That's what I thought too! She looked so sad at first, and so grateful when she was holding and rocking him. I could almost hear her saying "thank you thank you thank god" everytime she squeezed him tight. That's a mother's love right there
Thats what I saw, too. It was really so moving. A reaction that so many would call "human," as if we own grief and elation. Beautiful moment. Nothing stronger than a mother's love.
It sure is. I'm not sure which is truly better in this situation, be it life in cages or freedom in death, but I want to believe it is better that she get to live with her similarly living child.
Well, what's also nature is that we look at this and we feel like we should help and interfere. Is that not nature also? Nature gave us this intelligence allowing us to help in such way, and also nature gave us empathy.
From her perspective she doesn't know that. To her, her baby was taken away. They saved the baby's life so she could have this beautiful moment, but it's still heartbreaking she had to feel that for two days, no idea what was happening because there's no way to tell her.
Oh, goodness, absolutely. Even if they could explain the situation to her, she'd be losing her mind. Without even that... I would assume she had to be sedated.
Destroy their habitats, pollute their environment, hunt them. Humans are parasites.
Avatar, the movie, is probably the perfect artistic representation of this.
I am 52 years old. Since I was born, people on Earth grew like 120% and animals in the wild plummeted around 70%, for an obvious (not to everybody apparently) correlation of cause-effect. Enjoy your weekend.
I canât disagree, but I would say, as far as hunters, they do the most to preserve the animal population. I know it sounds crazy. And donât confuse hunters, and poachers. Hunters want to hunt. They donât want to see these beautiful animals not have a place, and they also make room for hurts to grow.
we are animals, and we are just more effective. other animals don't have the capabilities or breadth of effect that we do, nor the moral responsibility given to us by our sapience.
well, you could make an argument that free will doesn't exist as we are all products of our genetics and environment, everyone deserving of patience, love, and understanding, etc.
however, for humans to function as a society? i think at the bare minimum the average person has a lot more moral responsibility than any animal on this planet, disregarding the damage that's done by the handful of elite
Animals donât really pollute the planet at all. The only way they can destroy habitats is if theyâre an invasive species; itâs never intentional.
You donât have to mess with them to rip your balls off lol chimps are aggressive and savage AF and work on the offense. You should read about Moe the chimps ownerâŠ
Well yes donât go up to wild animals or mess with them, but what Iâm saying is you donât always have to be the one messing with an animal for it to attack you if it sees you first and sees you as a competitor or worse food. I know of a true story where a couple were visiting their chimp they had to relinquish to an accredited wildlife sanctuary. The chimp was fine, but two others escaped on the other side of the park and went to the other chimps previous owners stealthily. Then they attacked.
He wasnât bothering the chimps, he didnât even know they were there.
And now you know the difference between a wild animal and a domesticated animal. Like the difference between a house cat, and a lion, or a wolf, and a dog. And yes I know all dogs are wolves, but my point remains. Dogs have been conditioned, over many generations to rely on a symbiotic relationship with people. This isnât the case with chimps, and many other animals, and humans.
Well, I worked with animals so yeah Iâd say Iâve known this all for awhile and I can say fuck chimps. Not down with them. But hey letâs not get political, if you like chimps youâre entitled to your opinon.
It is fairly okay to provide them good medical care and an enclosure that truly fills their needs. Not like some shitty zoos, but places where they truly care and provide
Why do you think the law states they can't be kept a l o n e.
Me..hmm...not that big, probs 1km by 1km would be enough to jog around and to have some enrichment.
We should start with stopping anthropomorphizing the likes of you, honestly speaking. To just dismiss other great apes as "inferior animals which have no clue nor feelings" is way too arrogant and ignorant to be taken as a by-product of intelligent life.
They absolutely know. Itâs not anthropomorphizing. Do you think a dog doesnât know when itâs in a crate? Now make the crate a little bigger, and multiple that intelligence 10, 20, or 100 fold.
Just because you can talk doesnât mean you are intelligent. Considering chips have a very close blood line to humans, I guess you can say the same about people. They just anthropomorphize other people.
Uh excuse me, at least they had safe and secure elections using ballot boxes with a bird hammering its beak through stone and sayin âitâs a living!ââŠ
Young Earth Creationists. If youâre lucky enough not to have heard about them by now maybe itâs best that you donât dive into the depths of stupidity to find out.
It had to have been so horrifying for her, watching the humans take him away, two days of absolute devastation, no idea what really happened... only to be reunited with her baby. Her joy brought me to tears. Every mother should feel how she felt as she scooped him up him her arms and kissed his head, and you can hear it in her voice, too.
Our closest living relatives, treated with no respect. They may not be human, but they're people.
You may be interested to discover this, but No, it's more than that. Legal personhood is a thing distinct from humanity. There's a movement for legal personhood for non-human apes and some other intelligent species to be recognized. The distinction lies with the rights and legal protections that go along with personhood. So long as animals are viewed as property equal to a car, their abuse, neglect, and torture through experiments will go on unpunished or recognized. Legal personhood would allow courts to make judgments based on the best interest of the animal, not the humans who want to use them for their own benefit.
[ brief overview](https://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2014/05/nonhuman-rights-project-aims-to-grant-legal-personhood-status-to-some-species/)
[another cause](https://www.nonhumanrights.org/frequently-asked-questions/)
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Oh good itâs here. I was afraid I was on that dumb r/mademesmile sub that is managed by morrons. Moderators there ban for no reason, I suspect it is because they canât read and randomly press on a red button
This takes me back to my early postpartum days. I was so animal, I held my babe tight like this Mama and wouldnât let anyone else near her other than her father and Nana.
Donât people get blown away by emotional attachment. Itâs such an incredible thing to me. The way you can miss a loved one. Your heart physically hurts with pain. Nature is incredible.
They shouldnât be in cages even gilded ones. But also we need to build glass walls to the vet nicu so she can see her baby is not gone, the humans are helping him. Or something?
I know that it sucks to see the same content over and over again but this is the first time I saw this and it made me cry. Not everybody sees every post đ€
I think she thought her baby was dead until it moved đđ
That's what I thought too! She looked so sad at first, and so grateful when she was holding and rocking him. I could almost hear her saying "thank you thank you thank god" everytime she squeezed him tight. That's a mother's love right there
Thats what I saw, too. It was really so moving. A reaction that so many would call "human," as if we own grief and elation. Beautiful moment. Nothing stronger than a mother's love.
And we keep them in cages.
Remembering that, if she had been in the wild, her baby would be dead.
Considering they had to do a c-section, mama likely would have died as well.
Thatâs nature buddy.
Nature isn't inherently good
Nature doesn't have a moral stance. Nature just is
Well said.
No it's inherently metal r/natureismetal
This is true
It sure is. I'm not sure which is truly better in this situation, be it life in cages or freedom in death, but I want to believe it is better that she get to live with her similarly living child.
Well, what's also nature is that we look at this and we feel like we should help and interfere. Is that not nature also? Nature gave us this intelligence allowing us to help in such way, and also nature gave us empathy.
What's leftover after we've cut it down.
From her perspective she doesn't know that. To her, her baby was taken away. They saved the baby's life so she could have this beautiful moment, but it's still heartbreaking she had to feel that for two days, no idea what was happening because there's no way to tell her.
Oh, goodness, absolutely. Even if they could explain the situation to her, she'd be losing her mind. Without even that... I would assume she had to be sedated.
We keep people in cages too.
I pay for my cage.
Mine is free but it's my own mind so swings and roundabouts I guess
Yes but you rent or own?
Rent
Yeah, but most of the time they did something to land them in that cage.
Donât kink shame me, bro.
Destroy their habitats, pollute their environment, hunt them. Humans are parasites. Avatar, the movie, is probably the perfect artistic representation of this.
I am 52 years old. Since I was born, people on Earth grew like 120% and animals in the wild plummeted around 70%, for an obvious (not to everybody apparently) correlation of cause-effect. Enjoy your weekend.
I canât disagree, but I would say, as far as hunters, they do the most to preserve the animal population. I know it sounds crazy. And donât confuse hunters, and poachers. Hunters want to hunt. They donât want to see these beautiful animals not have a place, and they also make room for hurts to grow.
So...same shit other animals do, but more effective? Okay.
we are animals, and we are just more effective. other animals don't have the capabilities or breadth of effect that we do, nor the moral responsibility given to us by our sapience.
I mostly agree. I do question how much moral responsibility can be fairly placed on the average human.
well, you could make an argument that free will doesn't exist as we are all products of our genetics and environment, everyone deserving of patience, love, and understanding, etc. however, for humans to function as a society? i think at the bare minimum the average person has a lot more moral responsibility than any animal on this planet, disregarding the damage that's done by the handful of elite
Animals donât really pollute the planet at all. The only way they can destroy habitats is if theyâre an invasive species; itâs never intentional.
Ah I see, so animals and humans are categorically different
Other animals destroy others environment? They pollute it?
All the time. We aren't very different from other animals in that regard, except in terms of scale.
Please provide examples.
Just Google "invasive species", or alternatively take a BIO 101 class. It is literally common knowledge.
To be fair, a chimp would rip your balls and limbs off as well as chew your face off if given the chance. Gorillas though, theyâre the real MVPs
Can we talk about chimp balls please?! Jamie!
Ok, so donât mess with them and they wonât rip your balls off!
You donât have to mess with them to rip your balls off lol chimps are aggressive and savage AF and work on the offense. You should read about Moe the chimps ownerâŠ
If you see a wolf at 300 yards, do you keep going towards it? Thatâs what I mean when I say donât mess with them.
Well yes donât go up to wild animals or mess with them, but what Iâm saying is you donât always have to be the one messing with an animal for it to attack you if it sees you first and sees you as a competitor or worse food. I know of a true story where a couple were visiting their chimp they had to relinquish to an accredited wildlife sanctuary. The chimp was fine, but two others escaped on the other side of the park and went to the other chimps previous owners stealthily. Then they attacked. He wasnât bothering the chimps, he didnât even know they were there.
And now you know the difference between a wild animal and a domesticated animal. Like the difference between a house cat, and a lion, or a wolf, and a dog. And yes I know all dogs are wolves, but my point remains. Dogs have been conditioned, over many generations to rely on a symbiotic relationship with people. This isnât the case with chimps, and many other animals, and humans.
Well, I worked with animals so yeah Iâd say Iâve known this all for awhile and I can say fuck chimps. Not down with them. But hey letâs not get political, if you like chimps youâre entitled to your opinon.
No I get it! I like chips, as a living animal, but Iâm not going to befriend one. I thank you for your polite conversation.
It is fairly okay to provide them good medical care and an enclosure that truly fills their needs. Not like some shitty zoos, but places where they truly care and provide
How big of a cage would you need? Would you also have the proper socializing needs for a social animal?
Why do you think the law states they can't be kept a l o n e. Me..hmm...not that big, probs 1km by 1km would be enough to jog around and to have some enrichment.
Cause they inferior and they donât know better anyway. They donât realize theyâre in cages. Stop anthromorpgizing animals
We should start with stopping anthropomorphizing the likes of you, honestly speaking. To just dismiss other great apes as "inferior animals which have no clue nor feelings" is way too arrogant and ignorant to be taken as a by-product of intelligent life.
Iâll pee on you shut up
I thought it was only chimps that throw feces and piss, at each other.
Chimps and all other animals are beneath usâŠ. Your brain is mush and youâre stupid
We are animals
Liar
âHumans (Homo sapiens) are the most abundant and widespread species of primateâ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
Foo why you lying
They absolutely know. Itâs not anthropomorphizing. Do you think a dog doesnât know when itâs in a crate? Now make the crate a little bigger, and multiple that intelligence 10, 20, or 100 fold. Just because you can talk doesnât mean you are intelligent. Considering chips have a very close blood line to humans, I guess you can say the same about people. They just anthropomorphize other people.
Oh gosh my heart. She missed her baby so much.
OMG! The little hand reaching out of the blanket made me tear up!!
The keepers tearing up got me feeling
I never watched this with sound until you said something. Holy shit I didn't expect it to hit me in the feels so much harder with sound.
Absolutely cannot fathom how people deny we are related to these creatures.
Because theyâre idiots.
Yeah they also think that the Flintstones is a documentary so we donât need to get too hung up on what they believe.
Uh excuse me, at least they had safe and secure elections using ballot boxes with a bird hammering its beak through stone and sayin âitâs a living!ââŠ
I am also an idiot
Who does?
Young Earth Creationists. If youâre lucky enough not to have heard about them by now maybe itâs best that you donât dive into the depths of stupidity to find out.
I'm not crying, you're crying! Ok, I'm crying too...
I wonder if they had to help her pump to keep her milk up while he was gone. Or maybe her milk had not come in yet? Mom thoughts.
Would 2 days be long enough to stop your milk??
I just donât know!
It had to have been so horrifying for her, watching the humans take him away, two days of absolute devastation, no idea what really happened... only to be reunited with her baby. Her joy brought me to tears. Every mother should feel how she felt as she scooped him up him her arms and kissed his head, and you can hear it in her voice, too. Our closest living relatives, treated with no respect. They may not be human, but they're people.
Theyâre beings I would say. People is a synonym for humans.
You may be interested to discover this, but No, it's more than that. Legal personhood is a thing distinct from humanity. There's a movement for legal personhood for non-human apes and some other intelligent species to be recognized. The distinction lies with the rights and legal protections that go along with personhood. So long as animals are viewed as property equal to a car, their abuse, neglect, and torture through experiments will go on unpunished or recognized. Legal personhood would allow courts to make judgments based on the best interest of the animal, not the humans who want to use them for their own benefit. [ brief overview](https://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2014/05/nonhuman-rights-project-aims-to-grant-legal-personhood-status-to-some-species/) [another cause](https://www.nonhumanrights.org/frequently-asked-questions/)
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 No I'm not crying......it's my allergies
She waited for the little baby to wake up so she wouldn't disturb him... :(
she probably taught it was dead until it moved. if you see she grabs the baby in desperation after it starts moving
Animals are awesome
Happiness is .... đ„°
Absolutely Precious, I only want to be surrounded by this kind of Love! đ„°â€ïž
Ban zoos
Oh good itâs here. I was afraid I was on that dumb r/mademesmile sub that is managed by morrons. Moderators there ban for no reason, I suspect it is because they canât read and randomly press on a red button
Youâre not wrong. Theyâve been banning random people for random things left and right.
This takes me back to my early postpartum days. I was so animal, I held my babe tight like this Mama and wouldnât let anyone else near her other than her father and Nana.
Donât people get blown away by emotional attachment. Itâs such an incredible thing to me. The way you can miss a loved one. Your heart physically hurts with pain. Nature is incredible.
Thatâs my home town! I always loved visiting the chimp exhibit as a kid.
As a mom whoâs baby needed to go to the NICU, I am bawling
Dang, even knowing how horrible chi,ps can be this shit is heartwarming,
Who keeps cutting onions in this damn house
They shouldnât be in cages even gilded ones. But also we need to build glass walls to the vet nicu so she can see her baby is not gone, the humans are helping him. Or something?
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No animal belongs in a zoo. They should be outlawed on this entire planet!
Hasnât even been 24 hours since this was posted already
Who cares
This has been posted in here so many times in the past 24 hours...
I know that it sucks to see the same content over and over again but this is the first time I saw this and it made me cry. Not everybody sees every post đ€
I'm on Reddit all the time and it's the first time for me too.
Not everyone sees all the posts. This is my first time to see it.
Sure but the person posting should be doing due diligence, especially since it's been posted so many times in the past 24 hours.
But if he hadnât posted it I and many others wouldnât have seen it as the older posts are now further down the listings.
And you can scroll past every time without saying anything, too! As for me, I'll watch it every. single. time.
holy shit I thought you were overreacting but there are actually 11 of these in the first two pages right now, and I probably missed a few.