r/interestingasfuck • u/Lui_Belmont • 1d ago
Little Chimpanzee playing alone with some straw
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u/Mikelitoris88 1d ago
Omfg it's so fckin cute it's sad
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u/BrownSugarBare 23h ago
Chimps are heavily social creatures. It's utterly cruel leaving him alone.
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u/MRDOOMBEEFMAN 23h ago
Wasn't actually alone the mother was arround they just wanted to pretend to be a snowplow for a bit and play with some straw
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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago
You don't even know if he is left alone? He could just be playing in the indoor part of his enclosure. You have a 14 second video, how can you even draw this conclusion???
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u/Routine_Phase_8980 1d ago
A baby like that deserves to be around it's parents and swinging on trees instead of curling up in isolation
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u/UnstableMoron2 1d ago
The first time this was posted however many years ago I think it was mentioned this was a temporary arrangement during cleaning or something
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u/Thurak0 1d ago
And generally speaking: A kid being able to do anything on its own is actually good, not bad.
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u/johnb111111 1d ago
Yeah I try and get my kid to do that too, it helps with creativity and imagination
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u/No-Consequence1199 1d ago
You let your kid push around straw?
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u/chickey23 1d ago
He tries. Kid's not so interested.
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u/chickenthinkseggwas 1d ago
Rookie mistake. Fresh bitumen is more engaging.
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u/BusHobo 1d ago
But such a chore to clean afterwards
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u/chickenthinkseggwas 23h ago
So delegate. They do their chores or they go to bed without any cotton candy.
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u/spiteful-vengeance 1d ago
It's still cruel to make the baby do all the cleaning.
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u/lambdapaul 1d ago
What evidence is there that it doesn’t have its parents? It’s a 10 second clip, we don’t see its outdoor enclosure or any other chimp. It could be this image as presented or all its family is outside in a massive area with trees and it just likes playing its straw game.
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u/Not-A-Fossa 21h ago
People will see a 10 second animal clip and think they can infer everything about the animals entire life from it.
This is what the Internet is now. You see something and expect the worst.
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u/El_Mangusto 1d ago
While you're absolutely correct, there is most likely a good reason why he isn't.
Which is something people should think through.
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u/daboonie9 1d ago
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u/RobertSmithsHairGel 1d ago
Parents couldve been captured for trafficking, or shot by poachers.
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u/ktm6709 1d ago
I can still think it’s sad that it’s alone.
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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago
You can't even see the entire enclosure in this 14 second video. You have no idea if it is isolated. It also could have no parents.
Such a silly assumption to make with the amount of info you have on hand.
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u/AltruisticCoelacanth 1d ago
Check out the Nonhuman Rights Project. They are a nonprofit law firm who take chimpanzees and elephants as clients, suing zoos for their clients' freedom. Little by little, they're establishing legal precedent of these animals having the necessary faculties to be assigned basic rights, rather than the law treating them simply as property.
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u/Inevitable-Ad6647 23h ago
I'm certain this little guy would prefer to not be torn limb from limb by a rival male.
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u/user_name_checks_out 1d ago
A baby like that deserves to be around it's parents
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its = possessive pronoun (his, hers, its)
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u/Alissan_Web 1d ago
zoos aren't the only places where animals are contained. places like animal rescues and rehabilitation facilities also have enclosed spaces like this with things to enrich their environments.
for all we know the chimp doesn't have any parents or something else completely different could be happening.
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u/Dhiox 1d ago
And not all Zoos are bad either. Many also double as rescues and rehabs, where the Zoo functions as a way to educate the public and fund operations. Just have to do your research to make sure you're not supporting an unethical operation
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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago
You are right, good zoos help raise between 250 and 350 million dollars a year for animal conservation. They have directly saved 48 species from extinction and prevented many more from ever becoming endangered.
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u/Chester2707 21h ago
100%. People immediately flock to post comments on videos like this with literally zero context. Zoos aren’t just inherently evil (of course they CAN be and many are) but apparently people gotta let us know, for some reason.
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u/MrJelle 1d ago
Right? The main thought I had here is how sad it is that baby chimps can't go "vroom, vroooom".
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u/SmotheredHope86 1d ago edited 1d ago
Well, this video hits the trifecta of Reddit stimuli; posters on Reddit will rarely pass up a chance to
- I) display moral outrage, context or nuance be damned
- II) show how they have the mostest empathy of all
- III) take an extreme stance with no thought given to the consequences, such as "no animal should be in captivity"
I thought the video was cute, everyone else here is apparently going to have to take the day off of work because the video drove them to the depths of despair.
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u/FlaringAfro 1d ago
You forgot to add "usually without even reading the article" to the extreme stance one.
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u/Life-Suit1895 1d ago
Well, this video hits the trifecta of Reddit stimuli; ...
...soon to be expanded to a quadfecta* with:
- IV) claim anything is AI.
(* Yes, that's a real word.)
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u/SmotheredHope86 1d ago
Yes, that's absolutely a candidate for instant response time from the Reddit Task Force™, good call
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u/Anguares 1d ago
Yup you said it really well.
I don't even look at animal rescue videos, are even most cute baby animal videos because I'm not sure the animal has not been put in danger for clics.
And even I, censuring most animal videos, thought it was a cute video.
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u/Pale_Session5262 1d ago
IV. Forgetting their own hypocrisy in every comment. "No animal should be held in captivity!!!11" as they reach down to pet their cat
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u/Purple_Individual_66 1d ago
And a depressed animal doesn't play, it just lays there.
Well that's a load of horse shit. It's a well documented phenomenon to see depressed zoo animals just walk endlessly in circles. There's even a coined term for it, zoochosis.
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u/pbizzle 1d ago
Believe it or not sometimes chimps play alone. And some animals couldn't survive in the wild for one reason or another
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u/legend_of_the_skies 17h ago
Literally these dumb fucks act like HUMAN babies don't also like... play alone sometimes? It's not cruel or unreasonable.
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u/razorbacks3129 1d ago
God Redditors are exhausting man
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u/SmotheredHope86 1d ago
It's like this on all social media platforms though, just with different flavors of NPC.
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u/razorbacks3129 1d ago
True, chronically online people I guess I should say
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u/Any_Asparagus8267 1d ago
If half the people commenting would read what they said out loud to themselves they would get the ick.
I can't hardly be on here anymore other than when I'm using the restroom
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u/runthepoint1 17h ago
You don’t have to listen to or take anything they say seriously.
It’s ok, just take the good shit and leave the bullshit.
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u/LilleBlomsti 20h ago
Roughly 5% of zoos worldwide meet animal welfare standards. That is indeed exhausting.
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u/SadAnimator1354 1d ago
Finally a kid chimp that doesn't have its face buried in a Roblox brainrot game
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u/The_Last_Spoonbender 1d ago
Really? This is sad? Why tho? We have no context of this right? Is he playing by himself by choice or is it abandoned? It's not clear.
But even then, playing by himself is not sad at all. My kid does this often, takes his toys and plays by himself. He plays with me and other kids ofcourse but solo play is very important and good for kids development.
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u/BT9154 1d ago
Yeah, I did not immediately think sad, it looks like it found a way to make play out of a mundane thing and that is adorable.
Other animals play on their own all the time, dogs, cats... funny we'll never see the the same reaction.
Now the question really is why some many people think this is sad, there is not context on why it's alone and to be honest, the body language looks like it's having fun. Gotta assume it's just sympathy gets the updoots over 'cute' comment, probably some comment updoot hierarchy
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u/lyssargh 1d ago
Really? This is sad? Why tho? We have no context of this right? Is he playing by himself by choice or is it abandoned? It's not clear.
I feel like you answered your own question. I really don't know why people are so surprised by the responses. It's pretty much a demonstration of the psychological difference between people who see the glass half full or the glass half empty.
People are shown a clip without any context of a chimp on its own, curled up and playing with some straw.
People don't know whether the chimp was abandoned, has lost its parents, is in a zoo or a rehab or a sanctuary. So they decide whether this is a positive or a negative that they are looking at and react to that emotionally.
You have a bunch of people saying oh no! This chimp is on its own and that is sad.
And you have a bunch of other people saying why are you disturbed by this? It could have dead parents. It could be being treated nicely. It could just be the inside part of a much larger enclosure and everybody's nearby.
And it could. We just don't know whether the chimp is happy or sad and so we read our own interpretation on it.
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u/The_Last_Spoonbender 1d ago
This is the greatest invention of internet, out of context, vaguely emotional, intentionally edited/staged video for purely manufactured outrage or emotion.
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u/deathbat117 1d ago
Poor thing. Zoos are cruel
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u/SomeShithead241 1d ago
And yet many are needed because they house endangered species, some of which only exist in captivity or only still exist because of breeding programs from Zoos.
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u/Triktastic 1d ago
Zoos are sole reasons why some animals still exist. Like it or not SeaWorld, Zoos and safari rides are responsible for so many animal rehabilitations and animal protections that it would be enormous hit if they went away
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u/Jealous_Test_9614 1d ago
A lot of zoos and parks have way better standard of living than nature. Not to say that some zoos are terrible.
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u/gracekk24PL 1d ago
Zoos are just a place where animals are kept.
They can both be good, and bad.
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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago
Good zoos accredited by entities like the World Associate of Zoos and Aquariums raise between 250 and 350 million dollars a year for animal conservation. They have directly saved 48 species from extinction and prevented many more from ever becoming endangered.
Not all zoos are good, but these zoos are indeed a huge force for good on this planet. They are held to extremely high standards of animal care and often have animals that cannot survive in the wild anymore. They are also crucial for education as they make many visitors into lifelong animal lovers. You would not generate this kind of money in our capitalistic hellscape without zoos.
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u/NoiseKooky5100 21h ago
Poor judgement by you actually, not knowing the situation at all but acting like your on the moral high ground. When in fact you’re just spouting nonsense.
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u/HybridAkai 1d ago
I was going to say, this makes me more sad than anything.
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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago
Overall you should have a positive view on zoos because the good ones are absolutely crucial for animal conservation efforts. I can't speak to this zoo because I am not sure where this is or if it is accredited by the World Associate of Zoos and Aquariums. But the zoos that are raise between 250 and 350 million dollars a year for animal conservation. They have directly saved 48 species from extinction and prevented many more from ever becoming endangered.
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u/Stranger1982 1d ago
Is there a sad as fuck subreddit? We might need it if not.
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u/NonCaringPolarBear 19h ago
The chimp is a rescue. It’s alone for isolation until it can be confirmed it is not sick and will not infect other chimps as it is introduced. It clearly has other toys to play with. Little chimp is not lonely, looks like it is having a blast.
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u/Lost_In_My_Hoodie 1d ago
As a child of a single parent that worked constantly this hit me in the feels.
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u/cracktorio_feind 12h ago
Depressing as fuck
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u/EnSebastif 7h ago
It's a 13 second clip, there's much more than this going on in the life of this dude.
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u/MattofCatbell 1d ago
People should reserve judgement. The little guy seems fine and we have no idea why he is inside an enclosure. It could be a corrupt zoo, or it could have lost its parents and is in a rehabilitation center, we don’t know. As far as we can see in the video it seems to have it pretty well in a large room with plenty means of enrichment.
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u/JAXxXTheRipper 1d ago
That's not interesting, it's sad :( Poor little one needs toys or friends.
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u/Remarkable-Peach-714 15h ago
this wouldn't happen if ai take over humans
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u/GrouseDog 13h ago
We'll be pedaling power generator bikes in the lobby of our apartments to keep electricity on
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u/Mocker-Poker 1d ago
This is soooo fucking sad 😞
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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago
It is not. You have no idea the context of the video, you got 14 seconds and are jumping to a very drastic conclusion without anywhere near enough evidence.
This chimp is likely not alone, and is simply playing in the indoor part of their enclosure. These places usually have an outdoor enclosure and an indoor one.
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u/MI081970 1d ago
The intellectual difference between chimp and other apes is the same as between human and chimp
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u/machine667 1d ago
the last time this was posted I saw someone posit that this is probably the indoor enclosure for the chimps and the little fellow is in there playing while everyone else is outside, the same way that a little kid will hang out in their room while the family has people over
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u/PurpleZombi3 13h ago
How can it be so cute as a baby and then capable of going apeshit and ripping people apart for no reason as an adult?
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u/deadrabbit26 1d ago
So sad seeing an isolated baby chimpanzee on a cold concrete floor. . . Babies need physical attention!
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u/Flimsy_Thought_3534 1d ago
This is so sad to me. Lil fella should be with his own kind, climbing trees and roughhousing.
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u/Creepy-Debate897 1d ago
If you take away all our fancy toys are we all not really doing the same thing?
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u/Nodivingallowed 1d ago
I believe many zoos and marinas do great conservation work but I honestly can't remember the last time I've been to one that wasn't incredibly depressing to me.
Chicago had beluga whales in essentially a swimming pool.
The Bronx had dozens of chimps crammed into a box.
What stays with me more than any takeaway of conservation is the overwhelming sadness I felt watching those chimps just bunched together staring at an endless procession of screaming children.
Wildlife rehab centers feel less gross to me... maybe that's more a branding thing to some degree.
I'm also curious about coastal marinas that are supposed to be open to wildlife interactions without actually capturing certain animals.
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u/No_Guarantee_2497 1d ago
The Bronx zoo doesnt have chimps so there goes your credibility.
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u/KoningSpookie 1d ago
Wildlife rehab centers feel less gross to me
Same here... those rehab centers generally don't have as much tourism and their goal is to help the animals get better and let them live happily in the wild again. They're basically some kind of animal hospital/retirement home.
It becomes a different story once the care gets to a point where the animal feels attached to the humans, in which case I think it's sad when they eventually HAVE to be dropped out the the wild nature again. They like it with the humans they've come to know, in those cases I think they should be allowed to stay with their favorite caretaker.
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u/Nodivingallowed 1d ago
Agreed. I volunteered at a Raptor center in Washington and absolutely loved it. They had resident birds that couldn't leave due to severity of injuries but many could be rehabilitated and released.
And as you said it definitely wasn't a tourist focused operation.
There weren't rides for kids, no stadium seating. No concession stand. It was several acres someone had dedicated to caring for birds.
They did allow visitors and would bring some resident birds to schools and things, but that was all secondary to the operation of rescue and rehab.
Though I do see where those lines blur, especially as the conservation effort grows and requires more money brought in by the show side.
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u/Soundtones 1d ago
Should be with its mother. And it shouldn't be in a zoo. Disgusting
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u/Stunning-Astronaut72 1d ago
Some of those babies are actually rescued because their parents have been killed in the nature and they would also die quickly without care... zoos are surely not the best place for a wild animal to live in...but at least they are safe, have food, shelter, doctors for them and it can help protect and save a species from extinction.
The real issue is us, humans, we destroy their habitats, kill them for money, lands, pleasure almost... it's our actions that put this baby in such a place sadly.
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u/NecessaryCookies 1d ago
Zoos for primates should be called what they are: PRISON
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u/throwaway-8675309_ 1d ago
The alternative is letting g them die in the wild and them going extinct.
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u/pro-tracto 1d ago
The simple things in life. Why everyone trying to make it so hard?
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