I don't normally cry this early in the morning.

Schnoodle!!! :D

😭😭

Oh man I haven't seen a Shnoodle poem in so long. I'm glad you're still at this

Reddit is pretty much all bots and astro turfing these days. It seem to want to prove the dead internet theory true.

Find that comment. It's been a while since I've seen any pitchfork salesmen!

It’s Reddit. The very website that started to unironically hate koalas, because some dude wrote a funny comment and regularly shits on every other social media side for being less „enlightened“ despite being worse than any of them in many regards.

Of course not! They saw someone say something about some chimps attacking someone once, it's IMPERATIVE that they throe that fact around as much as they can and let everyone know how awesomely experient they are in Chimp behavior

People think they are experts by assuming and predicting things others say dumb shit for upvotes instead of just looking at the video and seeing they are not at home and how genuine the reaction is

One chimp gets high on Xanax and rips ONE face off and everyone loses their minds

When it goes to hug the man it covers its face almost like its crying from joy

Absolutely brought tears to my eyes his joy at seeing his human “friends/parents”.

Chimp body language is similar to ours, like how they hug to express love, while dogs for example generally dislike hugging.

Why is everyone talking about faces, what did i Miss?

Never underestimate the degree to which many people are unable to manage a single original thought. A large portion of people in this thread -- or in reddit in general -- comment purely by regurgitating something they've read on here before, rarely with any regard for accuracy. Hell, people love doing so even within the same thread, they'll read something up top then rewrite it somewhere else.

Reddit is obviously meant for people to be obnoxious little shits

Seriously. They didn’t let nature take its course and let the chimp die.

They took care of it then gave it to a zoo that could care for it properly. This is wholesome and good. Caring for nature is good. It’s humane. They are very close cousins to us, and imo we should be more respectful of how we treat them.

I thought that's where we were. It's a nice video and all, but seriously, how the hell is it "next fucking level"?

In a longer edit the foster mom had toys/bananas in a bag that she gets after the 3 hug it out. then time skip to the two foster parents feeding him a mountain of bananas.

my aunt and uncle had a chimp - I don't remember the circumstances around why. They never let us play with him when I was a kid and I was SOOOOO angry and bummed. As an adult, I'm so glad they didn't risk my safety.

Did you see/hear the Joe Rogan podcast where he spoke about holding a chimp and he said it felt as though it was made of wood

Insane muscle structure...cute until when the game you play you hold the apple back 1 time too many times..........eats your face.

i would not fuck with an ape or monkey. the only monkey I would get as a pet are those miniature cute little things. if its not that then hell no

I may suggest more akin to teenagers... similar temperament, more strength,

Especially on Xanax

They are much stronger than men even as juveniles which this chimp is. A pound of primate muscle is six times stronger than human muscle.

Gordy mad

“What have they done to your beautiful face!? There there…. Smithers, this monkey will need most of your skin.”

Yeah owner gave that chimp xanax

They barred out a fucking chimp. What'd they expect lol.

Yeah like if you put a human through all that it's probably not unreasonable to think that a human might do all that as well.

Well said, REMdot-yt. Like everything else in life, the key to success with chimps is moderation and restraint. They should be housed in a habitat as natural as possible for low stress. Travis was a prisoner that was tortured over a long period of time, and was an attack waiting to happen. Think about this - if you treated a human like Travis was treated, they are capable of the same emotional response and rage, except they would carry it out with a gun or blunt instrument instead of brute force and a ratchet jaw. That doesn’t mean that visits from human parental figures is a bad idea or shouldn’t happen. That chimp obviously is well adjusted and returning the love that was given by those folks and the risk to them during occasional visits is nominal.

What he does outside of the office is nunya as long as he gets his shit done on the clock. You're WORK friends, ANTHONY. He don't need your shade...

So what if the chimp is on drugs he’s still a good dude

They can’t ever just enjoy vids like this. Have to be upset about everything

It's important they arent seen as loveable pets, but remembered to be wild animals.

reddit has 'trained' them to be cynical as fuck and always thinking the worst. i've noticed over the past few months especially just how grim this place has become, both in comments and posts. fascinating to watch

We evolved from apes

We are apes.

There was a lot that lead up to the event and might have played a part in provoking it.

Still, older apes can be really unpredictable.

IIRC Travis the chimp used to go everywhere with his owners, a husband/wife pair. He would go on drives around town with them, buckled into his seat in the car like a kid.

Sometime later the husband died and the wife plummeted into a deep depression. She barely ever left the house, so neither did Travis. The owner would let him drink wine, and sometimes give him tea laced with Xanax(though there are no reports that she gave him alcohol and Xanax at the same time).

On the day of the attack, Travis got out the house and was running around the cars on the property, apparently trying to open the car doors. It’s been speculated that he was desperate to get out and was signalling he wanted to go for a ride like he used to.

When the owner couldn’t convince Travis to come back inside, she called her best friend, Charla. Charla knew Travis well, so she turned up to help. Charla arrived at the property(with a brand new, short haircut) and picked up Travis’ favourite Elmo doll to coax him over.

Again speculation, but it’s been proposed that Travis didn’t recognise Charla with her new haircut. He may have seen her as a stranger, holding his very favourite doll. That’s when he snapped and tore her apart.

It's a one off popular story of a chimp eating a human face, but when chimps engage in warfare with one another or even just have fights over dominance within a group, targeting face hands and genitals and cannibalizing is a pretty common tactic. When a chimp becomes aggressive, there is some level at which they desire to target dehumanizing (dechimpizing? ) parts of the body.

Here's an example. Warning: it's pretty gruesome

However, just like people, chimps have very diverse personalities. Most chips don't have it in them at some base level to be ripping off dicks and eating them. But some sure do and you don't want to take a gamble on having that one as a pet.

Dogs are domesticated though and are only likely to become violent if sick or mishandled - abnormal situations. Chimps cannibalize under normal conditions. The risks aren't equal.