r/nextfuckinglevel
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u/JazmynysBerg
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Jan 26 '23
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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/mrosario716 Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
Such beautiful and amazing creatures!!
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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/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/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/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/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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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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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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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/Wonderful-World1964 Jan 26 '23
So smart!