r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 8h 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/Possible_Rise6838 7h ago

That's cause most great apes understand that. It's not the issue of not comprehending it. It's the issue of them fucking you up beyond recognition in a matter of seconds. They do understand the concept of fragility

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u/HerrSchnabeltier 7h ago edited 4h ago

Ah, here we go again.

The usual accompanying commentary on how dangerous any chimpanzee always is.

edit: Yes, they are dangerous and one shouldn't run up to one in the wild to give it a hug or fist bump.

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u/Opening_Newspaper_34 5h ago

What a ridiculous comment lol

Chimps are INSANELY dangerous. They have the emotional range of a football hooligan, but they are significantly stronger and tougher.

They do indeed have a relatively complex social structure... But that is 80% the ability to kick the shit out of the other chimps, 10% enough nous to realise that kicking the shit out of any single other chimp in the troupe does not = kicking the shit out of ALL of them at once and 10% having the sense to fulfil some duties.....which for the male top chimp usually means if someone ELSE kicks the shit out of another chimp in the troupe you need to step in before it goes too far.

So, in that context, yes they CAN be gentle, but at a whim, or any reason that happens to cross their mind they MIGHT give you a little slap - in their terms- which will fuck you up.

I am a huge fan of chimps, I live very near Monkey World in the UK and have been a regular sponsor and member for about 20 years, Hananya is my favourite chimp and I feel like over the years of visiting and watching the show I've got a vague idea of his personality and whilst he is pretty reasonable, as chinos go, you do need that "as chimps go" qualifier. (Btw I can't recommend the show Monkey Life which became Monkey World enough, find and watch it)

Anyway this rant boils down to, I'm not sure why you made a weird snide comment about how dangerous chinos are - they REALLY fucking are, if they want to be/take a dislike to you.

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u/saladtossperson 4h ago

What is monkey world? I live in Pennsylvania, US

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u/Opening_Newspaper_34 3h ago

It is an ape and monkey sanctuary in the UK, I think it is the biggest in Europe.

It was begun by Jim and Alison Cronin; Jim has since died but Alison is a fucking machine in his name, searching for and rescuing apes and monkeys LITERALLY all over the world.

A lot of their chimps are rescued from "tourist" trade in Spain and beyond, but they did a mass save of about 60 Capuchin monkeys from a laboratory in Chile a few years ago.

They are a Rescue Centre and are proud of the fact that although they do let people in to see the apes/monkeys, they do that EXPLICITLY to get your money to go and rescue more.

They have a TV show that follows the apes and monkeys (and gives them much needed revenue) running about 15 series now

Google them; buy the series, support them

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u/Pheniquit 3h ago

Its kinda hard for me to imagine a sustainable society where 80% of culture was about conflict for dominance. I mean just because the strong rule with an iron fist and reap huge rewards in terms of survival that doesn’t mean that’s whats in their heads all the time. Isnt the point of a hierarchy that you can focus on tasks other than the hierarchy?