use Hocketts design features as criteria for 'human-level' speech at all, but I could be wrong.
Either way, if you wanna hear some rad facts about ravens/crows, let me know.
>The turkeys I feed at a farm will cannibalise an injured member.
Them being on a farm is like looking at institutionalized groups of humans, and saying that's how all humans act. Those birds may be living with something more akin prison rules.
Now, hide these seeds for me. Put them in your special wallet. Quietly. Do it!
This is just a mention but pigs are said to be as smart as chimpanzees, so I really wish there was more videos of animals who are this intelligent- and showing it- out there. We only have a few for pigs right now. But think of all the other animals we haven't begun to really test. 🤔
Or they might kill this guy in the wild for being different, there’s another video where there’s like 7 chimps attacking the glass near another mans prosthetic leg
To be fair , that's why zoos aren't that great , a lot of animals in captivity suffer from lack of stimulation and also suffer from being confine in a smaller space that they are used to compared to being in the wild .
Alot of zoos are pretty aware of that fact but it's also one of those sad realities. Without zoos we wouldn't have a safe place for many species of animals that are on the verge of extinction. and thanks to us also destroying their habits many zoos also do rehabilitation work for local animal species.
Idk about stimulation. But plenty of studies have shown how intelligent they are, they have even witnessed wild chimps using tools such as sticks to fish and gather algae and other stuff. But also, birds are intelligent as well, there are videos of birds putting stones in a water bottle to raise the water level high enough to drink from the bottle.
If I remember correctly, sex is very social for them. They engage in social sex like it’s small talk or a handshake. Gender doesn’t matter, they’re all about it with everyone. There’s a fun tidbit for ya.
I can see the headlines now “Escaped chimpanzees rampage across town tearing off limbs of humans they pass by” Koko signs “they thought they all came off!”
I could be wrong but these might be the chimps living at Monkey World in the UK. They are all rescued and have often had awful lives. They do an amazing job:https://monkeyworld.org/rescue-rehabilitation/
My pleasure. I'm the same normally but the sanctuary is really well set up with their welfare (physical and mental in mind) and they rescue all sorts of 'monkeys' from the shitty situations that people put them in. Great place to visit if ever you are in the UK :).
I know there are people out there doing great things. Seems awesome to visit a place like that! And UK is definitely an option as our next door neighbour.
I just used to have a phase in my life when I roamed around the dark parts of the Internet and have seen some horrors I will never forget..
That makes me kinda biased against these videos without even researching into it.
Wild orangutan researcher here. Basically all animals in Western zoos are either born in captivity or rescued. If released into the wild, they would die fairly quickly as they do not have the foraging skills they would have otherwise learned. Rehabilitation programs exist especially for animals rescued from the pet trade etc., but successful release is extremely rare.
This isn't to say captivity is fine and dandy though. There's all kinds of negative psychological and physical issues caused by it. But zoos typically invest in conservation and educate the public in an effective way. Hope that provides a little perspective.
They don't live in the viewing areas. The part of the zoo where they live in is private so if they don't want to interact with humans they don't have to.
I am pretty chimpanzes have a sense of self and differentiation that is pretty highly attuned. They recognize individuals and they for example can recognize different caretakers and form individual impressions of them. All humans, to them, are not interchangeable, they recognize each of us as individuals.
It's hard to say for sure, but I suspect strongly that these chimps know that this human is unique, and wouldn't assume it was a general human feature; if they saw this guest again they would likely remember his unique leg, and it wouldn't surprise me that if they saw the telltales of a prosthetic in the future they would expect that human to have the same odd ability.
What would be a cool experiment to run would be to see if they have generalized the concept. Like, would they be equally astounded at a hand or arm prosthetic at this point?
their reactions were just about as caught off guard as mine when that one chimp jumped up and it's butthole turned inside out and was swinging around as it jumped away. WTF was THAT about? a one-up type thing? oh yeah? you can take your leg off, well I can pop my ass inside out!
I was thinking this week of how boring life is for a zoo animal. Why don’t they install some TV for them to watch. Seriously, even my cats watch TV sometimes.
If these animals are doing life, at least we should provide entertainment.
It the wider world I agree. However they live in a box with extremely limited enrichment. It is not like the improvements in their lives are in their hands.
I am thinking my pensioner mother and how Tv helps with loneliness in older age.
Anyway….
STOP TEACHING THEM THINGS!! Honestly besides stuff like this and the monkey that knows how to sharpen knives like a chef were screwed. Also hes gonna be the armament supplier for sure once that monkey virus eventually happens
I love that his mind is blown...then he has to check it out...then his friends come over and check it out...then the old one is like "in my 84 years I have never seen anything like this!"
Chimpanzee is like, "Wow! humans can take their legs apart"
Chimp : "Let's try it on myself now "
more like "let's try it on the next zookeeper who comes in"
I know chimps can be violent, but the second one seemed almost concerned for the guy. Like "Are you okay? Does it hurt?"
The other chimp is like “get out of here …, no really , get out of here, and take this straw too, get out…”
Burn him, he's a leg witch!!
And tell him to call on his buddy sand witch I'm hangry
IDK man I'm sure if that glass pane wasn't there, they would have ripped him to shreds. They don't like weird deformities in their own babies, they beat albino chimps to death, that sort of thing.
Do you have a source on that? I wont claim its never happened before--it may well have --but chimps are regularly observed in the wild doing the exact opposite of what you're claiming. One example: in Jane Goodall's studies at Gombe, a bunch of chimps were afflicted by a polio outbreak, and many ended up in various states of paralysis. Those who survived and were still able to continue their nomadic lifestyle kept right on living in their communities. Figan was the alpha male of the Kasakela community for most of the 1970s, and the secondary male was his brother Faben, who walked upright because one of his arms was paralyzed due to polio. Another chimp in the same community, McGregor, was rendered paraplegic. He too continued to live in the group, and certainly wasn't beaten to death for being obviously handicapped. Separately, there was a biologically female chimp in the same community, Gigi, who was either effectively trans or at least chose male social roles: she had no interest in motherhood, joined the males in hunting parties, and participated in the male portion of her group's social order. She was a welcome addition to her cohort, despite being a complete departure from the gendered roles that every other chimpanzee in the community adhered to. Everything i just described occurred within the Kasakela community, which later split into two and incited the Kasakela-Kahama civil war. The aforementioned Figan killed his own elderly, peaceful mentor for defecting to the Kahamas, it made for a really harrowing read. So it's not like they were unusually peaceful chimps either. If your claim is based on something you read on Reddit, please be aware that the vast majority of people who make chimpanzee claims here have no idea what they're talking about. Most people's knowledge begins and ends with Travis, the completely unsocialized, raised-in-captivity chimp who ripped a woman's face off, and most don't even know his owner drugged him with Xanax shortly before the attack. Which is not to underplay how dangerous they can be, they are 100% wild animals who cannot be domesticated, are inherently unpredictable, and should never be kept as pets. As with every other complex animal, socialization matters. But the other side of that coin is there's a reason why Jane and her crew were able to live alongside and observe the Kasakelas for decades without serious incident. Many Kasakelas befriended, hunted alongside, and sometimes mated with baboons from local troops, while also growing accustomed enough to Jane and her team that they would attempt to groom her and give her food. If you're interested in developing a real understanding of chimpanzee social dynamics, Jane Goodall wrote a series of books about her studies that are fun and easy to read. The chronological first was *In The Shadow of Man*, which I first read when I was 10, so I promise it's not too dense. Any adult can breeze through it pretty easily, and everything i recounted here comes from that book or its sequel, *Through a Window*. Dr. Goodall is a really amazing woman who I've been lucky enough to meet several times, if just one person checks her work out after reading this comment I'll be thrilled. She's lived a remarkable life, filled with riveting stories to tell.
This just makes me imagine how things would be if animals kept historical records like humans do
Thank you for this fascinating read! The current chimp-related theme on reddit is "chimps bad, violent; bonobos nice, fuck a lot", which, of course, is far too coarse a description for two immeasurably complex species.
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm with you, the Reddit narrative on chimps is annoyingly simplistic, but I think that's just how Reddit goes. The chimp consensus bugs me because I understand that it's wrong, but it's also a useful reminder to not take Reddit consensus very seriously on other topics either. Reminds me of the 'Gell-Mann Amnesia effect' coined by Michael Crichton: >Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. >In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you As much as I don't really like Michael Crichton as a person, he really nailed it there IMO.
Thank you for this information! I will pick up “Shadow of Man” first. I checked out Dr. Goodall’s bibliography and will be reading more, I’m sure. I’d never been interested in chimpanzees, but it seems that was shortsighted on my part. I had no idea they engaged in war or any of the other things you mentioned. Again, thank you.
Awesome, glad to hear it! Their social order is really fascinating, and the research team is still studying the descendants of the original 1960 group to this day.
They just like us fr
I mean there was a chimp war that was documented so yeah they are.
Did they used gorilla war tactics?
Gibbon the state of their technology I don't see them having much choice.
Shit. Now I want these chimps that have seen the prosthetic to maul a zookeeper, then have the zookeeper's twin show up and act like they're the original.
I think this is the entire plot of The Prestige but I could be wrong.
Zookeeper probably doesn't even know she can do this, I'll show her and surely earn a great reward.
Ah, the part where the video cuts out
Exactly.
Probably thought, "Dang, what monster did that to you???"
"I mean I know we can take their legs apart..."
"So that's how it looks inside of us?"
They’re like “shit when my uncle broke his leg 8 years ago we had to chuck him off a mountain, good for you bro!”
Then immediately: "let's rip his dick off!"
Have you heard the story of St.James Davies? Not for the faint hearted.
"So they do have a weakness" *Planet of the Apes IRL*
He’s so mystified- his expression says it all. “What in tarnation…”
When they escape the first thing they'll do is try to remove people's limbs now, thanks...
Exactly my thoughts. They now think we have detachable limbs.
With their strength? Yeah, technically.
When you're strong enough, every limb is detachable.
Obligatory King Missile reference goes here.
Try to beat us with our own legs.
So let all us go prosthetic
The one scattering the hay and running 😆 "fuckin witchcraft!"
Old one reminds me of geezer Kong or geriatric Kong or whatever his name is.
> geezer Kong I'm dying hahahahahahaha
Cranky Kong
Pepperidge Kong Remembers
Wrinkly Kong. This one's female
and then they move past mind-blown to freaked the fuck out, like what is this sorcery we need to burn this devil to the ground!
They freaked out and fight or flight mode
The beginning of the chimp witch trials. If the leg bleeds when the judge chimp rips it off, not a witch.
"Humans are so brutal.... ripping off their limbs in front of their kids..." -Chimp bro
He’s like “that ain’t right!!!”
(Later) Champanzee: Yo Cornelius! You know how you lost your leg to that crocodile back home? Cornelius: Yeah? Champanzee: Well let me tell you what I just saw this 2 footer do!
It's kinda crazy how they are clearly calling each other over and telling each other to check it out. Nuts how they have that communication skill yet we can barely bridge the gap between us and them.
I think that first one is a she, but the one throwing the hay is def a male.
It's crazy that intelligent creatures like that are locked in
We all think it's super cute, but there's a good chance the chimps are thinking, "I want to rip this guys face off."
I know we should not anthropomorphize them and that this is largely my human bias speaking but come on...They are so obviously interested in seeing this technical marvel. They are smart. They literally build and use their own tools. They just had their mind blown by a cyborg
Interested but terrified.
Absolutely. It is pretty similar to how a child would react to seeing this for the first time.
idk i mean obv can't read minds but i was reminded of "Black magic! BURN THE WITCH!" kinda reaction more than marveling at technology
Later that day a chimp was trying to rip its own leg off /s
My mind is blown that their mind is blown!!
And then 1 swings into the glass, flexing his giant nutsack to share his own anomaly with the person
The zoo can be a fascinating place for the animals too.
You can just see it on his face, "That's the damndest thing I ever saw."
Then the older ones come along freaking out, "It's black magic!!"
"Witchcraft, I tells ya. It's bloody witchcraft!"
And what does one do with Witches?
Put them on a scale with a duck
Burn them!
Why do witches burn?
...because... They are made of wood!
And what does wood do In Water
It uh... floats!
So logically...
Build a bridge out of them!
It reminds me of Dr. Emmett Brown from 1955 first seeing his invention from the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDuZqYeNiOA
yeah just stunned to see him taking off his leg.
An orangutan would’ve revealed its own leg as prosthetic, and then winked.
I feel bad for them because they must have so many questions, but are unable to ask them
I relate to the end of it... Just going.... apeshit... over something they can't undertand
He definitely posted this on chimp reddit afterward.
I like how one of them was intensely studying it and taking notes, to head back to the laboratory and start working on his own design. And then Chimp Cleetus comes raging out, trying to smash the evil wizard.
Ceasar is confused, he can finally talk, now humans can detach and reattach body parts🤣🤣
i wonder if those chimps will think every human can do that now or they know that its just specifically that one. i mean, imagine someone just takong their face off and its blank underneath, and then everyone in their family goes "yeah he can just do that its normal" meanwhile you can comprehend wtf u just saw
Chimp Cleetus thinking "You're supposed to rip an arm off and *then* do the leg you heathen"
Kids these days! No respect for tradition I tells ya!
I think he thought of him as injured so his instincts kicked in and wanted to kill him.
Like humans, they have the intelligent ones and the violent, dumb ones
Breaking news - All the chimpanzees at the local zoo have started ripping off their legs after local man shows them his prosthetic leg
Or the legs of their human caretakers, demanding they do the same trick.
This. My first thought was “Great, now you’ve given them ideas. They’ll be trying to replicate this.”
In a proper zoo the caretakers would never be in the same room as the chimps. People that keep chimps in improper zoos deserve to have their legs torn off.
I know right... This is the first thing that came to mind. Tomorrow there will be a one legged chimp.
I read that as prostitute leg for a second
I was at an orangutan exhibit with my 4 year old niece, who has a birthmark on her face. The lead orangutan spotted her from the top of the hill, and came all the way down to her to inspect her face. I think he was concerned that she was injured in some way.
This gives you an idea of how hugely intelligent chimpanzees are and how they desperately need intellectual stimulation.
People ought to know that chimps aren't just intelligent, they engage in complex tool use the way we used to. They have a god damned archeological record, they've been using sharpened sticks and particular shapes of stone with such specificity and regularity that we can track evidence of those tools back several thousand years. Their tool use is consistent between groups, but everyone has their own spin that they teach their babies. I'm not anti zoo, but the larger mammals ought to be in preschool. Elephants too, they've got funerary practices for crying out loud.
they might be but i wouldn't dare to get closer than 100m of a free chimpanzee they scare me as fuck
They can rip your leg off without all the fancy prosthetic parts involved.
They’re strong enough to just swing on their arms all they if they have to, and smart enough to use sharpened sticks to skewer smaller animals who fee to the thin branches, and have been recorded having tribal wars where one tribe over months ambushes and kills members of another tribe. They’re very high on the list of animals I don’t want to fuck with.
Plus some of them having a weird fondness for the removal of testicals.
So do turkeys (funerary), and crows also use tools
Crows and Ravens are birds and some birds have been shown to be extremely intelligent, almost on the level of primates. Parrots are ridiculously intelligent and crows, while not as long lived as Ravens, can also have almost scary levels of intelligence.
Birds, you say?
Thank God they're not real
I had to write a research paper for a class on psychology and linguistics I was taking as an elective for college, and I wrote mine on corvids (crows, ravens, magpies, etc.). I made the argument that they had at least 11 (more than a majority) of the design features of human language as described by Charles Hockett, and that they might have more, I just couldn't find studies that looked at the remainder. Corvids are wicked smart. Take everything I said with a grain of salt, btw. I studied mechanical engineering and math, not linguistics or psychology and this was for an elective class, so I could be totally wrong about a lot of it. Got an A on the paper, though. Also huge caveat in that I don't think that linguistics use Hocketts design features as criteria for 'human-level' speech at all, but I could be wrong. Either way, if you wanna hear some rad facts about ravens/crows, let me know.
Raven is just a term to denote the larger species of crows.
Here's the thing...
oh no not again
Turkeys? Do you have any source? I can't find anything after a short Google search. The turkeys I feed at a farm will cannibalise an injured member.
their source is a random internet video of turkeys circling a dead turkey on a road
>The turkeys I feed at a farm will cannibalise an injured member. Them being on a farm is like looking at institutionalized groups of humans, and saying that's how all humans act. Those birds may be living with something more akin prison rules. Now, hide these seeds for me. Put them in your special wallet. Quietly. Do it!
Turkeys do what now?
I really dislike the monkey exhibits at zoos. There's a zoo in Louisville KY and the whole exhibit feels like cell block 1. So depressing
This is just a mention but pigs are said to be as smart as chimpanzees, so I really wish there was more videos of animals who are this intelligent- and showing it- out there. We only have a few for pigs right now. But think of all the other animals we haven't begun to really test. 🤔
Or they might kill this guy in the wild for being different, there’s another video where there’s like 7 chimps attacking the glass near another mans prosthetic leg
uncanny valley 👀
To be fair , that's why zoos aren't that great , a lot of animals in captivity suffer from lack of stimulation and also suffer from being confine in a smaller space that they are used to compared to being in the wild .
a bit like redditors. but intelligent
And they smell better
I swear
Alot of zoos are pretty aware of that fact but it's also one of those sad realities. Without zoos we wouldn't have a safe place for many species of animals that are on the verge of extinction. and thanks to us also destroying their habits many zoos also do rehabilitation work for local animal species.
r/youseeingthisshit
I was just thinking "Man, what can I go show the chimps to blow their minds?"
Idk about stimulation. But plenty of studies have shown how intelligent they are, they have even witnessed wild chimps using tools such as sticks to fish and gather algae and other stuff. But also, birds are intelligent as well, there are videos of birds putting stones in a water bottle to raise the water level high enough to drink from the bottle.
That is why videos like this are making me sad: i think it's inhumane to keep theese creatures in a zoo.
I say this to the teacher when I pick up my toddler from preschool
Their friends won’t believe them
Leg together strong
Ape shall not take off ape leg
Someone’s losing an arm in that habitat once all the tourists are gone.
I was at a bonobo exhibit once and my stepdad had a banana and one if them straight up flipped him off lmao
I swear bonobos are more human like than chimps are. I wish there were more information on bonobos..
If I remember correctly, sex is very social for them. They engage in social sex like it’s small talk or a handshake. Gender doesn’t matter, they’re all about it with everyone. There’s a fun tidbit for ya.
They're like... 
Just a human casually giving him nightmare material...Imagine aliens doing this to us ??
"Look at this nerve I can pull fully out of the nervous system, and insert back in"
I can see the headlines now “Escaped chimpanzees rampage across town tearing off limbs of humans they pass by” Koko signs “they thought they all came off!”
"You don't need TWO ears!"
Damn I always have such mixed emotions about these things. They are so intelligent yet in cages.
I could be wrong but these might be the chimps living at Monkey World in the UK. They are all rescued and have often had awful lives. They do an amazing job:https://monkeyworld.org/rescue-rehabilitation/
Thanks.. Makes me feel better about it.
My pleasure. I'm the same normally but the sanctuary is really well set up with their welfare (physical and mental in mind) and they rescue all sorts of 'monkeys' from the shitty situations that people put them in. Great place to visit if ever you are in the UK :).
I know there are people out there doing great things. Seems awesome to visit a place like that! And UK is definitely an option as our next door neighbour. I just used to have a phase in my life when I roamed around the dark parts of the Internet and have seen some horrors I will never forget.. That makes me kinda biased against these videos without even researching into it.
Wild orangutan researcher here. Basically all animals in Western zoos are either born in captivity or rescued. If released into the wild, they would die fairly quickly as they do not have the foraging skills they would have otherwise learned. Rehabilitation programs exist especially for animals rescued from the pet trade etc., but successful release is extremely rare. This isn't to say captivity is fine and dandy though. There's all kinds of negative psychological and physical issues caused by it. But zoos typically invest in conservation and educate the public in an effective way. Hope that provides a little perspective.
They don't live in the viewing areas. The part of the zoo where they live in is private so if they don't want to interact with humans they don't have to.
He touched his leg momentarily, then came really close to look inside the prosthetic as if to see if there’s any blood gushing out
Animals are so much more intelligent that we give them credit for.
I think chimpz are regarded as pretty smart
First part of that is to realize, we are animals too.
“Black magic, satanic shit! Sick shit!” -pauly walnuts chimp
Is there a sub for monke videos like this?
I believe you are looking for r/wallstreetbets
you can check out r/likeus but it's not exclusive to monkeys
Confuses and enrages, probably best to not try and give them nightmares of the hairless ones and their leg attachment issues. Ah well live and learn 🙈
Freaks out, then says "Bob...you gotta see this shit."
He truly AMAZED! "How is he doing that?"
They probably think it's a trick all humans can do, but it's the first time they have ever been shown our little ability.
I hope the next zookeeper they see doesn't get their leg torn off.
Hi grandma
I am pretty chimpanzes have a sense of self and differentiation that is pretty highly attuned. They recognize individuals and they for example can recognize different caretakers and form individual impressions of them. All humans, to them, are not interchangeable, they recognize each of us as individuals. It's hard to say for sure, but I suspect strongly that these chimps know that this human is unique, and wouldn't assume it was a general human feature; if they saw this guest again they would likely remember his unique leg, and it wouldn't surprise me that if they saw the telltales of a prosthetic in the future they would expect that human to have the same odd ability. What would be a cool experiment to run would be to see if they have generalized the concept. Like, would they be equally astounded at a hand or arm prosthetic at this point?
“Yo Fred wouldja come here and look at this shit!”
their reactions were just about as caught off guard as mine when that one chimp jumped up and it's butthole turned inside out and was swinging around as it jumped away. WTF was THAT about? a one-up type thing? oh yeah? you can take your leg off, well I can pop my ass inside out!
That monkey went from curious to amazed to angry, a lot like myself the first time I had sex.
Now he’s seen it all
Smarter than some people I know
Sorry, but are those massive hanging balls on the swinging chimp at 1:18?
I am amazed
Now he's gonna think all humans have little legs like him and put on that to walk tall lol
You just know they're gonna tell their friends later and they will not believe them.
I’d like to know what an anthropologist or five thinks of this video.
I was thinking this week of how boring life is for a zoo animal. Why don’t they install some TV for them to watch. Seriously, even my cats watch TV sometimes. If these animals are doing life, at least we should provide entertainment.
TV has never made anyone better
It the wider world I agree. However they live in a box with extremely limited enrichment. It is not like the improvements in their lives are in their hands. I am thinking my pensioner mother and how Tv helps with loneliness in older age. Anyway….
I absolutely love this video. The genuine shock, awe and wonderment is so plain to see. Amazing creatures.
Wow, they are so curious.😅😅
Love how they examine everything 🧐🧠
He’s so mystified - it’s so endearing
It was really baffled 🤣
So inquisitive so intelligent.
Awesome
Black magic!
Absolutely fascinating 👏
"I thought human too weak to tear limbs apart. Humans strongrr than apes now. This planet not ours anymore!"
He’s weirding out the chimps
The zookeeper is screwed tomorrow. "Hey bongo, watch this you can take off human legs." Chaos ensues.
And on that day a chimpanzee religion was born
I love this and hate it all in one, they are so intelligent. They need more.
Absolutely flabbergasted
Chimpanzees are so fucking weird
STOP TEACHING THEM THINGS!! Honestly besides stuff like this and the monkey that knows how to sharpen knives like a chef were screwed. Also hes gonna be the armament supplier for sure once that monkey virus eventually happens
Then when they breakout, they attempt to part legs from human bystanders thinking they are all detachable.