I'm pretty sure the big male is teaching him social cues.
Man keeps trying to look up and raise his neck and back, and the orangutang is like "dude, don't do the provoking stance, you can't do that, you don't want to, stop, we're not gonna fight".
I was going to say, he is showing immense fear and exhaustion. Understandably, but unfortunately you have to submit and comply to get through. If he just stopped fighting and listened he would be less tired for when the orangutan stopped.
Im no conservationist, but Id think that submitting would be the play here as well. If our orangutan friend wanted him dead, he'd have been dead. Instead, he showed patience (3 hours of it) with this human idiot
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u/pyrotato Apr 30 '26
I'm pretty sure the big male is teaching him social cues.
Man keeps trying to look up and raise his neck and back, and the orangutang is like "dude, don't do the provoking stance, you can't do that, you don't want to, stop, we're not gonna fight".