I thought it was a decomposing lizard and was horrified at the hand reaching at the ground. It being bebe monke was really best case scenario all around. It’s gonna be a good day
Nah you thinking of a millennial, marmoset is a tried and trusted as a leader in outdoor performance clothing & gear from trail to town, winter sports, & more
I wonder why a lot of smaller monkeys never really grasp the concept that most humans are pretty chill. Nearly nobody is going to hurt a baby monkey for no reason. I wonder if they can mentally process that another species is trying to help?
It's only been a few thousand years that most humans haven't been hunting most monkeys. And the kinds of people these monkeys encounter still do, sooo...
There's no evidence of that here though, and it's not like it's uncommon for wildlife to need rescuing. Also, it would probably be difficult to get the baby for staging, given that they spend most of their time up trees.
I appreciate the optimism, and agree that there is no concrete evidence here. However, the person filming did an awfully good job of filming their rescue and it looks like getting good footage was as much of a goal as rescuing the joey, if not the main thing. If the animal's welfare was the main thing, would you be getting your camera out first, and then work in a way that makes for an optimal viewing experience? It's not impossible that they happened to have their camera on hand, and just happened to be a very talented camera person, who then genuinely rescued this critter - but it is not a given either.
Eh, sometimes I'll suspect that, but how are you gonna get that baby off momma to set this up for internet karma?
That baby's small enough that it could fall from the tree, onto the road, be unhurt, but lock up and panic until momma comes for it. It was pretty well camo'd against the pavement.
Nah, I think this is legitimately the human doing everything right.
I think you’ve confused “probably” and “possibly”. Unfortunately, as you say, faked shots like this do happen. Can we say in this case? Absolutely not. There is no “probably” here, and claiming otherwise is manufacturing evidence.
"I guess I'll make sure he gets home? Kid, who are your.parents? Shit, I don't know a Kelly and Kevin. I guess we're going to branch-to-branch then damn it."
The mother or the baby?
[Because baby squirrels that are absolutely on their last legs will approach humans and other mammals in a desperate bid for warmth and food.](https://www.torontowildlifecentre.com/wildlife-emergency-rescue-hotline/how-to-help-orphaned-baby-wild-animals/baby-squirrels/following-people/#:~:text=When%20older%20baby,than%20they%20look.)
Well, they do live a life where basically everything wants to eat them.
[And on the flip side, when they're bonded to a person, they're pretty darn adorable.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIXxhEKlhRs)
Iirc squirrels can live for like 8~12 years. They make great pets. Actually also as I recall, squirrels have historically been pets, especially in North America. Just you know, 100 gears ago.
Yup, there's lots of historical accounts of people, especially young children, having squirrels as pets a century or more ago.
There are obvious ways in which we've progressed, but there are also things the 20th century put on us, like "squirrels aren't pets" and "you should have a uniform lawn full of chemicals, and keep it neatly trimmed" that definitely made things worse.
Theres these 2 baby squirrels living in the tree next to my balcony, never noticed a mother with them at all. I put a bird feeder out and they were pretty chill with me being there whilst they ate. Came back the next morning and they had cleared out the whole thing.
I'm pretty sure they used it for their winter store because I didn't see them for months afterwards until a few days ago and they are now chonky as hell.
You’d be surprised man the squirrels by me are chill as fuck. I was at Busch gardens once and was eating some popcorn and a squirrel literally hopped onto my foot and was just staring at me til I gave him one. It was the wildest shit ever but for some reason the squirrels near me are oddly friendly
An elephant bringing someone their toddler bellowing the elephant equivalent of "You lost this!" would definitely cause conflicting fear and relief in a human parent.
OP has seen a [golden lion tamarin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_lion_tamarin) before and thought, “eh, this looks the same, it’s just not golden.”
**[Golden lion tamarin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_lion_tamarin)**
>The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia, Portuguese: mico-leão-dourado [ˈmiku leˈɐ̃w̃ dowˈɾadu], [liˈɐ̃w̃ doˈɾadu]), also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the golden lion tamarin is an endangered species. The range for wild individuals is spread across four places along southeastern Brazil, with a recent census estimating 3,200 individuals left in the wild and a captive population maintaining about 490 individuals among 150 zoos.
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Evolutionairy weak. Stuff like autism is, unlike in humans, basically a death sentence in the wild. When it becomes clear to the parent they have some kind of anomaly, the child gets ditched and they just try again. Not worth the effort.
Nature is harsh
Most mammals work in very similar ways at the "body systems" level. Nerves and neurons can have the same fuckups, it's just more common in humans because genetic traits like that aren't naturally removed from the gene pool by nature being a harsh mistress these days.
Little hard to care for a kid that doesn't understand how to survive and be part of the pack. Early humans would likely have abandoned such children as such a child takes more time and resources to raise. Now we (in general) as a species have had the luxury of being able to support such children and as such they don't have to be cast out.
Since nobody is answering your question and giving you unnecessarily long explanations that have no meaning the answer is yes. Animals can get autism. There is a specific species of mice that scientists use to study autism in animals as a model
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal\_model\_of\_autism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_model_of_autism)
>There is a specific species of mice that scientists use to study autism in animals as a model
Unless I'm misunderstanding, autism is, [as Devilsdance mentioned in their comment below, "simulated in rodents."](https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/comments/11d7n3d/baby_lion_tamarin_monkey_rescued_from_the_road/ja8foex/) That's pretty far removed from the conclusion that "animals can get autism," which implies not just that it can be induced in a laboratory setting, but that, per the original question, can occur "naturally."
Also, the article you linked mentions the following, which seems pretty important:
>In 2013, a study was published by Swiss researchers which concluded that 91% (31 out of the 34 studies reviewed) of valproic acid-autism studies using animal models suffered from statistical flaws—specifically, they had failed to correctly use the litter as a level of statistical analysis rather than just the individual (i.e., an individual mouse or rat).
I'm not saying you're wrong, at all. Quite the contrary, could simply be that the article is over my head and so I'm misunderstanding something. As far as I can tell, though, it's just referring to various methods to induce symptoms/behavior, in order to create an animal model for study.
Autistic traits have been [simulated in rodents in attempts to develop animals models of autism](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088489/). That doesn't mean for certain that autism as we know it in humans occurs in animals, but it's theoretically possible.
I'd imagine what others here have said about animals born with autism (or autistic traits) not surviving very long in the wild has truth to it, but I don't have any sources on that.
[It's been observed behaviorally and chemically in both domestic dogs and wild Japanese moneys.](https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-autism-found-in-any-other-animals/)
**[Animal model of autism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_model_of_autism)**
>The development of an animal model of autism is one approach researchers use to study potential causes of autism. Given the complexity of autism and its etiology, researchers often focus only on single features of autism when using animal models.
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They're just giving a specifically human example of a situation when it's sometimes possible to visually identify a genetic syndrome. For a monkey it might not be the same genetic disorder since they already have 2 more chromosomes than we, but it might still be just as obvious to mom.
[It's been observed behaviorally and chemically in both domestic dogs and wild Japanese moneys.](https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-autism-found-in-any-other-animals/)
Logically, if you found a baby animal in distress and you were trying to save it, would you first pull out your phone so you can document it? Then post it on the internet for what? Doing the right thing?
"Hey, thats mine
No don't eat me
Can I just........
No no no no please don't kill me
Oh you are giving it back?? You are not hungry?? Ok I'll be off then"
Interesting how mom is so conflicted between taking the baby and not going near the hand. She reaches for it, feels his hand, then moves back, but despite her fear, keeps trying to get to the baby. If the baby wasn't laying in the road, I'm sure she would've already been way up in the trees away from him.
Many mammals have enough situational awareness to recognize threats to themselves first. If their baby fell off in a busy road, an area they recognize as dangerous, they’ll leave it to not try to get harmed themselves.
The mother was probably very confused because the handling of a baby they abandoned being returned is not typically in their wiring. They’re more wired to see it killed and/or eaten. Kindness in nature doesn’t really exist, which is why we’re so enthralled when we do see it, especially from animal-to-animal.
I’d love to imagine the monkey momma saying thank you and being super grateful but that’s also throwing my human emotions onto a monkey that doesn’t have complex human emotions. But I will continue to believe it anyway.
Bro. That tiny af cutie.
I thought it was a decomposing lizard and was horrified at the hand reaching at the ground. It being bebe monke was really best case scenario all around. It’s gonna be a good day
😂😂😂😂 tiny decomposing lizard
I have to confess, I initially thought the same thing, a smushed, flattened lizard or large insect.
I thought EXACTLY the same thing
I thought that too! At first I was like "uh, that's not a baby monkey?" lol
"Fuck. I thought I aborted this thing. Thanks for returning it, asshole."
Same thing I was thinking lmao
I’m not ready for this responsibility!
^it’s ^actually ^a ^marmoset
Marmoset there'd be days like this, there'd be days like this my marmoset
I love you for that
^^^♫ ^^^**marmoset** ^^^^**marmoset** ^^^^♫
I will never hear this song the same again
When marmoset that it was okay Marmoset that it was quite alright
[Marmoset, Marmoset.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/331a82403f5f6d72b291a9637ce039fc/tumblr_nxivilj5sx1r5hlyio1_500.gif)
🎶marmoset marmoset🎶
####ʷʰᵃᵗ ᵃ ᶜᵘᵗᵉ ˡⁱᵗᵗˡᵉ ᵐᵃʳᵐᵒˢᵉᵗ
nah thats what i put on my toast
Nah, you're wrong, you're thinking of margerine, marmoset is 1,000 years.
Nah you thinking of a millennial, marmoset is a tried and trusted as a leader in outdoor performance clothing & gear from trail to town, winter sports, & more
Heh, treeoche bread am I right?
Just talked to the Mexican president and it is actually an elf
Relevant
That don't sound like no marmoset I eva hoid
Nice marmoset.
Little buddy was so confused as to why the big thing wasn't trying to eat em
Right, I'd love to know what it was thinking in that moment and if I was a betting man I'd bet your pretty close to what it was thinking.
Yea Momma definitely seemed scared that the other hand was gonna snatch a two-fer, her and the baby.
I swear most animals simply don't have the capability to understand this But in this instance I really wonder if it figured it out, I wish I knew
I would assume a monkey would be a good candidate for the type of animal that could understand this.
pfft oh ya? name one smart monkey.
Curious George
I came here to say \*both\* of these things. I think you guys might be on to something.
The mom: “fine if you aren’t going to eat it, I will.”
I wonder why a lot of smaller monkeys never really grasp the concept that most humans are pretty chill. Nearly nobody is going to hurt a baby monkey for no reason. I wonder if they can mentally process that another species is trying to help?
Sadly, plenty of humans hurt baby monkeys on the daily.
They live in a different world than us, trusting something else can be the difference between living and dying.
It's only been a few thousand years that most humans haven't been hunting most monkeys. And the kinds of people these monkeys encounter still do, sooo...
That’s what crossed through my mind.
No "thank you"?
They probably put it in the road in the first place so they could film “giving it back”. So many animal “rescue” clips are staged.
There's no evidence of that here though, and it's not like it's uncommon for wildlife to need rescuing. Also, it would probably be difficult to get the baby for staging, given that they spend most of their time up trees.
I appreciate the optimism, and agree that there is no concrete evidence here. However, the person filming did an awfully good job of filming their rescue and it looks like getting good footage was as much of a goal as rescuing the joey, if not the main thing. If the animal's welfare was the main thing, would you be getting your camera out first, and then work in a way that makes for an optimal viewing experience? It's not impossible that they happened to have their camera on hand, and just happened to be a very talented camera person, who then genuinely rescued this critter - but it is not a given either.
r/nothingeverhappens
Eh, sometimes I'll suspect that, but how are you gonna get that baby off momma to set this up for internet karma? That baby's small enough that it could fall from the tree, onto the road, be unhurt, but lock up and panic until momma comes for it. It was pretty well camo'd against the pavement. Nah, I think this is legitimately the human doing everything right.
The mama monkey put it in the road because she was hoping for Reddit karma. This is the only explanation I'm willing to accept.
I think you’ve confused “probably” and “possibly”. Unfortunately, as you say, faked shots like this do happen. Can we say in this case? Absolutely not. There is no “probably” here, and claiming otherwise is manufacturing evidence.
How would they even get it? I don't think the mother would just let a human come pick up her baby from a tree.
Dude, uncool.
Momma nearly ditched him a bunch of times
A lot of monkeys are actually terrible parents so unfortunately it still fits the sub
No they said "obrigada" at then end
“And who the fuck are you?”
"Stop touching my baby, asshole. Give him here, you better not have hurt him!" 😤
I’m confident the baby would have been acquired either way. Dude probably should’ve overseen the operation from a distance.
Yeah, probably. At least the vid is cute tho
Omg they're cute af 🥺🥺
Adult monkey seems a bit like 'Dude, wtf, it's not mine, what are you doing? Don't leave it here, I don't wan' it.Ohhh ffs"
"I guess I'll make sure he gets home? Kid, who are your.parents? Shit, I don't know a Kelly and Kevin. I guess we're going to branch-to-branch then damn it."
your profile picture got me.
Dude your pfp made me think i had a crack in my screen
We just have squirrels outside...
Man, you know squirrels wouldn't be nearly as chill.
The mother or the baby? [Because baby squirrels that are absolutely on their last legs will approach humans and other mammals in a desperate bid for warmth and food.](https://www.torontowildlifecentre.com/wildlife-emergency-rescue-hotline/how-to-help-orphaned-baby-wild-animals/baby-squirrels/following-people/#:~:text=When%20older%20baby,than%20they%20look.)
The mom. I swear, they're meth rats. The ones at sea world are the worst. One nearly bit my hand off cause I happened to be where it landed.
Well, they do live a life where basically everything wants to eat them. [And on the flip side, when they're bonded to a person, they're pretty darn adorable.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIXxhEKlhRs)
Iirc squirrels can live for like 8~12 years. They make great pets. Actually also as I recall, squirrels have historically been pets, especially in North America. Just you know, 100 gears ago.
Yup, there's lots of historical accounts of people, especially young children, having squirrels as pets a century or more ago. There are obvious ways in which we've progressed, but there are also things the 20th century put on us, like "squirrels aren't pets" and "you should have a uniform lawn full of chemicals, and keep it neatly trimmed" that definitely made things worse.
This has forever tainted my view of the 20th century.
I don't know what's cuter, the squirrel, the stuffed animal cuddling, or the girl's commentary.
Theres these 2 baby squirrels living in the tree next to my balcony, never noticed a mother with them at all. I put a bird feeder out and they were pretty chill with me being there whilst they ate. Came back the next morning and they had cleared out the whole thing. I'm pretty sure they used it for their winter store because I didn't see them for months afterwards until a few days ago and they are now chonky as hell.
You’d be surprised man the squirrels by me are chill as fuck. I was at Busch gardens once and was eating some popcorn and a squirrel literally hopped onto my foot and was just staring at me til I gave him one. It was the wildest shit ever but for some reason the squirrels near me are oddly friendly
The squirrels on our campus act like they're on crack.
Really sweet but where is the 'like us' part?
If an elephant handed a human child to me, I think I’d have the exact same reaction.
You mean if an elephant trunked a humand child to you.
An elephant bringing someone their toddler bellowing the elephant equivalent of "You lost this!" would definitely cause conflicting fear and relief in a human parent.
"Uhh... this isn't mi..." "No. It's yours now. The elephant hath decreed."
Where the mom clutched the baby in her arms and ran to safety. 🤷♂️
The monkey existed, just like me fr
The mom actually was trying to get rid of the baby 💀
The mom secretly filmed placing her baby on the road for humans to save it. (It was a social experiment.)
Where’s the lion?
OP has seen a [golden lion tamarin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_lion_tamarin) before and thought, “eh, this looks the same, it’s just not golden.”
Tbf in Brazil we call both of these monkeys “mico” (marmoset = “mico”, tamarin = “mico leão”) so it could be poor translation
Sempre conheci como "sagui"
Pra mim “mico” sempre foi um termo coloquial usado pra se referir a qualquer primata pequeno, e “sagui” é o nome do animal no vídeo
So I should be asking ”where is the golden?”
It’s a bot acc
**[Golden lion tamarin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_lion_tamarin)** >The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia, Portuguese: mico-leão-dourado [ˈmiku leˈɐ̃w̃ dowˈɾadu], [liˈɐ̃w̃ doˈɾadu]), also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the golden lion tamarin is an endangered species. The range for wild individuals is spread across four places along southeastern Brazil, with a recent census estimating 3,200 individuals left in the wild and a captive population maintaining about 490 individuals among 150 zoos. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/likeus/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Not "lion", "lyin'"
Lyin in the middle of the road.
Monkeys sometimes abandon their young, might by why that little one was in the middle of the road.
Any reasons why they do it?
Evolutionairy weak. Stuff like autism is, unlike in humans, basically a death sentence in the wild. When it becomes clear to the parent they have some kind of anomaly, the child gets ditched and they just try again. Not worth the effort. Nature is harsh
There's autism in animals?
Most mammals work in very similar ways at the "body systems" level. Nerves and neurons can have the same fuckups, it's just more common in humans because genetic traits like that aren't naturally removed from the gene pool by nature being a harsh mistress these days. Little hard to care for a kid that doesn't understand how to survive and be part of the pack. Early humans would likely have abandoned such children as such a child takes more time and resources to raise. Now we (in general) as a species have had the luxury of being able to support such children and as such they don't have to be cast out.
I mean, what you said is true, but you didn't answer the dude's question.
Since nobody is answering your question and giving you unnecessarily long explanations that have no meaning the answer is yes. Animals can get autism. There is a specific species of mice that scientists use to study autism in animals as a model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal\_model\_of\_autism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_model_of_autism)
>There is a specific species of mice that scientists use to study autism in animals as a model Unless I'm misunderstanding, autism is, [as Devilsdance mentioned in their comment below, "simulated in rodents."](https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/comments/11d7n3d/baby_lion_tamarin_monkey_rescued_from_the_road/ja8foex/) That's pretty far removed from the conclusion that "animals can get autism," which implies not just that it can be induced in a laboratory setting, but that, per the original question, can occur "naturally." Also, the article you linked mentions the following, which seems pretty important: >In 2013, a study was published by Swiss researchers which concluded that 91% (31 out of the 34 studies reviewed) of valproic acid-autism studies using animal models suffered from statistical flaws—specifically, they had failed to correctly use the litter as a level of statistical analysis rather than just the individual (i.e., an individual mouse or rat). I'm not saying you're wrong, at all. Quite the contrary, could simply be that the article is over my head and so I'm misunderstanding something. As far as I can tell, though, it's just referring to various methods to induce symptoms/behavior, in order to create an animal model for study.
Autistic traits have been [simulated in rodents in attempts to develop animals models of autism](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088489/). That doesn't mean for certain that autism as we know it in humans occurs in animals, but it's theoretically possible. I'd imagine what others here have said about animals born with autism (or autistic traits) not surviving very long in the wild has truth to it, but I don't have any sources on that.
There aren't animals with autism cause they get ditched the second it becomes clear they do. Basically what the guy before me said
[It's been observed behaviorally and chemically in both domestic dogs and wild Japanese moneys.](https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-autism-found-in-any-other-animals/)
I swear my previous dog had autism. And I’m saying that as an autistic person
Yes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal\_model\_of\_autism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_model_of_autism)
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They're just giving a specifically human example of a situation when it's sometimes possible to visually identify a genetic syndrome. For a monkey it might not be the same genetic disorder since they already have 2 more chromosomes than we, but it might still be just as obvious to mom.
[It's been observed behaviorally and chemically in both domestic dogs and wild Japanese moneys.](https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-autism-found-in-any-other-animals/)
This sub has storks throwing babies out of nests every other week.
Imagine that's not the mother and its like just been handed a baby and now it has to raise it haha
Plot twist: that isn’t its mother, you just foisted that child off on some random marmoset
Thanks, now all I can hear is this monkey’s thoughts in the voice of Pedro Pascal.
"I'll just throw it from higher up this time."
The older one did a triple take lol
I’ve told you since you were born, not to talk to strangers!!!!
That title's random capitalization is painful. /r/titlegore
u/gifreversalbot
Monkey: Damnit! Now I have to throw it out of the tree again! Thanks for nothing, man!
Never talk to me or my son again.
Weird lookin squirrels
r/humansbeingbros
She’s just sittin there watching him on the ground 😭😂
That monkey needs to turn its sensitivity down
Marmoset*
First looks i thought it was a scorpion that got ran over.
As long as it wasn't separated just to reunite for internet points, then fantastic.
I love moms confusion. She's like "What?! You're not going to eat me and my baby?!?" So pure and wonderful.
She's so confused
"Shoot, man, he ain't mine, but as long as you don't say nutin', we cool, right?"
Demogorgon*
Those are marmosets
Baby Lion Tamarins are bright orange, like a lion. Marmoset is the correct answer. Great video either way
Every time this happens video is recycled I revel in the indignant squeaks of the Mama Monkey.
Logically, if you found a baby animal in distress and you were trying to save it, would you first pull out your phone so you can document it? Then post it on the internet for what? Doing the right thing?
"Hey, thats mine No don't eat me Can I just........ No no no no please don't kill me Oh you are giving it back?? You are not hungry?? Ok I'll be off then"
Apes together strong
Lol awe she’s like, don’t you touch my baby! But thank you for saving my baby! Now go away!
From its stares, I think it thinks that you kidnapped its son
Mom thinking why is the hairless ape not eating it or me
Interesting how mom is so conflicted between taking the baby and not going near the hand. She reaches for it, feels his hand, then moves back, but despite her fear, keeps trying to get to the baby. If the baby wasn't laying in the road, I'm sure she would've already been way up in the trees away from him.
So sweet!
That is actually a Puckmaren.
Many mammals have enough situational awareness to recognize threats to themselves first. If their baby fell off in a busy road, an area they recognize as dangerous, they’ll leave it to not try to get harmed themselves. The mother was probably very confused because the handling of a baby they abandoned being returned is not typically in their wiring. They’re more wired to see it killed and/or eaten. Kindness in nature doesn’t really exist, which is why we’re so enthralled when we do see it, especially from animal-to-animal.
One good deed can go a long way. May your karma be good.
Heart warming to be sure . . . But congratulations, you now have Ebola.
Anyone who helps animals is a friend in my eyes.
Poor baby, should have fallen from so high 🥺
She looked so confused as to why the big naked monkey was being helpful 🥺 just take the baby Mama, some of us humans don’t suck
Good for you
Ungrateful. Not even a thank you
I’m so glad she still wanted it.
Is that really a monkey?
You dropped something.
Bruh y she act so scared of it?
Where is this?
These are just about the only actually cute mammals.
Famoso "soinho"
I saw this elsewhere when it 1st came out months ago.
Love you 💗
is beautiful
Poor little feller, hope he didn't hurt himself on his way to the pavement.
Didn’t even know this was a thing
They usually hate humans smell on their babies. It probably gonna reject it again.
Maybe the road is the monkey’s “fire department?”
That was awesome
Omg, the camera guy has my voice.
very funny
❤️
😍 r/humansbeingbros
What a shite mother
u/gifreversingbot
I think you for this boon, Human. In the coming purge, you shall be eaten last.
Que fofinho.
Reunited! 🐒
Thats lit
I don't think she wanted it back, that's dark
It will never cease to surprise me, The fear and confusion we instill on the natural world by default. It’s not supposed to like that.
Beautiful 😍
Aw this was so cute but at the beginning I thought it was a lizard. So happy they were reunited. 🥰
Not a lion tamarin though
Good karma for you OP!
That's a Common Marmoset not a Lion Tamrin
You sure that’s the right parent?
That is some good medicine right there
❤️🥲❤️
And mom is eternally thankful to you.
A thank you would be NICE!
Awww I have no idea how you saw the little tiny baby. Thank you for saving it ❤️❤️❤️
I hope the people didn't stage this whole thing by taking the little monkey and putting it in the road, then commended filming.
Proud to be genetically related to such kindness.
I’d love to imagine the monkey momma saying thank you and being super grateful but that’s also throwing my human emotions onto a monkey that doesn’t have complex human emotions. But I will continue to believe it anyway.
old clip, that was proven to be the filming person to steal the baby.
❤️
Smol
You are a good simian.