r/BeAmazed • u/LarryKeene • Mar 03 '25

Animal Orangutan asked to see one-month-old baby! 🧡

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u/SomethingAbtU Mar 03 '25

Orangutans always seem so wise, like they know the secrets of the universe.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

I read a comment by a zookeeper once, he said if you accidentally leave a screwdriver in a gorilla cage, they will inspect it and figure out that it's not food and ignore it. If you leave it in a chimp cage, they will use it as a weapon. If you leave it in an orangutan cage, they will hide it and figure out how to use it to escape 

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u/FreeTucker- Mar 03 '25

Sometimes I wonder where we'd be at as a society if our closest relatives were orangutans rather than chimps

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u/EfficientLocksmith66 Mar 03 '25

We're neither after all. There have been peaceful and violent human societies for as long as we existed. The fact that we currently live in a world of turmoil, does not mean peace doesn't exist, or that humans are bad per se.

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u/Admiral_Fuckwit Mar 04 '25

Violence is actually at an all-time low in human history. Although it may not seem like it, the 24 hour news cycle gives the false impression of more violence & turmoil than there really is.

Steven Pinker wrote an excellent book on this topic called “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined”

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u/Relysti Mar 04 '25

Not to ruin your image of orangutans but they can be a little uhhh...rapey

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u/FreeTucker- Mar 04 '25

Oh man wait til you hear about their bald cousins

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u/MisterEvilBreakfast Mar 04 '25

Escaping from the zoo, most likely.

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u/HenryTheWho Mar 04 '25

Well it's a tie with bonobos and chimps