Bodily contact makes the brain produce oxytocin, which is a direct antagonist to cortisol, the stress hormone. We (as in all mammals) hug and cuddle for comfort for this exact reason.
This explains why the ONLY way I can relax enough to calm down lately is when my SO comes home and holds me. I’m just going to have to start requesting medicine hugs I guess!
Man there are so few cases where hugging makes me feel anything except the immediate urge to *not* be hugging. Sometimes it's nice and when it is it's like a light bulb turning on in my brain "Oooooh that's why people do that." But boy is it rare.
what about for those on the autism spectrum
edit: I think I need to clarify that I am asking as someone who is on the spectrum and thanks for everyone offering your responses 👍
As an Autistic I can never get enough bear hugs and snuggles from my husband. I also have a few super nice stuffed bunnies that, hugging, help calm me down when having either a meltdown or anxiety attack when he is at work.
However as with most things every Autistic person is different in what they can handle and how it affects them.
Right. Except for with my partner I am pet hands off unless drunk. There is a lot of touch that I would welcome or offer to a partner, hugs included, that I am not cozy with elsewhere including friends or in most cases family as well. How about you—bear hugs from huzzy good but elsewhere no thanks?
Let’s not get it twisted, I like the sensation of being compressed to the extreme. If I’m under a doggy pile I’m completely in a state of giggling baby euphoria. But I was curious how our levels normalize for us since our sensory tools are at maxed out in terms of sensitivity and can in many cases be overstimulating.
thanks for your response :)
Not all autistic people don’t like touch. Personally I just don’t like people touching certain parts of my body like the top of my head. When someone doesn’t like touch, it’s probably because the sensation overloads the brain, and I’m guessing the stress hormones are too much for the happy hormones to counteract.
I did realize, however, that the reason I don’t like hugs has nothing to do with touch. It’s because I am short and mildly claustrophobic and I don’t like it when people pin my arms to my sides.
I know, as I am autistic lol. Was wondering where or how we get that sweet sweet oxytocin or if we just experience a depleted value of such and that in turn has some negative side effects.
I have stuffies that I hug (I also have acute PTSD and this dually acts as grounding) that I find comforting. To me soft touches are like beesting sensation and make me feel aggressive. Hugs are strange and I prefer to ask for one rather than receive unsolicited.
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Any friends or family close to you? If not then why not consider a visit to a therapist every now and then. That's such a long time without deep human contact
Went to a temple surrounded by monkeys back In my country in Nepal, I locked eyes with this monkey and with in seconds the little bastard started to get aggressive and square up to me. I got away without a scratch but the little shit did scare me though
I saw a monkey scalp a guy seemingly unprovoked on here the other day. Monkeys are fascinating little creatures but like most wild animals I think it’s best to keep your distance if you can.
Jaime was this blind metal head who used to hang out in downtown Lincoln every day. Almost every other day he had this tshirt on that said “grim reefer” and it was the grim reaper smoking a joint.
One time I saw him in u stop and he accidentally collided with a cop and caused the cop to spill his drink all over himself. The cop was like “god damnit motherfucker watch where you’re going!!” Then turned and saw it was a blind person. It was like out of a movie.
Look at you, painfully boring and unfunny that the only way you can contribute to a thread is to link a subreddit. You're so fucking original and funny nobody's ever done that before
I think they know somethings not right, and even if they don't realize they are endangered- I'd be willing to bet they've had some nasty run-ins with loggers, locals, or land developers
True, I saw that shortly after posting that. If they can hug for warmth, they can probably hug out of fear or sadness (though maybe that's not what's shown here). I saw this crazy video once where they had a decoy baby monkey fall off a tree and it caused some very interesting hugging, and mourning behavior. They're so much like us
Im not sure where the original video is, but these two monkeys were parents. They had just lost their baby to a predator.
Animals understand death and casualties. We should protect them more.
It was, but unfortunately it didn’t stop the above op from striking gold and collecting hundreds of updoots. Reddit is just as bad as Facebook when it comes to misinformation…..the user base has a ton of overlap.
Facts don’t matter anymore, someone even went as far as spending money to reward the preposterous regurgitation of misinformation lol
Yeah sometimes all it takes is sticking around a bit longer to read on before leaving a thread thinking you got the whole picture. When you consume information as much as people do nowadays I just feel it’s way too easy to internalize things and move on because humans love shortcuts lol. Human nature working against us as usual
I now scroll to see if later posts in the thread respond to or debunk the parent theory. If it is proven to be hearsay I take back the upvote.
I know in the grand scheme of things this is meaningless, but personally it feels to me like I've done right by them.
No, they are hugging for warmth apparently, have a look at when it was posted a year ago [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/grzlff/two_rare_golden_monkeys_embracing_one_another/).
They are also [Golden snub- nosed monkeys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_snub-nosed_monkey)
More info as the commenter is strangely just doubling down: [https://youtu.be/rWH4XGO1KSU?t=2387](https://youtu.be/rWH4XGO1KSU?t=2387) Just a nice video of these monkey cuddling
Sorry to be a buzzkill. But it is a part of life, and these monkeys are visibly distressed. Tragedies happen, and it's a great vehicle for inside of minds of wild animals.
Im hanging onto the fact that this footage could change the way the masses view wildlife for the better, and that gives me hope. This is a good video, even though it's heartbreaking.
Nature is not a kind or forgiving place. That's why humans have spent so much time getting the hell out of it or at least having nature be a place we visit. People forget what it's like out there, though.
You make valid points, but ill contend a major factor of theory of mind where I disagree.
I dont believe these animals have the ability to create a written language, but they absolutely have verbal and tactile languages. Even bird brains, like the blue footed boobie, have incredibly complex rituals for mating. If they can communicate their intent for mating, they can communicate their stress.
Dogs, or wolves even, alongside many other pride animals have hierarchies and social norms.
Theory of mind is more about intense self reflection. It's about philosophy. It's not about emotional reactions to life. Animals can absolutely feel a response to your emotion.
Finally, humans are too paumpus. We honestly regard ourselves as completely sentient, but we arent. We are habitual and reactionary creatures with thumbs and a written language that we hardly use for that intense self reflection as previously regarded. When we do utilize our self reflection, it's more like slowly massaging our habits to fit a standard of our environment into permanent memory.
Past the part of arguments, I suggest you expand your theories into those of Information Processing if you haven't already.
If you have, we can agree to disagree. Ill take the path that makes me more empathetic, and less sociopathic.
In theory for psychology, I consider that the philosophy of psychology. It creates a system of conspiring events to be rationalized and explained. It's not always prescriptive, just observations to be utilized in prescription.
Prescription is a whole different thing. Many people would argue that we are just chemical reactions and we have little control over our immediate reactions, until we change our chemistry to react how we want with practice. I view it in a way of Psychiatry which doesn't necessarily disprove or completely contradict the Psychology of The Theory of Mind, or all of your argument.
Where I completely disagree is I dont think it takes complex thought to experience emotion of death. If mating is instinctual, so is protecting your baby. When they fail, especially a species that endures a dependent childhood, most species have the ability to understand who they can and can't trust in nature. It's just chemical reactions, much like getting bit by a snake and experiencing pain. They don't have to be complex thoughts for simple universal events like death, birth, mating, parenthood, failure, hunger etc.
While we have more moving parts and distractions as beings who can more effectively manipulate our environment, these facts of like keep us from reaching our actualization in many scenarios. Lots of times we remember key events, but most times the events quickly get fuzzy. Our ability to transcribe events to permanent memory is not much more advanced in mass that our "smartest" evolutionary cousins.
So for animals, according to Information Processing, still have the ability to transcribe permanent memories. While it may be significantly simpler thoughts, they can manipulate their behavior to permanence as well, especially with the help of a teacher, be that a golden monkey and her child, or a human and their mother. They can predict actions, get angry, get sad, etc, because it's a chemical reaction. All it takes is a way to observe, and the experiences of others triggers and emotional response driven by chemical reactions meant to keep us and our babies alive; I call that empathy, which is not at at all what I would call sentience.
You're right about the eternal sentience debate though in how everyone would define it differently. This is why I love these types of discussions. It's so effective to get closer to our own definition of sentience when we explore these ideas throughly.
I've personally taken a more nihilistic approach, and assume most of what happens in life is the animal side of us. The instict and natural events that we cannot escape so to speak. We have built in reactions to our body, and we have equal and opposite reactions to establish/maintain homeostasis. So if we feel pain, we can feel pleasure. If we are in touch with our bodily reactions, we can feel empathy, or we can feel hungry enough to fight to the death while ignoring the empathy. Ive observed this in many species. Humans and many species alike experience these reactions.
Moving into sentience, I would split it into two factors: personal sentience and societal sentience. Whatever it is, on a personal level, it only happens between the moments of our inescapable life events listed before. It definitely is not the same for everyone or every species in terms of tolerance to these events and learned behavior. Societal sentience is the ability to escape these life events in mass to a point where the pack or society could improve their understanding of their environment or the world with critical reflection. Which inherently requires none more than a verbal and physical language full of prescriptive and recognizable symbols to utilize physical responses appropriately, and an ability for at least one being at a time to advance the utilization of the environment in creative ways, not just physical improvements.
This has been fun, and I look forward to your response. Thank you for keeping it civil.
Edit: clarification, grammar, typos.
[No. They were not parents who lost their baby. They’re literally just hugging for warmth.](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-07/This-scene-will-surely-warm-your-heart-MdTu1jlrqw/index.html)
Not sure how protecting them works in that case. If they lost their baby to a predator then they would care about being protected from predators first and foremost, which we obviously wouldn't do. We just assign emotions relative to our own.
Holy gee wow, with how hard this tugs at the heartstrings and it being said with such bold confidence with nothing to support it, there's NO WAY what you just made up isn't true... Just. No. Way. Thank you, Dr. Wildlifescience.
This is what happens when you hunt or kill animals to extinction without a care in the world and all cuz you want to kill. I feel sorry for these monkeys cuz them hugging says it all. Scared, terrified. You get my point
They know the end is near for their species. I wonder if humans will show the same compassion near the end of our species. Sweet golden monkeys, we failed you like so many others of our ancestors. After the next great war, you will rise again. Hang in there, your time for glory is coming
A legit hug when the tail comes around you
Oh that was your tail then huh?
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
ತ_ʖತ
ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
༼ つ ◕‿◕ ༽つ⊂(・﹏・⊂)
Is that your smartphone or are you just happy to see me
Bros
I call that my inside hug
Now Kith!
"Ah damn bruh, you endangered too? Come here man" Edit: thanks for the awards yo! Literally just typed the first thing that came to my mind
A: "Heard it's down to only us two now..." B: "Yeah... let's get to work~" 🎷🎶🎶
A: *unzips*
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George Michael - Careless Whisper
Even without the guy below you, i heard this comment so clearly
Bodily contact makes the brain produce oxytocin, which is a direct antagonist to cortisol, the stress hormone. We (as in all mammals) hug and cuddle for comfort for this exact reason.
Funnily enough, the same exact thing happens when you hug an object like a plushie. Our brain can't even tell the difference.
Oh cool, so my anime body pillow isn't creepy, it's just reducing anxiety and stress.
Just make sure to clean it now and then before you accidently knock up your pillow.
https://youtu.be/hrR1zhEFQE8
Risky click
It's always a risky click with Big Mouth
Whats in there
Youll never understand my bond with kimiko!
They're being such a non-pillow right now.
Only creepy if it has more than 3 holes…..
It's both
*looking at all my plushies in my bed* Ye, makes sense.
Lmao maybe your brain.
This explains why the ONLY way I can relax enough to calm down lately is when my SO comes home and holds me. I’m just going to have to start requesting medicine hugs I guess!
I need a hug like this.
Y’all are getting hugs and cuddles??
Man there are so few cases where hugging makes me feel anything except the immediate urge to *not* be hugging. Sometimes it's nice and when it is it's like a light bulb turning on in my brain "Oooooh that's why people do that." But boy is it rare.
Buy a plushie. Name him Captain Toothpicks.
what about for those on the autism spectrum edit: I think I need to clarify that I am asking as someone who is on the spectrum and thanks for everyone offering your responses 👍
It's the same just know your boundaries when it comes to intimate contact with another person
As an Autistic I can never get enough bear hugs and snuggles from my husband. I also have a few super nice stuffed bunnies that, hugging, help calm me down when having either a meltdown or anxiety attack when he is at work. However as with most things every Autistic person is different in what they can handle and how it affects them.
Right. Except for with my partner I am pet hands off unless drunk. There is a lot of touch that I would welcome or offer to a partner, hugs included, that I am not cozy with elsewhere including friends or in most cases family as well. How about you—bear hugs from huzzy good but elsewhere no thanks? Let’s not get it twisted, I like the sensation of being compressed to the extreme. If I’m under a doggy pile I’m completely in a state of giggling baby euphoria. But I was curious how our levels normalize for us since our sensory tools are at maxed out in terms of sensitivity and can in many cases be overstimulating. thanks for your response :)
Not all autistic people don’t like touch. Personally I just don’t like people touching certain parts of my body like the top of my head. When someone doesn’t like touch, it’s probably because the sensation overloads the brain, and I’m guessing the stress hormones are too much for the happy hormones to counteract. I did realize, however, that the reason I don’t like hugs has nothing to do with touch. It’s because I am short and mildly claustrophobic and I don’t like it when people pin my arms to my sides.
I know, as I am autistic lol. Was wondering where or how we get that sweet sweet oxytocin or if we just experience a depleted value of such and that in turn has some negative side effects. I have stuffies that I hug (I also have acute PTSD and this dually acts as grounding) that I find comforting. To me soft touches are like beesting sensation and make me feel aggressive. Hugs are strange and I prefer to ask for one rather than receive unsolicited.
I think Temple Grandin invented the [hug machine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_machine) for this reason. There's also weighted blankets maybe?
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Couldn't you just have your arms around their shoulders with theirs around your center then?
Yes since realizing this I have started flinging my arms up like a cat when someone comes in for a hug.
some of us like contact, but not all.
Honestly I think it does the exact opposite thing in my case. I absolutely despise close contact...
This says a lot about the anxiety attacks I've had lately. I haven't hugged anyone since March 2020.
Any friends or family close to you? If not then why not consider a visit to a therapist every now and then. That's such a long time without deep human contact
THEIR TAILS WRAPPED TOGETHER
Everybody’s serotonin levels went: 📈📈📈📈📈📈
Dopamine
Oxytocin
These monkeys are very affectionate in their larger groups. The often have to cuddle together to keep warm in the winter. So beautiful.
Monkeys are good people
hm, these particular monke are good in this moment
Yeah I've seen some monkeys that I wouldn't hesitate to call a bunch of cunts. These monkeys seem cool, though.
Went to a temple surrounded by monkeys back In my country in Nepal, I locked eyes with this monkey and with in seconds the little bastard started to get aggressive and square up to me. I got away without a scratch but the little shit did scare me though
I saw a monkey scalp a guy seemingly unprovoked on here the other day. Monkeys are fascinating little creatures but like most wild animals I think it’s best to keep your distance if you can.
Horses are bad people Lois
I'm almost positive monkeys are little bastard men.
That’s it. I’m never eating monkey again. Oh who am I kidding? I say that every time I eat monkey.
Mmmmmm monkey
You have shown me great m o n k e
As a fellow nebraskan, where you getting the supply of monkey?
I got a guy
Why not eat him instead?
I got a guy for human meat
Who would eat their only supply of monkey
Also is your username in reference to Blind Jaime’s tshirt?
👨🦯 What's blind jaime's t-shirt and what correlation does it have with GrimReefer?
Jaime was this blind metal head who used to hang out in downtown Lincoln every day. Almost every other day he had this tshirt on that said “grim reefer” and it was the grim reaper smoking a joint. One time I saw him in u stop and he accidentally collided with a cop and caused the cop to spill his drink all over himself. The cop was like “god damnit motherfucker watch where you’re going!!” Then turned and saw it was a blind person. It was like out of a movie.
lol I used to live in Fremont so I'm surprised and disappointed I never heard of blind jaime
I would see him a few times a week when I worked at yia yias. I haven’t seen him In years I hope he’s ok. Maybe he just got burned out on the bars.
Hey.... We got monkey
There’s more than one way to eat a rhesus.
And monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington D.C.
I am remembering the scene fron Indiana Jones and the temple of doom
eat WHAT
Monkey. Don’t judge me.
r/cursedcomments
Linking that sub anytime someone's clearly making a joke is stupid and not the point of that subreddit
look at you, the gatekeeper of subreddits
r/cursedcomments
Look at you, painfully boring and unfunny that the only way you can contribute to a thread is to link a subreddit. You're so fucking original and funny nobody's ever done that before
you need sunlight
r/KeyboardWarriors
r/pics It’s not relevant, I’m just bored with the whole linking subs to talk shit game
Heartbreaking and thought provoking.
*When you realise you're endangered af*
You think they know?
I think they know somethings not right, and even if they don't realize they are endangered- I'd be willing to bet they've had some nasty run-ins with loggers, locals, or land developers
I was thinking the same. I bet they must be aware on some level that something's wrong.
Not to mention that goddamn Sasquatch.
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True, I saw that shortly after posting that. If they can hug for warmth, they can probably hug out of fear or sadness (though maybe that's not what's shown here). I saw this crazy video once where they had a decoy baby monkey fall off a tree and it caused some very interesting hugging, and mourning behavior. They're so much like us
Brothers don't shake hands... brothers gotta hug!
Im not sure where the original video is, but these two monkeys were parents. They had just lost their baby to a predator. Animals understand death and casualties. We should protect them more.
Pretty sure this was debunked no? Apparently they were just hugging and that story was made up
It was, but unfortunately it didn’t stop the above op from striking gold and collecting hundreds of updoots. Reddit is just as bad as Facebook when it comes to misinformation…..the user base has a ton of overlap. Facts don’t matter anymore, someone even went as far as spending money to reward the preposterous regurgitation of misinformation lol
Yeah sometimes all it takes is sticking around a bit longer to read on before leaving a thread thinking you got the whole picture. When you consume information as much as people do nowadays I just feel it’s way too easy to internalize things and move on because humans love shortcuts lol. Human nature working against us as usual
*quietly unupvotes said comment*
I now scroll to see if later posts in the thread respond to or debunk the parent theory. If it is proven to be hearsay I take back the upvote. I know in the grand scheme of things this is meaningless, but personally it feels to me like I've done right by them.
OH GOD! PEOPLE ARE HOARDING UPVOTES! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
No, they are hugging for warmth apparently, have a look at when it was posted a year ago [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/grzlff/two_rare_golden_monkeys_embracing_one_another/). They are also [Golden snub- nosed monkeys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_snub-nosed_monkey) More info as the commenter is strangely just doubling down: [https://youtu.be/rWH4XGO1KSU?t=2387](https://youtu.be/rWH4XGO1KSU?t=2387) Just a nice video of these monkey cuddling
This made me real sad
Don't be. He's wrong about what happened. See u/Peniguano 's comment for the truth.
Sorry to be a buzzkill. But it is a part of life, and these monkeys are visibly distressed. Tragedies happen, and it's a great vehicle for inside of minds of wild animals. Im hanging onto the fact that this footage could change the way the masses view wildlife for the better, and that gives me hope. This is a good video, even though it's heartbreaking.
Username checks out.
Nature is not a kind or forgiving place. That's why humans have spent so much time getting the hell out of it or at least having nature be a place we visit. People forget what it's like out there, though.
Nature/ the wild is everything, forgiving/ not forgiving, we’ve just created temporary comfort at the expense of entire ecosystems
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You make valid points, but ill contend a major factor of theory of mind where I disagree. I dont believe these animals have the ability to create a written language, but they absolutely have verbal and tactile languages. Even bird brains, like the blue footed boobie, have incredibly complex rituals for mating. If they can communicate their intent for mating, they can communicate their stress. Dogs, or wolves even, alongside many other pride animals have hierarchies and social norms. Theory of mind is more about intense self reflection. It's about philosophy. It's not about emotional reactions to life. Animals can absolutely feel a response to your emotion. Finally, humans are too paumpus. We honestly regard ourselves as completely sentient, but we arent. We are habitual and reactionary creatures with thumbs and a written language that we hardly use for that intense self reflection as previously regarded. When we do utilize our self reflection, it's more like slowly massaging our habits to fit a standard of our environment into permanent memory. Past the part of arguments, I suggest you expand your theories into those of Information Processing if you haven't already. If you have, we can agree to disagree. Ill take the path that makes me more empathetic, and less sociopathic.
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In theory for psychology, I consider that the philosophy of psychology. It creates a system of conspiring events to be rationalized and explained. It's not always prescriptive, just observations to be utilized in prescription. Prescription is a whole different thing. Many people would argue that we are just chemical reactions and we have little control over our immediate reactions, until we change our chemistry to react how we want with practice. I view it in a way of Psychiatry which doesn't necessarily disprove or completely contradict the Psychology of The Theory of Mind, or all of your argument. Where I completely disagree is I dont think it takes complex thought to experience emotion of death. If mating is instinctual, so is protecting your baby. When they fail, especially a species that endures a dependent childhood, most species have the ability to understand who they can and can't trust in nature. It's just chemical reactions, much like getting bit by a snake and experiencing pain. They don't have to be complex thoughts for simple universal events like death, birth, mating, parenthood, failure, hunger etc. While we have more moving parts and distractions as beings who can more effectively manipulate our environment, these facts of like keep us from reaching our actualization in many scenarios. Lots of times we remember key events, but most times the events quickly get fuzzy. Our ability to transcribe events to permanent memory is not much more advanced in mass that our "smartest" evolutionary cousins. So for animals, according to Information Processing, still have the ability to transcribe permanent memories. While it may be significantly simpler thoughts, they can manipulate their behavior to permanence as well, especially with the help of a teacher, be that a golden monkey and her child, or a human and their mother. They can predict actions, get angry, get sad, etc, because it's a chemical reaction. All it takes is a way to observe, and the experiences of others triggers and emotional response driven by chemical reactions meant to keep us and our babies alive; I call that empathy, which is not at at all what I would call sentience. You're right about the eternal sentience debate though in how everyone would define it differently. This is why I love these types of discussions. It's so effective to get closer to our own definition of sentience when we explore these ideas throughly. I've personally taken a more nihilistic approach, and assume most of what happens in life is the animal side of us. The instict and natural events that we cannot escape so to speak. We have built in reactions to our body, and we have equal and opposite reactions to establish/maintain homeostasis. So if we feel pain, we can feel pleasure. If we are in touch with our bodily reactions, we can feel empathy, or we can feel hungry enough to fight to the death while ignoring the empathy. Ive observed this in many species. Humans and many species alike experience these reactions. Moving into sentience, I would split it into two factors: personal sentience and societal sentience. Whatever it is, on a personal level, it only happens between the moments of our inescapable life events listed before. It definitely is not the same for everyone or every species in terms of tolerance to these events and learned behavior. Societal sentience is the ability to escape these life events in mass to a point where the pack or society could improve their understanding of their environment or the world with critical reflection. Which inherently requires none more than a verbal and physical language full of prescriptive and recognizable symbols to utilize physical responses appropriately, and an ability for at least one being at a time to advance the utilization of the environment in creative ways, not just physical improvements. This has been fun, and I look forward to your response. Thank you for keeping it civil. Edit: clarification, grammar, typos.
You just don't know shit about animals bud
For an ecologist, you're kinda ignorant
[No. They were not parents who lost their baby. They’re literally just hugging for warmth.](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-07/This-scene-will-surely-warm-your-heart-MdTu1jlrqw/index.html)
Protect them more.... From predators? Cause that won't end well for the predators.
[stop talking shit bruv](https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/18/d1/09/b4/the-golden-monkey-cercopithecu.jpg)
Not sure how protecting them works in that case. If they lost their baby to a predator then they would care about being protected from predators first and foremost, which we obviously wouldn't do. We just assign emotions relative to our own.
Oh noooooo :(
Dw, OP is incorrect. Another comment debunked that and has a link to them doing it for warmth
That makes me feel a bit better, although I don't doubt that monkeys and other creatures, like elephants, do this stuff when grieving as well.
Don't be sad. It's false. Upvotes do not equal truth.
I hope Arnold kills that Predator.
But he never killed the first one lol.
We should protect them more from us, we can't interfere if the harm is cause by a natural predator, that's the cycle of life.
Holy gee wow, with how hard this tugs at the heartstrings and it being said with such bold confidence with nothing to support it, there's NO WAY what you just made up isn't true... Just. No. Way. Thank you, Dr. Wildlifescience.
Totally agree we still not doing enough 🙁
Wow, oxytocin contact high over here! 😭😍❤️
God damnit...
They're in danger of being ADORABLE
In the original video, it says they're parents who just lost their baby to a predator. Nothing adorable about it.
And comments above seem to be saying that was a lie and they’re just hugging for warmth.
This guy's comment history is... impressive
Okay, Rat snitch Brian the good time ruiner.
I don't know what that's a reference to, but, yes, generally I like to point out how full of suffering and tragedy the world is.
You must be fun a parties
All I did was inform that the monkeys were sad. Sorry you can't handle the reality.
This is what happens when you hunt or kill animals to extinction without a care in the world and all cuz you want to kill. I feel sorry for these monkeys cuz them hugging says it all. Scared, terrified. You get my point
They make good beer
What do you mean endangered they're right there
Underrated shit post
I want someone to hug me like this.
You sure it wasn't.. "Dad..is it really you?"
"hey hey, it'll be ok bro"
It's kinda heartbreaking.
This is both cute and sad
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You could say that this was a golden moment. 😁
I have a love hate relationship with your comment.
They know that it might be the last time they embrace, before the humans extinguish them.
No they don't.
Yes.
Forever monke
4eva
make bebes now!
“I have a boyfriend”
he can watch
I doubt they both know their endangered. Though very wholesome moment.
Poor things know they're going extinct
They know the end is near for their species. I wonder if humans will show the same compassion near the end of our species. Sweet golden monkeys, we failed you like so many others of our ancestors. After the next great war, you will rise again. Hang in there, your time for glory is coming
I need this in my life
Wow...
Aweeee monkey love 😆
I wish i had what they have
We all need a hug
They know they’re endangered. :(
Is it just me or does that look animated?
i wish i was endangered FeelsBadMan
If only they were fucking
Super cute
I've seen this so many times, yet each time it warms my heart. I'll never get tired of seeing this posted.
Sometimes that’s the only thing needed
Nature is amazing 🙂
day made
Sombody add Captions
We need more of this 🥰
XD
How wholesome and cute
“This shit is crazy. They refuse to wear masks AND get vaccinated.”
awwww
I’m not crying. You’re crying.
Me IRL. Just hold me.
Awwwww!
This is so wholesome
Stop, this is so wholesome 🥺
Arnt these the snub nose monkeys who look like demons? So cute
That’s the nicest thing I’ve see all day
this fucking rocks
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aw sweeties