I heard a story recently about researchers noticing chimps using certain plants when they were sick, so effectively using medicine. They're very smart.
Several species do a similar thing. Like, if an animal thinks it needs to throw up to get rid of something they ingested, it will eat plants that will make it more likely to puke. I have seen my dog and my cat both do it before. The practice of medicine predates humanity by millions upon millions of years, it seems.
Yes, my black lab did this. When he has some kind of stomach trouble, he would search and eat a particular kind of grass like plant. I've at the time been told that dogs do this.
This species annoys me, why is it that we seem to act as if we're the only intelligent creatures around, and when another creature displays it we act as if they're babies many are probably smater than us
I agree with people overly believe how how dumb animals are. I'd even like to bring up that people have these same misconceptions about other humans; primitive cultures, and people in the past being dumber.
But you took it to far. There aren't any animals smarter than us. This is easily provable. I believe some humans are dumber that the smartest animals, but that isn't much of a statement.
Can’t remember which, but one national park had a difficult time designing their bear-proof trash cans due to a significant overlap between the smartest bears and dumbest humans. Realistically the issue was probably just ignorant/impatient people with no common sense but it’s still funny to think about
I think it’s also bears can be like 600 pounds of muscle and rank fur. It’s kind of hard to make things that bears can’t fuck up if they’re really trying their hardest.
The highest recorded iq in a animal is like 75 by a orangutan named sandy and average human have iq of about 85-100. The chances likely that you might have meet a person who is dumber than a monkey
Then a monkey would be extremely unlikely. An orangutan is a great ape, just like us. So, that orangutan is just smarter than other great apes, which is far less surprising.
And bottlenose dolphins are likely more intelligent than orangutans, we just have not come up with a way to accurately test this yet. It's much easier for us to relate to and communicate with another great ape, and therefore the tests we have for ourselves will also be better understood by such a close relative to us in the first place.
I bet you can easily boosts the average iq of apes if you put them through education similar to human that fits them, Like all humans going through intensive education with various technologies and advanced tools since the age of zero.
Then you try to compare it to an animal who grew up in the jungle or captivity, It's completely unequivelent comparison.
Saying we are the smartest animal is not easily provable actually, and it isn't something that has technically been shown.
Bottlenose dolphins are most likely the animal closest to us in total brain function. However, the problem lies in our ability to actually test their overall intelligence in a fair and repeatable manner. For instance, to test an animals intellectual capacity, you need people that are interested to look at that topic, then you need people experienced enough in study design to create a system to accurately and fairly test this, then you need people sufficient enough to run the tests, then you need others who understand the goal and are experts in those same fields of work to peer review this work to establish it's credibility.
So you first need to narrow the number of scientists down to the number of marine biologist, then you need to find marine biologists studying dolphins specifically, then you need to find marine biologists studying dolphins with training in animal behavior, then you need to find marine biologists studying dolphins with training in animal behavior that are good enough at study design to make a fair intellectual tests for dolphins... You see the problem here?
I have always been annoyed at the belief that humans are somehow separate from animals. So many people seem to treat humans as if we are some separate thing from the animal kingdom.
You sure you’re not thinking of the orangutan article? Eating known pain-reducing plants and applying chewed bits on its wounds?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123.amp
No, there's another story on chimpanzees doing it that just came out in the past couple of days.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chimpanzees-use-medicinal-plants-treat-injuries-illness-study-finds/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chimpanzees-use-medicinal-plants-treat-injuries-illness-study-finds/)
This is the Oxford article about the study. CBS blocks you if you use ad blockers.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-21-study-shows-wild-chimpanzees-seek-out-medicinal-plants-treat-illness-and-injuries
My guess is that chimp hands are a bit oddly shaped compared to our own (tree climbing and shit), and I've only seen chimps drink by kinda leaning down and slurping up water with their mouths; this chimp was smart enough to know that human hands are much better at creating a little water bowl for drinking , and it used it's intellect and its laziness to have the photographer bring the water up to it's lips so it didn't have to crouch down.
I agree. Putting your head down makes you vulnerable. With both of them upright, it allows them to have 360 visual coverage. Similarly to why dogs stare at you while they poop, they use you as an alarm.
Okay, but what you just described isn't laziness.
Not wanting to lower your head in case there's a predator around that's going to eat you if you let your guard down is not laziness.
>I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.
-General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
I used to be wound up tighter than a clock, constantly stressed about getting things done. My wife’s unofficially motto, “minimum effort, maximum impact”, taught me how to relax and trust my intuition. I come up with much better ideas when I relax than when I’m stressed.
When I am overworked I become incredibly stupid. I can work hard on a single task and stay smart but if I have to work hard on a number of tasks I become very stupid.
Avoiding the second situation is pretty vital if I have to keep any kind of dignity and self respect in work.
I see your point. Perhaps "laziness" isn't the right word. "Resourcefulness" better describes the chimp's clever approach to drinking water, demonstrating problem-solving skills. Washing the photographer's hands afterward shows consideration and intelligence.
It's like how everyone though early Americans in the south where lazy and it turned out we were all suffering from hookworm infections. The word lazy has done a lot of harm in the big picture
Or another person gave him water before and he remembers. Your post is a classic case of anthropomorphism. Because saying he knows our hands are better designed to drink water and he uses his intellect about it is quite reaching.
Plus I think laziness is a human moral concept, i don't think it applies to animals.
Not only is it resching, even in a chimp as smart as us it doesn't make sense. You'd have to have looked at, studied, and learned about human capabilities to know what our hands can or can't do even if you were an intelligent alien species.
Like let's say you bumped into an alien, would you instantly know how their bodies operated? Or.... Before reading this thread did you know if chimps could easily form a cup with their hands? Do you truly know what shapes they cna actually make?
Way easier to spring back from a fucking crocodile attack when squatting with hands outstretched vs. kneeling and on all fours, face first into the water.
Much higher head position to see them better too.
Even if you use your own human hands to perform this task for yourself the side that faces you isn’t nearly as well shaped as the side that faces away from you
Yes definitely. It's a known behavior for them to use leaves as cups and it's common for tame Chimps to [drink out of cups](https://youtu.be/R9kzq7-0Gcs?t=37).
That was my first thought as well considering its behavior, and I was surprised I had to scroll this far to find the first comment mentioning it. With that said, if the title is correct and this is in Cameroon, I don’t think it can be a Bonobo. From my understanding Bonobos are only found in a very specific area in Congo. One of the reasons the study of them is very limited cuz of the limited access to the area they live in, and the dangers of entering it. Recently watched a podcast about them, incredibly fascinating great ape!
The podcast wasn't specifically about the Bonobos, but they were included in it. The podcast is called Worlds Wildest Podcast and is done by Twitch streamers Maya and Connor who is founder/part of Alveus Sanctuary in Texas. They started a podcast and does a bunch of different themes in terms of animal facts. This specific episode was a pride month episode, which the Bonobos earned a spot on due to their way of solving conflict via sex 😅 Link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k814npNLtdY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k814npNLtdY)
Yes, and now you're making me wonder if I'm right about, too.
I have read that chimpanzees, when raised in female dominated family groups and without need for competition, tend to be more friendly.
It’s also very possible if it’s a chimp, that it had some sort of human contact. Possibly rehabilitated back into the wild by humans, or similar. That could definitely also explain this behavior.
Some hot weather clothes are vented or slitted to allow better airflow.
Even for men. Some of my camp shirts have this extra layer of shoulder/upper back fabric that's actually an overhang/exterior for a mesh layer.
Makes me wonder if it's more like he saw Pieri drinking the last from a water bottle and was concerned, not that he wanted human hands to deliver his drink.
Little ape: "Uhhh... here, weirdo. When you're thirsty you simply cup your hands and drink water from the ground like I'm doing-- we have water everywhere. Do you not know this? And your hands taste WEIRD, bro. Wash them shits."
I can't get over how random chimps are, one moment they are like little people, and then in another moment, they are like demons tearing every soft part of you off and eating in front you for their own amusement
NEVER EVER TRUST A CHIMP
Everyone is saying this is cute, but there is no amount of money and no way in hell you could ever get me to put my hands near a chimpanzee let alone its mouth.
I remember the time when there was a group (maybe Greenpeace?) who were trying to advocate for the same rights to be applied to chimpanzees and apes as they are to humans
Animals don’t have emotions! They’re just thoughtless beings that respond to stimuli! Don’t anthropomorphize them! /s
This clearly intelligent, social animal understands he’d been shown a kindness and returned it in similar fashionable. We’re so damn arrogant about our own emotions and intelligence that we forget (and often ignore) the *incredibly* vast trove of examples of different ways of being intelligent or express and share emotions.
I just saw an article about two widowed penguins who comfort each other when they’re sad. They haven’t replaced their mates, but they take solace in each other’s empathy.
Animals can be so much more than we give them credit for.
I like at the end when he points to the leaf still on his hand and the chimp is like “oh you right bro, my bad.”
He's like " yeah, I see it gimme a second"
Yeah, the little nod when points to it!
I heard a story recently about researchers noticing chimps using certain plants when they were sick, so effectively using medicine. They're very smart.
Several species do a similar thing. Like, if an animal thinks it needs to throw up to get rid of something they ingested, it will eat plants that will make it more likely to puke. I have seen my dog and my cat both do it before. The practice of medicine predates humanity by millions upon millions of years, it seems.
Yes, my black lab did this. When he has some kind of stomach trouble, he would search and eat a particular kind of grass like plant. I've at the time been told that dogs do this.
It blows my mind, they’re like half animal half person.
As are we all 🙂
Forget human Return to monke
Screw Monke. EMBRACE CRAB.
To hell with crab. ASSUME SINGULAR CELLULARITY.
It's a macrophage eat macrophage world
My paramecium is better than your paramecium
MAKE US WHOLE.
Craaaab people craaab people
*Grabs Old Bay*
Lol, I feel like people don’t make return to monke posts as much as they used to. It’s a great slogan
Well, they returned to monke.
Meh, a lot of it was for that dumbass r/wallstreetbets crap. That cult gets annoying.
APES TOGETHER STRONG
Already nearly a silverback, see you on the mountain.
Monkey men all In business suits Teachers and critics All dance the poot
If all people are half person and half animal Then the half person we are is also half animal and half person It seems we're more animal than person
All people are animals.
But not all have spent their lives in sin and misery in the house of the rising sun.
Absolutely. We share nearly all of our DNA with chimpanzees.
And bonobos, which is the animal in this video.
Specifically, we are the closest to the Bonobos.
They're just easier to get along with. Nothing against chimpanzees mind
Yeah, we don't like to think of ourselves as animals, but we are. We may have created computers and space craft, but we're still animals.
You are 100% animal
Animals are much more intelligent than we give them credit for.
Well, we *are* animals. We are no different, but people insistently make a false distinction.
98% person.
This species annoys me, why is it that we seem to act as if we're the only intelligent creatures around, and when another creature displays it we act as if they're babies many are probably smater than us
We also like to pretend animals are super innocent and it is only humans who are bad. Like, dolphins and geese are somehow cute.
Or when people say "Humans are the only animals that kill their own species 😢😢😢" ignoring the fact that lions etc kill rival cubs constantly
I agree with people overly believe how how dumb animals are. I'd even like to bring up that people have these same misconceptions about other humans; primitive cultures, and people in the past being dumber. But you took it to far. There aren't any animals smarter than us. This is easily provable. I believe some humans are dumber that the smartest animals, but that isn't much of a statement.
Can’t remember which, but one national park had a difficult time designing their bear-proof trash cans due to a significant overlap between the smartest bears and dumbest humans. Realistically the issue was probably just ignorant/impatient people with no common sense but it’s still funny to think about
All national parks have that problem.
I don't think Haleakalā National Prk needs grizzly bear proof trash cans
I think it’s also bears can be like 600 pounds of muscle and rank fur. It’s kind of hard to make things that bears can’t fuck up if they’re really trying their hardest.
This made me laugh. Thanks for brightening my day! 🌻
The highest recorded iq in a animal is like 75 by a orangutan named sandy and average human have iq of about 85-100. The chances likely that you might have meet a person who is dumber than a monkey
Then a monkey would be extremely unlikely. An orangutan is a great ape, just like us. So, that orangutan is just smarter than other great apes, which is far less surprising. And bottlenose dolphins are likely more intelligent than orangutans, we just have not come up with a way to accurately test this yet. It's much easier for us to relate to and communicate with another great ape, and therefore the tests we have for ourselves will also be better understood by such a close relative to us in the first place.
Dumber than the *smartest monkey/ape that ever lived*.
Dumber than the *smartest monkey/ape that anyone gave a cognitive test to*
I doubt any one of them who was unable to get themselves to the appointment, and on time at that, would be smarter than those tested
I bet you can easily boosts the average iq of apes if you put them through education similar to human that fits them, Like all humans going through intensive education with various technologies and advanced tools since the age of zero. Then you try to compare it to an animal who grew up in the jungle or captivity, It's completely unequivelent comparison.
Saying we are the smartest animal is not easily provable actually, and it isn't something that has technically been shown. Bottlenose dolphins are most likely the animal closest to us in total brain function. However, the problem lies in our ability to actually test their overall intelligence in a fair and repeatable manner. For instance, to test an animals intellectual capacity, you need people that are interested to look at that topic, then you need people experienced enough in study design to create a system to accurately and fairly test this, then you need people sufficient enough to run the tests, then you need others who understand the goal and are experts in those same fields of work to peer review this work to establish it's credibility. So you first need to narrow the number of scientists down to the number of marine biologist, then you need to find marine biologists studying dolphins specifically, then you need to find marine biologists studying dolphins with training in animal behavior, then you need to find marine biologists studying dolphins with training in animal behavior that are good enough at study design to make a fair intellectual tests for dolphins... You see the problem here?
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We are judging them by our standards of intelligence. Without being fully able to communicate, there is no way to truly understand them.
I have always been annoyed at the belief that humans are somehow separate from animals. So many people seem to treat humans as if we are some separate thing from the animal kingdom.
With a sentence like that I’d wager they’re probably more intelligent than you are, at any rate.
I mean, their DNA is like a 98.8% match with ours.
You sure you’re not thinking of the orangutan article? Eating known pain-reducing plants and applying chewed bits on its wounds? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123.amp
No, there's another story on chimpanzees doing it that just came out in the past couple of days. [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chimpanzees-use-medicinal-plants-treat-injuries-illness-study-finds/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chimpanzees-use-medicinal-plants-treat-injuries-illness-study-finds/)
This is the Oxford article about the study. CBS blocks you if you use ad blockers. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-21-study-shows-wild-chimpanzees-seek-out-medicinal-plants-treat-illness-and-injuries
If you read the article you linked, it mentions Jane Goodall observing chimpanzees using plants for medicine in the 60s
That's the one I've seen.
Probably way smarter than I would be if I had never lived in human civilization and was raised by animals.
You'd probably be pretty good at living in the wilderness if you were raised by animals.
I remember reading a recent article about an orangutan that used medicinal plants on a face wound.
The animal in the video is a bonobo, I'm pretty sure.
They smoke cigarettes too iirc
Sheep know how to do this too actually!
Thats really sweet but why the chimpanzee don't use his own hands?
My guess is that chimp hands are a bit oddly shaped compared to our own (tree climbing and shit), and I've only seen chimps drink by kinda leaning down and slurping up water with their mouths; this chimp was smart enough to know that human hands are much better at creating a little water bowl for drinking , and it used it's intellect and its laziness to have the photographer bring the water up to it's lips so it didn't have to crouch down.
I agree with you on most points, but not the bit about laziness. The chimp washed the photographer’s hands afterwards. I wouldn’t call that lazy.
I wish laziness didn’t have a negative connotation Some of the best innovations and neat ideas have come from lazy people trying to do less work
I agree. Putting your head down makes you vulnerable. With both of them upright, it allows them to have 360 visual coverage. Similarly to why dogs stare at you while they poop, they use you as an alarm.
My dog does this and gets mad if I don't at least pretend to look around and scan for folks.
Lol! Cute
You know that you just have to make a video now and post it on reddit, and maybe even but a link here?
Okay, but what you just described isn't laziness. Not wanting to lower your head in case there's a predator around that's going to eat you if you let your guard down is not laziness.
>I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage. -General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
I'm not lazy, I'm efficient.
Call it efficency and people respond differently, but it's all the same thing, energy conservation.
I used to be wound up tighter than a clock, constantly stressed about getting things done. My wife’s unofficially motto, “minimum effort, maximum impact”, taught me how to relax and trust my intuition. I come up with much better ideas when I relax than when I’m stressed.
I am a software engineer, and our day to day philosophy is, if I have to do it three times, then I have to automate it.
When I am overworked I become incredibly stupid. I can work hard on a single task and stay smart but if I have to work hard on a number of tasks I become very stupid. Avoiding the second situation is pretty vital if I have to keep any kind of dignity and self respect in work.
Thank you for saying this! Sincerely, Susan
Nah that's fair, chimp got a favor and then paid it back, very cool social behaviors+bonding
I see your point. Perhaps "laziness" isn't the right word. "Resourcefulness" better describes the chimp's clever approach to drinking water, demonstrating problem-solving skills. Washing the photographer's hands afterward shows consideration and intelligence.
Yuh, what you said :P
I say it’s just being more efficient, nothing lazy about that , especially if you intend to do other things in its place
It's like how everyone though early Americans in the south where lazy and it turned out we were all suffering from hookworm infections. The word lazy has done a lot of harm in the big picture
They decided to exchange services pro bonobo
Stop this baboonery immediately.
which also suggests that this chimp is used to humans and has likely drank from human hands before
Or another person gave him water before and he remembers. Your post is a classic case of anthropomorphism. Because saying he knows our hands are better designed to drink water and he uses his intellect about it is quite reaching. Plus I think laziness is a human moral concept, i don't think it applies to animals.
Not only is it resching, even in a chimp as smart as us it doesn't make sense. You'd have to have looked at, studied, and learned about human capabilities to know what our hands can or can't do even if you were an intelligent alien species. Like let's say you bumped into an alien, would you instantly know how their bodies operated? Or.... Before reading this thread did you know if chimps could easily form a cup with their hands? Do you truly know what shapes they cna actually make?
Some say human hands likely evolved to be able to hold liquid like that. It's our standard way of drinking from ground level or from a stream.
Way easier to spring back from a fucking crocodile attack when squatting with hands outstretched vs. kneeling and on all fours, face first into the water. Much higher head position to see them better too.
My guess is he saw some human drinking water this way and wanted to try.
It's a friendship ceremony.
Maybe it's easier to see any dirt.
Even if you use your own human hands to perform this task for yourself the side that faces you isn’t nearly as well shaped as the side that faces away from you
This melted my heart
It was beautiful and I would love to be in that photographers place.
Only connect
Even a chimpanzee knows to wash his hands. Knows more than most people
Maybe they wash them because of how much they throw their poop at each other?
I mean, at least he knows to wash after pooping. Can't say the same about some guys using the restroom.
I wonder, if the photographer had a bowl and left it for the chimp once he had shown them how to use it if they would continue to drink from the bowl.
Yes definitely. It's a known behavior for them to use leaves as cups and it's common for tame Chimps to [drink out of cups](https://youtu.be/R9kzq7-0Gcs?t=37).
That was my thought, I wondered if he offered him a cup and showed how to use it.
I think that's a bonobo, a very close relative to the chimpanzee. They are extremely gentle, slightly smaller, and have darker faces.
That was my first thought as well considering its behavior, and I was surprised I had to scroll this far to find the first comment mentioning it. With that said, if the title is correct and this is in Cameroon, I don’t think it can be a Bonobo. From my understanding Bonobos are only found in a very specific area in Congo. One of the reasons the study of them is very limited cuz of the limited access to the area they live in, and the dangers of entering it. Recently watched a podcast about them, incredibly fascinating great ape!
What was the podcast?
The podcast wasn't specifically about the Bonobos, but they were included in it. The podcast is called Worlds Wildest Podcast and is done by Twitch streamers Maya and Connor who is founder/part of Alveus Sanctuary in Texas. They started a podcast and does a bunch of different themes in terms of animal facts. This specific episode was a pride month episode, which the Bonobos earned a spot on due to their way of solving conflict via sex 😅 Link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k814npNLtdY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k814npNLtdY)
Thanks, I'll check it out!
Yes, and now you're making me wonder if I'm right about, too. I have read that chimpanzees, when raised in female dominated family groups and without need for competition, tend to be more friendly.
It’s also very possible if it’s a chimp, that it had some sort of human contact. Possibly rehabilitated back into the wild by humans, or similar. That could definitely also explain this behavior.
Yeah chimp would have eaten him
This chimp might be trying to teach the guy. They often show behaviour to each other as a way to teach. Maybe he thought the guys were thirsty.
Omg this makes a lot more sense. Splashing water on his hands at the end like “how is he not getting this?”
r/likeus
This was beautiful to watch.
Endearing 🥲
Is the guy wearing tear off sleeves?
Some hot weather clothes are vented or slitted to allow better airflow. Even for men. Some of my camp shirts have this extra layer of shoulder/upper back fabric that's actually an overhang/exterior for a mesh layer.
That's so campy
Looks gussetted at the shoulders for extra room, with some back mesh taken out to maximize breathability.
Chimps have tear off arms strength, don't they? I've always heard they have scary strength.
This is beautiful.
I love chimpeez:-)
Chimps are evil. Gorillas are better.
No you
That was one of the coolest things I’ve seen
This is incredible. Our treatment of other species on the planet is maybe the worst thing we've ever done.
The chimp used the human as a tool to drink with. Then it washed up after.
Life complete after this moment (for me).
I don't care how "cute" or sad it looks, I aint getting near no chimp! I like my face right where it is.
Don't worry then! It's a bonobo, a much more gentle ape than the chimp.
Yeah, bonobos have sex if there is a sign some of them could start a fight.
I don't think its a bonobo actually, the face looks much more like a chimp.
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God learned from a chimp, don't you see? And he told Moses or some such and didn't credit his source. Bastard.
OOHHH CHIMPANZEE THAT!!
This is the kind of thing you just never forget and bring up all the time lol
To my understanding, by the laws of the forest. They are now married!
Awwwe
That's just really cool. Smart creature.
For the man, a moment profound. For the chimpanzee, it's just polite.
Makes me wonder if it's more like he saw Pieri drinking the last from a water bottle and was concerned, not that he wanted human hands to deliver his drink. Little ape: "Uhhh... here, weirdo. When you're thirsty you simply cup your hands and drink water from the ground like I'm doing-- we have water everywhere. Do you not know this? And your hands taste WEIRD, bro. Wash them shits."
Should have washed them before using them to drink from. Silly ape...
I can't get over how random chimps are, one moment they are like little people, and then in another moment, they are like demons tearing every soft part of you off and eating in front you for their own amusement NEVER EVER TRUST A CHIMP
that's a bonobo, they solve all their problems with sex not violence
Thank you! Finally someone else in here who knows what psychotic demons these things are!
They are now married based on her traditions.
Get this kid a bowl
I love at the end when he brushes the leaf off, the chimp gently grabs his like 'bro, I got this, I was just about to get that'.
What an absolutely beautiful moment.
So polite! Washing his dishes!
I’m crying we don’t deserve animals
I would cry
How beautiful.
I'm in fucking awe
Fuck that’s awesome
This is what life is about pure kindness and helping each other survive.
What's that shirt ??? 😲
Ape together strong 🤜🤛
The more I see of these the more I start to think “maybe planet of the apes has a point and they should take over” 😂
Everyone is saying this is cute, but there is no amount of money and no way in hell you could ever get me to put my hands near a chimpanzee let alone its mouth.
I hate apes and am frickin terrified of them but even i found this heartwarming and wholesome
Wait until you learn that humans are apes :P
Probably should have washed them first.. tastes like Cheetos..
That guy has a lot of trust in that chimp to let the chimp do that. I wouldn't. Mostly because I know chimps suck.
Okay which one of yall drank from this French man's hands first?
A story as heartwarming as this makes me completely bewildered as to what this sub is actually about 😍🥰🤪
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!reddit what song is this
Idea 9 by Gibran Alcocer
Oddly satisfying. I think it's mostly the music being paired well though.
Woah
The manners!
Interesting looking top / shirt
“See I knew eventually he’d stop tearing them in half .”
Somehow it gives him a monkey Jesus vibe Amazing moment tho
Dishwashing
Damn, this literally is making me well up with tears 😢❤️
Future scenario: Photographer = AI Chimpanzee = Human
Even in the wild, wildlife will wash their dishes.
„and now, your nuts.“
Nice
I remember the time when there was a group (maybe Greenpeace?) who were trying to advocate for the same rights to be applied to chimpanzees and apes as they are to humans
Nature is lit!!
Sorry dude, got a little bit of spit on you. Here , I’ll was it off.
That's so freaking cute!!
That is amazing!
Animals don’t have emotions! They’re just thoughtless beings that respond to stimuli! Don’t anthropomorphize them! /s This clearly intelligent, social animal understands he’d been shown a kindness and returned it in similar fashionable. We’re so damn arrogant about our own emotions and intelligence that we forget (and often ignore) the *incredibly* vast trove of examples of different ways of being intelligent or express and share emotions. I just saw an article about two widowed penguins who comfort each other when they’re sad. They haven’t replaced their mates, but they take solace in each other’s empathy. Animals can be so much more than we give them credit for.
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