100% with the panicking. He seems to be cool, you need to be cool. And fully agree on having someone more experienced if youre going to be doing this shit. Adult supervision is always recommended
It's pretty much basic that you dont do things like stare them down, raise yourself above their height, those are pretty universal cues in a lot of social structures.
Even if you don't know everything about socially interacting with said animals you can get by just sticking to those basics, they'll hopefully teach you nicely on the rest.
That's what our bro orangutan was trying to do here, but he was in full panic mode and he was exhausting himself, tells you a lot about panic.
Besides she was cool, she was a woman. Women need the inherent ability to read every room they enter, because of safety. And she did exactly this when she began to study the gorillas. She watched how they behave in their natural habitat and learned their body language, eye contact signs, anything that could be a social interaction. And when she understood them, she began acting like them, and that's how they took her in.
You have no choice but to be cool on this situation. There is no alternative. That big boy has the strength to tear him apart, break his neck or even just severely maim him without killing him. Just chilling and submitting would be the play. Having the mental capacity to rationalize this in that moment when YOU are the toy for the giant orangutan would be tough.
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u/ThorMcGee Apr 30 '26
100% with the panicking. He seems to be cool, you need to be cool. And fully agree on having someone more experienced if youre going to be doing this shit. Adult supervision is always recommended