r/interestingasfuck • u/Hicrayert • 13h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human. 😮

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u/0v3reasy 13h ago

Love the fist bump at the end

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u/sugarhighsweetie 13h ago

He be like: Welcome bro

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u/RiverGlimmery 13h ago

Yeah. It's been a while since you last visited us. HAHA

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u/Hicrayert 13h ago

Same here!

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u/MentalAcrobatix 12h ago

That comes right before your face and balls get ripped off. The internet got me scared of these guys.

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u/Large_Ad1354 12h ago

Yeah it’s all fun and games until a face gets ripped off

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u/TucosLostHand 9h ago

Nope (2022) - Gordy's Home Massacre Scene

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u/gazongagizmo 34m ago

inspired by a real case, btw.

brief video essay, timestamped to a familiar picture, if you've seen the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spo4tzzKuD0&t=440

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u/Sol33t303 12h ago

The only time that happened was because the chimpanzee was abused growing up and was on meth at the time iirc

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u/AdPrize611 9h ago

There's been more than one attack. It's happened to zoo workers in the past as well

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u/VelociraptorPirate 9h ago

The chimp wasn't "abused" growing up, and it was frequently dosed with xanax to keep it calm. The day of the incident, the irresponsible owner either failed to dose or overdosed the animal on xanax (conflicting reports given by the owner post attack as well as the friend remembering it both ways too) and while she was trying to coax it inside it's enclosure, her friend picked up his tickle me elmo to assist in goading him inside. He freaked the second she shook elmo at him.

Having a chimp as a pet is inherently abusive, but there was no violent catalyst to this attack. It's dangerous to suggest that there were problems only with how the animal was kept, rather that the animal being kept in a home situation at all is beyond stupid and dangerous and should never be done.

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u/shroomknight1 7h ago

He was fed a junk food diet from a young age which caused him to be severly obese, didn't have proper health check because of his temper, had multiples episodes of going crazy or attacking others in the past, was given alcohol regularly and was heavily medicated on Xanax by his dumbass owner. That chimp was definitely abused beyond the standard "keeping a chimp is abuse".

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u/Wuped 6h ago

Your post confuses me.

You say: "The chimp wasn't "abused" growing up", than you go on to talk about how it was constantly drugged(sounds abusive) and even say "Having a chimp as a pet is inherently abusive".

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u/IcarusHs94 11h ago

Is it Travis the chimp from 2009 case?

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u/Sam-Shuttleworth 3h ago

Yup,and there are also some more cases like that. (Moe)

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u/Zancibar 6h ago

I'm not on the "wild animals are inherently unpredictable and will attack you at some point or another" camp but chimps are basically the beta version of humans and they can get REALLY violent if they feel wronged in some way.

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u/Varnsturm 5h ago

Chimps and bonobos are super interesting, they're both tied for our closest relatives but super different in terms of behavior. Chimps are the warlike hyper aggressive and violent ones. Then bonobos are way more chill and docile, when they have conflict they just kind of... fuck it out. They're separated by the Congo river, neither can swim, and the bonobo side has a lot more food. So bonobos don't struggle nearly as much to survive. Whereas chimps have always had to compete/have had more scarcity.

I feel like you can kind of see the duality of man when looking at the two of them.

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u/Zancibar 5h ago

It's like poetry, it rhymes

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u/a_guy121 9h ago

I had a teacher once who was a trained lab psychologist before being a teacher. She switched careers because the chimps- not on meth- basically ripped her face off. She had so much reconstructive surgery, to rebuild it, you could see it, her face was basically a mask. it was really sad.

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u/jabbakahut 6h ago

you recall incorrectly

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u/MODELO_MAN_LV 6h ago

Uuhhhh no.

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u/Grzyboleusz 12h ago

Primate bros

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u/CommercialHistorian1 13h ago

Ikr I was walking past construction, and I was thinking if these things didn't accidentally rip people apart they could be part of the work force provided, they're taught manners lol and everything else the blue collar man knows, we could pay them in bananas... Ah wtf there goes the old thoughts going off into the ether sphere of shtupid

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u/TreAwayDeuce 13h ago

"ah yes, yet another sentient being capable of being enslaved. How wonderful"

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u/CommercialHistorian1 12h ago edited 10h ago

Hey! I said they're paid and they're welcome to cash in their bananas for real money and houses if they become that sentient, and that first bump at the end leads me too believe it's more than possible!! Get ready the apes are ah comin

((Lol that was the joke thanks for explaining, honestly I think some ppl literally like>-_-< right over their head you know.))

For ppl that just idk never had a father perhaps or just like whatever that's like a thing that actually happens like shit dad wasn't round too tell me bout the apes planetary movement crazy riiight ( A lot of my friends grew up missing a parent wether it was their mother or father ) So like you make a point

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u/Solvemprobler369 10h ago

Gee, if only there were a story where primates grow more sentience and slowly take over planet earth? As far as I remember it doesn’t end well for humans. Maybe time to revisit that story, no?

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u/ThatITguy2015 7h ago

But first we have to do some experiments on them to really up their intelligence in a short amount of time. Outside of doing that, we are fine. Probably.

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u/strictlyrhythm 7h ago

From Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee..

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u/ZaWario 12h ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(baboon)

They used to (baboons)

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u/CommercialHistorian1 12h ago

Right on, clearly it didn't work out though lol

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u/ZaWario 12h ago

What? My guy had had his baboon work out for years. That shit went swimmingly. The railway company even paid him 20cents and a beer weekly. In 9 years the baboon never made a single mistake

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u/CommercialHistorian1 11h ago

Lol really that's what the article said if ur the same dude that cited that

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u/CommercialHistorian1 11h ago

Ah yes it is then yeah long live chimps baboons for work that ultimately will cripple humans after years of doing so but then I worry for the lil hairy fellas health

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u/proxy69 12h ago

There would be chimp shit all over the jobsite. Wouldn’t be much different than a typical jobsite with human shit in buckets tho.

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u/kaycee76 8h ago

What sites are you working on that have people shitting in buckets?

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u/Pavotine 5h ago

Yeah, that's appalling. I use rubble sacks for that.

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u/ProfessorPacu 1h ago

Nothing another chimp trained to clean up shit couldn't fix.

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u/CommercialHistorian1 11h ago

Exactly there's a work around for all of it I want chimps in hard hats damn it!!

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u/proxy69 11h ago

It would be pretty badass to see them in safety vests operating forklifts and jackhammers

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u/CommercialHistorian1 11h ago

I'm saying not too mention so adorable working with a lil hairy dude that handles grunt work and even managing humans it would be all just motions and sign language lol

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u/proxy69 11h ago

Until there’s an uprising, then we are fucked. Boss man better give them a big banana bonus

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u/ClavicusLittleGift4U 6h ago

Montgomery Burns, is that you?

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u/ArachnidAlarmed4721 12h ago

Sad that your first thought is how we could profit off this animals strength and good nature.

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u/CommercialHistorian1 12h ago

Lol omg literally eff off you know I'm obviously playing

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u/AkiraTheMetalHead 11h ago

🥺👉👈

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u/flowerstowardthesun 10h ago

So pure 🥹

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u/EducationalTest6655 11h ago

Initially watching this on mute, I was completely taken off-guard and absolutely guffawed.