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Orangutan helping out a baby bird.

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Orangutan helping out a baby bird.
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Orangutan helping out a baby bird.
June 18, 2011 at 7:56 am
There was a thread a little while ago that asked where compassion and love came from I was gonna post this there but gods damn it I couldnt find it.
So I shall post it here.
A video of a powerfull ape helping out a stricken member of a non-related species.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8yl2pR1EIM



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RE: Orangutan helping out a baby bird.
June 18, 2011 at 8:29 am
Thanks for posting this. Wonderful! Hope it ended happily !
HuhA man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
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RE: Orangutan helping out a baby bird.
June 18, 2011 at 10:24 am
Oh! The primate must be created by an intelligent designer, because otherwise it couldn't show compassion! Maybe it reads scriptures too.. Big Grin
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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June 18, 2011 at 10:25 am
quite marvelous.
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RE: Orangutan helping out a baby bird.
June 18, 2011 at 10:30 am
Wait, maybe i'm blind, but how exactly is the orangutan helping it out? Looks like he's just playing with it to me :S
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RE: Orangutan helping out a baby bird.
June 18, 2011 at 10:33 am
(June 18, 2011 at 10:30 am)Napoleon Wrote: Wait, maybe i'm blind, but how exactly is the orangutan helping it out? Looks like he's just playing with it to me :S

Admittedly, I thought the same. I found the curiousity of the orangutan more wonderful.
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June 18, 2011 at 10:50 am
This doesn't show how similar orangutan's are to us. It shows how similar we are to orangutan's.

However, I can't shake the image that 10 seconds after the video finished, he ate the little bird Panic
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June 18, 2011 at 12:00 pm
(June 18, 2011 at 10:50 am)Darwinian Wrote: This doesn't show how similar orangutan's are to us. It shows how similar we are to orangutan's.

However, I can't shake the image that 10 seconds after the video finished, he ate the little bird Panic

See this from the bbc its the same clip with commentary from the apes owner.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13814508



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June 18, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Gentle? Are you kidding me? After picking it up by it's head it then proceeded to prod it for 5 minutes. Lol
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June 18, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I watched this on the bbc website yesterday, thought it was cute. Then i realised, it may be entirely possible that this beast is simply waiting for it's audience to fuck off before he eats a snack (i personally hate people watching me eat).
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