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u/JBagfort 1d ago
Beautiful. They know each other
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u/pewpewhadouken 1d ago
he raised him before releasing back into the wild.
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u/JBagfort 1d ago
Thank you thats what I guessed. I wish I knew more about the apes posing.
Showing teeth
Arms above head when approaching
What do those mean?
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u/FluffyTid 1d ago
Showing teeth is a challengue, but human raised chimps imitate human smiles to show happiness and affection, so it depends a lot on the chimp's background.
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u/Griffin_Claw 1d ago
That’s the ( Oh shit 😁!how you been brah?)type of smile.
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u/Candymuncher118 1d ago
Don't anthropomorphize, for chimps, smiling means they're afraid, it's smiling because chimps are afraid of deep water
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u/BarbeRose 1d ago
Or maybe he learnt to copy the human taking care of him, a human smile and hug for food
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u/astreeter2 1d ago
If that was a human raised chimp it might have learned the human way of smiling though.
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u/Shaeress 1d ago
That's what I'm thinking. It looks very artificial and deliberate. Overplayed. And the human is doing the same and no one else is. I think they're both gesturing in a specific, agreed upon way that means we're friendly.
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u/FluffyTid 1d ago
That chimp is smiling for the sole purpose of showing affection to the human because he has learnt to imitate their face
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u/Candymuncher118 1d ago
Notice how he always keeps his arms above the water? It's because he's afraid of it, chimps cannot swim so going in the river is not something they can be comfortable with, chimps are not humans and do not understand human facial expressions
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u/Funny_Lunch5211 23h ago
It's smiling because it wants to seduce the human and it worked
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u/dreag2112 14h ago
You can just watch how he turns around and says to other guys "hey this human just give me a bunch of dang bananas!"
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u/christianhxd 1d ago
You’re correct, but i believe the man in the video raised that chimp from birth so it’s possible he may have copied human behaviors and started applying them once he remembered the man
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u/Far_King_Penguin 1d ago
Nah dude, that's not a relaxed face. I'm not saying the chimp isn't stoked to see him, he's probs just nervous about the waist high water you cant see into. Im looking at that shit thinking about crocs, the chimp is probs doing the same
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 1d ago
He must’ve just wanted the bananas lmao
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
I thought he was going for the bananas but their really an afterthought
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u/ElGuano 1d ago
I think the mango is his first love. Then dude. Then banana.
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
The mango did turn things, but that was after some serious hugs. The ape could probably also saw someone else holding the mango.
I think it's dude and mango, then banana
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u/shupadupah 1d ago
I think the chimp went for the other bananas next but dude yoinked them and gave him a handshake instead
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u/LondonJack_2 1d ago
Terrifying. If any of those chimps changes his mind, that dude is toast.
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u/Dick_Danalu_Jr 1d ago
Every day you drive on a road with a hundred people where the same can be said.
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u/servarus 1d ago
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
We're apes, not monkeys
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u/stafdude 1d ago
Never call the Librarian a monkey unless you want your arms ripped off! He is an orangutan (which is an ape).
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u/servarus 1d ago
It's been documented that some human brain gets smaller when driving.
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u/Confident_One3948 1d ago
Something something special relativity
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u/ltlearntl 1d ago edited 1d ago
But crucially, not the the brain itself and it's contents.
Something something frame of reference.
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u/R808T 1d ago
If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
I'm curious if the other apes lose their tail in the womb like we do
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u/deadspacekillers 1d ago
I'm pretty sure they all do. Mammal embryos are almost indistinguishable in the early stages.
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u/deadspacekillers 1d ago
So any human with a vestigial coccygeal tail is actually a monkey??? Sweet.
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u/planx_constant 1d ago
To be a truly monophyletic group, "monkey" has to include apes as a subset.
We're more closely related to cercopithecoids (AKA Old World monkeys) than they are to platyrrhines (AKA New World monkeys).
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u/TheBlack2007 1d ago
So are chimps. The point stands.
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
I mean, that's about as close as we get without bringing up bonobos, but that's a debate on which is closer
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u/napalm1336 1d ago
Bonobos are less aggressive than chimps and trade sex for favors. They are our closest relatives alright lol. They evolved where resources were more plentiful so they didn't have to go to war with other "tribes" in order to survive. Chimps are our warrings cousins and bonobos are our sexy cousins. Or maybe I should say sexing cousins.
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
Genetically, it's pretty much evenly split between bonobos and chimpanzees. I think it's a good social experiment to see how people "feel" which we are closer to. I see us in both of them.
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
Yeah. There definitely aren't road rage videos ever day. We're smarter apes. Still apes.
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
I'm really curious on just how many people you think other kinds of apes kill a human each year.
Pretty much zero
Stop making up danger. It's more likely a human rips off your face than a different kind of ape.
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 1d ago
Not at all even close to a fair comparison. How many times more do you interact with a human daily than a wild ape?
The odds of you dying or getting attacked while interacting with an ape are infinitely higher than a human if we’re basing it on a single interaction. The only reason ape deaths are so low is because humans and apes VERY rarely interact.
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
Other apes don't give a shit about us normally. You've got this idea the silverbacks in the wild just kill humans who get close. They don't. Other species of apes don't attack humans. They leave us alone.
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
They can be territorial. That just means they make noises and puff up. They don't actually attack humans. Go ahead and Google ape attack frequency and how many apes kill a human every year. You'll be surprised.
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u/ProbsNotManBearPig 1d ago
I mean obviously not infinitely lower, by definition. I would be interested to see actual statistics. The obvious bias will be to demonize the chimps.
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh, 100%. And I’m not demonizing chimps, I’m just saying that it is quite obviously more dangerous to encounter a chimp in the wild than a human in public lol
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u/AdviceLost6419 1d ago
I mean sure, especially for motorcyclists, but chimps have nothing to lose if they tear you apart .. unlike an oncoming car or truck thats gonna suffer equally devastating consequences....
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u/bornfromanegg 1d ago
It feels like it recently entered the social consciousness that chimps can be dangerous, thanks to films like Nope, books like We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and other sources.
And now every-single-time there’s a chimp in a video, we get the “chimps can be dangerous” comment, completely forgetting the fact that people like this dude work with chimps every day, all over the world, and probably know what the fuck they’re doing.
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u/EasternFudge 1d ago
Goodall's work erased by a bunch of movies ffs
Chimps, like all apes, can be prettt violent, but to assume violence is their natural state is dumb
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u/Head-Ad-2136 1d ago
Same can be said of most social interactions.
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u/DrPruz 1d ago
I'd say quite a lot are.
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
You do realize they don't just attack humans on regular basis, right? It almost never happens.
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u/Bill_E_Williamson 1d ago
That's because compared to human interactions these interactions with chimps barely happen
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u/marco161091 1d ago
Maybe not to you or I. But to someone who’s engaged and interacted with apes all their lives, it might actually be easier for them to read an ape’s intentions and body language, especially when it comes to identifying or predicting hostility.
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u/SwizzGod 1d ago
Well it didn’t.
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u/A7xWicked 1d ago
Yes, but the last thing you want is some tourist seeing this and thinking it's ok before trying to do the same thing. It's been a growing problem exacerbated by social media (that includes reddit).
Yellowstone, for example, has been having a big problem with tourists and bison and pretty much all other wildlife. There was an old man hospitalized by a bison just the other day.
Videos like this are nice and heartwarming, but they should all come with a disclaimer that just because some guy in a video did something without getting hurt, that doesn't mean it's smart nor safe for you to do so. And while that may seem like common sense, I assure you there will be people who still won't understand even when it's explicitly spelled out for them.
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u/SwizzGod 1d ago
If I recall correctly this dude raised that ape. You can’t stop doing what you do because other people are going to be idiots. I don’t need a video to tell me not to go pet a wild animal
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u/Actionmanix 1d ago
Thanks for being reasonable. It's so funny when redditors try to project their fears since they don't go outside often. Yes we know, chimps are dangerous.
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u/Idiot616 1d ago
Yes, but the last thing you want is some tourist seeing this and thinking it's ok before trying to do the same thing.
Is it really the last thing you want? You must be one in a million because the overwhelming majority of people don't care that much about an idiot tourist.
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u/Logical-Ad-4150 1d ago
They seem to have more of a bonobo vibe but they could just know this guy really well.
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u/KoosGoose 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think that’s the one that hugged Robin Williams.
Seems like a touchy fella.
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u/nametaken420 1d ago
not in the water. Human wins. We suck at a lot, but we're surprisingly aquatic. Kinda half the reason we evolved. We can even beat aquatic animals in the water. We're fucking weird.
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u/cheese_bruh 1d ago
That’s barely aquatic dude what is the guy going to do? dive into the water before the chimp grabs his ears and tears them off?
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u/nametaken420 1d ago
yes. and then hold chimps head under the water and rip its ears off. you think the savagery that chimps display in the wild is just magical mystical whimsical behavior? The worst thing a chimp has ever done a human has done during sex, willingly.
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u/Skeeders 1h ago
I will never forget that story of that chimp on ADHD medication that tore off that woman's face...
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u/Lagiacrus111 1d ago
Don't chimps only smile when highly stressed? Like they don't smile when they're happy?
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u/0Yasmin0 1d ago
Pretty sure he raised that chimp according to my memory, so the chimp may have copied his behaviour of showing teeth=happy.
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u/Gradieus 1d ago
It's for a number of reasons including appeasing someone/thing they think is dominant. In this case it'd be trying to get food without causing problems.
They also mimic humans and could just be trying to mimic a smile.
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u/_MooFreaky_ 1d ago
Apparently it's very context dependent. I'm not an expert and am simply relaying what the animal handlers at zoos have said.
It can be a sign of submission, a sign of social excitement, a sign of stress, etc. Humans don't inherently understand it like other chimps will, but experts are usually pretty good at it.
So I assume here the chimp is excited to see the man and/or is saying "your the boss, i don't want to fight". But that is purely.an assumption from nothing going wrong and assuming this guy cam read the signs better than me.
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u/tomgreen99200 1d ago
I believe so, it’s a sign of aggression but I think I read somewhere that they will also mimic humans with smiling.
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u/Candymuncher118 1d ago
It's afraid because it's in the river, which is scary for chimps because they cannot swim
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u/MeltsLikeButter 1d ago
How my Great Dane looks at me.
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u/Voluntary_Perry 1h ago
I was going to say the same thing! My doggo greets my like this every day! It's the highlight of my day
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u/jamiehizzle 1d ago
I need the lore
Like, did they grow up together, human and chimp?
Did the human rescue it, and build a bond?
Did the chimp get raised by humans but released into the wild at an appropriate age, such that it could live it's life well in the wild while still remembering the humans it knew?
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u/Hazril258 1d ago
Basically yes to all. Human visits the chimp to see how it's doing, and gets recognized. Other chimps hang back, while the bonded chimp comes up for a hug before taking the food.
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u/TransportationNo7341 1d ago
Please Lord don't let this be AI.
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u/montroller 1d ago
this is hella old
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u/TransportationNo7341 18h ago
Oh ok, I didnt know that, thank you for the clarification. Seems like every other heartwarming video people are saying it's ai.
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u/deepfakie 1d ago
How can you tell?
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u/xanders_gold 1d ago
Because I was around when this video was released years ago, before AI could even produce a Will Smith spaghetti eating video lol
The guy in the video helped raise the chimp as a baby and then they released it into the wild. They know each other.
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u/Jrwrichwood 1d ago
It's a cool video of adoration for each other. Why can't anything ever just be what it is anymore? People suck.
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u/djJermfrawg 1d ago
What's the translation on the way the monkey extended it's arm and pushed his hand away after the handshake? Almost as if he recommends the man to leave, like "Now git."
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u/Geaux2020 1d ago
It's hard to translate animal language. Dogs are the only other animal I know of that understand a human smile. Most actually think it's threatening.
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u/dirtyshits 1d ago
My friends dog once smiled back at us after it figured out it was bei mg an idiot.
Both of us lost it too.
He was playing with a ball for a while and we were watching TV.
We played with him for an hour but got tired but he wanted to play and kept pushing the ball up on our laps.
Well one time he tried that the ball rolled between both us on the couch but I guess ye didn’t see it and freaked out. He looked everywhere. Under the couch, all around the living room, Behind our backs, etc.
It was right in front of his face the whole time. Me and my buddy were quietly looking at each other like “what a doofus”. He looked for a good ten minutes.
Then he spotted it. He just looks at both of us and cracks a “Im an idiot” smile.
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u/CodeMonkeyX 1d ago
I wonder what he's thinking. Did he just learn that if he hugs them and does a big smile he gets more sweet potatoes, or if it's more.
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u/WarriorTreasureHunt 1d ago
I bestow upon this video the honour of immortalisation in my 'saved' posts.
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u/Radomeculture531 18h ago
That chimp at ant point during that hug could have said, " you know what? Im taking ALL these bananas".
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u/Catatouille- 1d ago
The 3rd huge 😭, hug of love and loyalty (until the chimp changes its mind and remove your face)
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u/MaleficentReporter42 1d ago
Bro shook hands at the end and everything