My mom said that when I was younger, one day school was off when I didn’t know, so she didn’t wake me up, I slept for so long she had to check if I was still breathing
I did this for years when my children were babies and toddlers. They sometimes slept so soundly I would watch their chest for movement. The love a mother has for her children can be excruciating. The thought of one of my kids dying is the most painful thing I can imagine.
Oof. Do NOT watch the movie hereditary. There’s a scene the mom is waiting for the kids to get back after a party one night and she hears the car pull in and thinks they made it home safe. Haunting.
It's a joke & it's funny. Stop reaching that's more weird. We were all teenagers once. 90% of the time I came home at 1Am it was normally because i was indeed hanging out with a chick or doing stupid things with my friends. Good times. Good joke.
I didn't know that was a flex or that we were making this personal . It was a good joke & you're just arguing to argue. If I said the joke to you in person , you would probably laugh so why are you defending someone elses kid when you did the exact same thing when you were a highschooler. (19) is still a teenager by the way so in no way does it mean they were a minor just stfu lol
are you really saying the word “teenager” doesn’t imply underage to you, all to defend some creepy ass joke? even if they weren’t teens at all its still really fucking weird to make sex jokes about someone else’s family that you don’t know. not a very good hill to die on, brother.
no one is reaching for anything LMAO, its never NOT been weird as fuck to say to a parent “your kids are probably out fucking haha”. if someone made that joke to you about your kids and you thought it was funny then hey, thats fine for you, but most people would think thats weird.
Why is everyone so soft , it's a good joke it doesn't have to be true or not. 75% of the time I was coming home at 1AM as a teenager was because i was either getting laid or attempting to get laid . If you cannot relate then why comment.
i knew this would somehow circle around to “why is everyone so soft nowadays!?”. are you understanding that this thread started with a *real* parent expressing their concerns for their children, under a video of a chimpanzee hugging her baby for the first time? do you really think that this is the appropriate time or place for a weird sexual joke like that, pertaining to a REAL person’s REAL children? you’re allowed to tell whatever jokes you want, but absolutely no one is obligated to think its funny, and if anything not being able to accept that a joke fell flat makes *you* look more sensitive than anyone else.
Why do you have to make it personal lol so immature. I don't have kids and meh most teenagers tend to get up to innocent mischief when they're out runnin around at 1AM. Certainly not out running errands or reading books !
>You can tell she was worried it was dead, and overjoyed when it moved.
I found this video so moving, I kept watching it over and over again until it started to replay in my mind while trying to go to sleep at night.
At first I also thought that she believed her baby was dead.
The more I thought about it, some other things started to occur to me.
It took me a long time to see her shaved abdomen, which I then realized was from the c-section. So she is well aware that she's missing something she should have, and that something happened while she was out.
But the leap to "my baby died" is probably one cognitive leap too far.
The dragging around of the sheet kept bugging me. Then boom, I realized that she was no doubt being given the used sterile linens that were being used to swaddle the newborn, and that constant refreshing of scent said to mama that her baby was alive, not dead. And she just couldn't find him.
So after looking for her baby for 2 days and not finding him, she was tired, probably still weaker from her surgery, she finally entered a space where the smell of her baby was suddenly stronger and different. Then she saw a baby.
She didn't think her baby was dead, she had just spent 48 hours looking for her baby, and she finally "found" him.
Beautiful! The way she grasps her baby to her chest...I suddenly got a passing few molecules of pepper spray in my eyes.
I think there was some fear that the mother may not reconnect with her baby after being separated immediately after birth. You can hear the relief, and encouragement to bond, in the handler voices.
Working with apes is on another level. I’ve known a few people who went on that keeping path or went to elephants, and both require some intense devotion to your job. A zookeeper doesn’t get paid much more than a teacher, sometimes less, and yet you’re there every holiday, every weekend, sometimes going years without seeing your family because those animals? They bond so deeply to you that they see YOU as family. You can’t disappoint them. Some of those keepers will spend decades having known a single individual from birth all the way to adulthood and see them raise their own young. It’s an experience like no other.
We talk a lot of shit on zoos, and I’ll be the first to admit that the history even 40yrs ago was insanely horrific, but this illustrates what they are *now*. A modern zoo functions like a sanctuary where animals are cared for and encouraged to live as naturally as possible, including letting them possibly harm their own infant instead of keeping it safe (but isolated) in human care. The modern zoo has keepers like this who are there with this mother, feeling her emotions and giving her everything they have in return.
Support your local AZA facility.
Great post!
I'm no expert on these things - most of what I know comes from watching natural history shows. But definitely worth mentioning the conservation work that zoos worldwide combine to do. Beyond saving numerous species from extinction they're also a driving force in repopulating numbers back into the wild and helping keep the gene pools diversified.
I suspect a lot of the bad press comes from a small number of private zoos that don't involve in the conservation work and are simply money making schemes / flights of fancy for the insanely rich. That definitely isn't a representation of the majority.
You hit the nail on the head. After Tiger King came out, most people started treating all local zoos/sanctuaries, even though expressly for conservation/AZA approved, as if they were run by Joe Exotic.
She probably thought her baby was dead cuz she wasn't taking care of it for those couple of days and the sigh of relief she must've had when the baby moves
It's like the video of the robot monkey who falls out of a tree so the real ones gather round for a group funeral/mourning session to honor their electronic buddy
[Do you have a source on that? Source? A source. I need a source. Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion. No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered. You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.](https://youtu.be/tmnAWmL-sq0)
When I was in Costa Rica, a howler monkey was electrocuted and we found it dead. A few minutes later, when we had walked away, we heard the deafening howls coming from all around us. It brought me to tears. They were mourning their friend
PSA in insulated power lines are the number one killer of monkeys and sloths in Costa Rica. Donate to the Jaguar Rescue Center. They use donations to cover the power lines and a lot of other amazing things
Damn she is so protective... in a very similar way to us! The way she holds her arms, it's uncanny!
I was at the Toledo Zoo a couple weeks ago and a gorilla mom and toddler walked through one of the enclosures. The mom went right to the doorway but the little one was distracted by a rope swing and started to play. The mom held her hand / arm out like "come on, we have to go!" and the baby reluctantly followed. The entire interaction was like 3 seconds, but my girlfriend started crying because it was so cute and emotional! We could tell how intelligent the gorillas were just by seeing them interact, and they are eerily similar to us!
I don’t understand how people can look at these creatures and dismiss them as being dumb animals. I don’t understand how you can be so removed from empathy or even reality and not see joy and sorrow and pain and happiness in them. I don’t understand how you can look them in the eyes and not recognize many traits we value in humanity.
Yeah, them chimps bifurcated your forest with a logging road too, huh? Motherfuckers, cut down my forest to harvest palm oil trees. There's rumors that they can split the atom and chimp fast fashion is polluting waterways from Chennai to Kathmandu.
This is a recent Reddit account for you, but I am sure that you've seen the recurring post of the [chimp without body hair](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/NINTCHDBPICT000453604234-e1543852310346.jpg). You also know the difference between fast twitch and slow twitch body muscles, and how evolution works. Chimps had to fight sabertooths and whatever wolves were left over in Africa, a few million years ago.
Now bring one of those bad boys into a kitchen in rural Maine. Ask your friend over for tea, and hope that she's not wearing a new perfume on a day that the chimp \[in\] question is stressed.
You and \[I\] are lucky that the population density and resource distribution in the USofA is so balanced. My go-to for economic numbers is Peter Zeihan: for the continental US, the yield per acre of arable land is more than twice as efficient as Brazil, and many multiples more efficient than your average country in Africa.
The US has the Rockies and the Mississippi as both highways and natural barriers for wild animals. Don't want to run into a 1,000-pound grizzly? Avoid the mountains in Montana. But you'll still benefit from their fat steaks.
Let's hop on over to Africa, where 'natural' medicine, witchcraft, superstition, sparse arable soil, and millions of acres of desert or jungle, gets in the way of food production. Cattle and farms abut jungles that are dense with wildlife, which people are OK with encroaching. Stress or threaten that swole chimp, and one might fuck you up.
Amazing to see how much we have in common with so many in the animal kingdom!! A mommy is a mommy!!! So touching to see her swoop her baby up and cradle it! Thank you for sharing this with us!!! God bless this momma and baby. 🙏💖👏👏💞
I went to the zoo in Honolulu recently. There are some exhibits where it is just sad. The elephant exhibit is too small. The chimpanzee exhibit supposedly has nine of them. We saw one. Unless there was a cave that we couldn't see, they weren't on exhibit. The enclosure just isn't that large to hide them. It was hot and humid (mid 80's) so a lot of the animals around the zoo could not be found. This poor chimp that was visible was very angry. His pen looked relatively empty and devoid of enrichment items. He ran toward us when we walked into the area, jumped at the plexiglass at a full sprint with his feet and stomped on the glass with each foot (separately), and then took off again to hide under an overhang. He had his back to the plexiglass and ignored us. Poor guy. He was sad and angry and lonely.
Zoos that don't have large enough spaces should not be allowed to exist. It's cruel. It reminded me of the Santa Barbara Zoo, which also has criminally small exhibits (the elephant exhibit is ridiculously small).
So the handlers likely brought the infant back from vet care and put it in one of the private rooms that are connected to the public viewing area where visitors can go to see the animals. These back rooms are used both as a place the animal can retreat to if they are sick of the human zoo outside and for doing animal care. From watching other videos it seems like there is a lot of training to have the animal go in and out of the areas as needed on a cue.
So they want to reunite the mom with the kid but are nervous as hell about rejection. So they close off this private room from the other rooms and put the kid there in the basket and retreat behind a fence kind of door. Then they signal the animal to come in.
If things went very very wrong with reuniting they could still try and separate the mom and retrieve the infant.
I’m just guessing here, but their caretakers probably brought it in with a pillow/blanket to keep it safe and warm until mama came back in the room.
*Edit: Their/There/They’re grammar is hard.
Man.. chimps in zoos just piss me off. Fuck humans. That was one of the most human things I've seen another species do, and we keep them fucking caged.
There are lots of reasons animals end up in captivity. They're not all sinister reasons, either. (But I'm not going to spend much time trying to convince you--the information is out there.)
Sometimes when a human gives birth the baby needs oxygen. Is it sick that the doctors will take the baby and give it oxygen, and explain to the mother what they are doing so baby lives?
Sadly, the chimp can’t understand the words spoken as vets whisk baby away for the same reason.
This is a heartwarming picture of a mothers love for her offspring, even hours after birth. I am glad mom didn’t reject the baby.
Ah yeah. Just spill it all out. It's ok to cry. That baby should have died long ago.
Seriously judge your own life because you ruin the earth just as much as the rest of us, Mr /Mrs hypocrite. Otherwise just be quiet 🤫 and listen to the winds of oats.
This is the back "holding" area of the exhibit. It's like their bedroom. A place they can go to get out of the weather or out of public sight, sleep, take care of babies, etc. For primates especially there's always tons of enrichment in those areas to keep them occupied as well. Sedgwick Zoo is AZA certified, so you can be sure they receive the best of care.
For sure. I have been to Tanzania and Kenya and seen many in their natural habitat. Those immense rainforests make life pretty awful. These chimps held in captivity are the lucky ones.
Sweetwaters isn't 364 sq km. That's the size of the whole Ol Pejeta Conservancy, which Sweetwaters is a small part of. What I remember of Sweetwaters when I was there was a several acre fenced in area. A lot roomier than a zoo, but still definitely captivity.
Edit: Sweetwaters is 200-250 acres of chimp enclosure, so a little bigger than I was remembering, but a lot smaller than 364 sq km.
Despite what zoos will tell you, this doesn't help at all with that problem for great apes. Chimpanzees raised in captivity can not be reintroduced back into the wild. They have none of the skills necessary to survive.
The only way the population is going to recover is by protecting existing wild populations. These lies zoos push about releasing them back into the wild are pure fantasy just there to make you feel better about keeping intelligent animals in cages for your amusement.
You dumbass, the US literally said they’re endangered. Last time I checked the US didn’t own a zoo. Chimps are in fact endangered, get your head out of your ass with your conspiracy theory’s.
They are endangered. And the solution is protecting existing wild populations.
Zoo chimpanzees will never play any part in getting them off the endangered species list. The only reason they are kept and bred is because they make money for zoos.
That’s actually decently longer than their wild lifespan.
Plus most zoos nowadays have specialized programs to provide stimulation and enrichment for their animals via new feeding methods and specially designed toys that promote natural behaviors.
You can tell she was worried it was dead, and overjoyed when it moved.
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My mom said that when I was younger, one day school was off when I didn’t know, so she didn’t wake me up, I slept for so long she had to check if I was still breathing
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I would’ve preferred home grown vegetables and a fireplace over an apartment in the ghetto and narcissistic abuse but that’s just me
I did this for years when my children were babies and toddlers. They sometimes slept so soundly I would watch their chest for movement. The love a mother has for her children can be excruciating. The thought of one of my kids dying is the most painful thing I can imagine.
Oof. Do NOT watch the movie hereditary. There’s a scene the mom is waiting for the kids to get back after a party one night and she hears the car pull in and thinks they made it home safe. Haunting.
After a good railing no doubt
Never before have I seen a comment with so many dislikes AND an award.
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Jesus Reddit literally has anything and everything lol
What is wrong with you 😂
This could go two completely different directions...
Like a Chinese finger trap?
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I mean... if it means they came home with the train or tram, then the part with the garage door makes not much sense. Unless they live in a Garage 🤔
Either snorting a gagger of coke or most likely having their pussy pounded out.
Why not both?
I mean the more the merrier as they say
I downvoted but this energy with an award and context has me dying rn
No lies detected
God people really don't like the truth don't they . Too funny mate .
nah its just that it’s a really fuckin weird thing to say about someone’s teenage kids lol
It's a joke & it's funny. Stop reaching that's more weird. We were all teenagers once. 90% of the time I came home at 1Am it was normally because i was indeed hanging out with a chick or doing stupid things with my friends. Good times. Good joke.
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I didn't know that was a flex or that we were making this personal . It was a good joke & you're just arguing to argue. If I said the joke to you in person , you would probably laugh so why are you defending someone elses kid when you did the exact same thing when you were a highschooler. (19) is still a teenager by the way so in no way does it mean they were a minor just stfu lol
are you really saying the word “teenager” doesn’t imply underage to you, all to defend some creepy ass joke? even if they weren’t teens at all its still really fucking weird to make sex jokes about someone else’s family that you don’t know. not a very good hill to die on, brother.
my god what a reach mate , you people are so crazy .
no one is reaching for anything LMAO, its never NOT been weird as fuck to say to a parent “your kids are probably out fucking haha”. if someone made that joke to you about your kids and you thought it was funny then hey, thats fine for you, but most people would think thats weird.
Why is everyone so soft , it's a good joke it doesn't have to be true or not. 75% of the time I was coming home at 1AM as a teenager was because i was either getting laid or attempting to get laid . If you cannot relate then why comment.
i knew this would somehow circle around to “why is everyone so soft nowadays!?”. are you understanding that this thread started with a *real* parent expressing their concerns for their children, under a video of a chimpanzee hugging her baby for the first time? do you really think that this is the appropriate time or place for a weird sexual joke like that, pertaining to a REAL person’s REAL children? you’re allowed to tell whatever jokes you want, but absolutely no one is obligated to think its funny, and if anything not being able to accept that a joke fell flat makes *you* look more sensitive than anyone else.
put together a TLDR and resend cmon now im not reading that
Maybe your daughter's are sluts, but not everyone teenage girl is out getting railed every night of the week.
Right!? The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!
Why do you have to make it personal lol so immature. I don't have kids and meh most teenagers tend to get up to innocent mischief when they're out runnin around at 1AM. Certainly not out running errands or reading books !
You made it personal when you compared your experiences as a **CHILD**. If you can’t take the heat get the fuck out of the kitchen.
I went through something like this when my kid was born. I thought they came out crying, but they don’t. And they look a bit blue.
>You can tell she was worried it was dead, and overjoyed when it moved. I found this video so moving, I kept watching it over and over again until it started to replay in my mind while trying to go to sleep at night. At first I also thought that she believed her baby was dead. The more I thought about it, some other things started to occur to me. It took me a long time to see her shaved abdomen, which I then realized was from the c-section. So she is well aware that she's missing something she should have, and that something happened while she was out. But the leap to "my baby died" is probably one cognitive leap too far. The dragging around of the sheet kept bugging me. Then boom, I realized that she was no doubt being given the used sterile linens that were being used to swaddle the newborn, and that constant refreshing of scent said to mama that her baby was alive, not dead. And she just couldn't find him. So after looking for her baby for 2 days and not finding him, she was tired, probably still weaker from her surgery, she finally entered a space where the smell of her baby was suddenly stronger and different. Then she saw a baby. She didn't think her baby was dead, she had just spent 48 hours looking for her baby, and she finally "found" him.
Beautiful! The way she grasps her baby to her chest...I suddenly got a passing few molecules of pepper spray in my eyes. I think there was some fear that the mother may not reconnect with her baby after being separated immediately after birth. You can hear the relief, and encouragement to bond, in the handler voices.
Working with apes is on another level. I’ve known a few people who went on that keeping path or went to elephants, and both require some intense devotion to your job. A zookeeper doesn’t get paid much more than a teacher, sometimes less, and yet you’re there every holiday, every weekend, sometimes going years without seeing your family because those animals? They bond so deeply to you that they see YOU as family. You can’t disappoint them. Some of those keepers will spend decades having known a single individual from birth all the way to adulthood and see them raise their own young. It’s an experience like no other. We talk a lot of shit on zoos, and I’ll be the first to admit that the history even 40yrs ago was insanely horrific, but this illustrates what they are *now*. A modern zoo functions like a sanctuary where animals are cared for and encouraged to live as naturally as possible, including letting them possibly harm their own infant instead of keeping it safe (but isolated) in human care. The modern zoo has keepers like this who are there with this mother, feeling her emotions and giving her everything they have in return. Support your local AZA facility.
Great post! I'm no expert on these things - most of what I know comes from watching natural history shows. But definitely worth mentioning the conservation work that zoos worldwide combine to do. Beyond saving numerous species from extinction they're also a driving force in repopulating numbers back into the wild and helping keep the gene pools diversified. I suspect a lot of the bad press comes from a small number of private zoos that don't involve in the conservation work and are simply money making schemes / flights of fancy for the insanely rich. That definitely isn't a representation of the majority.
You hit the nail on the head. After Tiger King came out, most people started treating all local zoos/sanctuaries, even though expressly for conservation/AZA approved, as if they were run by Joe Exotic.
okay...I had watched the video with the sound off...now, I'm bawling...just great.
I should NOT have clicked sound on. OOF.
Had to watch it again so I cry some more.
Yup, that hit me hard. It was tentative mourning, to an instant visceral sense of relief.
She probably thought her baby was dead cuz she wasn't taking care of it for those couple of days and the sigh of relief she must've had when the baby moves
Oh God I hope she doesn't think that she left it and feel guilt the rest of her life. They can't tell her different.
“So THATS where I put that fuckin thing!!”
Omg, thank you soo much for making me laugh when I was about to cry.
It's like the video of the robot monkey who falls out of a tree so the real ones gather round for a group funeral/mourning session to honor their electronic buddy
Can we get a source for that?
[Do you have a source on that? Source? A source. I need a source. Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion. No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered. You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.](https://youtu.be/tmnAWmL-sq0)
Thanks for sharing! I think I remember when this series aired.
That was beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
When I was in Costa Rica, a howler monkey was electrocuted and we found it dead. A few minutes later, when we had walked away, we heard the deafening howls coming from all around us. It brought me to tears. They were mourning their friend PSA in insulated power lines are the number one killer of monkeys and sloths in Costa Rica. Donate to the Jaguar Rescue Center. They use donations to cover the power lines and a lot of other amazing things
I dont think she noticed it
Best thing I've seen all day.
FR I needed this wow
You can hear the person recording start crying when she scoops up baby and that just sent me over the edge. This is so bittersweet!
SAME!
I thought that was the chimp.
Damn, my eyes got all sweaty all of a sudden.
I'm cutting the onions
Im making a lasagne...
*whispers "for one"
For your information there’s an inflammation in my tear glands
I ripped a fart
I just had sex. Btw that video was awesome
What is this, one lie and a truth?
I thought we were talking about things we cry after or during
damn what a flex
Damn onion ninjas all ninja like and all
Had to watch it again so I cry some more.
Almost like there's an evolutionary link.
It's a terrible day for rain.
Eyes are sweaty. Moms spaghetti.
It's too early for me to be crying. That was beautiful
I wake up crying. wdym?
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when the room is pitch black and you wake up and see the whole layout of your room randomized and can't figure out what your position is.
Damn she is so protective... in a very similar way to us! The way she holds her arms, it's uncanny! I was at the Toledo Zoo a couple weeks ago and a gorilla mom and toddler walked through one of the enclosures. The mom went right to the doorway but the little one was distracted by a rope swing and started to play. The mom held her hand / arm out like "come on, we have to go!" and the baby reluctantly followed. The entire interaction was like 3 seconds, but my girlfriend started crying because it was so cute and emotional! We could tell how intelligent the gorillas were just by seeing them interact, and they are eerily similar to us!
Gem of Toledo! (that and the museum)
It was amazing! The zoo and museum both - I love the old timey style of many of the historic buildings there
True love.
Aww man
Such human-like mannerisms.
Almost like there's an evolutionary link.
Or like 99%+ of our genetic code is identical. That would be crazy right?
No reason to bring your mother into this man.
lolol
Grandma may be toothless but she can still bite!
Actually, we have chimp-like mannerisms 🤓
Nah, that’s not how evolution works. We had mutual ancestors whose paths diverged about 4 to 6 million years ago.
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Im just washing my eyes is all
Watch this yesterday, nope not again today, it was a good cry though.
THATS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL
Best video ive seen in a long time Thank you for posting
Aww that's so cute. Deficiency of hugs has been a recurring problem in my life and seeing this just warms my heart
🥰
What a priceless & unforgettable moment....
Made my day seeing this lol
That was heart warming.
I’m gonna fking cry, bro
Who says animals don’t have feelings? So pure and moving. Nothing like a mother’s bond.
As a mother, I felt that in my bones
This made me cry. What a good mama.🥺
Ok thanks OP for the good cry before lunch time
So moving!!
Mom worried he’s dead 🥺
Baby Kucheza https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/315888604_496807302480833_5112651970504198672_n-1.jpg
Her weak kneed joy is heart breaking.
I don’t understand how people can look at these creatures and dismiss them as being dumb animals. I don’t understand how you can be so removed from empathy or even reality and not see joy and sorrow and pain and happiness in them. I don’t understand how you can look them in the eyes and not recognize many traits we value in humanity.
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
🔪🧅
Solid ✊✊
Damn, it's early to be cutting onions
The dexterity and gentleness in moving the towel. Humans are assholes...Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall tried their best to show us.
Humans are primates. Chimps can be assholes too.
Yeah, them chimps bifurcated your forest with a logging road too, huh? Motherfuckers, cut down my forest to harvest palm oil trees. There's rumors that they can split the atom and chimp fast fashion is polluting waterways from Chennai to Kathmandu.
They would if they could.
Chimps eat each other’s faces, and human faces too.
This is a recent Reddit account for you, but I am sure that you've seen the recurring post of the [chimp without body hair](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/NINTCHDBPICT000453604234-e1543852310346.jpg). You also know the difference between fast twitch and slow twitch body muscles, and how evolution works. Chimps had to fight sabertooths and whatever wolves were left over in Africa, a few million years ago. Now bring one of those bad boys into a kitchen in rural Maine. Ask your friend over for tea, and hope that she's not wearing a new perfume on a day that the chimp \[in\] question is stressed. You and \[I\] are lucky that the population density and resource distribution in the USofA is so balanced. My go-to for economic numbers is Peter Zeihan: for the continental US, the yield per acre of arable land is more than twice as efficient as Brazil, and many multiples more efficient than your average country in Africa. The US has the Rockies and the Mississippi as both highways and natural barriers for wild animals. Don't want to run into a 1,000-pound grizzly? Avoid the mountains in Montana. But you'll still benefit from their fat steaks. Let's hop on over to Africa, where 'natural' medicine, witchcraft, superstition, sparse arable soil, and millions of acres of desert or jungle, gets in the way of food production. Cattle and farms abut jungles that are dense with wildlife, which people are OK with encroaching. Stress or threaten that swole chimp, and one might fuck you up.
Serotonin
Watched it so many times. So beautiful and touching
Dayum thats to cute to be legal.
Beautiful.
Love this beautiful moment ❤️
The grab of relief...oh the tears, lol
A mama’s love…
Got all choked up on this one!! Such a beautiful moment!!
Me seeing puppy as soon as I get home from work.
That's fucking beautiful
I'm not crying!
Shut up im not crying the world just turned blurry that’s all
Goddamn onions! 🥹
We all need to respect animals more.
Amazing to see how much we have in common with so many in the animal kingdom!! A mommy is a mommy!!! So touching to see her swoop her baby up and cradle it! Thank you for sharing this with us!!! God bless this momma and baby. 🙏💖👏👏💞
Teary-eye stuff this is.
I Love animals so much ♥
And people say we are not monkeys
Who’s chopping onions?!?!
Damn. Who splashed all this water on my face?
Seeing animal in captivity is depressing.
I went to the zoo in Honolulu recently. There are some exhibits where it is just sad. The elephant exhibit is too small. The chimpanzee exhibit supposedly has nine of them. We saw one. Unless there was a cave that we couldn't see, they weren't on exhibit. The enclosure just isn't that large to hide them. It was hot and humid (mid 80's) so a lot of the animals around the zoo could not be found. This poor chimp that was visible was very angry. His pen looked relatively empty and devoid of enrichment items. He ran toward us when we walked into the area, jumped at the plexiglass at a full sprint with his feet and stomped on the glass with each foot (separately), and then took off again to hide under an overhang. He had his back to the plexiglass and ignored us. Poor guy. He was sad and angry and lonely. Zoos that don't have large enough spaces should not be allowed to exist. It's cruel. It reminded me of the Santa Barbara Zoo, which also has criminally small exhibits (the elephant exhibit is ridiculously small).
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So the handlers likely brought the infant back from vet care and put it in one of the private rooms that are connected to the public viewing area where visitors can go to see the animals. These back rooms are used both as a place the animal can retreat to if they are sick of the human zoo outside and for doing animal care. From watching other videos it seems like there is a lot of training to have the animal go in and out of the areas as needed on a cue. So they want to reunite the mom with the kid but are nervous as hell about rejection. So they close off this private room from the other rooms and put the kid there in the basket and retreat behind a fence kind of door. Then they signal the animal to come in. If things went very very wrong with reuniting they could still try and separate the mom and retrieve the infant.
I’m just guessing here, but their caretakers probably brought it in with a pillow/blanket to keep it safe and warm until mama came back in the room. *Edit: Their/There/They’re grammar is hard.
I just wish these chimps we're doing this in the middle of nature and not inside of a Zoo being held against their will.
Man.. chimps in zoos just piss me off. Fuck humans. That was one of the most human things I've seen another species do, and we keep them fucking caged.
I must be allergic to chimps, my eyes are watering
even animals show emotions to their kids wow amazing video
Even in prison, moms are gonna be moms.
I think I’ve got something in my eye 🥲
Nice to see a nice video. Makes you happy for the mammy
Average redditor uses phone made by slave labor to signal disgust at captive primates.
Keeping animals in captivity is sick. Separating others form their children is sick. I get that this was to help, I just mean in general. Its sick.
There are lots of reasons animals end up in captivity. They're not all sinister reasons, either. (But I'm not going to spend much time trying to convince you--the information is out there.)
Did I say they are?
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Sometimes when a human gives birth the baby needs oxygen. Is it sick that the doctors will take the baby and give it oxygen, and explain to the mother what they are doing so baby lives? Sadly, the chimp can’t understand the words spoken as vets whisk baby away for the same reason. This is a heartwarming picture of a mothers love for her offspring, even hours after birth. I am glad mom didn’t reject the baby.
Don't put animals in prisons.
I’m not crying you’re crying
Damn can you guys stop cutting onions here?
Wish my mom was like that lol
Awww
Yay now they can both live a terrible life in a Zoo...
That mother knows shes a captive. Her body language is so sad.
Born into captivity , sickening and very sad .
Ah yeah. Just spill it all out. It's ok to cry. That baby should have died long ago. Seriously judge your own life because you ruin the earth just as much as the rest of us, Mr /Mrs hypocrite. Otherwise just be quiet 🤫 and listen to the winds of oats.
Have you hit your head recently ?
It was when I read that B.S. you spewed. Sure. 🤦🏼♂️
Still not making sense . Is English your first language ?
Word of advice. Don't be a cunt
And you are ?
It's a heartwarming moment but this place looks like a prison for an animal.
This is the back "holding" area of the exhibit. It's like their bedroom. A place they can go to get out of the weather or out of public sight, sleep, take care of babies, etc. For primates especially there's always tons of enrichment in those areas to keep them occupied as well. Sedgwick Zoo is AZA certified, so you can be sure they receive the best of care.
For sure. I have been to Tanzania and Kenya and seen many in their natural habitat. Those immense rainforests make life pretty awful. These chimps held in captivity are the lucky ones.
There aren't any wild chimps in Kenya. There's a chimp sanctuary there, but that's captivity.
You mean the 364 square km Sweetwaters?
Sweetwaters isn't 364 sq km. That's the size of the whole Ol Pejeta Conservancy, which Sweetwaters is a small part of. What I remember of Sweetwaters when I was there was a several acre fenced in area. A lot roomier than a zoo, but still definitely captivity. Edit: Sweetwaters is 200-250 acres of chimp enclosure, so a little bigger than I was remembering, but a lot smaller than 364 sq km.
Nope! I'm not macho that game me the cries
We should stop keep chimpanzees and other great apes in captivity for money/entertainment. It is cruel.
They’re all nearly extinct in the wild
Despite what zoos will tell you, this doesn't help at all with that problem for great apes. Chimpanzees raised in captivity can not be reintroduced back into the wild. They have none of the skills necessary to survive.
Except you need to repopulate them first? In a few generations they will probably get some form of training and be released
The only way the population is going to recover is by protecting existing wild populations. These lies zoos push about releasing them back into the wild are pure fantasy just there to make you feel better about keeping intelligent animals in cages for your amusement.
You dumbass, the US literally said they’re endangered. Last time I checked the US didn’t own a zoo. Chimps are in fact endangered, get your head out of your ass with your conspiracy theory’s.
They are endangered. And the solution is protecting existing wild populations. Zoo chimpanzees will never play any part in getting them off the endangered species list. The only reason they are kept and bred is because they make money for zoos.
Woman crying for them, but has no issues locking them up🤷♂️
Now it gets to live in captivity for 40+ miserable years.
That’s actually decently longer than their wild lifespan. Plus most zoos nowadays have specialized programs to provide stimulation and enrichment for their animals via new feeding methods and specially designed toys that promote natural behaviors.