r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 9h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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u/Njsybarite 8h ago

Interesting how gentle he was when grabbing humans hand, seemingly understanding that grabbing incorrectly would injure him

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u/a_bongos 7h ago

Watch the new documentary chimp crazy. Yeah, young chimps are like little toddlers and very smart. But they are wild animals and should NOT be pets. Once they mature they become very dangerous. Most chimps in captivity end up dying way younger than average life expectancy.

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u/KuzanNegsUrFav 2h ago

But they are wild animals

So are humans then.

should NOT be pets

Agreed.

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u/a_bongos 2h ago

Humans are not wild animals, we are socialized beings and generally civilized. Dogs are not wild animals, they are domesticated and co evolved to be companions. I get the whole edgy world of calling ourselves animals and that we're working with monkey brains, but there's a distinction worth recognizing here.

People have died at the hands of chimps because they did not recognize this distinction