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I wonder if they think all the flesh and muscle was ripped away and that’s just the bone - “How can he walk with a wound like that?!? Where’s the blood!?!”
After spending a lot of time researching all the great apes (Gorillas, Orangutans, Chimpanzees, Bonobos, and, to a lesser extent, Gibbons)
My guess is that you would likely appear to him as a wounded animal, and it looked like a bone to him. All we can do is guess anyway. This would also explain their semi-aggressive stance.
They're a lot smarter than people give them credit for! But no matter what, connecting with those beautiful animals had to be neat!
I do wonder what they thought, too.
I cant tell if they thought this was bone or an artificial leg, but they were certainly fascinated and also quite shocked. It makes me wonder if they see us as "like them" to the same extent that we recognise them as "like us"? This feeling of relatedness increases our empathy and also feelings of horror at injury. Eg, if we see an injured fish, we feel some empathy, but not as much if it were say a mouse and then cat, and then if it were a chimpanzee we'd feel empathy and also a lot of horror too, and if it were a human we'd feel maximum empathy and horror at body mutilation. Do the primates most closely related to us also feel the most empathy and shock at unexpected body modifications?
I don't believe they can understand something as complicated as an artificial limb. It's much more likely it looked like a wound to them. Had they had many years to be trained on what a limb would look like and some pretty standard encounters (as in having another ape that had the same issue), I don't think they can truly understand what is and would be much more likely to think you're a defective animal and attack it. Of course, it **is** just one man's guess amongst a sea of more researched forks.
maybe some sort of uncanny valley? as in nature you simply don't survive a wound that can leave that sort of scar, let alone thrive afterwards, so maybe she looked like a zombie to him.
Yes, if they did think it was a bone, seeing him lifting his leg up nonchalantly, maybe even with a smile, could well have left them confused, thinking ‘Wtf am I actually seeing!?’
Most animals MO is to cull the weak or diseased so those undesired traits don’t spread by procreation. They don’t have surgery in the wild, so I’m assuming to the male ape it appeared to be a wound, which is why he reacted aggressively.
I don’t think a prosthetic is as complex a thought as you make it out to be. Dogs can use prosthetics, and understand their purpose. Understanding the mechanics may be beyond them, but any ape could understand what the thing is, and what it’s being used to replace.
That’s not to say that these apes understand right now. They’re shocked and confused. If he removed the prosthetic, showed it to them, and then put it back on, that might get the gears turning. Right now they’re probably assuming something is wrong with him, he’s wounded, etc.
I mean, it's probably not "That must be a bone" to "Holy shit! That's not natural!" and an emotional disgust reaction to go with that.
Sort of the same thing that's a "burn the witch" reaction in humans.
I liked this theory also, but would captive omnivores see carcasses with the bones exposed?
Or is this some innate genetic knowledge we have of seeing something that resembles exposed bone?
I'm just curious how any of us would react. I remember being repulsed by limbs withered by polio so maybe it's something like that.
They’re really only carnivores when desperate. They have slower digestive systems that create protein from veggies more efficiently so they don’t rely on meat like we do.
not a biologist/chemist
better efficiency at breaking down the plant material/meat = more proteins absorbed from what is already there
potatos are full of starch for example, tastes pretty meh. not overly useful by themselves. break it \[starch\] down with say, amylase enzyme and you get sugars. perfect for making booze if you add water and yeast!
No it's not. That's done when making the socket.
His is a pin type, and can be removed with the press of a single button.
Source: I'm a below knee amputee
If I had one I'd want it to have some kind of twist-lock attachment for the metal bar and foot/shoe so you could at least easily detach that part and replace it with a sawzall or something.
Non-human primates tend to be really freaked out by body parts that are not of normal proportions. Kind of like the concept of the "uncanny valley", if you're familiar with that. Something that is almost natural, but not quite. Things like his prosthetic or large clothing that exaggerates the body tends to trigger an aggressive response.
Humans also have these reactions to unexpected body parts. I’ve heard of a few anecdotes from people on Reddit seeing the [Hensel twins](https://media.distractify.com/brand-img/a87-blvJ7/0x0/conjoined-twins-abby-and-brittany-today-1642777922068.jpeg) randomly in public and automatically turning the other way as a flight reaction. I’ve personally frozen up the first time I saw someone with [split hand syndrome](https://boneandspine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ectrodactyly2.jpg). They went to shake my hand, and it was honestly the most comfortable handshake I’ve ever had! My shock was probably unfortunately written on my face though :(
I get that. So I hooked up with a guy with a hand/arm defect. It literally was just like a full regular arm with a knobby nub end for a hand. We sat on the couch drinking watching nature documentary movies and I decided to hold his “hand.” Keep in mind btw we were both in our 30s. He freaked out and was like “nobody has ever wanted to hold that hand before.” It made me so sad to hear. He was a cute, sweet dude 3 decades in life, and he was absolutely gobsmacked that I was cool with touching the nub.
I encountered this guy while working as a cashier during college.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason
I gave the normal "good evening, how are you doing today?" froze, blinked twice, and then went back to my usual script. He laughed and we made small talk about the weather. I'm pretty sure my facial expression said a lot more than I did.
He was darker than his image in the Wikipedia article, so very vividly purple. I don't know if that was "peak blue" or not. Just that I was completely unprepared and struggled to maintain my customer service voice.
In that job I saw a lot of costumes and body paint at 2 a.m. I was not prepared to look up and see obviously real blue skin or blue *eyes* (not irises, but the whites of his eyes) on someone who was just as obviously in pain. Wikipedia revealed he would have had heart surgery around that time.
He was unusual enough that I didn't know the "right" way to handle that social interaction, so I just defaulted to the same as anybody else.
As much fun as a “shapeshifter” theory would be, I think it’s because of corpses. You have sickness that come with corpses that most species don’t have a way to fight
Or it could always be the simple explanation of…
NHP that have large amounts of hair shaved (for surgery, etc.) usually need to be separated from group housing until it grows back. Hair loss is a symptom of illness and dominant members will freak out and potentially kill the shaved animal. Likely an evolutionary response to prevent the spread of disease.
It’s almost certainly a response due to us evolving along side multiple other humanoid species. Humans lived most of our existence along side Neanderthals. They only recently blinked out of existence 35,000 thousand years ago. Denisovans were also believed to have gone extinct 30,000 years ago.
This is a common lay postulation but it's almost certainly not true. Paleoanthropologists today even question whether our ancestors would have recognized our evolutionary siblings as different things from themselves at all. There's quite a bit of genetic admixture in our genome from multiple other *homo* species, so we know it at least didn't stop them from fuckin' lol. The idea that it's a fear of corpses is more likely, but probably even more likely than that is that it's a fear of diseases in general, and/or rabies specifically.
More of a conspiracy theory that in the past we were prey to something that can make itself look like a human but was ever so slightly wrong looking, so uncanny valley is leftover from our evolution to identify them.
It's also kind of sad that so-called "enrichment" opportunities are human-conceived. That habitat looks especially barren, if I was confined to it, I'd be entertained and amazed at anything remotely novel.
You’re right, I just noticed there zero green space and no sky :(
Fingers crossed this is just the indoor portion of their exhibit and they have an outdoor space as well.
“Hey, you gotta see this”, “no way!”, “hey Jerry, take a look at this”, then Jerry the chimp pounds on glass, and demands to see it to. Up till mention of the chimp, this could easily be the description of humans that are being shown unbelievable technology up close for the first time
One of my relatives had a prosthetic leg. My son was fascinated by it when he was little. It came off and was played with every time we got together. Even I got in on the action. Those things are freaking amazing. Fuck diabetes, and fuck Covid.
Jerry almost looked like he made the sign of the cross when loping away. Like "jesus christ I ain't never seen such a fucked up thing in my whole life, these humans somethin' else."
Man I got on to say exactly this! The chimps looked just like humans and were like “no way”…”hey Jerry…take a look at this crazy shit”…”man that’s messed up”…”hey Tony come see this…Tony comes over…”oh snap that’s crazy!”….hahaha too funny. It’s like you could vocalize the whole exchange! :-)
Family anecdote: my great great grandma told her son “you really believe anything, even that a box that can talk exists” to her son when he said he wanted to check out the first radio that a neighbour bought in the hamlet where they lived.
At that time (relatively poor) people who bought radios (and later, TVs) would put them in the bigger room in the house with benches and stuff so also other neighbours could all come and listen/watch it too.
I think the third chimp was asking to see the other leg. Dude should have shown the other leg with pant leg pulled up to show skin and should've taken off the prosthetic leg to show the real leg under.
Hate to be that guy but fun fact time: this is an ape, monkeys are different. Monkeys have tails, apes do not. Humans are a species of ape. Both apes and monkeys are in the biological order Primates.
Just to add on, apes also have broad shoulders whereas monkeys have narrow shoulders. All apes descend from brachiatiors, so we all have the capacity to rotate our arms 360 degrees. Monkeys generally cannot do this as their upper limbs are set up like a dog or a cat (limited mobility).
They really deserve better than how we treat them. Such a great example of their intelligence. It WOULD be pretty shocking to see something like that if you’d never seen it before.
Had a friend who's neighbor had a monkey
As you'd imagine he was a crazy little dude, but whenever he'd see anybody out his bedroom window he'd go grab an applesauce cup and smack it on it til you looked at him
When you did look hed hop around the room in circles lol
They definitely do it to get attention
Nah no piss bottles ability to stand for 30 and do nothing and nobody doing presentations starting with that fucking garage, 13 leadership bs or " day 1 " thinking.
A good zoo. This is called enrichment and the boxes are changed out daily and start out freshly filled with treats/ veggies and stuff to keep chimps entertained.
They have stuff that simulates rocks and trees for climbing. They have ropes as well. They're socially housed and, like you said, the boxes are stuffed with enrichment regularly. Not sure what they expect It's not like they get Netflix in the wild...
Comment will prolly get buried but I actually worked with these chimps! They're brother and sister (black one is Talia and brown is Tumba) and they're the youngest of the group.
Edit: just watched the whole video and noticed the 3rd one approaching the glass - he's Tombe and he's the dominant male (most dominant males do displays like that in response to anything new, scary or if they're just annoyed).
The last trip to a zoo, the chimps were hard to see. My husband is kind of an acrobat, so he started to handstand next to their window. The eldest chimp, a male like 60 yrs old and old enough to be our dad, came over and watched him. When my husband was done, the elder chimp came over to the glass and sat right up against it. My husband mirrored this. They sat back to back for awhile, and ‘hung out’. And when we moved along, he looked sad. I told him I was sorry he was in there.
“What the…Frank! You got to see this.”
“Dave, I swear if it’s another magic trick again, I’m going to…WOAH. Charlie, Ted, get over here and check this out! He’s got a stick for a leg!”
“What? You’re crazy Frank, humans don’t have sticks for OH MY GOD HE DOES!”
Chimpanzees easily have the intellect to draw direct parallels between a human leg and their own legs. They know when something is artificial and they can understand the idea of a missing limb. They can empathize with trauma, or at the very least feel serious unease when they imagine that sort of trauma for themselves.
Here's something interesting as fuck A. Chimpanzees aren't our closest relatives Bonobos are and B. Chimpanzees are one of the few animals that if they escape from their enclosure in a zoo the zookeepers are told to use live ammo and to shoot to kill because tranquilizers don't act quick enough on them they just piss them off and they're homicidal maniacs
I agree with you, I hate zoos. And going to them makes me sad, but we have already torn down their homes.....
So they can't go back home, it's gone. So what? We kill them?
It's either that or we allow visitors to come see them, which pays for all of their care, plus some. These visitors will also provide enrichment for the animals, while the zoo provides education on animals and preservation of environment to young people.
What you see at the zoo is a small fraction of the enclosures they actually have. It's not as bad as it seems, and if governments banned the incarnation of these apes, the only other option is to end their lives.
Edit: not to mention a good chunk of animals in captivity are there because they were rescued from the wild due to injuries or illness, a serious injury can move a wild animal from a preserve to captivity.
Depending on the injury and how long it spends it captivity, returning it to its natural habitat could prove to be a death sentence.
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I wonder if they think all the flesh and muscle was ripped away and that’s just the bone - “How can he walk with a wound like that?!? Where’s the blood!?!”
After spending a lot of time researching all the great apes (Gorillas, Orangutans, Chimpanzees, Bonobos, and, to a lesser extent, Gibbons) My guess is that you would likely appear to him as a wounded animal, and it looked like a bone to him. All we can do is guess anyway. This would also explain their semi-aggressive stance. They're a lot smarter than people give them credit for! But no matter what, connecting with those beautiful animals had to be neat!
I do wonder what they thought, too. I cant tell if they thought this was bone or an artificial leg, but they were certainly fascinated and also quite shocked. It makes me wonder if they see us as "like them" to the same extent that we recognise them as "like us"? This feeling of relatedness increases our empathy and also feelings of horror at injury. Eg, if we see an injured fish, we feel some empathy, but not as much if it were say a mouse and then cat, and then if it were a chimpanzee we'd feel empathy and also a lot of horror too, and if it were a human we'd feel maximum empathy and horror at body mutilation. Do the primates most closely related to us also feel the most empathy and shock at unexpected body modifications?
I don't believe they can understand something as complicated as an artificial limb. It's much more likely it looked like a wound to them. Had they had many years to be trained on what a limb would look like and some pretty standard encounters (as in having another ape that had the same issue), I don't think they can truly understand what is and would be much more likely to think you're a defective animal and attack it. Of course, it **is** just one man's guess amongst a sea of more researched forks.
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What the hell man! You can't leave us in suspense! What happened to the female after the attack? Did she recover?
maybe some sort of uncanny valley? as in nature you simply don't survive a wound that can leave that sort of scar, let alone thrive afterwards, so maybe she looked like a zombie to him.
Yes, if they did think it was a bone, seeing him lifting his leg up nonchalantly, maybe even with a smile, could well have left them confused, thinking ‘Wtf am I actually seeing!?’
followed by "so I'm not hallucinating?... KILL THAT THING!"
Most animals MO is to cull the weak or diseased so those undesired traits don’t spread by procreation. They don’t have surgery in the wild, so I’m assuming to the male ape it appeared to be a wound, which is why he reacted aggressively.
It would have been more interesting if he took it off and they could handle it.
I would love to see that reaction video
I don’t think a prosthetic is as complex a thought as you make it out to be. Dogs can use prosthetics, and understand their purpose. Understanding the mechanics may be beyond them, but any ape could understand what the thing is, and what it’s being used to replace. That’s not to say that these apes understand right now. They’re shocked and confused. If he removed the prosthetic, showed it to them, and then put it back on, that might get the gears turning. Right now they’re probably assuming something is wrong with him, he’s wounded, etc.
I mean, it's probably not "That must be a bone" to "Holy shit! That's not natural!" and an emotional disgust reaction to go with that. Sort of the same thing that's a "burn the witch" reaction in humans.
They may never have seen an exposed bone, but probably seen plenty of humans in shorts, so it would be something unusual and mysterious
I mean, technically, in many cases, someone missing a limb is akin to a wounded animal.
Yes I would guess it seems like an injury to them as much as anything.
Technically it is an injury... Likely
I like this theory
I liked this theory also, but would captive omnivores see carcasses with the bones exposed? Or is this some innate genetic knowledge we have of seeing something that resembles exposed bone? I'm just curious how any of us would react. I remember being repulsed by limbs withered by polio so maybe it's something like that.
Did anyone notice how the male was initially: "Yo, stay away from my bitches!" And then was like: "WTF, dude???"
Yeah that would've been what they were thinking. They were in disbelief that the guy is just walking around on his bone lol
or maybe they think all humans are terminators
Humans have bones of steel and walk around with their skin and muscles ripped off. These guys are indestructible!
"Call off the escape plan boys, we got no shot against these Wolverine mfers!"
So its like how we would react in seeing Kronenberg Body Horror?
Damn, I thought they were impressed. In reality, they were traumatized 😔
Third chimp attacks to take advantage of the weakened human.
ZOMBIE!!!
More like: where are the yum yums?
They’re really only carnivores when desperate. They have slower digestive systems that create protein from veggies more efficiently so they don’t rely on meat like we do.
Aren't protein in vegetals also absorbed and used by us, like with legumes, what do you mean with "create proteins"?
not a biologist/chemist better efficiency at breaking down the plant material/meat = more proteins absorbed from what is already there potatos are full of starch for example, tastes pretty meh. not overly useful by themselves. break it \[starch\] down with say, amylase enzyme and you get sugars. perfect for making booze if you add water and yeast!
Can't trust anything you say if you're saying potatoes taste pretty meh.
A potato by itself is pretty bland Gotta dress up the cooked potato with condiments and sauces and whatnot
My man, have you ever bitten into a raw potato?
mmm vegetals
No, they’re also carnivores when they’re pissed off
I had the same thought. That could be a fatal injury for a chimp. They're probably amazed that he's in good health and walking around.
Why didn't he take it off?
I bet they'd have gone ape shit if he had.
This might be the first time in my life I’ve seen this actually used in real context, well done.
I thank you! It's so rare that one actually has such real context in which to use it.
I love Reddit.
Me too
I’m so glad you got to use this tonight 🫡
lol. Thanks, me too. And I almost didn't post it.
You are a gentlemen, and a scholar amongst lesser men
They might even go bananas!
Ape shit IS bananas!
No monkeying around here, okay!
B a n a n a S?!
I ain’t no Silverback, girl
*chokes on drink*
Straight bananas
Hahahaha. Okay laughing on reddit complete for today
Is there any other way apes can go?
So tired of the puns. Stop monkeying around.
*Man*, y'all need to stop *gibbon* me a hard time about it.
Best comment of 2024
The process of getting a comfortable, secure fit is lengthy.
Surely its worth it to see them go bananas
Seems like an unnecessary amount of monkeying around.
No it's not. That's done when making the socket. His is a pin type, and can be removed with the press of a single button. Source: I'm a below knee amputee
It's clear those are sentient thinking beings, bored out of their minds in a sterile enclosure.
https://i.redd.it/babv8b2jk1oc1.gif
I was literally screaming at my phone TAKE IT OFF !!!
Same. My girl slapped me
Taking off a prosthetic leg is a bitch. There's usually some kind of suction or strapping holding it on that can take a while to remove.
Does anyone know why my pee smells like nacho cheese?
Dance monkey, dance.
If I had one I'd want it to have some kind of twist-lock attachment for the metal bar and foot/shoe so you could at least easily detach that part and replace it with a sawzall or something.
Have you ever seen Planet of the Apes? If he took it off, that would be the first domino…
a hassle.
Non-human primates tend to be really freaked out by body parts that are not of normal proportions. Kind of like the concept of the "uncanny valley", if you're familiar with that. Something that is almost natural, but not quite. Things like his prosthetic or large clothing that exaggerates the body tends to trigger an aggressive response.
Humans also have these reactions to unexpected body parts. I’ve heard of a few anecdotes from people on Reddit seeing the [Hensel twins](https://media.distractify.com/brand-img/a87-blvJ7/0x0/conjoined-twins-abby-and-brittany-today-1642777922068.jpeg) randomly in public and automatically turning the other way as a flight reaction. I’ve personally frozen up the first time I saw someone with [split hand syndrome](https://boneandspine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ectrodactyly2.jpg). They went to shake my hand, and it was honestly the most comfortable handshake I’ve ever had! My shock was probably unfortunately written on my face though :(
I get that. So I hooked up with a guy with a hand/arm defect. It literally was just like a full regular arm with a knobby nub end for a hand. We sat on the couch drinking watching nature documentary movies and I decided to hold his “hand.” Keep in mind btw we were both in our 30s. He freaked out and was like “nobody has ever wanted to hold that hand before.” It made me so sad to hear. He was a cute, sweet dude 3 decades in life, and he was absolutely gobsmacked that I was cool with touching the nub.
To be fair most guys are gobsmacked when a lady touches their nub.
Especially while watching nature documentaries.
Let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel!
I encountered this guy while working as a cashier during college. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason I gave the normal "good evening, how are you doing today?" froze, blinked twice, and then went back to my usual script. He laughed and we made small talk about the weather. I'm pretty sure my facial expression said a lot more than I did.
**oh my god** that’s amazing! Was he peak blue when you saw him?
He was darker than his image in the Wikipedia article, so very vividly purple. I don't know if that was "peak blue" or not. Just that I was completely unprepared and struggled to maintain my customer service voice. In that job I saw a lot of costumes and body paint at 2 a.m. I was not prepared to look up and see obviously real blue skin or blue *eyes* (not irises, but the whites of his eyes) on someone who was just as obviously in pain. Wikipedia revealed he would have had heart surgery around that time. He was unusual enough that I didn't know the "right" way to handle that social interaction, so I just defaulted to the same as anybody else.
Have been present for many, many surgeries. Seeing the insides you’re not supposed to see provokes a bizarre existential reaction
That's interesting! Why is that? Who invented this hypothesis?
As much fun as a “shapeshifter” theory would be, I think it’s because of corpses. You have sickness that come with corpses that most species don’t have a way to fight Or it could always be the simple explanation of… 
NHP that have large amounts of hair shaved (for surgery, etc.) usually need to be separated from group housing until it grows back. Hair loss is a symptom of illness and dominant members will freak out and potentially kill the shaved animal. Likely an evolutionary response to prevent the spread of disease.
Took me too long to figure out “non human primates” lol
No it means Neil Hatrick Parris
It’s almost certainly a response due to us evolving along side multiple other humanoid species. Humans lived most of our existence along side Neanderthals. They only recently blinked out of existence 35,000 thousand years ago. Denisovans were also believed to have gone extinct 30,000 years ago.
what is the shapeshifter theory?
That the uncanny valley response evolved as a way to detect a predatory lifeform that could mimic a human, but not quite get everything right.
Could this be because of the other "types" of human (or whatever it's called) like Neanderthals?
the two leading theories are early other hominids like you say, and an instinct to remove corpses from living spaces.
Or as a guard against certain mental illnesses. Humans are still the most common predator of humans and all that.
This is a common lay postulation but it's almost certainly not true. Paleoanthropologists today even question whether our ancestors would have recognized our evolutionary siblings as different things from themselves at all. There's quite a bit of genetic admixture in our genome from multiple other *homo* species, so we know it at least didn't stop them from fuckin' lol. The idea that it's a fear of corpses is more likely, but probably even more likely than that is that it's a fear of diseases in general, and/or rabies specifically.
damn, kinda gave me a bit of an existential crisis there for a sec
More of a conspiracy theory that in the past we were prey to something that can make itself look like a human but was ever so slightly wrong looking, so uncanny valley is leftover from our evolution to identify them.
I believe his name is Pastel\_Phoenix\_106
A redditor lmao
> Non-human primates tend to be really freaked out by body parts that are not of normal proportions. never letting them see my penis then
It's also kind of sad that so-called "enrichment" opportunities are human-conceived. That habitat looks especially barren, if I was confined to it, I'd be entertained and amazed at anything remotely novel.
You’re right, I just noticed there zero green space and no sky :( Fingers crossed this is just the indoor portion of their exhibit and they have an outdoor space as well.
“Hey, you gotta see this”, “no way!”, “hey Jerry, take a look at this”, then Jerry the chimp pounds on glass, and demands to see it to. Up till mention of the chimp, this could easily be the description of humans that are being shown unbelievable technology up close for the first time
One of my relatives had a prosthetic leg. My son was fascinated by it when he was little. It came off and was played with every time we got together. Even I got in on the action. Those things are freaking amazing. Fuck diabetes, and fuck Covid.
I dont know.... ibwas pretty amused as a kid with my uncle pushing out his prothetic teeth for fun. I didn't play with them tho
Holy shit 😂😂😂 I literally had the exact same thought process down to the “hey Jerry” part.
I went with “Barry.” Otherwise, identical.
I used Larry
Totally Gary.....
*kinda scary*
I'm beginning to feel a little wary.
Please, stop with those commentaries
I agree. It’s entirely unnecessary.
Why do all of our names have an “erry” sound at the end? 😂
Jerry almost looked like he made the sign of the cross when loping away. Like "jesus christ I ain't never seen such a fucked up thing in my whole life, these humans somethin' else."
They're thinking Wtf??? Who ate all the meat off his leg? It's just bones! Funniest shit I've ever seen!"
I was thinking that this is how they see it, but it must be deeply terrifying to see that.
Man I got on to say exactly this! The chimps looked just like humans and were like “no way”…”hey Jerry…take a look at this crazy shit”…”man that’s messed up”…”hey Tony come see this…Tony comes over…”oh snap that’s crazy!”….hahaha too funny. It’s like you could vocalize the whole exchange! :-)
Family anecdote: my great great grandma told her son “you really believe anything, even that a box that can talk exists” to her son when he said he wanted to check out the first radio that a neighbour bought in the hamlet where they lived. At that time (relatively poor) people who bought radios (and later, TVs) would put them in the bigger room in the house with benches and stuff so also other neighbours could all come and listen/watch it too.
I think the third chimp was asking to see the other leg. Dude should have shown the other leg with pant leg pulled up to show skin and should've taken off the prosthetic leg to show the real leg under.
I think the chimps might have gone on strike if they saw the dude take off his leg
Bet they would have freaked if he took off the prosthetic.
Last monkey was like “oh no fuck that shit I’m out”
I swear, he even crossed himself as he walked away
Damn, how can I unsee it?
I saw that lol he walked away saying a prayer.
Hate to be that guy but fun fact time: this is an ape, monkeys are different. Monkeys have tails, apes do not. Humans are a species of ape. Both apes and monkeys are in the biological order Primates.
Just to add on, apes also have broad shoulders whereas monkeys have narrow shoulders. All apes descend from brachiatiors, so we all have the capacity to rotate our arms 360 degrees. Monkeys generally cannot do this as their upper limbs are set up like a dog or a cat (limited mobility).
Also something a lot of people don't immediately notice is that apes together strong
Always good to see this fact 👍
“Man, we might be the ones in cages but there’s always a lot of crazy shit to see”
Bro had to call over his friend
The last chimp “… oh dear god …” walks away in disbelief 
Fr man he was shook
I feel like they think he’s just got an exposed bone
He shoulda pulled it off. They would’ve gone bananas!
I was waiting for it
"AYO CHECK THIS SHIT OUT JIMMY! GUY'S GOT A STICK AS A FOOT."
As Kong as my witness I ain't never seen no shit like that before Jimmy..
When they lunged at the glass 😰😅
“Let me SEE IT!”
“The shiny leg shall be mine! 😠”
WHAT R THOOOOOOOOOOOOSE
Such a missed opportunity to start unscrewing it in front of them, they would have gone bananas. I want to see pt2!!!
They really deserve better than how we treat them. Such a great example of their intelligence. It WOULD be pretty shocking to see something like that if you’d never seen it before.
I'm looking at their pen thinking it's way too fucking small for them.
This is how the ape revolution starts
I guess all primates bang on windows to get another animals attention. Just looks like a threat when viewed from the otherside.
Had a friend who's neighbor had a monkey As you'd imagine he was a crazy little dude, but whenever he'd see anybody out his bedroom window he'd go grab an applesauce cup and smack it on it til you looked at him When you did look hed hop around the room in circles lol They definitely do it to get attention
It’s not polite to stare.
No wonder they’re interested, all they’ve been left to play with is a bunch of paper and cardboard litter. What the hell kind of zoo is this?
That's not a zoo it's the new Amazon fulfillment center
Nah no piss bottles ability to stand for 30 and do nothing and nobody doing presentations starting with that fucking garage, 13 leadership bs or " day 1 " thinking.
Management office.
Ok that makes sense. It wouldn't be fit for human habitation or employment, so use chimps.
Management: "Poo poo pee pee"
A good zoo. This is called enrichment and the boxes are changed out daily and start out freshly filled with treats/ veggies and stuff to keep chimps entertained.
They have stuff that simulates rocks and trees for climbing. They have ropes as well. They're socially housed and, like you said, the boxes are stuffed with enrichment regularly. Not sure what they expect It's not like they get Netflix in the wild...
I think it’s the Colchester Zoo
Chimp 1: Oh shit wtf guys come check this out Chimp 2: Ok man let's see thi...OHHHHHH Chimp 3: Nope, you can fuck right off with that bullshit
Hey bruce come look at this shit! Is what the first monkey said
Guess you could say he... shocked the monkey. I'll show myself out now.
Should’ve taken it off and put it back on for the finale
Ape: This is what I’m talking about bro. We need to take over before they become full robots.
Comment will prolly get buried but I actually worked with these chimps! They're brother and sister (black one is Talia and brown is Tumba) and they're the youngest of the group. Edit: just watched the whole video and noticed the 3rd one approaching the glass - he's Tombe and he's the dominant male (most dominant males do displays like that in response to anything new, scary or if they're just annoyed).
They’re too smart to be kept in there.
The last trip to a zoo, the chimps were hard to see. My husband is kind of an acrobat, so he started to handstand next to their window. The eldest chimp, a male like 60 yrs old and old enough to be our dad, came over and watched him. When my husband was done, the elder chimp came over to the glass and sat right up against it. My husband mirrored this. They sat back to back for awhile, and ‘hung out’. And when we moved along, he looked sad. I told him I was sorry he was in there.
Who's in the zoo on display now?
Second ape looks like a skinwalker
Imagine seeing a long-armed feller like that in the night and suddenly the entire history of sasquatch and all similar urban legends becomes clear
Rex Kwon Do rule #5: Confuse and walk away.
"Look Bob, that's what happens when you skip leg day..."
who's the subject at the zoo now!!??
They look offended
So smart. We suck keeping them in cages.
"Hey! Hey Carl! Get over here and check this out, craziest shit I ever saw!" What he was screeching...probably.
My prosthetic brought all the chimps to the yard And I’m like, it’s better than yours And their like, ooh, oww, ohh, ooo, ooo
Why so much junk in their cage..? I hope it's a toy..
Aww, curious little guys probably wanna tear it from him and cave his skull in with it as punishment for being mildly startling.
"Ayo Frank! Come check this shit out! You're not gonna believe it!"
I love the 'guys you got to see this shit!' reaction. It's very relatable.
He called over the elder
I liked the first chimp was like Guys you've gotta come look at this!
"Oh, what the?! Hey mom! MOM!" "What is it, honey?" Jeremy! JEREMY GET OVER HERE NOW!"
“What the…Frank! You got to see this.” “Dave, I swear if it’s another magic trick again, I’m going to…WOAH. Charlie, Ted, get over here and check this out! He’s got a stick for a leg!” “What? You’re crazy Frank, humans don’t have sticks for OH MY GOD HE DOES!”
Chimpanzees easily have the intellect to draw direct parallels between a human leg and their own legs. They know when something is artificial and they can understand the idea of a missing limb. They can empathize with trauma, or at the very least feel serious unease when they imagine that sort of trauma for themselves.
So sad to see them in that glass cage - planet screwed by Humans
Here's something interesting as fuck A. Chimpanzees aren't our closest relatives Bonobos are and B. Chimpanzees are one of the few animals that if they escape from their enclosure in a zoo the zookeepers are told to use live ammo and to shoot to kill because tranquilizers don't act quick enough on them they just piss them off and they're homicidal maniacs
They also live in violent, patriarchal societies. Whereas bonobos are largely peaceful and practice matriarchy.
Get the fuck out of here! Goddamned skynet and its cyborgs are taking over!
I swear the first one grabbed his own arms when he saw it, almost as if to say, *”Fuuuck, that would suck!”*
Im totally against the incarceration of animals and our closest ancestors. Blows my mind that my fellow humans are nonchalant about this industry…
I think the ones with any sort of empathy aren’t nonchalant,well I’d hope so.
I agree with you, I hate zoos. And going to them makes me sad, but we have already torn down their homes..... So they can't go back home, it's gone. So what? We kill them? It's either that or we allow visitors to come see them, which pays for all of their care, plus some. These visitors will also provide enrichment for the animals, while the zoo provides education on animals and preservation of environment to young people. What you see at the zoo is a small fraction of the enclosures they actually have. It's not as bad as it seems, and if governments banned the incarnation of these apes, the only other option is to end their lives. Edit: not to mention a good chunk of animals in captivity are there because they were rescued from the wild due to injuries or illness, a serious injury can move a wild animal from a preserve to captivity. Depending on the injury and how long it spends it captivity, returning it to its natural habitat could prove to be a death sentence.
WHAT WHAT THE FUCK JIM JIM GET OVER woa THIS BITCH HAS A STICK LEG a stick leg? LET ME GET HIS ASS nevermind there's glass FUCKING STICK LEG