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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 !
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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 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
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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RE: Orangutan helping out a baby bird.
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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RE: Orangutan helping out a baby bird.
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).