"The Terrifying Truth About Chimps" (Casual Geographic Reaction)

[@dominik36127]

He has a few quite nice videos about Harambe where he explains quite well what happened. In short: Gorillas are pacifist and the child should have not been in danger. The problem were the people who were shouting and throwing stuff at the gorilla which aggravated him. So the keepers decided to shoot.

[@Tigermoto]

I came to the comments to type this, you win!

[@SMOOVKILL1]

Couldn't have explained in better. Look up the story of Bokito. A gorilla that escaped after children were throwing rocks at him but he attacked a woman, who regularly visited him, through the glass where she smiled, showed teeth, and stared at him in his eyes. She wasn't purposely doing it but his instinct kicked in. Look up Koko she was an amazing gorilla who understood sign language and could communicate.

[@1cynik]

Tell that to the other male gorillas bro.

[@diavolo007]

Bro is the gorilla whisperer…lmao

[@dominik36127]

@@1cynik Gorillas are pacifists. They seldom attack anything smaller than them unless challenged (showing teeth, thumping chest, stretching to seem bigger). It is unlikely other males would be an issue. On the contrary. There were two other incidents like this in 1983 and 1996 checkout what the outcome was. Now I am not saying that if the people behaved better it would be alright. What I am saying is that people made the situation worse.

[@zf5656]

What people fail to see in the Harambe incident, is that when he was cool with the kid upfront, the crowd began acting like irrational apes. Think of that through Harambe’s perspective.

[@hibouowll7468]

Also, the kid was conscious and... well, seemed to panicked. I think Harambe was shoot because he started moving the kid like a ragdoll and the keepers were afraid that he could injure the child if left. Anyway, i agree. To often we are the animal. And we should save the animals from us.

[@justguy-4630]

Harambe was confused first but then agitated, because people started shouting and throwing things at him.

[@karazor-el9596]

what you fail to see is a kids life is in danger any rattional human would'nt give two f's about the ape only the kid

[@karazor-el9596]

@@justguy-4630 of course they were you utter numbskull they were trying to divert it's attention away from a f##### CHILD guess people don't act like humans on your planet

[@luckyeight4148]

@@karazor-el9596 do you think the people throwing things and yelling at harambe would have helped?? No, he would just get more agitated. The people weren't helping the situation much either. And also, maybe the mom should have been watching her kid??

[@earthwormandruw]

I do remember hearing about the girl that was found raised by wolves, I believe it was talked about in one of my psychology classes in regards to learning speech. Apparently after a certain stage of brain development if you don't learn speech you can never learn it. That was the main focus of the lesson and how this case of the little girl helped to discover that about learning speech.

[@NoProtocol]

I was just thinking about this! I added a 60 Minutes Australia spot on the girl (called Oxana Malaya) and they get into these questions of brain development, language and words. Such a curious case

[@deron2203]

Honestly, I just binge watch this guy. He makes short but informative videos on animals, and I just love it!

[@JayBirdNJ.]

Check out ZFrank

[@MikeB12800]

He’s funny as hell too

[@IneedKush]

Harambe's death is why we're in this timeline LOL

[@Millisama]

It broke the multiverse

[@tedlitschauer9061]

Not an entirely untrue ...😂

[@TucoBenedicto]

Unsettling chimp stories are the first thing that typically comes to my mind every time I hear/read someone throwing around some sugary platitude about how much kinder and sweet animals are supposed to be compared to the cruel humans. P.S. Not exactly in the position to make formal requests, but for what it matters I'd enjoy to see more reactions to Sam'O Nella Academy videos.

[@penismightier9278]

Humans are one of the most brutal species on the planet because we do it for sport. We invented tool to do it from a distance and before our "prey" can even see us.

[@chriswhinery925]

Yeah, but at least they don't fight with nuclear arms! You can't hug your children with nuclear arms!

[@henkschrader4513]

From an animal you can expect it from a Human not so much and the backstabbing is unreall

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@henkschrader4513 Animals can, and have been known to, snap and turn on their caretakers seemingly out of nowhere (key word: seemingly). This can even happen with domesticated animals on very rare occasions.

[@azekel7687]

It's funny how today you watched a vid about chimps, because just today I was reading on the internet about chimps, spider monkeys and how much stronger chimps are compared to humans. For one, I learned today that Spider Monkeys don't have thumbs and I was honestly shocked because thumbs are needed to be able to properly get a grip on something, yet Spider Monkeys spend most of their time in trees. I also already knew that humans are weaker than chimps, but I wanted to know why that was the case and I read that it's because chimps have more fast twitch muscle fibers than us, which allows them to get more use out of their muscles, but because they have these type of muscle fibers, they burn more energy, as oppose to humans who have more slow twitch muscle fibers, which allows us to endure longer, which is one of the reason aside from sweating, why humans can outrun most animals in terms of endurance/stamina.

[@trentbobo4171]

I'm so happy this guy's channel is blowing up. I've been watching him for awhile. He's hilarious and very informative

[@CarlosRenfroe]

His delivery is impeccable!

[@NoProtocol]

It truly is

[@obiwanbenobi4943]

Ugh! Nope. Does nothing for me. I skipped a lot of it. Was too much like an infomercial where they say things so fast you're not able to really listen very well. I don't watch TV either... Commercials come on and I'm gone.

[@hubertboisvertboucher2071]

I must say, I really love that there isn't a 5 minutes preamble at the start of your video. No generic youtuber blathering, straight to the content, I enjoy that :)

[@O_Towne_Bear]

I saw you in the Turtleneck and thought "good choice" as if you could see the snow storm outside my window. LoL. Another great video. Thank you.

[@thersites3173]

As Ze Frank goes, "True Facts About Ducks" is good. "All Creatures Great and Small" by James Herriot is a fantastic book about animals.

[@MasterOfDeception636]

I would say the only zoo i have been to that i think the animals loved was the australian zoo where steve irwin made and worked, 100% dedication to animals! P.S love ya videos

[@atriox7221]

My only experience is aussie zoos and what I’ve seen is very consistently morally good zoos, can’t speak for the rest of the world though

[@jamie_d0g978]

The zoo aquarium in Madrid, Spain it's pretty nice too. Animals have a lot of space and they seemed to be acting normal. Not depressed or bored.

[@shawmiserix404]

i imagine most animals love a relatively stress free environment

[@mikefisher4834]

The reason the whole Harambe situation pisses people off so much is because that was the third time people who don’t deserve to have kids let their kid fall into a gorilla enclosure It happened in 1986,1996 and 2016 The first time it happened a female gorilla actually carried the kid to the entrance of the enclosure cradling him like a baby until the zookeepers could come get him The second time it happened it was a male gorilla who protected the kid from the other gorillas until the zookeeper could get to him and everyone knows what happened the third time💯💀

[@enoobis8651]

Yes! I love ZeFrank. "True facts about the mantis shrimp" is probably my fav

[@bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling]

your anecdote about the girl being raised by dogs reminded me of the legend about Romulus and Remus being raised by wolves before the founding of Rome

[@heron619]

The audacity to ask the question "Do you guys remember Harambe?" May 28, 2016. The date that changed the world! Nothing was the same after...😢

[@steviemac2681]

A date that lives in infamy.

[@tedlitschauer9061]

This is the correct take 👆🏻

[@TheGabrielPT]

2016 was the last good year before everything fell apart, i still remember the unity in the world with the Pokemon Go phenomenon, in the summer. Feels like a fever dream

[@dasmg]

Harambe's death is what split the timelines. WE HAVE TO GO BACK!!!!

[@chriswhinery925]

@@TheGabrielPT Personally I went through a phase of combining the two where I named literally every Pokemon I caught in Go Harambe.

[@MrVvulf]

Casual Geographic's story of people throwing stones into the chimp enclosure only to regret it later reminded me of the incident at the zoo in San Francisco back in 2007. Three teens were taunting a tiger (the three had been witnessed throwing objects at and yelling at the animal. ). The tiger got irritated, leapt out of the enclosure, killed one teen and mauled the other two. Of course, the story ends as expected. Tiger shot dead, families sue the zoo. People always gotta people. And tigers gonna tiger. The zoo failed to protect both species.

[@NoProtocol]

I hadn’t heard this story before! Wouldn’t cross my mind to taunt a tiger.. People always gotta people for sure

[@jeanackle]

I think Casual Geographic also told about that story of the tiger. I think it was in a video where either the title, or his stated conclusion is the answer to the question: What is the most dangerous animal you can find in a Zoo? A: A human. That's a really hard one to watch. I mean, that story of the tiger, I'm not saying this heartfelt, but it is kind of true, that they got what they deserved. But most of the other stories, it's about parents proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that they were unfit to be parents. I'm going to stop now, before all the stories crawl back into my mind.

[@dickyt1318]

I remember David Attenborough when he first brought footage to our tv screens of chimp's hunting monkeys in the 1990's BBC wildlife series - Trials Of Life. That was 30+ years ago and it was such a shocking seminal moment that I still remember it today.

[@shawnkerrick7815]

Casual Geographic is my fav also. the show is very fast paste it is informative and to top it off it is also pretty funny. Also i get the feeling that he truly cares about the animals and there enviroment.

[@ThePittsburghToddy]

Vinegar and baking soda actually works quite well as a drain cleaner, if you don’t want to use Draino or the like.🖖🏼

[@Aoiichi]

Found the Leapord , it just below the snow that makes an upside down peak. Okay see his hat ? Follow it to the tip of the long icicle , then go left it's next to that little glob of snow.

[@NoProtocol]

I went back and followed your directions step by step, zooming in. I would have already been dead lol

[@JayBirdNJ.]

Great video. I really enjoy the subjects that you explore and the content you find for us. Your commentary is funny, intelligent and always on point. Keep up the good work, we love you..

[@Ashstar4]

I recommend watching When Horror Movies Become Real Life (Nope) by Casual Geographic. He actually talks more about the Travis incident along with extra info.

[@damiandorhoff719]

no that was just normal fighting for a territory or mating rights between lizards. no training

[@thewhat6219]

I watch a lot of animal stuff, what I've learned is nature deserves a lot of respect. Especially birds and plants 😅 Casual is one of my favorite channels, I really like his delivery. Lindsey Nikole is another pretty good animal channel I just stumbled upon, she has a good one about the whole "everything evolves into crabs" thing. And a child being literally raised by wolves? If it didn't end tragically, that sounds pretty awesome, honestly.

[@cmcculloch1]

Ive seen the long form komodo fight used in a few documentaries about them - they are wild and any tourists are always accompanied with a park ranger. There was a ranger at that particular place who was sat in his elevated office -door was open , a KD climbed up the stairs and before he managed to react when he noticed it was bitten on the leg and he bled out. There is some enzyme or bacteria in their saliva or venom that stops blood clotting - its how they take down the local bovine there, bite and wait then dinner time.

[@Frequencydead]

its in their venom it contains several toxic proteins effects of those toxic proteins include inhibition of blood clotting, lowering of blood pressure, muscle paralysis, and the induction of hypothermia, leading to shock and loss of consciousness in envenomated prey, that said their saliva does contain a multitude of septic bacteria as well

[@themightyblob]

My favorite Ze Frank video is about the Tarsier. When the narrator cannot stop himself from adding his own reactions to what he is watching... learning and laughing at the same time.

[@LaserLips2]

On the subject of Zoo's and whether they are inherently good or bad, it's difficult to strictly define. Zoo's not only act as a place to entertain visitors, but also as an educational institute of sorts. A living library. And in another way, an ark... Quite often, there comes a situation where a critically endangered animal does not have enough breeding pairs in the wild to prevent extinction, and so, they pull specimens from Zoo's to amend this. In a way, you could view each Zoo as its own mini ark. Existing as an insurance policy in case a species suddenly gets endangered. With all that said, I'm not advocating or defending poor living standards inside Zoo's; but I think it's important to deshackle oneself from how one emotionally feels about Zoo's, and instead think about them in a broader and more realistic context. They can be both good and bad. It's up to each person to decide whether they think Zoo's are worth the price that the animals sometimes pay.

[@Optic-Blast-q9l]

To add to your opinion on Zoos, they can be done well, as an Australian I'm going to use Australia Zoo as an example, they are home to the biggest population of Koalas anywhere, to the point where it is considered a backup population if they go extinct in the wild (which professionals project could happen by 2050) and they also have one of the best wildlife hospitals out there to fix up animals hurt in accidents and by humans. Steve and Terri Irwin had also bought large, like thousands of acres each large, plots of land to use as wildlife reserves. Even after Steve's death, Terri, Bindi, and Robert have used the zoo to fight for endangered species.

[@nicholasbanton]

While I think many people genuinely love these animals and wish to care for them, some are fascinated by the novelty of owning or exploiting potentially dangerous wildlife. However, I suspect the primary (atavistic) reason is a desire for control or power. Owning a wild animal can give a person a sense of dominance or mastery over nature. This can be appealing to those who feel a need to assert their authority or control over the natural environment.

[@kurtsmith9564]

So back in the '90s in the city of Covina California. There was a man who had this chimp and It was very popular. The chimp however, did attack and bite somebody. So they took the chimp away and sent it to its sanctuary. The man went to the sanctuary with a cake for his chimp for his birthday. And the other chimps became jealous and so enraged. If they attacked him. He lost his fingers. His testicles went blind. His face was shredded. It shows you that these are animals but their intelligent animals who can have the same feelings as humans. The only difference is this strength that they have will shred a human being apart

[@robinhooduk8255]

can you do a reaction to the jeremy clarkson documentaries, they are on youtube. theres 2 of them. the first is about the victoria cross and second is the greatest raid. both are awesome.

[@onliwankannoli]

I’m partial to Planet of the Apes, The Musical, staring Troy McLure, in the part he was born to play.

[@charlesf2804]

I'm from the south (Tennessee) and used to hear about chiggers. I'd get warnings about rolling around in the grass, lest I end up itching. Never seen one. Chimpanzees are not to be played with, and this video has confirmed that. I wouldn't mess with any animal, and not go out of my way to, certainly.

[@aazo5]

That picture of the jaguar swimming at 12:56 is terrifying lol. And that's because yes, jaguars are not afraid of water, and often traverse through it.

[@TucoBenedicto]

Traversing through it is not the scary part. It’s that they’ve been witnessed in the act of chasing/hunting preys under water.

[@tycepickett1238]

There have actually been multiple times where kids have fallen into gorilla enclosures over the years, just like with Harambe. But pretty much all of them ended well because the Gorilla are pacifists by nature and most of the time actually tried to help and protect the fallen kid. The reason things ended up the way they did with Harambe is because a crowd formed over the enclosure that started screaming their heads off and throwing shit at Harambe, freaking him out and agitating him. Before that he had just stood over the kid in confusion and made no move to hurt him. If the crowd hadn't acted that way it wouldn't have gone bad, but then the enclsosure shouldn't be accessible to kids or idiot grown ups trying to get into it in the first place, so that's all the zoo itselfs fault. Casual geo has made numerous very good vids going over it all.

[@dmwalker24]

In the grand scheme of things, it's just a few modified traits that gave us the leap forward in technology, and organization. Better hands, better vocal equipment, cooking food to release calories which enables brain growth, but that's about it. And when it comes to aggression, particularly against any perceived outside group, we're virtually identical. Watching Chimps be Chimps is just a window into our own species.

[@carlobinda1127]

Very interesting topic for today, Casual Geographic and your channel are both awesome, especially if you're interested in feeding your brain! 😁

[@sebastianwagner7334]

About zefrank, he has some really cool videos, my personal favourite though is probably the one about beavers. It's not quite as Science-y as others by him but gives a nice overview over these animals I knew far to little about. It is relatively recent (which mainly means you won't have knowledge about Jerry going in, but that's not terribly important). Other that come to mind are the one about "Deception in the rainforest" and "Carnivorous plants".

[@MyBigMouth]

Yes I remember Harambe, it was the 2nd timeline changing event which has put us in this strange timeline, the 1st change was when "those" (they know who they are), decided to demote Pluto. #VivaLaPluto

[@Kaefer1973]

Zoos can be fine. The Zoo I most often visit is a Zoo specialising in old farm breeds (things like the very first known domesticated chicken breed up to things as recent as the early previous century). They all live better than their factory farmed successors and seem perfectly happy there. By the way a young Poitou donkey calf is the softest and fluffiest thing you could ever hope to touch.

[@tornoutlaw]

I would recommend any of these 3 Ze Frank videos to dive in: True Facts About The Owl True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp True Facts About Marsupials

[@ssbbpsycho]

one Ze Frank video I would suggest is "True Facts about the Mantis Shrimp". The Mantis Shrimp is an extremely interesting creature, and Ze Frank is really informative while making it funny

[@OddlyCuriousAnalzyer]

The next video you should check out should be his How to Survive Animal Attack series and his remake video for it. They are really good and your videos are always interesting.

[@ShadowstormProducts]

Zefrank has great vids. Mockumentary style. Definitely watch the hummingbird one.

[@oliverbayley3509]

Nice polo neck! Greeting from Macclesfield.

[@NoProtocol]

Thank you Oliver!

[@Phone_Geek]

Hello from Manchester, like 15mins drive from the other guy 😂

[@estern001]

The Call of the Wild - Jack London. Great book!

[@shaggygoatboy1125]

Please, PLEASE, PLEASE: watch zefrank's "True Facts" about animals. They're absolutely hilarious. I suggest: Anglerfish, Owl, Sloth, Praying Mantis. It's comedy gold.

[@ravenward626]

All great suggestions.

[@troyshilanski380]

So smart and even keeled. Pretty to boot. Great reaction.

[@erinhaury5773]

I highly recommend both ZeFrank and Lindsay Nikole for great animal vids. ZeFrank is hilarious and Lindsay is super fun and picks really neat subjects. ❤

[@BigWolf130]

I have a similar opinion about zoo's as well due to research I have done on human zoo's. Now there is a part of me that does think we should have zoo's, but I think they should be more like wildlife preserves where the animals have much more open spaces and most zoo's don't have that no matter how nice they are, they are basically theme parks lol.

[@MrSpazbomb]

If you do Zefrank it pays to look him up. Super interesting guy, he's one of the pioneers of vloging and a lot of techniques and standards you see as the norm in vlogging today he came up with. He gets forgotten a lot but he's had his hand in the internet for nearly two decades now.

[@theorangewarrior03]

The shot on Harambe was unnecessary, they say tranq wouldn't have worked but if you look elsewhere then you can see it would have worked. In rotterdam zoo, a silver back got teased day in day out by a woman thinking they became friends. She annoyed him so much he broke out and ran past everyone to beat the shit out of her, nobody else was injured, and they tranquilised him. She lived and Bokito (the silver back) was still there when I went back in 2019

[@umaiar]

4:13 "Yeah, the gorilla acted like a gorilla" Truth. And the people acted like people. Could it have been avoided? Definitely. As a species we always have conflict between rationality and our own nature, particularly when fear is involved.

[@pazwretzky4673]

I was half way through eating a banana when I got the notification for this video, which at the time I thought was amusing, but they're eating termites, Bush babies and human faces ?...no mention of bananas

[@NoProtocol]

It was the bush babies that I wasn’t prepared for lol

[@stephenmuirhead1838]

Planet of the apes was a novel by french writer Pierre Boulle( I think I've got the surname right). Pretty sure he also wrote Bridge on the River Kwai.

[@gustavovega9197]

It's honestly funny and embarrassing how many conversations I've been around where a couple dudes after some beers would say they think they can take on a chimp lol I would instantly want to walk away each time tho

[@gerhardadler3418]

There is a great documentary about wolves. Forgot the name, but the resettled a pack of wolves into an native indian territory and a guy lived close to them and filmed them for several years. A women he had contact with visited him and she made audio records. It is really amazing, since they learned a lot about the hierarchy within a wolf pack. EDIT: I think the name was "Living with Wolves", but it's only 1:35 h and i thought it was longer. Maybe there are more parts or different versions.

[@exploringgames948]

I forget the name of them but there's a "tribe" of chimps in some forest somewhere (yes.. i know very detailed information lol) they go around raiding other chips and ripping of limbs, beating them with it and then they move on to another tribe like some sort of ancient warrior tribes... Chimps are next level!

[@irisravenhild9060]

As someone who has a degree in child and youth work, we had to learn about Dr Winthrop Niles Kellogg's experiment on Gua and Donald. Not to forget that his wife, Luella Dorothy, was in on it. But how much, can always be discounted.

[@KarmasAB123]

We never forget Harambe :(

[@zapbrannigan9770]

When I was in the army (British) my battalion was in Sierra Leone. Our multiple(half platoon) was patrolling in the jungle with local forces in rebel territory and set up a patrol base in a disused power station. I was first out of the land rovers and when I did a baby chimp can out of a building and ran at me. It was disconcerting at first but it wasn’t aggressive. I picked it up by its hand. We were there 3 days and this thing would not leave our side, mine in particular. I’ve been struck ever since by it’s obvious intelligence and the ease in which we could communicate. Obviously we had to leave it behind but it was a rare treat being exposed to nature like this although I doubt this poor thing lived any kind of normal life for a chimp and was clearly orphaned. It was not easy getting Dave out of the land rover when we were leaving.emotionally or physically as we knew it was going to be bleak for her. It was female but Dave worked.

[@sabin97]

i agree with your take on zoos. we live in the information era. any educational purpose a zoo might serve is already obsolete. we now have on-demand access to videos of animals living in their own environment from a plethora of spycams. no need to keep a gorilla prisoner. or enslave an elephant. just a bunch of well-placed spycams where they live and we get documentaries that anyone on earth can watch at will. and we learn far more from watching their natural behaviour than anyone could learn from seeing them caged in a zoo.

[@KurNorock]

Absolutely watch ZeFrank. As far as which videos, watch ANY and ALL of the "True Facts" series. ZeFrank is one of my all time favorite KZbin channels.

[@chriswhinery925]

Which of the 4 to pick from the picture really depends. The gorilla is a solid pick no matter what but the jaguar could vary wildly. Has it eaten recently? If it has, it's probably just gonna park up in a corner and nap for the entire 37 minutes. If it hasn't, I wouldn't want to be in the same zip code as it.

[@cedricjohnson555]

Please consider reacting to a video on hippos. They are fascinating and straight killing machines.

[@Leroyrossie]

True Facts: Lurking in the Deep is a good one from zefrank

[@NoProtocol]

That’s for the video recommendation Leury!

[@unclestevemoves]

Zefrank is funny on how he presents the info!

[@UlfOrGrimnir]

There were 2 other instances of kids falling into the gorilla enclosure. i believe one was in 1986 and another in 1995? Both times, the gorilla actually took care of the kids and actually kept other Gorillas away from them. So if people hadn't been aggravating Harambee, i might have been a different story

[@ptommo1543]

Loveliest KZbin host ever. 😊

[@jpbm1873]

Chimps have long memories and are vengeful animals. If you mess with one he won't forget it and given the opportunity he will get his revenge.

[@SimonJM]

Just a few reasons why chimps are close to the top of my non-favourite animals! (Though dolphins are climbing the rankings, thanks to you!) One book involving animals which is pretty good is Life of Pi

[@darkerknight7010]

This guy is pretty great. More Casual Geographic

[@obiwanbenobi4943]

I have a great deal of respect for many things that Zoos do, but I also agree on how I feel about most of what I see when I do visit them (rarely). The best places I've found were large aviaries where the birds could mostly do their thing and I have kept aquariums of various kinds at times in my life (but not recently). As for chimps, much respect, do not want one or want to be around them. Having read a fair number of good books by various primatologists I would rather hang with the Bonobo's than chimps. Even then I'd still be rather paranoid. They are strong and have sharp pointy teeth. Still by reading about them all I've learned a lot about nature and human nature. I recommend the journey but also have to admit that I started that journey a great deal earlier learning about ants, praying mantises and other bugs and carnivorous plants and ...

[@nikolah.8472]

Travis Story, the detail was still that xanax was found in his blood. Chimpanzees cant react the same to human medicine and its expected he got haluzinations and panic attacks. They gave him that to calm him. That was the biggest mistake in my book. Chimpanzees ARE scary, they are incredible strong and have the same cruelty in killing then humans. So i never get people taking them in like a kid or pet. They are much to fearsome if things got out of hand. They will at some point will have issues with Authority.

[@dominiquemanning5856]

11:36 No windows and no door quick question how did you get in there😂😂😂

[@Aoiichi]

Mating Dance of the Peacock spiders from Ze Frank

[@denniseggert211]

Yeah Humans should be careful around chimps, i heard a theorie that during the split of Bonobo´s, Chimps and Humans, That the Ancestors of Humans and Chimps were cut of in a isolated region that was probably scarce and hard to live in. Chimps are the descendants of the ones who went very aggresiv to get a hold on limited food supplies while we humans are the descendants of the ones who lost most fights and had to avoid stronger ones to survive, which may have started the development of stronger human legs. Bonobo´s on the other hand developed in a bountiful region and became peaceful because they did not have to fight for food. While Chimps can relate with Humans and Bonobo´s they have no trouble ripping either apart and seem aware of that fact.

[@HigHrvatski]

Harambe is a tragic story. Looking at the video it seemed like he was protecting the kid. He doesn't know that the people up there were trying to protect the kid, for all he knew they were trying to hurt the boy. Harambe lost his entire family when the zoo keepers accidentally made clorine gas by leaving some tablets near a space heater. His mom, his brother and two half siblings all ended up dying. 😢

[@bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling]

my dream job - since the late 80s has been to live in somewhere like Rwanda or Uganda / Cameroon as support and anti poaching for mountain or lowland gorillas

[@DomR1997]

I don't get both sides of the harambe incident. If you genuinely think an adult apes life is valuable enough to risk a human child then you should be banished to live with gorillas.

[@CChissel]

Learning to speak from a young age is crucial for brain development and intelligence. If you get too old without language, you will be forever stunted in terms of intelligence and brain efficiency. There is something about developing that “inner voice” that language allows to intelligence, at least human intelligence, the inner monologue is extremely important for thought and consciousness. Try to think about anything without the use of language or words, it’s difficult but you can only do so with very basic concepts.

[@zhollamychalis4252]

No Protocol...I don't do zoos, sea worlds or the circus. I have a set of books that dry the spit in my mouth whenever I think of them. Flowers in the Attic. Petals in the Wind. If there be Thorns. Talk about mommie the dearest. Surely the purest horror.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

It depends on the zoo. But the real problem is circuses! Animals are treated very poorly in most circuses, poorly enough that sometimes the animals say "That's about enough of this crap!" and fight back, and humans lose their lives, but then so do the poor animals.

[@andreimordovskoi9192]

13:42 - that was just a mating dance

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Good content and good channel. Subbed 👍👍

[@Julian-bq9qv]

After the murder of Harambe, the world went downhill. Kid's mother had wandered away to chat with others, ignoring the kid. Personally, based only on my own interactions, chimpanzees are scary, baboons are very scary, but orangutans are loving, peaceful and generally kind.

[@jeffjaeger739]

so... about the girl that was adopted by the dogs. you said that she was able to communicate with them? could she communicate with ANY dogs, or just the ones she had been living with? is it possible that she had trained them to respond in certain ways... meaning there was learned behavior going on between her and the dogs... or do dogs have a culture and way of communicating, in general, that we just haven't learned much about?

[@justguy-4630]

At least Nash didn't even remember the attack. It was probably so traumatizing.

[@Kno_Buddy]

Harambe only went nuts because people were throwing things at it trying to get its attention away from the child freaking it out. Apes in captivity generally tend to protect and care for children that fall into their enclosure and leave them for the staff to get out safely because they understand it’s just a child and it’s injured. Now if I were to jump in there a 31 year old male it would literally rip my arms off and beat me to death with them and just rip me in half.

[@calumroche2851]

Last chance to See by Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams, and My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell are good books about animals.

[@halwakka504]

12:45 Jaguar attacks on people may be rare but that's partly because they're not in the same room with them for 37 minutes. Think the odds might go up in that case.

[@justguy-4630]

Anxiety will fuel the jaguar's urge to attack. Imagine how it'd be like to be in that room. The jag growing more and more agitated.

[@the.one.who.doesnt.knock.]

pretty sure the vid of the kamoto dragons fighting is kinda like a fight of dominance and everyone else is just watching

[@TheGabrielPT]

I just realized that chimps are probably the only animals that use their hands the same way we do. Cousins indeed

[@NoProtocol]

They have relatively similar looking hands as well

[@TheGabrielPT]

@@NoProtocol ikr

[@fransthefox9682]

All other great apes too.

[@Dan._.Daniel0]

Yeah and since there so similar to us they know to attack us where it hurts most

[@justguy-4630]

What's interesting is that you started to make me think about something. We can easily say we're not related to a random guy in Sweden(unless you are from Sweden and he happens to be related to you) but we can say chimps are our cousins. Despite the fact our ancestors share the same mother at one point much more recently with the former than the latter.

[@steven95N]

They would have tranquilized Harambe if the crowd didn't agitate him. He was fine until they started screaming and throwing shit.

[@squidward9916]

You should react to When horror movies become real life by casual geographic

[@edim108]

The sad thing with Harambe was that none of that would have happened if the people around didn't "try to help" by throwing things at him, shouting, etc. which only served to scare him. They couldn't tranquilize him bc that could have easily turned into a tragedy- animals don't know you're trying to put them to sleep so as far as they're concerned you just attacked them. And a 440 pound Gorilla could have done way worse than just drag that kid around if he actually though he was a threat. The kid shouldn't have been able to make it to that enclosure in the first place, so if they tried to sedate Harambe and he killed the kid before the drugs kicked in, that zoo was done for good... The zoo would have to close, all the animals in it would have to be relocated and Harambe would have been killed anyway bc he already killed a kid at that point. Sucks that an animal- especially of an endangered species like a Western Lowland Gorilla- had to die and it's only crime was being an animal...

[@PanAfricanist213]

Wow, after seeing her laugh, I wonder if she's related to Andrew Wiggins. She has an uncanny resemblance to him.

[@nassirmreyoud4415]

Yup, of course *you* would look at that nightmare fuel of a bug and go "ooooh, looks like a strawberry!". :P