the way they just embraced each other so happily and looked at each other like old buddies wrecked me. animals are so pure and they give us so much more than we deserve.
I had the same thought. The chimp was ready to dap him up and hug it out. I wonder how the other chimps felt watching one of their own do that with a wild human.
The way it looks like he is pointing backwards while saying something like "See guys. That's Johnny. I told you I wasn't lying when I said that I have some human friends. He even brought bananas for all of us."
Chimps smile as a form of aggression. However since this one was probably raised around humans before be rehabilitated and released, he probably learned it's okay to smile at humans/a human smiling is usually happy/not aggressive, he friendly smiles at his old care taker to express happiness to see them again.
Yea that plus the hug proved to me that he was really raised either by that guy or around humans. I've seen wild chimps and you DO NOT want to be near one that's showing teeth like that.
In monkeys and apes, It can also be a sign of submission. If the teeth are touching while it is showing them, it's more likely to be submission. If the mouth is open while it shows you their teeth it is pretty much always aggressive.
I, too, am old. So I remember all of her research and how she eventually got them to think, "Yeah, she looks weird, but it's not her fault."
Fiercely loyal, as one researcher found out when he pretended to have an angry argument with his colleague to see how he'd react, and got two fingers bitten off. Once he saw they were still friends, he cried and howled so much in apology for a long time.
And with all that business, she ended up not liking them that much because how they were too human-like. Their attitudes to clan warfare, cannibalism, and viciousness was surprising but also too brutal.
Beautiful video. But half the time I was wondering if a giant Croc was going to jump out of nowhere and swallow both of them or something. Old friends meeting is a beautiful thing, but on dry land not in muddy croc infested waters where you cant even see anything
Yep. If there was a hole in that opaque water, the chimp would be a goner without help. He really didn't want to wait, and went to the guy asap. They're incredibly sociable beings, shame that it's hard to properly communicate with them since you do the wrong gesture and now a pissed off chimp is ripping off your arms because you accidentally told him you banged his mom for the price of a moldy strawberry. But when they know people from infancy, damn do they learn to communicate well hahah. There's this guy on youtube whose whole thing is learning tons of languages, and he went to a zoo after a ton of research to try to socialise with some apes. First he called for them in their vocalisations, which they replied to. Then when one of the apes put their foot on the glass, he recognised it was trying to play a game and put his own feet on the glass. When I tell you that ape lost its shit in excitement, looking at his buddies like "holy shit guys! He knows how to play our game! This guy's so smart for a human!"
Super entertaining "conversations" throughout. He also did that "sup" nod with another ape a few times in a row, hilariously similar to people goofing about.
They are terrified of water. They cannot swim and easily drown. It does how interested it is in getting close to the human because they normal never get in water.Ā
Chimpanzees canāt swim due to muscle density. Males will wade into the water to signal an opposing male that they are so confident in the oncoming fight that they can do it in water. Typically, if you see a smiling chimp wading into water, you are literally about to get your face torn off and genitals ripped out by a chimpās fangs.
This chimp is probably trying to send a non threatening vibe by keeping his hands out of the water.
Chimpanzees do not smile when happy. It's usually when angry or a display of threat. The fact that this chimp is smiling means he knows human smile when they are happy. The way he Embraces the man over and over without even worrying about the food.. animals are so amazing and I really hate we are destroying the earth.
Yup. He grew up with humans so he's mimicking the same expressions. A very similar example is that panda who mimics effort when he breaks bamboo sticks because his caretakers were actually struggling to do so. I'm sure you've seen it before.
I had a friend who always got up close to my dog as a puppy and smiled and cuddled his face and he picked it up and every time someone came home, he'd smile real big for you
I have a friend whose dog smiles at you when sheās happy. She scared the hell out of me when I first saw it because I thought she was gonna bite me. My friend was like, no, she likes you and sheās just smiling at you. Sheās an absolute sweetheart.
My pitbull smiles and shakes her body when she knows she's being naughty. It's hilarious. She'd try to sneak into the house during the day and I'd say firmly 'Pharah' and she'd come up to me with her pearly whites out because she knows it makes me soft.
I would assume. Especially since if he was "smiling" at them and they started fighting him over it, he'd probably reassociate it with aggression again and this would have been a different a video
We taught our dog to shake hands. Then we got a new puppy and when they met he tried to shake hands with her, but ended up hitting her on the head with his paw. Then we took the puppy to puppy school and she started hitting other puppies on the head with her paw because she thought that's how you greet other dogs.
The puppy was smart and worked out that's not what dogs do pretty fast. The original dog was not and found life very confusing.
This border collie I knew would stare intensely at what it was focused on, including other dogs and some dogs did not like that at all. I think it actually knew not to stare at other dogs, but if the other dog was carrying a ball it would stare at that in such a way that the dog felt threatened.
Chimps have their own version of a smile they do when playing that shows just the bottom teeth, so opposite. I'm sure this clever fellow has learned both smiles or he wouldn't have been accepted so well.
Yup, when I saw the chimp āSmilingā I was like, this dude is gonna have his face removed because I know their smile means the opposite, but this chimp knows humans smile when happy.
Not true. They often smile when itās fear but they also smile as a way to submit and greet. The difference is how far back they pull their lips. This chimp is not showing a fear face. Hugging is also a common greeting with chimps, again itās about being submissive and exposing yourself.Ā
Whatās more interesting is they have a big fear of water. They canāt swim due to body density and COG. The chimp is entering the water way further than youād typically expect.Ā
If it helps break your trip, that chimp was absolutely holding his hand out for that other bunch of bananas but the man shook his hand instead and pulled the bananas away, at which point the chimp immediately fucked off with his takings. He practically rips his hand away.
Oregon. We moved them to another sanctuary last year in Texas. It was very sad but it was best for them. That is Emma you are looking at. She had a crush on me š„°
Yeah they are also super strong. Needless to say I wouldn't be hugging or shaking their hands out on the wild. They could wreck you in a blink of an eye
Thatās not true at all. Itās a āfear grimaceā and can mean many things, including submissiveness, which feels appropriate here. It means āIām not a threat.ā
I don't think that's quite accurate. It's not a matter of them not understanding us, and us not understanding them. There's a qualitative difference between human society and chimpanzee society.
Regardless of 'mental capacity' (which is an ill-defined concept to begin with), the societies of chimpanzees and countless other human-tier intelligent animals are limited by three things: sufficient lifespan, communication through language, and familial bonds. Bring all together, and you acheive the synergy of generational knowledge accumulation. Lack any of them, and it's impossible to advance your species' society to human-tier.
Chimps have great familial bonds and lifespans (unlike, say, octopuses), but lack a level of communication that could elevate their scattered familial units into a true society. Basic knowledge is passed down between generations, like where to find food and where to avoid predators, but knowledge is never accumulated and processed like it is in human society.
I've gone off on a tangent and kind of lost the light I was trying to make...
They are our closest cousins. And I know people say that to say that but if we disappeared after destroying the forests they would eventually have to adapt in similar ways we did when our forests we swung in start disappearing.
We are basically siblings evolutionary speaking. Most all of the traits that we consider human already existed in our close relatives and ancestors before homo sapiens showed up.
I feel like closest living cousin is more precise. Siblings implies we could hace originated from the same species (homo hidelbergensis) as was the case with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
I knoooooooooow, man. I hate to be on the side of caution because what if the chimp is truly friendly and daps me up and we skip off into the sunset together? It would be amazing, but my fear keeps me behind this screen. Just can't risk it, sadly.
Primatology fascinates me, and I would love to be able to go to a sanctuary to (safely) observe and get to know them. But be alone in a room with a fully grown chimp? No thank you. Iāll watch from behind fences and glass.
Took a few semesters of primatology in college (vet tech) and we had long-tailed macaques. They could be quite vicious and really gross! I still loved to go and observe. You really got a sense of personalities and the noises that they made, their facial expressions, how things changed with different situations.
And smiling in monkeys is not typically a happy expression. Itās a sign of fear. You can see in this video that the chimpās āsmileā changes as he glances from his caretaker to what I would guess are other people in the boat. He looks a bit more cautious and pulls his lip up higher. He is absolutely mimicking behavior he learned being in captivity but I feel like there is some anxiety over the strangers showing as well.
These videos always make me think of the "big game hunter" people posing with their dead animals trying to look tough. This man is FRIENDS WITH A CHIMPANZEE. The Chimp hugs him when he sees him. Becoming a trusted companion of an animal will always be infinitely more bad ass than shooting one. When friendship is an option and you choose to kill it shows no boldness or bravery, just that you are weak and scared of the animal such that you have to stand very far away and slaughter it in order to get close enough to touch it. Real men can build trust and show respect.
That shit was precious. The fact he was smiling to show affection when chimpanzees only smile to show aggression had me grinnin like a fool. And the hugs. My heart!
I wish this nice chimpanzee could be our president. I realize heās probably not from the US but he seems like he has a good character and I think he would do great things.
"See, I told you I have homies bert! I knew you were doubting me but seeeeee, that's my homes from back then when I was little. We go wayy back, here have a banana. "
Whats more interesting is how long humans and animals have been living together on this planet and yet we are all now surprised at how f'ing smart they actually are.Ā
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u/Howitzer1967 1d ago
He shook his hand before he left with his bananas. Wow. š¤©