The Terrifying Truth About Chimps

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  • @mndiaye_97
    @mndiaye_97  Год назад +1048

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    • @yamikage252
      @yamikage252 Год назад +6

      o

    • @ajanidavis6771
      @ajanidavis6771 Год назад +3

      Brother man I wholeheartedly, 100%, agree with the avoiding humanity completely

    • @EarlSmith2469
      @EarlSmith2469 Год назад +2

      love the video, thank you!

    • @jackbrenner6340
      @jackbrenner6340 Год назад +6

      bet you can't say anything messed up about manatees the great sea potato other than who hunts them

    • @godofqueef2754
      @godofqueef2754 Год назад +1

      Imma Google it

  • @unknownvariable9239
    @unknownvariable9239 Год назад +17822

    Chimps have always terrified me, way scarier than any shark. Mostly because they’re so human-like but also so unhinged and wild.

  • @randomcenturion7264
    @randomcenturion7264 Год назад +4419

    Chimps are bloody terrifying. They've got the capacity to be both kind and cruel.

  • @stevencoffin328
    @stevencoffin328 Год назад +1855

    I think what is so scary about the Travis story is that whenever you hear about for example somebody getting mauled by their "pet" tiger it's because the tiger was rough housing with their owner and just didn't know their own strength. If a tiger wanted to actually kill them, they would done it easily.
    Travis not only wanted to kill that woman but wanted to drag it out and make it as slow and painful as possible.

    • @WLongDoesWStuff
      @WLongDoesWStuff 11 месяцев назад +218

      Travis is also a sentient being like a human, with a large brain, who was abused and on Xanax.

    • @Farah.tics23
      @Farah.tics23 11 месяцев назад +156

      Good. Animals are wild for a reason. That’s why you don’t drug animals like that.

    • @Farah.tics23
      @Farah.tics23 11 месяцев назад +26

      @@WLongDoesWStuffExactlyyyy

    • @snazzyjovialwyrm3314
      @snazzyjovialwyrm3314 11 месяцев назад +106

      @@WLongDoesWStuff A large brain that is still developing and doesn't completely comprehend human nature, if at all, at that. I don't know how people think they can raise chimps without problems.

    • @WLongDoesWStuff
      @WLongDoesWStuff 11 месяцев назад

      @@snazzyjovialwyrm3314 Yeah, well, it still comprehends. Though it's got a smaller brain, and is still developing, it's not going to be a war waging killing machine by instinct. You do realize that there's undocumented cases of people raising chimpanzees. Not every chimp will rip someone's face off. Obviously it was provoked.

  • @Noodleydoo
    @Noodleydoo 6 месяцев назад +205

    I have a friend named Glen who used to work at the Dallas Zoo. He told me he would rather go into the lion enclosure than the Chimpanzee's. He said people have no idea how strong they are--or how vicious!

    • @LaVitaNouva
      @LaVitaNouva 4 месяца назад +17

      And if lion decided to kill you, they make you a quick meal, the chimp will have *fun* first.

    • @Xuno-cr6fb
      @Xuno-cr6fb 3 месяца назад +4

      Why do I feel like this is glen from Tre rags videos 😂

    • @shadowtail4063
      @shadowtail4063 5 дней назад +1

      They go for the balls,nose and eyes first. They are all fast twitch muscle

  • @Woodsy2575
    @Woodsy2575 Год назад +8053

    If anyone is interested in more chimp stuff, look up the Chimp War. Observed by Jane Goodall and her team, a community of chimps broke into two distinct tribes that systematically hunted each other down one at a time. They were seen using stealth tactics such as walking single file, and remaining silent as they crept up and encircled their targets before ambushing them.

    • @theflyingdutchguy9870
      @theflyingdutchguy9870 Год назад +330

      seen that docu a vew times. its so crazy

    • @durrangodsgrief6503
      @durrangodsgrief6503 Год назад

      Chimps are just us with no morals

    • @zigmand88
      @zigmand88 Год назад +567

      Chimpanzees wage wars as horrible as humans did in the last great extinction, about 150,000 years ago.
      Planet of the apes is not that fictional as one might think firstly.

    • @That_Doctor_Del_Fella
      @That_Doctor_Del_Fella Год назад +720

      They're experts at... gorilla warfare. I'll see myself out.

    • @ANunes06
      @ANunes06 Год назад +426

      Can't help but wonder how the feud started. If it was a simple issue of limited resources, chumps will usually just break off into smaller groups and ... you know ... leave. Maybe compete for a couple years before one group's dominance is secured and THEN one of them leaves for greener pastures.
      That time? Nope. It suggests some kind of legitimate *disagreement* on something (probably resource distribution or the breeding situation). And THAT indicates a level of cultural development in Chimpanzees that I am simply not comfortable acknowledging as even a possibility.

  • @stateyourname7745
    @stateyourname7745 Год назад +10670

    I volunteered at a zoo marketing department for a while, but by weird coincidence got to share the bus home with the animal care crew, they were very nice people, very open to chat and share photos and stories of the wild animals. I once asked them which animal was the one they had to be most careful around, expecting the answer to be tigers, all of them in unison agreed: never be alone or distracted in a room with Chimps.

    • @DaxterL
      @DaxterL Год назад +1755

      From seeing videos of zoo keepers or animal workers at reservations and stuff, play with tigers, giving belly rubs and having such trust with sn animal, i can picture why a chimp would be their option to be careful around. I mean they need to be vigilant around any animal, but chimps are our closest relative, and we know what we are capable of.

    • @joshuaashton1929
      @joshuaashton1929 Год назад +1455

      @@DaxterL no it’s more that they are just too smart to be treated like a pet. And also that they’ll rip your face off for no reason.

    • @mridulbisht9865
      @mridulbisht9865 Год назад +424

      @@joshuaashton1929 the reason is you disrespected chimp culture mate.

    • @LordBrittish
      @LordBrittish Год назад +284

      @@joshuaashton1929 Exactly. Just like humans.

    • @user-wn3wv5bx5e
      @user-wn3wv5bx5e Год назад +654

      ​@@joshuaashton1929 Well, yeah, since they're the closest relative to us they're too smart to be treated like a pet. This isn't to offend the other animals but there's a reason why you can't treat a human like a pet, and the smarter the animal, the more attitude that'll come with knowledge.
      Only problem is that chimps, while intelligent, are emotionally not unless you _really_ dedicate your time raising it. At least with humans it wouldn't have the power to rip your face off when you try teaching it morals, chimps have the power and they _know_ they have the power.

  • @derrickbartledoo2680
    @derrickbartledoo2680 Год назад +622

    Komodo dragons are way faster than I imagined. That's genuinely terrifying to know something that big, strong, venomous and heavy is also capable of flashing across a room towards you.

    • @Kden420
      @Kden420 Год назад +70

      Reptiles are extremely fast. But they have terrible stamina. At some point their power literally runs out like a battery and they need to sit in the sun for a few hours to recharge.

    • @benmorrow9487
      @benmorrow9487 Год назад +7

      I once saw a video of a Komodo eating a monkey. 🤣

    • @Joshua_Hale
      @Joshua_Hale 11 месяцев назад +37

      @@Kden420 While generally true, it's worth noting that monitor lizards have a more efficient respiration and cardio system than other lizards, so they are able to act as true pursuit hunters.

    • @user_anonymous000
      @user_anonymous000 10 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@Joshua_Haleyou talk like chatgpt

    • @Narutass43
      @Narutass43 9 месяцев назад +19

      They're in the one family of lizards that unlocked the lifehack of "run and breathe at the same time"

  • @dreamcatcherjulie1
    @dreamcatcherjulie1 Год назад +83

    "I was seven but I wasn't stupid" 😅🤣...Loved the video, you have a great voice for this. I find the whole ape family interesting and watch a lot of videos about them. Good job. Thanks for making.

  • @unknownvariable9239
    @unknownvariable9239 Год назад +17465

    I’m genuinely shocked that any of these people managed to get so close to chimps and even escape alive.

    • @starchiild622
      @starchiild622 Год назад +101

      congrats on being both top comments

    • @qualitymcbro8452
      @qualitymcbro8452 Год назад +27

      @Don't Read My Profile Photo I've followed this before and I thoroughly respect it.

    • @brigidtheirish
      @brigidtheirish Год назад +77

      I suspect heavy use of telescopic lens for most of these shots.

    • @kekekeke2200
      @kekekeke2200 Год назад +36

      Altough, there are a bunch of russians who have Bears as pets

    • @dracodracarys2339
      @dracodracarys2339 Год назад +103

      which is why jane goodall is a badass, she managed to convince an entire species of murderous psychopaths that she wasn't any fun to rip to shreds

  • @Irmatu
    @Irmatu Год назад +1465

    How that man escaped with his doctorate intact is insane.

    • @bahhumbug5467
      @bahhumbug5467 Год назад

      @Pig 🅥 isn’t that techno blades pfp? That’s really fucked mann

    • @manubishe
      @manubishe Год назад +111

      1930s were wild.

    • @Vlad_Tepes_III
      @Vlad_Tepes_III Год назад +31

      Those were the days, the good old days.../s

    • @patrickloureiro351
      @patrickloureiro351 Год назад

      @@manubishe just have either money, connections or "respect" and you could kill someone in broad daylight and get alway with.
      Edit: oh, and being family members with a politician was even more of a cheat code back then.

    • @rampage3337
      @rampage3337 Год назад

      i think the last insane asylum in USA stopped experimenting on mentally sick patients in like the late 90s. you know experimenting on the mentally sick and those who have mental birth defects like ADHD and such. the shit the germans did to the jews happened to allot of people in the asylums to. so times use to be different and your morals are not based on what is morally right or wrong it's based on what society tells you is right or wrong. just as far back as 2010 chocolate balls where still called nigger balls in sweden

  • @anthonytonythegeek5561
    @anthonytonythegeek5561 11 месяцев назад +177

    The 09 incident is honestly the most unsettling thing I’ve heard, I remember hearing about this when it happened, and I was young at the time (like seven years old) and even then I knew that would be terrifying, but after actually looking back, and seeing what happened, it’s truly unsettling. Also the fact that someone can have a pet that has almost 90 percent of their dna that is similar to ours is a little… odd to say the least

    • @Narutass43
      @Narutass43 9 месяцев назад

      Great apes deserve personhood. No question.

    • @stefanidowling
      @stefanidowling 5 месяцев назад +9

      I agree that’s very odd, plain weird etc. Why the hell anyone would want a chimpanzee as a pet is bananas!! 😉😆 They are terrifying to me. Just hearing about what they do to other animals is horrific so, why would anyone want to take the risk of being mauled possibly to deletion…One last thing, they’re not even close to being cute (those things are so damn ugly).

    • @2freezing
      @2freezing 4 месяца назад +1

      I was 9

  • @jimjoyce4423
    @jimjoyce4423 Год назад +61

    I love how comfortable you are just being real. Keep stepping bro

  • @pux0rb
    @pux0rb Год назад +1911

    Yeah the Komodo is an instant out for me. I remember watching Steve Irwin back in the day and I've never seen the man more scared than when he was on an island with those things. He had to be extra cautious with every move, and this is the man that would swim in shallow croc-infested waters. I gained a true appreciation and respect for the Komodo dragon after watching that episode.

    • @MurasakiTsukimaru
      @MurasakiTsukimaru Год назад +58

      Idk, you ever see him cross waters filled with hippos?

    • @michaeldavid6832
      @michaeldavid6832 Год назад +216

      didn't he get a cut on his leg and the dragon instantly went switched over into hunt mode for the thing it detected was bleeding (Steve)?

    • @pux0rb
      @pux0rb Год назад +178

      @@michaeldavid6832 Yep, he had to run straight up a tree

    • @michaeldavid6832
      @michaeldavid6832 Год назад +153

      @@pux0rb I haven't seen that once since around when it aired. I was shocked at how the dragon instantly detected the blood and instantly turned into a killer on the hunt.

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee Год назад +51

      @@pux0rb Yeah, didn't it bite into the heel of his boot? Like they showed it and everything after split open with venom/saliva in it, didn't they? It's been decades since I saw that episode, so could be misremembering.

  • @ImperiousMax
    @ImperiousMax Год назад +3489

    What's worse regarding Travis' case is one of his owners, Jerome, Sandra's late husband, actually told Sandra before his death to put Travis into a sanctuary after his death because he wasn't sure Sandra could take care of him on her own. But Sandra refused because she didn't want to be alone... To think that if she had done just that then that whole incident could've been avoided.

    • @theblackcatgirl7013
      @theblackcatgirl7013 Год назад +199

      That entire situation is messed up and so so so damn heartbreaking hook, line and sinker.

    • @user-wn3wv5bx5e
      @user-wn3wv5bx5e Год назад +246

      I do feel quite bad for Sandra if that were the reason though. Someone in that emotional state won't think straight, especially in an older age. She should've taken Travis back, but raising Travis must've brought a lot of memories that made her too overwhelmed to do so.

    • @Leapingriver
      @Leapingriver Год назад +263

      They honestly shouldn't have had a chimp to begin with, let alone a full grown male. Its ridiculous she didn't put him in a sanctuary considering he already bit people.

    • @user-uq9oe7sc5m
      @user-uq9oe7sc5m Год назад +96

      So he was living with an emotionally unstable woman? Is it *really* a wonder why he snaped?

    • @Bender789456123
      @Bender789456123 Год назад +11

      @@theblackcatgirl7013 It's "hook, line and sinker" not center FYI 😋

  • @jasminedavis3030
    @jasminedavis3030 Год назад +37

    Funny thing about Komodo dragons, is there was a recorded case of a man dying from TWO he had in his home. One of them had bit him, and causing paralysis, and with him unable to fight back, the two giant reptiles of them pretty much ate him alive. Police found his half eaten corpse 2-3 days later, when his boss (or family) reported him missing and they did a wellness check.

    • @indigo0977
      @indigo0977 5 месяцев назад +8

      I feel most sorry for the policeman in this scenario. The owner chose to keep the lizards, but just imagine being sent out on a welfare check and encountering 2 komodo dragons and a half-eaten corpse...

    • @us3rG
      @us3rG 2 дня назад

      ​@@indigo0977untill recent years things like that were common

  • @johnkaeden
    @johnkaeden Год назад +53

    You sir, have made all of RUclips a better place. If I'm like the average viewer, then you haven given smiles and laughter to thousands of people. Never stop making videos!

  • @noahleonard2481
    @noahleonard2481 Год назад +2661

    I remember being in kindergarten in a town right next to Stamford and hearing about Travis tearing that lady’s face off from two of the teachers having a discussion. The one telling the story was so surprised by it, but the other teacher was super nonchalant and just went “I don’t care that he was raised like a human, it’s still a fucking chimp.”

    • @manswithnocheese.0.243
      @manswithnocheese.0.243 Год назад

      “Goddamnit I don’t care if it was raised like a damn human, it’s still a chimp! They are scarily similar to humans Dane! I will bet real money that at least 40 of them could kill everyone in this school.”

    • @fishmcfish3850
      @fishmcfish3850 Год назад +396

      I feel like that's how most people should really treat any animal other than dogs and cats to avoid 90% of news headlines

    • @hadbetterdays8118
      @hadbetterdays8118 Год назад +90

      True at the end of the day nature will sometimes best nurture

    • @kingdribs9286
      @kingdribs9286 Год назад

      @@hadbetterdays8118 and when it does you die like an idiot. Just keep a fcking house cat

    • @Ilivedbih
      @Ilivedbih Год назад +128

      @@fishmcfish3850 There's more animals other than cats and dogs that can be pets ☠️. Hell, there's way more less dangerous pets to have than dogs and cats lmfao.
      My little birb is sure as hell less dangerous than my aunt's cat.
      She started to eat her face when she got drunk and passed out lmao, also tries to scratch out anyone's eyes when they visit 😆.

  • @Johollister
    @Johollister Год назад +2371

    Sooooo I got a chimp throwing things story. Many years ago, I was visiting a zoo and went to check out the chimps. They had a fairly nice(for a zoo) open enclosure surrounded by a moat. Two girls standing next to me thought it would be funny to toss ice cubes at the chimps. I was going to hollar for a zoo keeper, but then the largest chimp started tossing TURDS at the girls. They ran away screaming, then the chimp looked at me with a "hey you're cool you can hang" expression and he settled back down.

    • @residentrump3271
      @residentrump3271 Год назад +1

      Few things in this world are more horrific than flying feces, but it sounds like those girls deserved it

    • @MrDibara
      @MrDibara Год назад +1

      😳 You sure were lucky that chimp was fair and recognized you were not a douche.

    • @revenger211
      @revenger211 Год назад +2

      The chimp really went "you're one of the homies now"

    • @Alan_Marin
      @Alan_Marin Год назад +551

      *Those girls definitely won a stupid prize for sure*

    • @SynnJynn
      @SynnJynn Год назад +55

      SMH...

  • @derrickallen2054
    @derrickallen2054 Год назад +65

    My dude, you've got an interesting delivery with your videos, quick, informative, and funny. And it's refreshing to hear someone make light hearted jokes about race, especially when that person is a minority. You've earned yourself a sub. Keep doing what you're doing ✌🏻

  • @cats1478
    @cats1478 3 месяца назад +4

    I rarely comment on videos. Actually, I'm commenting on you. What an amazing talent you are. I can see you going mainstream and doing the nightly news. Thank you so much for all the effort and thought you put into your videos. I have enjoyed them all. Take good care.

  • @lilitharam44
    @lilitharam44 Год назад +2463

    Komodos have actually been clicker trained, are as intelligent as a dog, and can recognize the zoo keepers and other humans who have interacted with them. They also don't generally bite unless they are hunting or hungry. I love but respect them. The ones at the Memphis Zoo are awesome! Love from Memphis!

    • @coffeewolfproductions9113
      @coffeewolfproductions9113 Год назад +244

      While that is true it takes time to train a komodo and unless you're already on friendly terms I wouldn't take the risk with a komodo.

    • @omarsali2990
      @omarsali2990 Год назад +148

      @@coffeewolfproductions9113 if he's not familiar with you that only means you're a nice meal

    • @touremuhammad5983
      @touremuhammad5983 Год назад +62

      Yeah, but in the wild they dig up cemeteries & feed on people’s corpses. That’s how they sometimes go after people.

    • @kitlee172
      @kitlee172 Год назад +19

      At least Komodos can’t fit through commodos. 🚽💩🦎🪠

    • @rampage3337
      @rampage3337 Год назад

      the vast vast majority of animals can recognize human friends. and clicker training is something allot of animals can do and don't make them any smarter. and they literally do generally bite people. a fucking zoo tiger also rarely bites people but they can still do it and they do still do it occasionally. there are allot of animals that can be trained to tolerate people but it don't make them ignore their natural urges. humans are probably the only animal that can ignore natural biological urges because of our intellect allowing us to overpower biology with rules of society as it has a higher chance of survival and our brains know that. the only thing that makes murder wrong is society saying it's wrong. by nature we humans are made to kill and wars go back as far as humans go. the earliest signs of humans is also about the time we saw the earliest signs of war and execution.

  • @Replicaate
    @Replicaate Год назад +946

    There was a story I heard of a chimp warlord (for lack of a better term) who was the head of one of the most brutal chimp bands in a region, but after one of his closest 'friends' was killed he seemed to lose interest in his ongoing brutal gang wars and vanished, and his massive group fell into infighting and split up.
    The old warlord was found some time later with a new band, mostly young orphans and they all stayed WELL out of the monkey warzones on their travels. Guess he had a change of heart and felt that his remaining years were better served protecting instead of murdering.

    • @r.j.penfold
      @r.j.penfold Год назад +110

      Oh that's pretty neat

    • @michaeldavid6832
      @michaeldavid6832 Год назад +186

      Sounds like his buddy was the instigator. "Hey BoBo, you gonna let him talk that ish to you?"

    • @MilloSpiegel
      @MilloSpiegel Год назад

      @@michaeldavid6832 bobo, do you seee the Chimp over there? He called your mother a dirty Bonobo. Are you gonna let that slide? If

    • @williamthomas4769
      @williamthomas4769 Год назад +14

      ...wow.😲

    • @manswithnocheese.0.243
      @manswithnocheese.0.243 Год назад +1

      goddamn monkey man got so sad over his friends death that he didnt want to lose any more friends

  • @1fishmob
    @1fishmob 11 месяцев назад +12

    The sad thing is, they originally planned on sending Travis to a chimp sanctuary like her husband requested, but she couldn't bring herself to part with Travis. That whole event could have been avoided.

  • @simplygaming2280
    @simplygaming2280 7 месяцев назад +2

    I stumbled across your channel a few months back, my son and I love it! We make it a thing every weekend to get up and watch a few episodes so thank you for being funny and educational to us both :)

  • @MrJaCraig
    @MrJaCraig Год назад +1548

    Just want to add that it was Kellog's wife who made him kill the project, not him. She was the one who was worried about the son's development. Learned about this one in an ethics course.

    • @ahsanhaider6549
      @ahsanhaider6549 Год назад +178

      "..he had no tolerance for unethical people"
      wow..just wow

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Год назад +148

      @@ahsanhaider6549 Hypocrisy is humanity's most prominant trait.

    • @greenanubis
      @greenanubis Год назад +21

      @@concept5631 Boy, youre right! We do the same thing as Kellog, but on industrial large scale in schools. Its the same process.

    • @bob7975
      @bob7975 Год назад +78

      The Stanford experiment was shut down by the girlfriend of one of the researchers. He made the mistake of showing off to her what they were doing (she was also a researcher on a different project). She was absolutely horrified, as of course she was, and threatened to bring outside authorities into the situation. End of study. Sorry, everybody. Sorry.

    • @paul_particularlyunhappynut
      @paul_particularlyunhappynut Год назад

      isn't that the same nigga who wide spread circumcision? fuck that guy

  • @fox-dies
    @fox-dies Год назад +4874

    also! definitely agree on the gorilla part. gorillas are terrifyingly strong, but they are also pretty passive if you're not threatening. theres videos of wild life photographers being approached by whole families of gorillas who just sorta chill around them and sniff them and play with their clothes.

    • @ThexDynastxQueen
      @ThexDynastxQueen Год назад +578

      Only time I've seen a gorilla be aggressive towards humans in the wild was when a film crew got way too close but even then the male gorilla gave a warning charge and didn't just attack.
      It's like it knew the crew wasn't holding a gun nor wanted to hurt them, they just needed to back TF up lol. Amazing creatures.

    • @anim8dideas849
      @anim8dideas849 Год назад +29

      I'd say it's depends on your size the bigger you are the more threading your are. at my size I would have chosen a komodo cuz the pic with the man holding it like a dog and not getting bit and two it's cold bold so you only have to fight it for like 2 minute b4 it gases out. if its hungry and big enough to not see you as a predator then I just flip the bed over on it and sit on it. I'd choose an average 5-7 foot komodo 100lb komodo over an 400lb gorilla any day.ty

    • @griffinmckenzie7203
      @griffinmckenzie7203 Год назад +283

      @@anim8dideas849 you'd have a higher chance of surviving your lost fight with the gorilla than the komodo, bud. Stop fooling yourself.

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 Год назад +182

      It's also likely those gorillas have become accustomed to having humans visit and take pictures, which is getting to be an issue. Even with the usual warnings about minimizing direct contact with wild animals, some of them are becoming very comfortable around humans - which is all well and good and cute until poachers show up.

    • @kiki13451
      @kiki13451 Год назад +36

      @@anim8dideas849 idk about your size but I’m not choosing a Komodo who’d probably be the same size as me 😂😂

  • @user-kr8qo9yq4k
    @user-kr8qo9yq4k 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks man I appreciate you making these videos and I hope that you have a blessed day

  • @avacornthelastponybender8583
    @avacornthelastponybender8583 Месяц назад +11

    Lady: ~holds Travis the Chimps Elmo~
    Travis the Chimp: "Peace was never a f***ing option!"

  • @micheleportatadino5919
    @micheleportatadino5919 Год назад +1807

    I knew the tragic story of Travis, and there are plenty of gut-punching details I guess couldn’t be mentioned for time reasons: his foster father had died of cancer a few years before, so did his foster sister in car accident; those events and the subsequent depression of his foster mother sunk the chimp into a depressive state of mind as well, so much that his foster mom thought it was a good idea to cure him with antidepressants for humans.
    The day he mauled Charla Nash she had her hair dyed red, she exited the car with an Elmo toy which was also bright red, that may be the reason he snapped. That and the fact he was overweight, depressed and on drugs. It’s still uncertain.
    Oh and you forgot a couple of disturbing facts: the humanzee experiments/theories and the chimp clans war known as the Chimp Gombe War.

    • @TF2CrunchyFrog
      @TF2CrunchyFrog Год назад +219

      Yeah, the "Humanzee" experiments were another class of bonkers. Thankfully the guy who wanted to see if human women would be impregnated by sperm from a chimp was shut down before the experiment went into the final phase. Although I read he had found women willing to try it.

    • @devinwhite5064
      @devinwhite5064 Год назад +160

      @@TF2CrunchyFrog morals are surprisingly flexible for people. Like that quote says, "Everybody's got a price"

    • @captoshuragnarok7444
      @captoshuragnarok7444 Год назад +61

      "One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug." Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee Год назад +18

      I lived in Connecticut not too far from where this happened, when it happened. It was so surreal.

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 Год назад +31

      I lived in Fairfield Connecticut when this happened. The friend hadn’t done anything different. She visited often and hadn’t changed her appearance. They looked into anything and had to say, basically, chimp on drugs. The tax payers paid for this Sherlock Holmes reveal

  • @anonymoususer2280
    @anonymoususer2280 Год назад +2630

    7:20 it was stated that the chimp was mourning his "father", who died from cancer but with Travis being a chimp, he couldn't express his emotions properly and started acting out more, hence the medication. She should've listened to her late husband who told her that if anything happened to him, to give Travis to the zoo. It's all in a documentary about the chimp.

    • @mariofan1ish
      @mariofan1ish Год назад +155

      That's an interesting detail, actually. Do you think he knew what Travis would do, or that he didn't trust his wife to properly care for Travis?

    • @gothicMCRgirl
      @gothicMCRgirl Год назад +327

      Yes, Travis had already been showing signs of aggression once he reached maturity, and the husband was ready to give him up but his wife was always reluctant. They shouldn’t have had Travis to begin with, but if they had just simply given up Travis to a sanctuary, that whole tragedy could’ve been prevented.

    • @DragoEpyon
      @DragoEpyon Год назад

      @@gothicMCRgirl Also could have been avoided if they put the little fucker in the ground the second he started being aggressive.

    • @JuMiKu
      @JuMiKu Год назад +97

      @@gothicMCRgirl No wonder. That is what always happens. That has been the fate of all those movie-chimps. They reach maturity and start becoming dangerous and so they are replaced by a new younger chimp. Good luck finding a zoo willing to take such a chimp, let alone a male, as they are always notoriously hard to find a home for.
      Most of these poor, unsocialized male chimps end up whiling away for decades in cages, as they can't be integrated into groups. Very few are lucky enough to at least end up in a sanctuary and not in a tiny cage in a roadside "zoo".

    • @kingwillie206
      @kingwillie206 Год назад +1

      Given the assumed intelligence level and observed level of social complexity chimps display, I imagine it is many orders of magnitude more complicated than that. An adult chimp has all of the same basic needs an adult human needs and not have those needs met most likely drove him insane. Not enough exercise, an intrinsic testosterone driven urge for intercourse, a dysfunctional make shift family life etc. Not only could he not express his emotions properly, but he had no natural outlet for them.

  • @whitejesus983
    @whitejesus983 Год назад +2

    Informative and comedic, im here for it. Keep up the awesome content.

  • @felineb751
    @felineb751 Год назад +3

    I love how you tell each story with hilarious commentary 😂😂😂

  • @engagingbus7991
    @engagingbus7991 Год назад +2354

    That second to last video made me realize that if you do not do anything absolutely stupid with the gorilla, you can eat fruit with it, sit around, look non-threatening, and just chill out.

    • @zsu-23-4shilka2
      @zsu-23-4shilka2 Год назад +561

      _(sits in room with large silverback gorilla just watching television & eating sandwich while said gorilla eats very large bowl of assorted fruits)_

    • @thedoomtrainer8292
      @thedoomtrainer8292 Год назад +145

      @@zsu-23-4shilka2 Hell yeah

    • @jakobwhaley5641
      @jakobwhaley5641 Год назад +2

      @@zsu-23-4shilka2 do that with a chimp and it will tear you apart

    • @user-ol1pm2iw9j
      @user-ol1pm2iw9j Год назад +2

      The Gorilla isn't gonna give 2 craps about you unless you bust a move and I know you ain't unless your brains smoother then MJ.

    • @MikeyCyan
      @MikeyCyan Год назад +234

      @@zsu-23-4shilka2 laughs because tv show is funny… fuck, I’m smiling?! Did it notice? Fuck, I’m looking at it 😢

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Год назад +1983

    “You can say ‘size matters’ all you want, but 4 inches made a difference that day”
    I swear this man never misses with his narration

  • @Daniel-ru9uj
    @Daniel-ru9uj 5 месяцев назад

    This channel is one of the more interesting ones. Glad I stumbled upon it!

  • @fraidycat01
    @fraidycat01 Месяц назад +5

    Chimps have always scared me, I think it’s because they’re so close to humans but just off enough to give the uncanny valley feeling.

  • @dostagirl9551
    @dostagirl9551 Год назад +1053

    I’ve always disliked chimps. Not to the point where I’m like “take them out.” More like that one uncle you just avoid at bbqs. This was reinforced in a science class I once took. The professor recounted how during an observation, two chimps approached a younger member from another group and then pretended to be its friend and entice it away from the safety of its family members. Then when it was isolated and brought into their own territory, they killed it. He ended it by saying that some theorized that since the chimps encroached onto the other group’s territory to lure the young chimp out and that resources were not scarce, it may have just been something they enjoyed doing. 🤯😱

    • @manswithnocheese.0.243
      @manswithnocheese.0.243 Год назад +196

      Good to know, chimpanzees will lure the young and stupid from their families like a serial killer lures a hitchhiker into their car

    • @dimitripapadinikolaus
      @dimitripapadinikolaus Год назад +81

      yh gorillas>>>>chimps

    • @Machineraptor
      @Machineraptor Год назад +224

      They are just too similar to people, including all the fucked up things people do. It's quite disturbing how higher intelligence seems to come with maliciousness and cruelty

    • @baronconnect4iii620
      @baronconnect4iii620 Год назад +119

      @@Machineraptor It's only through intelligence that you can even fathom cruelty.

    • @dinosaurlady2
      @dinosaurlady2 Год назад +94

      I don't like chimps either. The only animal I ever really say that I dislike. I love other apes, but chimps terrify me and they are cruel.

  • @timtemple2230
    @timtemple2230 Год назад +3807

    my girlfriend works at a chimp sanctuary and she tells me all kinds of wild stories. The wild shit usually happens when a new chimp is introduced for example one chimp that had been a pet its whole life and never socialized with its kind was brought in he also had his teeth removed so he couldnt effectively defend himself and there are 10 established groups on property numbering between 10 - 30 per group. The group this chimp was eventually introduced to had a female that would encourage the other males to attack the new chimp and since all the males wanted to mate with her she basically had gang of simps at her beck and call . New chimp ended up loosing a few toes after being jumped by the gang but what really stuck to me was that the alphas in these groups were like bouncers for the facility if shit got too rough and bloody they would funnel the alpha of said group wherever he was at during the scuffle to said scuffle and let him break it up... keep in mind a healthy alpha standing on two legs reached almost 6 feet in height well over 200 pounds .

    • @crashjayoo6
      @crashjayoo6 Год назад +249

      So a human

    • @leerzeichn93
      @leerzeichn93 Год назад +791

      @@crashjayoo6 yes, but with a body fat percentage body builders would be jealous at.

    • @Introvertsan
      @Introvertsan Год назад +95

      Oh that is scary

    • @timtemple2230
      @timtemple2230 Год назад +213

      @@pensamientoparadojico9642 I feel like the environment plays role in behavior seeing as how these chimps aren't wild and out in the lowlands of Africa free to be themselves completely. They understand their situation to an extent.

    • @timtemple2230
      @timtemple2230 Год назад +162

      Also when these guys are hopping around and hitting the ground you FEEL it through the shoes you are wearing which was a sobering experience itself.

  • @kendrickb7397
    @kendrickb7397 10 месяцев назад +2

    Just discovered this channel and it’s literally one of my favorites by far already 😂😂😂

  • @paulmayes76
    @paulmayes76 3 месяца назад

    You always have awesome content I like that that you always give me some information that I've never heard before and I appreciate you must do a lot of homework my friend keep going I love it

  • @Terraraptor1
    @Terraraptor1 Год назад +2054

    I'm a zoologist, and I work with primates for a living. I just wanted to say thank you for making these videos. I genuinely learn something new every time, and you present it in such a way that it feels easily accessible for everyone. Your RUclipss very own Steve Irwin in my book.

    • @thereisnosanctuary6184
      @thereisnosanctuary6184 Год назад +49

      This guy is a straight educator.

    • @AlanTClark
      @AlanTClark Год назад +65

      You are zoologist?.... and you learn from RUclips videos? That's actually very sad. And this guy is not an educator he just gets his information off of the Internet like everybody else, and just puts it to story format, which he is pretty good at I will admit, and I enjoy watching them.

    • @Seraphim262
      @Seraphim262 Год назад +7

      What exactly did you learn from this video? I am curious.

    • @michaelanderson2385
      @michaelanderson2385 Год назад +1

      @@AlanTClark so being a zoologist they should already know every piece of info the internet has to offer on animals? Intelligent people learn new things all the time, no need to be a douche 💁

    • @bigbadwolf4190
      @bigbadwolf4190 Год назад +36

      If you are a zoologist, aren't you supposed to know this stuff already? 🤔

  • @pisces2569
    @pisces2569 Год назад +466

    The fact that Travis’s owner still advocated chimp ownership after Charlotte’s mauling pisses me off to no end. She took away a newborn chimp away from its mother and raised it in such bizarre circumstances. These circumstances led a testosterone-ridden, extremely strong chimp to have aggression issues to become so aggressive that it attacked people twice and needed Xanax to calm it down. Yet that medication only upped its anxiety and lead to his death and the near death of Nash. Travis was not the exception to the rule. He was a warning against chimp ownership!

    • @RaxusXeronos
      @RaxusXeronos Год назад +48

      I don't want to live with something that could probably rip my arm off with it's bare hands if it decides it's not gonna tolerate me anymore.

    • @the13throse
      @the13throse Год назад

      yeah seriously, primates of any kind aren't good pets, but especially not chimps. It's bad both for them and often the humans who own them, too. There's plenty of animals that make great pets if you bother to do the research and put the work in, but when it comes to wild animals? Just get a plushie ffs. At least that won't rip your face off.

    • @JacqueBibblequip
      @JacqueBibblequip Год назад +10

      Travis just wasn’t a bitch. He took no disrespect, if you throw a bottle at him he gonna throw you like bottle

    • @grinnylein
      @grinnylein Год назад +3

      There are a lot of animals that should never be pets, like every mammal that isn't domesticated Leave the rest alone and protect their environment then you can make safari tours to see them or watch documentaries about them

    • @testerwulf3357
      @testerwulf3357 Год назад +1

      Sad thing is I think her husband before death told her to put Travis in a sanctuary and she REFUSED! She’s so selfish and self absorbed she put others in danger and almost killed someone..and then sees nothing wrong with it and thinks people should own those things?? She’s CRAZY

  • @GusOjo-oz4vh
    @GusOjo-oz4vh Год назад +1

    I am really entertained by this channel and this Host. His wit and sense of humor is 2nd 2 none.

  • @gaaraofthefunk7163
    @gaaraofthefunk7163 10 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for uploading, I hope you find the same lvl of happiness we get from absorbing knowledge off your vids ✨
    Best Occasional Geographic RUclipsr 🥳

  • @Deadsea_1993
    @Deadsea_1993 Год назад +3986

    I remember the Travis story. The survivor was on national news and she also appeared a few times on Oprah. The story was very sad and it gets more sad when you know that Travis's adopted dad was dying and told his wife to put Travis in a chimpanzee sanctuary cause he felt that his wife couldn't raise Travis alone. He died and she refused to do that and then the attack happened like a year later.

    • @brandontaylor6677
      @brandontaylor6677 Год назад +1

      He could've gone from chimp to pimp. Now he went from chimp to limp

    • @theofficialliedetector1545
      @theofficialliedetector1545 Год назад +135

      He died in 2004, so it was more like 5 years

    • @Gurra88
      @Gurra88 Год назад +296

      Some people believe a pet chimp is fine as long as you simply treat it well. I highly doubt that but let's find out. Have 100 chimps raised as pets in 100 different households for 15 years and see how things are going. I got a feeling that wouldn't end well but some people don't understand the meaning of wild animal.

    • @savannacromwell3978
      @savannacromwell3978 Год назад +45

      Poor Travis

    • @jepjep6740
      @jepjep6740 Год назад +175

      Her wife also give Travis some kind of drug (Xanax I think) to calm him down whenever he's gone wild. Which is a terrible idea.

  • @ChadThastle
    @ChadThastle Год назад +1910

    I was a child in CT when this happened and everyone had the same “why have that as a pet?” Reaction. She is the reason why legislation was passed shortly after to make exotic pets illegal in Connecticut

    • @bezoticallyyours83
      @bezoticallyyours83 Год назад +1

      Too bad it still does not stop idiots from keeping wildlife

    • @rikitikitavi7454
      @rikitikitavi7454 Год назад +20

      Waterbury in the house! But yes that was a WILD thing to wake up to

    • @bezoticallyyours83
      @bezoticallyyours83 Год назад +11

      @Funtime Florian agreed

    • @flixs1353
      @flixs1353 Год назад +2

      @Funtime Florian nah I want a lion as a pet

    • @araw993
      @araw993 Год назад +12

      I think having an exotic pet is ok if you're in that type of area where you see them in their natural habitat everyday. If you can establish a relationship with them awesome. But I would never have one oyt of their habitat. I would rather meet them whenever I see them

  • @radhouze2554
    @radhouze2554 8 месяцев назад +1

    this channel does a good job spreading awareness of how Chimps are wild animals and not pets

  • @christopherlancaster9829
    @christopherlancaster9829 Год назад

    I love your videos dude don't stop making them I love learning about cool stories and awesome facts about animals

  • @enkhovy
    @enkhovy Год назад +390

    One day my friends talked about animals and they asked around about the others opinion on 'dangerous animals'. Without any time to think or decided which animal, I just blurted out "hippos and I fear the chimpanzees too".
    They might be laughing that day, but your/this guy's videos already made up my mind.
    Edit: Just noticed a typo, I don't 'dear' the chimps.

    • @ytyoungrichnhigh
      @ytyoungrichnhigh Год назад +8

      Oh no you're 100% correct.

    • @jaschabull2365
      @jaschabull2365 Год назад +27

      Wait, aren't hippopotamus infamously deadly animals? Don't see what there is to laugh at.

    • @manswithnocheese.0.243
      @manswithnocheese.0.243 Год назад +31

      @@jaschabull2365 theyre literally living 9000 pound war machines

    • @Zer-ec4ly
      @Zer-ec4ly Год назад +4

      When the time comes, you will have the last laught.

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 Год назад +2

      Like the guy from Casual Geographics says…….hippos will remove you from the census, just because they can

  • @Marispider
    @Marispider Год назад +1171

    I've never seen Charlotte's face after the attack but before multiple facial reconstruction surgeries (she looked unrecognizable and you could tell she had lost almost all of her face but it wasn't bad or horrifying, just... malformed), but I have heard the 911 call where you can hear Travis mauling her as she screams and his foster mother shouting "he's killing her!" while begging for help. It is nightmare fuel. Poor Charlotte, and poor Travis. A horrible way to live and a horrible way to die.

    • @SCP-rd1zc
      @SCP-rd1zc Год назад +11

      link pls, I feel like ruining my day
      Edit: Thanks for sending the sauce

    • @Marispider
      @Marispider Год назад

      @@SCP-rd1zc You better be grateful, I listened to the first five seconds to make sure it was the right one and immediately my gut dropped 😔 ruclips.net/video/wgS0KgT5APc/видео.html Have fun lol

    • @tibik.8407
      @tibik.8407 Год назад +53

      @@SCP-rd1zc No, you dont.

    • @UnprofessionalProfessor
      @UnprofessionalProfessor Год назад +1

      @@SCP-rd1zc GamerfromMars did a video on it, with pics.

    • @monito3575
      @monito3575 Год назад +3

      @@SCP-rd1zc also EXPLORE WITH US made a video about it . I think in the 911call the owner also said "He is eating her..."

  • @steveelias3727
    @steveelias3727 Год назад +2

    Just found your channel, subscribed! You have a great way of putting this out I love it. One thing you kinda missed about Chiggers is being from the South, the places they like to dig in is sweaty areas like around your belt line and most importantly....they make you scratch like to have a bad case of the crabs (if ya know what I mean). They love that spot the most!

  • @Ravens_and_Lilies14
    @Ravens_and_Lilies14 10 месяцев назад +10

    Quick PSA on chiggers (yeah, I know, the name 😑) - I think some of what was pictured here were actually clover mites, which are also tiny and red but don’t bite and are just a nuisance. Chiggers tend to favor heavy brush or wooded areas, so if you see a bunch of tiny red bugs in or immediately around your home they’re probably clover mites, so don’t freak.

  • @personwomanmancameratv4558
    @personwomanmancameratv4558 Год назад +1113

    while eating , i heard that the doctor that transformed his own kid into a chimp had little tolerance of people who are unjust or unethical . i almost choked on my food gagging ... saw the white light and everything . why would you do that to me ?
    love the vids btw , keep up the good work mamadou

    • @andersjjensen
      @andersjjensen Год назад +29

      You should know better by now :P
      If it isn't the facts that gets you you're almost guaranteed an uncontrollable laughing fit at how he describes things! This dude is NOT food-and-drink safe!

    • @woozihae
      @woozihae Год назад +8

      My humour broke 😭😭

    • @pisces2569
      @pisces2569 Год назад

      Honestly they should do a psychological study on him. His hypocrisy is outstanding!

    • @madonnasbutthole9674
      @madonnasbutthole9674 Год назад

      I love your name.

    • @zecuse
      @zecuse Год назад +1

      Were you eating corn flakes?

  • @bennetla10
    @bennetla10 Год назад +361

    Fun Fact: Chimps actually can't throw spears, well, not enough to do real damage anyway. Thanks to longer arms and shorter legs, Chimps center of balance is alot higher than humans. Which makes it impossible to throw a javelin with any degree of force and accuracy.

    • @killer13324
      @killer13324 Год назад +69

      spears ain't *only* for throwing.

    • @qualitymcbro8452
      @qualitymcbro8452 Год назад +38

      That applies to balls, rocks etc. Chimpanzees also run into the issue that they can't smoothly release a shaft quickly due to a relatively limited range of motion in their thumbs.

    • @qualitymcbro8452
      @qualitymcbro8452 Год назад +31

      @@killer13324 Melee is also sub optimal for them, because they lack the ability to so quickly transition from thrusting to bludgeoning, due to a limited of range of motion in their thumbs not enabling a smooth transition (give them a mace).

    • @theflyingdutchguy9870
      @theflyingdutchguy9870 Год назад +38

      their shoulders are also not evolved for throwing things like ours are. we are more adapted for those sort of things. chimps are more adapted to climb

    • @aurourus6894
      @aurourus6894 Год назад +48

      You don't need to be standing to throw properly.
      The reason why they can't throw is because they have completely different shoulder anatomy and they have vertical pecs. We have horizontal pecs.

  • @kingofallmediums2123
    @kingofallmediums2123 5 месяцев назад

    Your videos are some of the best on the Internet! Keep up the good work. 😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @jovanreid6782
    @jovanreid6782 13 дней назад

    Your commentary is awesome. You've got yourself a sub, bruh.

  • @cadenz7719
    @cadenz7719 Год назад +1184

    The rhino is the okay choice. Yes they are very paranoid, however, rhinos raised in captivity often act more like giant Labradors. It depends on where the rhino was raised. Gorilla is still best choice by far.

    • @andidinu1456
      @andidinu1456 Год назад +43

      And ..how would the rhino even enter the bedroom

    • @ero_dynamic_dominion5669
      @ero_dynamic_dominion5669 Год назад +245

      @@andidinu1456 /spawn

    • @Commander_Shepard.
      @Commander_Shepard. Год назад +63

      @@andidinu1456 Tranquilize it, and then build the bedroom around it.

    • @professionalidiot4987
      @professionalidiot4987 Год назад +9

      @@Commander_Shepard. who said you could have a tranq? Honestly the real solution is to just choose a small house, not a million dollar mansion. And if you're like me and prefer meat over vegetables, just feed it whenever you get veggies on the fridge. Same with gorillas. You might even gain respect with king khung.

    • @Commander_Shepard.
      @Commander_Shepard. Год назад

      @@professionalidiot4987 I was answering how to get in to a bedroom.

  • @Aidenfirewing3470
    @Aidenfirewing3470 Год назад +1207

    The experiment reminds me of studies on feral children - grew up with no human interaction, usually in the woods. Since abandoning kids in the woods isn't as common these days, modern feral kids is pretty rare. I remember one modern case of a girl kept in a room away from the family (she was eventually rescued and recovered)

    • @eacalvert
      @eacalvert Год назад +82

      I would use the term "recovered" lightly.

    • @hellion6737
      @hellion6737 Год назад

      Bro I have a video about travis: ruclips.net/video/WeVzs1r7tpk/видео.html

    • @flob_the_bob
      @flob_the_bob Год назад +13

      @@eacalvert why, now I want know

    • @garimasundriyal2933
      @garimasundriyal2933 Год назад +24

      Genie Wiley?

    • @eacalvert
      @eacalvert Год назад

      @@flob_the_bob so let me set the scene. Dad is a raging and abusive person. He would not let anyone speak a single word not only in the same room but even where she might be able to hear it. She essentially had minimal human contact: her mother was in the room long enough to feed her and change her. When she was found she was strapped to a chair as that was where she spent most of her days. She was never toilet trained while in the care of her biological parents. When CPS finally rescued her she had no idea how to speak. At all. She could use grunts that was it. She couldn't really walk in a bi-pedal fashion.
      She was taken to a team of specialists/researchers who were able to help rehabilitate her to a point. They learned that at a certain point in development, if not given normal speech contact, the brain will not develop how to use /speak in sentences. She could learn words and could understand simple sentences but could not make her own.
      To top all of this off her mother somehow still had legal custody of her and the courts, despite the mountain of evidence of the progress she had made and the conditions she was rescued from. Her mother had removed from probably the 1st ppl ever in her life who treated her literally as a human and not some rabid animal, and her put into a group home for the mentally r-word (as that was what it was still called back then) and the researchers were legally denied from seeing her again. Her mom got pissy b/c Genie had been allowed to live in the home of one of researchers and they grew attached to each other in mother child like relationship....b/c Genie's mom had not exactly done a stellar job in that regard

  • @Notsotopofthefoodchain
    @Notsotopofthefoodchain 24 дня назад

    This man is unrivaled in his respective profession! Thank you 🙏.

  • @killcondo
    @killcondo 8 месяцев назад

    There’s something very British about the commentary, makes an already interesting commentary witty and engaging.
    I love these docs, this is just further proof that nothing in nature stays pretty when it gets hungry.

  • @JusticeFortheSilenced
    @JusticeFortheSilenced Год назад +729

    There is a woman named Aya Katz who has a pet chimpanzee named Bow. We in what I like to call the chimp community have been trying to talk her into letting him go to a sanctuary. He literally lives on a back porch. Even though she swears he will never hurt her mark my words, this won't end well.

  • @almanac4150
    @almanac4150 Год назад +648

    I'm genuinely shocked I haven't suffered the repercussions from being around chiggers. I remember watching them crawl across my feet as a kid when I would walk barefoot in the grass. 😳

    • @SagittariusAyy
      @SagittariusAyy Год назад +55

      How, bruh? I remember getting absolutely wrecked by those mofos back when I stayed at WDW’s Fort Wilderness Campground back in 2010

    • @almanac4150
      @almanac4150 Год назад +61

      @@SagittariusAyy I guess I was only around the adults. They were so tiny and everybody told me they were harmless so I would just watch them crawl around. Whenever I wanted to get them off my feet I would just rinse with the water hose.

    • @Legend-up2dn
      @Legend-up2dn Год назад +47

      @@almanac4150 you have some incredibly good luck I hope you know that

    • @manakzar7148
      @manakzar7148 Год назад +30

      @@Legend-up2dn Incredibly lucky? They are as annoying as mosquitos just not as likely to carry diseases. Incredibly lucky to avoid an inconvience.

    • @rubenharos6988
      @rubenharos6988 Год назад +1

      I never encountered these things

  • @tonimccleveland5014
    @tonimccleveland5014 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the information I really appreciate you

  • @lionheart6176
    @lionheart6176 11 месяцев назад +5

    remember Jane Goodall witnessed and documented a literal war between two chimpanzee tribes in Gombe, the Kasakela and the Kahama, the Kahama were actually seperatists of the Kasakelas. this resulted in the entire male population of the Kahama getting torn to shreds and the females kidnapped by the Kasakela. the result was what land the loser tribe did have, got annexed by a bigger chimpanzee tribe called "The Kalande Empire" which made the entire war pointless, fun fact the Kahama were technically at peace and even traded with the Kalande. so Kasakela got their shit pushed in by the Kalande.

  • @morningstarghuleh1087
    @morningstarghuleh1087 Год назад +787

    When I was a very small child of around 5years old, I watched a David Attenborough show on chimps and it scared the utter crap out of me. I had always been taught how nice and cute and funny chimps were, yet here was little me witnessing a group of them hunting and ripping apart other monkeys. Absolutley shattered me and I've never wanted to really look at a chimpanzee again. I've studied them a bit since, but I would never ever trust one if I had to go near it.

    • @anna8328
      @anna8328 Год назад +69

      Healthy. I was horrified at 16 by reading about a woman who worked whole life to help chimps and gave birth in the jungle. One day she was walking around with newborn... Yeah the chimp snatched it and killed it. The article explained it's full of nutrients for them and it's not uncommon to attack babies of other or own species. Also you shouldn't have been allowed to watch that at age 5.

    • @MrTheevilmage
      @MrTheevilmage Год назад +16

      I saw that same documentary when I ws little too :0 and it gave me the exact same feelings about Chimps and its why I have a fear of them myself

    • @ageishyena3035
      @ageishyena3035 Год назад +22

      @@MrTheevilmage I hear ya. And what's worse, they go into Rage Mode if you lock eyes with them so you can't even look directly at them or they go more batshit than the Joker

    • @SnowAngelAJ
      @SnowAngelAJ Год назад

      @@anna8328 Damn...

    • @porc1429
      @porc1429 Год назад +9

      The Bonobos are the nice ones. Bonobos should get more popular

  • @pyro6300
    @pyro6300 Год назад +201

    i still remember that story in 09 of the chimp ripping the woman's face off, and seeing the images on the news made me burst out into tears. i was so young and it terrified me, had multiple nightmares on end

    • @nengehtardzer2839
      @nengehtardzer2839 Год назад

      Naw how bout seeing the images of the lady's fucked up face on TV and them later on seeing it again in a book about it

    • @prod.droppa999
      @prod.droppa999 Год назад +2

      Sameeeee

    • @joeplayzgames2625
      @joeplayzgames2625 Год назад +1

      She survived, but died a year later.

    • @KBReal870
      @KBReal870 Год назад +20

      @@joeplayzgames2625 The chimps owner is the one who died a year later. I'm pretty sure Nash is still alive.

    • @guybrushthreepwood2014
      @guybrushthreepwood2014 Год назад

      Yo can you describe it? Like not to be a pussy or anything but if that shit fucked up the guy from the video (watched a couple of his videos but never really memorized his name) I don't think it would be a good idea for me to google it. I mean I shat my pants when I saw the melting zombie from "return of the living dead". And the faceless woman should be a pint worse.

  • @TheNewAgedDiogenesAfterRehab
    @TheNewAgedDiogenesAfterRehab 8 месяцев назад

    That was an amazing video, thank you! I would love to see you do one of my biggest fears, bears. Regardless, I liked and subscribed. I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

  • @scotthouliston.4195
    @scotthouliston.4195 10 месяцев назад

    Great video very well thought out nice work

  • @Nil_Sama
    @Nil_Sama Год назад +1002

    I've always had this fear of monkeys and primates; chimps especially. I'd always thought it was an irrational fear, then I saw a NatGeo documentary about chimps. It also featured Travis' story, among other things. Yeah, let's just say, I was glad I didn't live anywhere remotely near them. Strangely though, despite being around 7 or 8 at the time, I felt a sense of relief knowing my fears were rational.

    • @squirrelabouttown6022
      @squirrelabouttown6022 Год назад +5

      So have I! I used to have reoccurring nightmares as a kid. I can still remember some of them.

    • @bl4k4tt84
      @bl4k4tt84 Год назад +19

      bruh how you afraid of your self

    • @Nil_Sama
      @Nil_Sama Год назад +9

      @@bl4k4tt84 It is how it is.

    • @honeybeehomicide6760
      @honeybeehomicide6760 Год назад +20

      Uncanny valley

    • @brokentortilla
      @brokentortilla Год назад +16

      Nobody tell this guy that humans are also primates

  • @TF2CrunchyFrog
    @TF2CrunchyFrog Год назад +307

    THere had been at least one documented case of a chimpanzee (born in a zoo in captivity) who was able to drive a motorbike _in everyday town traffic._ He was a male chimp named Henry who lived in a zoo in France, in the 1960s/70s. David Taylor, a British veterinarian who specialized exclusively in the treatment of semi-wild animals living in captivity in zoos, circuses and marinelands, related a meeting with Henry in his autobiographical book _Zoo Vet: Adventures Of A Wild Animal Doctor_ (published 1976). Taylor wrote how he had been called to France to treat a dolphin who was suffering from an unknown illness, and when he arrived at the airport, he was told "Henry will take you there"... only to see a big male chimp on a bike, wearing shorts and a cap, who regarded him with indifference. He was told to ride shotgun behind Henry, then Henry took off... perfectly balancing the bike, stopping at traffic lights with idling engine, and all traffic cops in town (that was in the 1960s) knew Henry and greeted him and directed traffic to make way for him. Taylor wrote that was the weirdest ride he ever had. He was nervous because he had never ridding a motokbike before, so he did all the thinks terrified newbies do like leaning into the wrong direction in curves... but Henry balanced that bike perfectly, he worked the clutch, he navigated calmly through traffic and clearly understood traffic rules; unclear if he could read signs or if he just knew the route, but he had clearly understood the verbal order to take the human to the dolphinarium, so he knew where places were and what they were called. (Much like sheep dogs and seeig-eye dogs for the blind.)
    [quote] David Conrad Taylor, BVMS, FRCVS, FZS, was a British veterinary surgeon. He was the first veterinary surgeon to specialise in zoo and wildlife medicine. Taylor worked with zoo and wild animals from 1957, acting as a consultant on the treatment of some of the rarest species on Earth. He was world-renowned as an expert in marine mammal medicine.
    In the mid-1970s and early 1980s, Taylor wrote a popular series of autobiographical books that charted his life and experiences as a "Zoo Vet". [/quote]

  • @usmcmma
    @usmcmma Год назад +1

    This guy is my favorite youtuber of all time!

  • @Huitzilopochtli-vb6ql
    @Huitzilopochtli-vb6ql Год назад

    Bro you the rsion I know all the random shit I know I could not survive in the wild without your videos

  • @xxTC-96xx
    @xxTC-96xx Год назад +115

    Chimps have been scary to me ever since I heard the story of the pet chimp who tore off a neighbour’s face just for touching his toy (ah yep, Travis, I commented before I finished the video XD forgot some details)

  • @yourholyjeebus5569
    @yourholyjeebus5569 Год назад +392

    chigger nymphs actually can carry diseases! We just don't know if they can spread them! My dad is an ecologist and he's studying that right now! just thought it would be a cool (not very cool) fun fact.

    • @angelwings967
      @angelwings967 Год назад +20

      Let’s hope that they can’t!! 🙏🏼

    • @Jesus-Henry-Christ
      @Jesus-Henry-Christ Год назад +5

      Very cool Actually

    • @posthistoricdino422
      @posthistoricdino422 Год назад +30

      "chigger nymphs" feels like a very dangerous phrase, especially with this video putting "chimps" on the mind

    • @openorwap5412
      @openorwap5412 Год назад +3

      @@posthistoricdino422 Yup. Not ideal to spoonerise the two 🤐😵

    • @polinn5510
      @polinn5510 Год назад +2

      @Freddy Medina damn

  • @sc13ncef16tion
    @sc13ncef16tion Месяц назад +2

    The Thanos line did it for me. +sub.

  • @MisterMonsterBro
    @MisterMonsterBro Год назад +3

    10:06 that picture of the jaguar gave me chills bro.

  • @blueblade6174
    @blueblade6174 Год назад +106

    I live in Nigeria. I visited a zoo in Gusau when I was a kid - like 10 or younger. We were looking at hyenas in their enclosure, and one of the keepers went in to feed them. But this is Nigeria, so of course he left the door to the enclosure open. My mom yelled for all of us run. And that zoo keeper got an earful from her.

    • @deinsilverdrac8695
      @deinsilverdrac8695 Год назад +7

      Some country shouldn't have zoo
      Sorry south America, middle east, africa and south, india and east Asia but all country in these region
      Not only look like prison or early 1900 zoo
      But also have no regard for animal life, health and security

    • @deinsilverdrac8695
      @deinsilverdrac8695 Год назад +13

      @@blueblade6174
      from what i've seen
      there's a big difference between western/japenese/chinese/australia/new zealand zoo, and the rest of the world zoos
      the worst zoo of Europe and US are like the best zoo of Ivory coast, Indonesia, Thailand, Surinam and Morroco.
      They're at the same level as US private zoo like tiger king one.
      i've never said i think "western" and chinese zoo are good either, but at least they try to give decent habitat and enrichment to the animals and help in conservation and public awareness, founding of in and ex-situ project and can even release their animals int the wild sometime.
      also they give more space and something else than concrete to the animal.
      you can't deny the big change of mentality and logistic of zoos, they're still changing, and in the right way
      more space, less human interaction, hide the public, more natural enclosure, multiple species in an enclosure, enrichment, natural instinct and stimulation, training to avoid to tranq them everytime and have a trust relationship and to better know the mental and physical state of the animal, conservation project, show and tell the public about the situation of the animal and how to help them, give money to protect habitat, reintorduction into the wild, actually save species (they already saved multiple and are the last hope for few other species).
      I want a world with no need of zoo,
      but today they're helpful and essential.
      but they have to get better, and a lot of them are trying and do actually very well.
      and then we stil have 1900 monstruosity such as private zoo and zoo of countries/owner that don't have the ethic, knowledge, logistic, money, terrain and ressources to have a good zoo

    • @blueblade6174
      @blueblade6174 Год назад

      @@deinsilverdrac8695 tl;dr

    • @deinsilverdrac8695
      @deinsilverdrac8695 Год назад +7

      @@blueblade6174
      zoo are usefull
      zoo bad, but evolve and change, they get better for the animal.
      poor country, private zoo are bad and prison
      modern zoo in western countries and sometime in China/Japan try to be better and still evolve
      bigger more natural enclosure
      enrichment and stimulation for the animal
      overall better life and environnment for them
      help in conservation and protection of nature, and for the public information.
      better?

    • @blueblade6174
      @blueblade6174 Год назад

      @@deinsilverdrac8695 maybe

  • @alegogo2911
    @alegogo2911 Год назад +468

    There are 2 things that i like about this chanel, the knowledge and the creatinity in the explanations you do

  • @user-vk2tm4yt8t
    @user-vk2tm4yt8t 6 месяцев назад +1

    This Man does Great work and is entertaining while doing. holy fuck 3.2 million Subs i knew you would blow up. im Glad to see this. GOOD WORK MAN.... love from CCCC

  • @darthplagueis13
    @darthplagueis13 Год назад +210

    A chimps ability to throw things should never be underestimated.
    I once read a story about a vet who was task with tranquilizing a chimp so he could treat some kind of condition that made it go half-made with pain. The chimp was in a cage that has one wooden side. The vet used a blowpipe to shoot a tranq dart through a knothole in the wood. The chimp pulled out the tranq dart, turned around and threw it back through the knothole, hitting the vet in the face and coming only half an inch short of taking his eye out.
    Their hands may not be quite as dextrous as human hands, but their reflexes and hand-eye coordination are crazy good.

    • @KlavierMenn
      @KlavierMenn Год назад +26

      So you're telling me that they can ALSO snipe your ass if ammo is provided? Um, how much do they need to evolve so they can get to arrow and bow? Coz they have the lance and stone already...

    • @-Radical.Ed-
      @-Radical.Ed- Год назад +6

      They also are far stronger than us, if you use ammo and cause it damage not enough to impair it, be sure that if he hits you with it, the damage will be much worse.

    • @fluffylittlebear
      @fluffylittlebear Год назад +10

      ​@@-Radical.Ed- Not really. They're stronger than us relative to their size, but only by maybe 50%. In absolute terms, a large strong man would be stronger than most chimps. He'd still have no chance in a fight due to claws, teeth, and general ferocity though.

    • @worldprops333
      @worldprops333 Год назад

      @@KlavierMenn ruclips.net/video/K-4SthopN2U/видео.html

    • @cotocoyerakson8195
      @cotocoyerakson8195 Год назад +1

      Well, just look at Zeke.

  • @rez1053
    @rez1053 Год назад +843

    Nearly lost my left hand to a large aligator that was even named by the locals. Someone running "tours" on their hoverboat through the everglades. Used some meats to draw him in. Always consider where you go to view wildlife. You're literally trusting strangers with your lives.

    • @OmnipotentSaiyan
      @OmnipotentSaiyan Год назад

      Chiggers terrifying me.
      They’re black and smart…
      Nah but seriously those bumps are repulsive 🤢

    • @JakeKoenig
      @JakeKoenig Год назад +39

      It wouldn't have been so bad. You could've become a golf teacher and helped someone win the Tour Championship.

    • @UndyingZombie
      @UndyingZombie Год назад +17

      Well, as the saying goes. "Never put your life in someone else's hands. They will likely steal it away." ( Its a very old saying that, I feel tends to be forgotten/slept on now-a-days. )
      *EDIT*
      Fixed a slight spelling error, as I typed "they" instead of "the". In the sentence "Well, as the saying goes".
      Sean James.. Thank you for pointing that error out.

    • @SUPREME_MACHINE_V2
      @SUPREME_MACHINE_V2 Год назад +4

      @@JakeKoenig but then he would've fallen through a window when the person he helped showed him the stuffed alligator

    • @elementalargon7597
      @elementalargon7597 Год назад +2

      @@JakeKoenig Well played, sir!

  • @chiefbosn9731
    @chiefbosn9731 9 месяцев назад

    This host needs his own late night talk show! his presentation skills and wit are outstanding!

  • @noddynoddy.8822
    @noddynoddy.8822 Год назад

    Bro. Your channel is great! 😀SUBBED!

  • @Ilaunchnukes
    @Ilaunchnukes Год назад +364

    Fun fact: The 3700 psi estimate for q crocodile came from a 4 meter long crocodile. That was from an AVERAGE 15-16 foot crocodile. Scientists estimate that crocs 20 feet or larger can exert 7000+ psi, almost that of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

    • @cryptic7844
      @cryptic7844 Год назад +9

      Less than a squirrel tho

    • @fransthefox9682
      @fransthefox9682 Год назад +14

      Imagine the bite force of a fully grown Deinosuchus...

    • @ASBDYTheAwesome
      @ASBDYTheAwesome Год назад +1

      I think it was estimated 21000 psi

    • @FanFav101
      @FanFav101 Год назад +3

      Don't know what any of this means

    • @TY-km8hj
      @TY-km8hj Год назад +3

      @@FanFav101 bite force

  • @DisOcean8
    @DisOcean8 Год назад +201

    I had a chigger infestation when I was little and it was one of the most miserable times of my life. What isn't mentioned here is that they like to attack the sweaty, warm areas (such as the groin and armpits), that's where they like to reproduce, and a infection of chiggers can last for weeks. My sister and I were basically wearing nothing for almost two weeks and I still have scars from them and fire ants. I wouldnt say that "I hate chiggers" out-loud, but trust me when I say that they are nearly worse than fire ants, if fire ants weren't actually deadly.

    • @cozmicdoodles7167
      @cozmicdoodles7167 Год назад +16

      I'm almost positive Chiggers are what attacked me when I was camping years ago. Your description only furthers my suspicion because I have NEVER been bit like that (and in those areas) by any other bug before. Almost every square inch of my body had been bit (specifically waist down) and it SUCKED! Lasted for weeks and I was absolutely miserable. Never want to get bit like that again.

    • @labaccident2010
      @labaccident2010 Год назад +25

      So uh. Nail polish on the chigger spots.
      Clear is the best choice unless you want to have colorful dots everywhere.
      i grew up in rural Mississippi, this was the best method my family ever found

    • @Carl_Brutananadilewski
      @Carl_Brutananadilewski Год назад

      @@labaccident2010 honestly I’m dead afraid to try that, but as someone who’s been infested with chiggers, it sounds worth it because nothing else works. I wanted to skin myself. The picture in the video doesn’t do the discomfort justice. I’ll keep that in mind if god decides to forsake me again.

    • @mattb.7079
      @mattb.7079 Год назад +1

      @@labaccident2010 I've heard of that. That's a common practice in summer camps

    • @labaccident2010
      @labaccident2010 Год назад

      @@mattb.7079 it works really well too!

  • @alexismariaotero
    @alexismariaotero 5 месяцев назад

    i loved this one so much. did not know i had the same specific fears as Steve Irwin (plus chimpanzees). my parrot fear feels sooooo validated now!!!!

  • @skullsnguns22
    @skullsnguns22 5 месяцев назад +3

    Never stop making your jokes, bro.
    3:40 _"...in ways that would have CPS, PETA, and the Geneva Convention pulling up."_ LMAO

  • @EclipticKnightV
    @EclipticKnightV Год назад +176

    Truly the highlights of my learning life.

  • @jamesteegardner2273
    @jamesteegardner2273 Год назад +2086

    "Chiggers, or Chiggas, which is somehow less offensive..."
    Someone give this man an award! Seriously, he teaches us so much while making us laugh, and somehow, he makes it look effortless!
    Some production company should seriously consider giving him a TV show, he's that good! I remember him saying that Steve Irwin was someone who he used to admire, so it'd almost be fitting if he was the one to be the next famous "animal guy".

    • @wedgeantilles1498
      @wedgeantilles1498 Год назад +97

      A TV show would be a waste of his talent. Nobody watches cable anymore. He has a more powerful platform here. Also doesn't have to deal with a greedy studio, digging into his pockets and making him force out content faster, and lowering the quality. He's better off as an independent creator here. Social media is now the biggest and still the fastest growing media form in the world... TV/cable has went the way of the radio.

    • @ssj4gogeta130
      @ssj4gogeta130 Год назад +6

      He actually said apparently but ight lmfao?!

    • @clayhudson8668
      @clayhudson8668 Год назад

      You know what chiggers are being in the country we all know don't lay in the grass

    • @blacktemplar1139
      @blacktemplar1139 Год назад +3

      ​@@wedgeantilles1498What do you mean "gone out the window"? All they did was just try to get more money-in the worst possible ways (IM LOOKING AT YOU GW!), they still exist, and make profit.

    • @webx135
      @webx135 Год назад +16

      Dude my word was always "Chegro"

  • @mailcs06
    @mailcs06 Год назад

    7:32
    Oh god I just realized. I remember hearing about this. I was 6 or 7 when this happened, and lived in a small town in NY right next to the border with Connecticut. Heck, my mom went to work in Stamford.

  • @CoffeeMania-uq7if
    @CoffeeMania-uq7if 11 часов назад

    Awesome video, well done bud

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 Год назад +184

    I never really thought much of chimps, until I learned about the Gombe Chimpanzee War. They build societies and occasionally, those societies implode in a crazy burst of violence that you'd expect to see in a Mad Max film or something, not in an animal. They are strong, smart, tool-using animals. Not at all to be trifled with!

    • @kuppanchettysubramaniyan9463
      @kuppanchettysubramaniyan9463 Год назад

      Basically Humans with limited morals and a perchance for a lot of violence

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 Год назад +1

      I watched a video where the aging alpha chimp was actually deposed and run out of the pack by a younger rival. The old boy barely escaped with his life. Being old, sick and now alone, he was destined to die out in the bush although this was not shown. The brutality of the new alpha was a thing to behold. He literally ran off or killed ALL the old alpha’s male offspring and had his way with the females. In all respects, it was witnessing a despot’s rise and harsh consolation of his power.

  • @yotomoe5953
    @yotomoe5953 Год назад +125

    We actually had Chiggers in the pavilion in my elementary school and I was super afraid of them cuz I thought they'd bury into my skin and stay there forever. I haven't thought about that in about 20 years so seeing you mention them now brought the memories flooding back. Also I was SO sure Chiggers was some southern slang and they probably had a normal name. Nope. That's what they're called.That's crazy.

    • @barkyonyx962
      @barkyonyx962 Год назад

      lets go
      chiggers??!!

    • @CeeJayThe13th
      @CeeJayThe13th Год назад +2

      I assumed it was southern slang as well because it really sounds like something you shouldn't say lol

  • @rodneypate1693
    @rodneypate1693 Год назад

    Bro, your humor is off the rails 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

  • @robertmarable6525
    @robertmarable6525 4 месяца назад

    You actually got me looking for this snow leopard on this rock. Love your channel Hope I don't get ambushed by snow leopard lol

  • @noahdixon885
    @noahdixon885 Год назад +1712

    Seriously, someone give this man a show or something. He has a gift that he needs to share with the rest of the world.

    • @mjrchapin
      @mjrchapin Год назад +44

      These vids could with maybe a tiny bit of adjustment, be shown in science and bio classes in schools. Loaded with info, and cautions, but also entertaining. I'm serious, it's that amazing.

    • @gnbman
      @gnbman Год назад +54

      Dude, we're watching his show. This is it.

    • @fernosbonos5394
      @fernosbonos5394 Год назад +5

      @@mjrchapin give it 50 years and his a class discussion

    • @renato360a
      @renato360a Год назад +12

      he would be censored and half the fun would go.. he would have to adjust his script and I wouldn't love it.

    • @joemama-xm4xv
      @joemama-xm4xv Год назад +8

      Well, not really. Alot of the 'facts' are missing sources and are mostly overstated.

  • @Shannonbarnesdr1
    @Shannonbarnesdr1 Год назад +340

    here might be some explanation as to why travis got so angry and aggressive '' Toxicology reports confirmed Sandra's statement that she had given Travis Xanax-laced tea the day of the attack, which could have exacerbated his aggression.[37][38] Xanax is a short-acting, potent anti-anxiety drug that can cause disinhibition and disorientation and occasionally paradoxical reactions of hallucination, aggression, rage, and mania in humans.''

    • @That_Doctor_Del_Fella
      @That_Doctor_Del_Fella Год назад +77

      He essentially had a bad trip from the drugs and went ballistic.

    • @killjoym6973
      @killjoym6973 Год назад +46

      I remember she said she was giving him xanax bc he became agressive after puberty. It could either be drugs or just his nature.

    • @Shannonbarnesdr1
      @Shannonbarnesdr1 Год назад +4

      @@That_Doctor_Del_Fella pretty much

    • @Shannonbarnesdr1
      @Shannonbarnesdr1 Год назад +43

      @@killjoym6973 she should have went to a wild life exotic specialist doctor, instead of trying to give him something designed for humans and not knowing a proper dosage either, granted chimps and humans are extremely close but the chemistry, plus body mass / weight is different, the metabolism is different which means hed likely need something tailored to his body type, but ultimately he belonged in the wild, or at a sanctuary, not as a damn pet !!!

    • @DarkPsychoMessiah
      @DarkPsychoMessiah Год назад +32

      @@Shannonbarnesdr1 Everyone was telling her to send Travis to a chimp sanctuary even her cancer-ridden husband until his death but she refused every single time

  • @kynever7865
    @kynever7865 7 месяцев назад +3

    3:18 Kellogg like, the cereal? Is this the cereal guy? (I paused at this point)

  • @duanecarr6712
    @duanecarr6712 2 месяца назад

    Great channel man