r/nextfuckinglevel Jan 26 '23 All-Seeing Upvote 1

This is Dawn the orangutan. She saw zoo workers cleaning off after a shift. So Dawn stole a cloth and now she cleans off everyday too.

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u/Wonderful-World1964 Jan 26 '23

So smart!

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u/IndicationHumble7886 Jan 26 '23

Monkey see.... Monkey do!

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

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u/elfy4eva Jan 27 '23

They are Great Apes like Humans, massively more intelligent than monkey's.

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u/shawkath_1238 Jan 27 '23

Apes are monkeys too. Monkeys that evolution blessed with no tails are apes :)

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u/Honest-Yogurt4126 Jan 27 '23

Noop baboons and many old world monkeys have not tail

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u/shawkath_1238 Jan 27 '23

Baboons have relatively short, tufted tail that is not prehensile :)

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u/IndicationHumble7886 Jan 28 '23

Noted, i was being a wee bit sarcastic. Thanks for communicating though

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u/qzlr Jan 27 '23

Works with children too. I was babysitting my nephew once and my sister told me that she has been trying to potty train him but wasn’t getting anywhere.

Some time during the day I went to the bathroom (number 2) and I thought to myself “I wonder how he would react if I showed him that I used the bathroom just fine and he can too?”

So I brought him over to the bathroom and got really excited for myself that I went poo in the potty and he got really excited too and dropped trou right there, sat on his potty and took a nice healthy shit.

Proud moment for me lol

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u/Top_Mycologist_3224 Jan 27 '23

Monkey me….. Monkey You !

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u/DancingSpaceman Jan 27 '23

Monkey pee all over you

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u/No-Height2850 Jan 27 '23

And its realizing how refreshing it feels.

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u/mrosario716 Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23

Such beautiful and amazing creatures!!

Edit: punctuation

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u/Booblicle Jan 26 '23

She has such an amazing inner beauty.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

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u/MunDaneCook Jan 26 '23

^ this is a comment copying spambot

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u/dude-O-rama NFL HELPER Jan 27 '23

Good bot.

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u/mrosario716 Jan 26 '23

They are just amazing to watch. When you look into their eyes, you can tell that their brain is just taking everything in like a sponge and then how they mimic what we do is so cool. I just love Orangutans, I always have. They are so curious, it's awesome!

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u/IAmInLoveWithJeseus Jan 27 '23

Thanks, you too!

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u/Booblicle Jan 27 '23

Did you just call them an ape?

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u/DanimalPlays Jan 26 '23

Orangutans are incredible. Such an awesome animal!

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u/slickhedstrong Jan 26 '23

sad they're gonna be extinct some day

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u/DanimalPlays Jan 26 '23

Probably within our lifetimes as well :(

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u/IAmInLoveWithJeseus Jan 27 '23

Not if I have anything to say about it.

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u/kukulcan99996666 Jan 27 '23

U gonna breed with one?

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u/slickhedstrong Jan 26 '23

sad upvote time

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u/PreOpTransCentaur Jan 26 '23

People love their palm oil.

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u/GlattesGehirn Jan 27 '23

People don't, large companies do. Its cheap, and no one is stopping them

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u/helicophell Jan 27 '23

So... people love their palm oil?I

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u/Cryptic_Undertones Jan 26 '23

So sad to see such intelligent animals living In basically prison cells and not in their natural habitat.

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u/wellsiofcourse Jan 26 '23

Better they all get poached in their natural habitat then?

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u/Cryptic_Undertones Jan 26 '23

That's also another sad reality for these intelligent animals.

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u/hxckrt Jan 27 '23

That's a false dilemma. Zoos can be useful for conservation and research, but they cost much more than fighting illegal hunting and creating wildlife preserves.

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u/Nigglasch Jan 27 '23

An Orang-Utans enclosure costs enough to finance programs for their preservation for multiple years. Zoos do not need to exist

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u/randomsynchronicity Jan 29 '23

If people couldn’t see them up close in zoos, no one would care that they survived in the wild.

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u/Nigglasch Jan 29 '23

Have you ever seen a whale in an aquarium? You probably still want them to survive without seeing them there

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u/Le_Mew_Le_Purr Jan 27 '23

I know, it’s bitterly sad. And what’s worse is that their natural habitat is dangerous for them now and it’s disappearing rapidly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

More like premium rehab centers than prisons. Let's calm down a bit.

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u/Nigglasch Jan 27 '23

Imagine you could only move around on a football field for the rest of your life and during the day there were people watching you. I dont think that is really premium

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23

An entire 57,600sqft. football field with an enclosure for sleeping and all the amenities I need to keep me fed, comfortable, and entertained all day, and the possibility of being provided a suitable mate for propagating my genes seems much cushier than my 600sqft. apartment, wage-slaving it to make ends meet, and being single post-covid.

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u/Nigglasch Jan 27 '23

Well ok then. Im sorry your life sucks so much, that you feel like living in a Zoo is better

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

I didn't say living in a zoo would be better. I said living on an entire 57,600sqft. football field with an enclosure for sleeping and all the amenities I need to keep me fed, comfortable, and entertained all day, and the possibility of being provided a suitable mate for propagating my genes would be better. You came up with the analogy, frendo. Not me. The overall point I was making was that living in a zoo is not the worst thing that can happen to an animal, and often is the best things that can happen to them.

You have to bear in mind that many animals seen today in zoos are either being rehabilitated, not fit to be re-introduced to the wild at all, were born and therefore raised in captivity, or there is a concentrated effort to conserve and revitalize the population of an endangered species. They are taken care of by qualified wildlife specialists and technicians whose job it is to reconstruct suitable environments that mimic their natural habitat and supply them with all the proper nutrition (and medicine) necessary to live healthy.

The benefit of making these facilities visitor attractions is both for the education of the public about wildlife, thereby spreading awareness, and for revenue generation, which is put toward initiatives for protecting and rehabilitating animals, as well as revitalizing and conserving species.

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u/elfy4eva Jan 27 '23

What habitat. That's the problem. Their forests have been replaced with Oil Palm monoculture for human consumption. It may not be ideal to see them in zoos but most zoos are involved with conservation and breeding programs that may help preserve endangered species while humanity gets it's shit together, if humanity can get it's shit together. If we can't then we will soon be joining them make no mistake.

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u/Ihatu Jan 27 '23

“Maybe if I do this, they’ll finally set me free.”

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u/Cautious_Camp708 Jan 27 '23

Habitats are no longer safe. It's the way animals live now in their natural surrounding. In parts of Africa and India there is a battle going on for folks and lions and elephants to exist.

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u/V_es Jan 27 '23

They almost don’t have any natural habitat, and will definitely not have any in 20 years. Indonesia is insanely corrupt and they will not stop until all the rainforest is turned into palm oil farms.

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u/revengeOfTheSquirrel Jan 27 '23

Yeah, I’d do this too if I had nothing to do but stare at visitors all day

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u/dizzyhobo Jan 27 '23

living In basically prison cells and not in their natural habitat.

And that's why I will continue to keep tickling the feet of monkeys at the Zoo untill they ban me for life!

Then I'll go mission impossible on them and wear a prosthetic face.

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u/Username_Checks__Owt Jan 26 '23

Orangutan see, orangutan do

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u/goose_gladwell Jan 27 '23

Orangutan pee all over you

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u/Kind_Hyena5267 Jan 26 '23

I love that she knows to wring out the cloth, too! Smart little lady

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u/Necessary_Fail_8764 Jan 27 '23

I know. That's the first thing I noticed. She's very smart.

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u/Sea_Analysis_8033 Jan 26 '23

I really think orangutans are smarter than we have been able to quantify so far.

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u/OldGregg_IRL Jan 26 '23

Good monke

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u/BEZ_T Jan 27 '23

I see primates doing their thing and I'm genuinely humbled by them. There is all this physical power they possess and yet there is a sense of innocence and curiosity.

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u/dtrkrs Jan 26 '23

Dawn of the Planet of Orangutans

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u/T00MuchStimuli Jan 27 '23

Proof: Dawn’s tough on grease.

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u/Confident-Area-6946 Jan 27 '23

Monkee is corporate marketing play.

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u/RockyJayyy Jan 27 '23

Lol I thought it said she saw zoo workers cleaning off after a shit.

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u/totallyshadical Jan 26 '23

The other ones like bro wtf u doing

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u/HezFez238 Jan 27 '23

The wringing of the towel is what gets me. She’s perfect.

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u/WormThatSleepsLate Jan 27 '23

Honestly, this strikes me as incredibly sad.

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u/memecut Jan 26 '23

Excellent wring technique!

They're so strong.. I wonder if they could squeeze out more water by pressing 2 flat palms against each other, than humans can wringing..hmm

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u/Professor_Rekt Jan 27 '23

Girls got a better skin care routine than I do

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u/SmokeSkunkGetDrunk Jan 27 '23

You don’t wash your face?

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u/Significant-Tap-5420 Jan 27 '23

The way he twisted that piece of cloth was so human like!!! I'm genuinely impressed

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u/outsidepointofvi3w Jan 27 '23

I've seen pictures of orangutans using fashioned spears to fish with. Question is did they figure it out on there own or see a person do it first ? Next question does that really even matter so much if they can see it learn it and do it for themselves ? Either way it's something else. Our generally limited view of animals in is poor. Corvids have learned to use cars to crack nuts for them. They place them on the road where the tires run them over. I'd say that's using a tool as well.

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u/PetschesNo1 Jan 27 '23

Am I the only one who read „after a sh*t“?

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u/ionhowto Jan 26 '23

Nothing like a nice fresh steaming face towel

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u/No-Telephone9925 Jan 26 '23

Monkey see, monkey do

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u/Adventurous_Lime1049 Jan 26 '23

lol that’s awesome

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u/Fancy-Quality-308 Jan 27 '23

So amazing Such beautiful and smart creatures

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u/dismouse19 Jan 27 '23

They’d be better employees than people who work at walmart

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u/Any_Coyote6662 Jan 27 '23

She doesn't seem to have as much hair as a normal orangutan. They are generally not bald from the shoulder up

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u/matt11111183 Jan 27 '23

i wanna be like you oo oo

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u/matt11111183 Jan 27 '23

it's king louie!

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u/Chrispeedoff Jan 27 '23

It’s good to see William Montgomery cooling off after a good set

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u/Bendingdicks Jan 27 '23

If we let them, they will evolve into us.

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u/Sacredzebraskin Jan 27 '23

That is definitely not how evolution works...

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u/AmIhere8 Jan 27 '23

I love her

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u/cookiedux Jan 27 '23

I love it

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u/billy13th99 Jan 27 '23

Primates are just incredible

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u/RiJuElMiLu Jan 27 '23

Is she the same one that washes trees?

ETA: I googled and it's Sandra who washes the trees

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u/EntrepreneurDense391 Jan 27 '23

I wonder if the other one is going to start washing after seeing Dawn?

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u/EntrepreneurDense391 Jan 27 '23

Plus they are NOT monkeys! They are apes.

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u/han_solo_137 Jan 27 '23

Rise of the Apes

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u/the_duckk Jan 27 '23

Clean monke is happy monke.

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u/Elizabeth360 Jan 27 '23

That’s amazing!

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u/Rowmyownboat Jan 27 '23

I have seen a clip of an orangutan using tools that repairmen had left in the ape's pen overnight. She had watched them saw and hammer as they made repairs. She took up the panel saw and started sawing wood, and the hammer - hammering the wood, but without nails. I guess she might have been too far away to see that detail to copy. Very smart.

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u/Common-Breakfast-245 Jan 27 '23

Monkeh see, monkeh doo rag.

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u/Kaniel___Outis Jan 27 '23

Apes strong together!

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u/SmashTagLives Jan 27 '23

Anyone that thinks evolution isn’t real is an asshole.

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u/FunSiteyeah Jan 27 '23

god i love monekies

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u/Nigglasch Jan 27 '23

They must be so bored

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u/Potential_Garlic_403 Jan 27 '23

Potect Dawn at all costs!

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u/hevibintho Jan 27 '23

Literally monkey see monkey do

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u/Mourning-Poo Jan 27 '23

Maybe if I act like them they'll let us leave

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u/Natural_Register2299 Jan 27 '23

Learning by watching others

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u/CottMain Jan 27 '23

I hear twitter is hiring

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u/ElectricalAd9257 Jan 27 '23

Is there a com that’s nothing but monkeys doing things like this

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u/ArmoredArmadillo05 Jan 27 '23

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but you might be interested in r/animalsbeinggeniuses

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u/cezarfenix Jan 27 '23

Probably felt great

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u/practically_floored Jan 27 '23

The younger one wanted to try it too

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u/jakenash Jan 27 '23

The way she wrings out the water.

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u/Acidbrain1337 Jan 27 '23

Poor fucking dawn being imprisoned in this boring fucking place

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u/bam55 Jan 27 '23

Love you Dawn, you’re so good for me!

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u/FlounderOdd7234 Jan 27 '23

Best comments are above. They are extremely smart, enumerating human behavior. Our closest relative

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u/OGGrilledcheez Jan 27 '23

“Come on Dawn. Let me use your rag. I wanna clean off too!”

“Steal your own damn cloth Craig! Ya dirty ass having mofo. I ain’t trying to wipe my face with your skid marks and dingle berries!!!”

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u/veltcardio2 Jan 27 '23

You can look at the videos in YouTube, the orangutan baby orphans are a lot. They kill their mothers… if they survive when they rescue the babies they have to teach them how to climb, make nests, look for food… survive basically. The sad thing is that a mother will spend up to 8 years with his offspring

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u/tenzinofterror Feb 08 '23

Even folding it before she wrings it out, like a pro! That's actually crazy

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u/Slight-Carob-5696 Jan 26 '23

Works for the oil-covered ducks, works for her.

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u/theproblemismine Jan 26 '23

Definilly a female