The Terrifying Truth About Chimps
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Brother man I wholeheartedly, 100%, agree with the avoiding humanity completely
love the video, thank you!
bet you can't say anything messed up about manatees the great sea potato other than who hunts them
Imma Google it
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.
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.
@@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.
@@joshuaashton1929 the reason is you disrespected chimp culture mate.
@@joshuaashton1929 Exactly. Just like humans.
@@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.
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.
seen that docu a vew times. its so crazy
Chimps are just us with no morals
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.
They're experts at... gorilla warfare. I'll see myself out.
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.
Chimps have always terrified me, way scarier than any shark. Mostly because they’re so human-like but also so unhinged and wild.
Same lol
You just described humans.
When are you going to describe chimpanzees?
Don't forget big muscles they have
I usally think of Chimps as us if we never decided some things where bad
the uncanny valley between human and non-human
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!
And if lion decided to kill you, they make you a quick meal, the chimp will have *fun* first.
Why do I feel like this is glen from Tre rags videos 😂
They go for the balls,nose and eyes first. They are all fast twitch muscle
brother, they rip other primates apart for fun. if you think they arent evil you just arent human
Oddly enough, a big cat handler said he'd rather go into a cage with 20 Tigers, than 2 Lions. Tigers are solitary and Lions are essentially pack animals. Lions try to be your boss, and they have to be CONVINCED to jump through the hoop. Tigers just want a reason to jump through the hoop, like a treat. Tigers won't try to eat you unless they are hungry. Lions will try just to prove they are more BOSS than you.
Mad respect for "Lion Tamers".
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.
That entire situation is messed up and so so so damn heartbreaking hook, line and sinker.
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.
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.
So he was living with an emotionally unstable woman? Is it *really* a wonder why he snaped?
@@theblackcatgirl7013 It's "hook, line and sinker" not center FYI 😋
How that man escaped with his doctorate intact is insane.
@Pig 🅥 isn’t that techno blades pfp? That’s really fucked mann
1930s were wild.
Those were the days, the good old days.../s
@@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.
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
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.
Idk, you ever see him cross waters filled with hippos?
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)?
@@michaeldavid6832 Yep, he had to run straight up a tree
@@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.
@@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.
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.
They’re basically humans on an extreme level. They have our qualities cranked way up. They can be sweet and caring or viscious. Only smart thing to do is leave them alone
Chimps are bloody terrifying. They've got the capacity to be both kind and cruel.
Just like humans 🤷🏽♀️
just like us humans
And they pick cruel 7 times out of 8.
@@ALazyBat Indeed. We have way too much in common for it to not freak me out.
KIND?????
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.
Few things in this world are more horrific than flying feces, but it sounds like those girls deserved it
😳 You sure were lucky that chimp was fair and recognized you were not a douche.
The chimp really went "you're one of the homies now"
*Those girls definitely won a stupid prize for sure*
SMH...
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.”
“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.”
I feel like that's how most people should really treat any animal other than dogs and cats to avoid 90% of news headlines
True at the end of the day nature will sometimes best nurture
@@hadbetterdays8118 and when it does you die like an idiot. Just keep a fcking house cat
@@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 😆.
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
Great apes deserve personhood. No question.
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).
I was 9
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.
Travis is also a sentient being like a human, with a large brain, who was abused and on Xanax.
Good. Animals are wild for a reason. That’s why you don’t drug animals like that.
@@wanderleiflExactlyyyy
@@wanderleifl 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.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 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.
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.
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.
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
@@anim8dideas849 you'd have a higher chance of surviving your lost fight with the gorilla than the komodo, bud. Stop fooling yourself.
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.
@@anim8dideas849 idk about your size but I’m not choosing a Komodo who’d probably be the same size as me 😂😂
I’m genuinely shocked that any of these people managed to get so close to chimps and even escape alive.
congrats on being both top comments
@Don't Read My Profile Photo I've followed this before and I thoroughly respect it.
I suspect heavy use of telescopic lens for most of these shots.
Altough, there are a bunch of russians who have Bears as pets
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
You sir, have made all of TH-cam 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!
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.
Oh that's pretty neat
Sounds like his buddy was the instigator. "Hey BoBo, you gonna let him talk that ish to you?"
@@michaeldavid6832 bobo, do you seee the Chimp over there? He called your mother a dirty Bonobo. Are you gonna let that slide? If
...wow.😲
goddamn monkey man got so sad over his friends death that he didnt want to lose any more friends
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!
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.
@@coffeewolfproductions9113 if he's not familiar with you that only means you're a nice meal
Yeah, but in the wild they dig up cemeteries & feed on people’s corpses. That’s how they sometimes go after people.
At least Komodos can’t fit through commodos. 🚽💩🦎🪠
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.
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.
"..he had no tolerance for unethical people"
wow..just wow
@@ahsanhaider6549 Hypocrisy is humanity's most prominant trait.
@@concept5631 Boy, youre right! We do the same thing as Kellog, but on industrial large scale in schools. Its the same process.
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.
isn't that the same nigga who wide spread circumcision? fuck that guy
10:06 that picture of the jaguar gave me chills bro.
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.
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.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog morals are surprisingly flexible for people. Like that quote says, "Everybody's got a price"
"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)
I lived in Connecticut not too far from where this happened, when it happened. It was so surreal.
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
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.
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?
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.
@@gothicMCRgirl Also could have been avoided if they put the little fucker in the ground the second he started being aggressive.
@@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".
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.
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 TH-cams very own Steve Irwin in my book.
This guy is a straight educator.
You are zoologist?.... and you learn from TH-cam 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.
What exactly did you learn from this video? I am curious.
@@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 💁
If you are a zoologist, aren't you supposed to know this stuff already? 🤔
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.
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
Too bad it still does not stop idiots from keeping wildlife
Waterbury in the house! But yes that was a WILD thing to wake up to
@Funtime Florian agreed
@Funtime Florian nah I want a lion as a pet
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
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.
_(sits in room with large silverback gorilla just watching television & eating sandwich while said gorilla eats very large bowl of assorted fruits)_
@@zsu-23-4shilka2 Hell yeah
@@zsu-23-4shilka2 do that with a chimp and it will tear you apart
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.
@@zsu-23-4shilka2 laughs because tv show is funny… fuck, I’m smiling?! Did it notice? Fuck, I’m looking at it 😢
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 .
So a human
@@crashjayoo6 yes, but with a body fat percentage body builders would be jealous at.
Oh that is scary
@@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.
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.
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.
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)
I would use the term "recovered" lightly.
Bro I have a video about travis: th-cam.com/video/WeVzs1r7tpk/w-d-xo.html
@@eacalvert why, now I want know
Genie Wiley?
@@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
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.
He could've gone from chimp to pimp. Now he went from chimp to limp
He died in 2004, so it was more like 5 years
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.
Poor Travis
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.
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!
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.
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.
Travis just wasn’t a bitch. He took no disrespect, if you throw a bottle at him he gonna throw you like bottle
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
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
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.
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.
Oh no you're 100% correct.
Wait, aren't hippopotamus infamously deadly animals? Don't see what there is to laugh at.
@@jaschabull2365 theyre literally living 9000 pound war machines
When the time comes, you will have the last laught.
Like the guy from Casual Geographics says…….hippos will remove you from the census, just because they can
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.
link pls, I feel like ruining my day
Edit: Thanks for sending the sauce
@@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 😔 th-cam.com/video/wgS0KgT5APc/w-d-xo.html Have fun lol
@@SCP-rd1zc No, you dont.
@@SCP-rd1zc GamerfromMars did a video on it, with pics.
@@SCP-rd1zc also EXPLORE WITH US made a video about it . I think in the 911call the owner also said "He is eating her..."
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
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!
My humour broke 😭😭
Honestly they should do a psychological study on him. His hypocrisy is outstanding!
I love your name.
Were you eating corn flakes?
Lady: ~holds Travis the Chimps Elmo~
Travis the Chimp: "Peace was never a f***ing option!"
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.
It never does.
I really can't wrap my head around people who have chimps as pets, they're absolutely delusional
any updates?
@@FlippysUrbanExplorationword lol
Tell us when she loses her face
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.
spears ain't *only* for throwing.
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.
@@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).
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
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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
@@anna8328 Damn...
The Bonobos are the nice ones. Bonobos should get more popular
This is consistently the best channel on youtube about fauna. You have a certain charisma and casual speach (part of the brand, I guess) that makes your videos so easy to enjoy while actually learning in the meantime.
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.
So have I! I used to have reoccurring nightmares as a kid. I can still remember some of them.
bruh how you afraid of your self
@@bl4k4tt84 It is how it is.
Uncanny valley
Nobody tell this guy that humans are also primates
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. 🤯😱
Good to know, chimpanzees will lure the young and stupid from their families like a serial killer lures a hitchhiker into their car
yh gorillas>>>>chimps
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
@@Machineraptor It's only through intelligence that you can even fathom cruelty.
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.
There are 2 things that i like about this chanel, the knowledge and the creatinity in the explanations you do
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.
“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
His narration never disappointed lol
Fax
DUDE HOW ARE YOU EVERYWHERE
Ayo.
That stone sure missed him
Seriously, someone give this man a show or something. He has a gift that he needs to share with the rest of the world.
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.
Dude, we're watching his show. This is it.
@@mjrchapin give it 50 years and his a class discussion
he would be censored and half the fun would go.. he would have to adjust his script and I wouldn't love it.
Well, not really. Alot of the 'facts' are missing sources and are mostly overstated.
"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".
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.
He actually said apparently but ight lmfao?!
You know what chiggers are being in the country we all know don't lay in the grass
@@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.
Dude my word was always "Chegro"
Never stop making your jokes, bro.
3:40 _"...in ways that would have CPS, PETA, and the Geneva Convention pulling up."_ LMAO
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
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
Sameeeee
She survived, but died a year later.
@@joeplayzgames2625 The chimps owner is the one who died a year later. I'm pretty sure Nash is still alive.
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.
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]
Awesome
Omg I would LOVE to see a chimp ride a motorcycle
Well damn.....
That is incredibly irresponsible of that zoo
@@A_Black_Sheep94 Oh, stop. No one died.
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. 😳
How, bruh? I remember getting absolutely wrecked by those mofos back when I stayed at WDW’s Fort Wilderness Campground back in 2010
@@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.
@@almanac4150 you have some incredibly good luck I hope you know that
@@Legend-up2dn Incredibly lucky? They are as annoying as mosquitos just not as likely to carry diseases. Incredibly lucky to avoid an inconvience.
I never encountered these things
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 :)
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.
I once saw a video of a Komodo eating a monkey. 🤣
@lucatarantino4956 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.
@@Joshua_Haleyou talk like chatgpt
They're in the one family of lizards that unlocked the lifehack of "run and breathe at the same time"
@@user_anonymous000😂😂😂
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.
Chiggers terrifying me.
They’re black and smart…
Nah but seriously those bumps are repulsive 🤢
It wouldn't have been so bad. You could've become a golf teacher and helped someone win the Tour Championship.
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.
@@JakeKoenig but then he would've fallen through a window when the person he helped showed him the stuffed alligator
@@JakeKoenig Well played, sir!
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.
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...
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.
@@-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.
@@KlavierMenn th-cam.com/video/K-4SthopN2U/w-d-xo.html
Well, just look at Zeke.
It's kind of ironic that in the original Planet of the Apes movies the Gorillas were presented as the Warrior species, the soldiers always wanting to battle and wipe out humans while the chimpanzees were presented as pacifists. In reality it's probably different.
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.
And ..how would the rhino even enter the bedroom
@@andidinu1456 /spawn
@@andidinu1456 Tranquilize it, and then build the bedroom around it.
@@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.
@@professionalidiot4987 I was answering how to get in to a bedroom.
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.
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
@@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
@@deinsilverdrac8695 tl;dr
@@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?
@@deinsilverdrac8695 maybe
You always get me with that snow leopard pic. I always find it, then forget where it is, then tell myself, “no, seriously, you found it last time!” Every. Single. Time.
Same. I remember him pointing it out and I assumed that I would able to find it on the pic like I do with most camouflaged animals. Turns out, nah.
i remember reading a comment pointing out the triangle of snow and look for that, but i still don’t find it right away
It only took me a few seconds to find it THIS TIME. I just recognized the cat face shape in the background.
@@chilomine839 and then once I see it I can’t unsee it no matter how hard I try, until the next time it randomly pops up in one of his videos.
@@Oxzilion Yep, same picture then I'll forget again. XD
0:59
“You don’t seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!”
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.
Let’s hope that they can’t!! 🙏🏼
Very cool Actually
"chigger nymphs" feels like a very dangerous phrase, especially with this video putting "chimps" on the mind
@@posthistoricdino422 Yup. Not ideal to spoonerise the two 🤐😵
@Freddy Medina damn
Recently heard the story of a chimp that was adopted by 2 people, grew up with them it's whole life and learnt to co exist with people, but eventually he started to show signs of distress and anger and eventually attacked a lady, reports saying her eyes were ripped out, teeth hanging out, nose hanging on by a single thread, and when medicals arrived, they had to get therapy after what they saw, and that everyone was shocked that she was still alive
Lol this is the same story being told in this video. Travis is the one that did all that
I bet you haven't watched the video
@@SuperFraudArtetaOut That’s the story that made me have to go to therapy
welcome to Connecticut
She deserved it honestly. Why in the blue hell would you adopt a chimp? It’s like trying to shave with a chainsaw...
@@DiaperSNiFFER you went to therapy just by listen to this story ? 😱
this channel does a good job spreading awareness of how Chimps are wild animals and not pets
I saw a documentary many years ago on a troupe of chimps, and one female in particular.
She was just entering breeding age.
She would play with the young chimps, the children, but every so often she would lure one away from the troupe a good distance, then kill it, and conceal the body before returning to the troupe.
She NEVER fed on the young one.
As the mother of the missing young chimp became alarmed, and the troupe fanned out to search for the child, this female would join the search, but try to draw the search away from where she had hidden the body of the young one she murdered.
The first recorded non-human serial killer.
I always found the portrayal of the great apes in "The Planet of the Apes" 1968 to be ironic, as the Gorillas were portrayed as violent, aggressive, and war-like, whereas in reality they are very peaceful, and passive creatures.
The Chimps on the other hand, portrayed as pacifists [and vegetarian] are active and rather brutal hunters, who routinely engage in raids and open warfare against other Chimp troupes, and lesser primates.
Human prejudices trumping fact.
Of the 37 minute challenge;
Of all four, the Rhino is the safest one to be around.
Safe being a relative term here.
The Komodo dragon, and the jaguar are complete non-starters, The reptile is an eating machine, and there is no place in a one bedroom apartment high enough to climb out of it's reach, and they will hunt even if gorged on a previous kill. The jaguar, like all big cats is territorial, and it WILL kill you if it can't drive you off.
If you remained absolutely silent, and didn't move a muscle, the Rhino would likely not take notice of you, and would leave you in peace, the KEY is to not alarm it in any way. Absolute silence, and absolute motionlessness, and the safest place to be would be laying on top of one of the kitchen counters so you don't accidentally get trampled.
A similar strategy would work to a certain extent with the gorilla, but great care should be taken to avoid eye contact, or any sudden move, the big problem comes about if the gorilla gets inquisitive, they are very curious creatures, and will begin pushing your personal space. They are heavy, and incredibly strong so they can harm you without trying, and any sudden move on your part to avoid harm will provoke a defensive reaction.
There's video on TH-cam of a man being examined by a big male gorilla, as the anthropoid becomes bored, and turns to leave, he gave the man a pretty beefy punch at the head before moving off.
Just his way of saying "I'm done with you now".
this is actually insane
@@Ezdine_G8261 Yeah, Chimps are not the cute clownish "Children of the forest" Hollywood has portrayed them to be, and their similarities to US is decidedly unnerving.
Idk what you're on about all cats are serial killers
@Igualdad well yeah, but you wouldn’t have to worry about a Rhino sniffing you out and hunting you down at a blood curdling game. It’s sense of smell is used to hunt veggies.
I'd take a komodo dragon over a jaguar or a chimp though. They generally don't attack humans unless they smell blood or are very hungry. For 37 minutes there's a decent chance it would leave you alone. They also prefer to bite and then stalk their prey until the venom kicks in so an attack won't always be lethal providing you can get medical aid fast enough.
The gorilla would be your best bet. Just curl up in a foetal position the whole time. They can be curious and don't know their own strength (or how delicate humans can be) so there is some risk there.
“Here’s why you should never give a chimpanzee Xanax” that sounds like the beginning to a bad joke
I'm never gonna go near a chimp. People who do are either crazy or suicidal. Thank you for sharing this information about these species , very informative. I appreciate your time and work involved in gathering the facts.
Man ever since I was a kid I knew something was wrong with chimps even without knowing these facts.Everyone used to talk about how close their behaviour is to humans and i was like we all know what messed up things humans could do.Also watching that movie "blood monkeys" didnt really help lol
our maybe they are biologist and need to learn more about these creatures🤔
I would go near one chimp but not a group they are only extremely dangerous when in groups
@@reptilekeeper1461 a lonely chimp in the wild is dangerous nonetheless because it's a lot stronger than us
@@taleseylad1249 a chimp is not a lot stronger than us. A chimp is only 1.5 times stronger pound for pound than someone of relative body mass. That is not that strong at all the only reason chimps are dangerous are because of their teeth and bite force.
I saw the breaking news on worldwide tv about Travis, and WHEW... That scared me so badly, and my parents had to run into the living room to turn off the tv. They were freaked out as well. Poor Travis, goes to show we do NOT need to own chimpanzees as pets.
Also my camp counselers used the term Chuggers (for my own safety LOL) for the mites. They warned us to not play in the tall weatlike grass.
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)
Truly the highlights of my learning life.
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@our hero oh well I wasn’t expecting that
@our hero if you’re not a bot how are you on like every comment though
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!
Basically Humans with limited morals and a perchance for a lot of violence
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.
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The cruelty of those chimps you've mentioned is probably learned from other cruel chimps. I think back to the story of when all the aggressive male bonobos of a bonobo group ate bad fruit and died and the group of bonobos became much nicer as a result because the surviving females didn't let their kids grow up to be like the aggressive males.
Edit: it was baboons
It was actually baboons not bonobos.
Oh, cmon... This woman with the chimp, Kellog, Skinner and many other people think that you can form people and animals to your liking by raising them "right". Some even go so far to bet their utopian ideas on it. Its not complete bullshit, but its still misguided enough to get you completly different results than expected. And wrong!
Baboons, not Bonobos.
However, it was a fascinating example of how upbringing and culture affect behavior. New males who joined the tribe would become less aggressive and more cooperative, showing that they learned the local culture.
since they dont live such cozy lifes as humans, its very likely that they will become aggressive again after a generation or 2. All it takes is 1 tragic incident and the aggressiveness will return.
They will become more aggressive or they will die because nature is a cruel mistress
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.
lets go
chiggers??!!
I assumed it was southern slang as well because it really sounds like something you shouldn't say lol
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.''
He essentially had a bad trip from the drugs and went ballistic.
I remember she said she was giving him xanax bc he became agressive after puberty. It could either be drugs or just his nature.
@@That_Doctor_Del_Fella pretty much
@@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 !!!
@@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
Your channel is the only reason I’m still on TH-cam and has helped respark my animal obsession. Sharks will always be my favorite tho ❤
That story about Travis the chimp - the lady was on the Oprah show many years ago - she said she got in her car to try and run from the chimp and the chimp RIPPED THE DOOR off the car and dragged her out. I was traumatized after hearing that.
I remember watching that Oprah interview years ago, her face scarred me. Just the thought of a chimp frightened me.
People really don't understand how strong and violent chimps are
I’ve seen part of the interview but I didn’t hear her mention that. Do you have a link?
@@darkpoison6250 Try watching the WHOLE interview. No I do not. I watched the interview when it aired many years ago.
She was giving Travis wine and feeding him lobster, lobsters, crab legs and medicating him… that is an absolute no no and showed what that would do to him and what he would do to people.
Awesome video, but you should probably have mentioned why it's notable that Travis the chimp was given Xanax. Basically, it's believed that Xanax causes anxiety and paranoia in chimps, which is quite possibly what set him off that day.
So it has the opposite effect that it does for a human. Probably why you shouldn't medicate any living thing without asking professionals first.
@@That_Doctor_Del_Fella No, it does that to some people too.
@@That_Doctor_Del_Fella reacts differently with different people and I’m assuming chimps too. For example, some people take adderall and can stay up all night, study, etc etc etc. For me, it puts me to sleep. Different brain chemistry but, regardless that lady had no right keeping that chimp as long as she did. They even made a law banning the ownership of primates without a permit in that state. However, since she already had Travis and the police loved him, and since he was considered a “local celebrity,”they allowed her to keep him. She has empty nest syndrome so she buys a great ape to substitute for her lack of companionship. And because of that, her best friend is disfigured and will have issues the remainder of her life because her friend had abandonment issues. If she just took a decent dose of Prozac, this may never have happened.
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Can confirm, through my prescriptions. Even taking a little bit too much to any degree that your personal threshold is can cause hallucinations of all kinds as well. I once saw my couch breathing. I laid on it and I could FEEL it breathing. Imagine THAT kind of shit while paranoid. I can totally see a chimp like Travis having issues....
and nash wasnt the one who gave him xanax it was her friends
I remember listening to a guy who worked with chimps saying how incredibly violent they are to their own kind and it's the one animal he would never want to be. I found it interesting.
Think about it. Do you know of any social animals that aren't violent towards their own kind? Maybe there are some, but I can't think of any right now.
@@Durka-Durka true but jumps are demons on steroids
@@Durka-Durka I think bonobos are not violent
@@adityasinghjadoun6675 They ARE but they're more stable than chimps by far.
Basically from what I read they're a matriarchal society. The Female bonobos intermittently use violence to keep males in line and maintain power (so an inverse of many human cultures) and they ALL use sex to maintain social cohesion (so think hippie apes led by Dominatrix apes).
@@adityasinghjadoun6675 they still can be to members of there own troop however no were near as chimps but they tend to be alot more peaceful
As someone with autism and an issue with showing empathy to humans, I show empathy to people that have my trust, animals, babies, and disabled people. I will never have empathy for wild/pet chimps because I know what they are capable of.
I'm so glad someone else appreciates how terrifying chimps are. They're basically the only animal I'm actually scared of
Chimps are terrifying cuz of how similar they are to us in everyway.
I'm scared of many animals including chimps. Chimps, however, do I not only find scary, but also separate themselves from any other animals by being disturbing to me on an existential level.
Chimps are scary but in my opinion not even close to the worst.
@@yesmansam6686 I think it’s the uncanny valley. Chimps are like humans but are also wild animals so they’re cruel, unpredictable, deadly.
Chimps, polar bears, and crocodiles. Polar bears and crocodiles are pretty much the only predatory animals in nature that have little to no fear of humans and actively hunt them if they are even so much as peckish.
There’s more to the Travis story, animals never just snap like that. Travis had been given tea with Xanax in it because the lady thought it would make him easier to manage or something similar. It’s a story that’s always truly bothered me because Travis actually lived a pretty long life filled with love, and u can really see that he was an intelligent animal who enjoyed life. It’s very upsetting that he never got to live the life he deserved, and he should have been put in a sanctuary that would properly help care for him. Idk it just makes me very sad that because his owner just wouldn’t give him up to a place equipped for him, and that poor woman was attacked and life permanently changed forever. The line in the 911 call that always gave me chills was when she said “he’s eating her” while sobbing. Genuinely one of the worst calls I’ve ever heard.
He also had Lyme disease. It's absolutely impossible to say what triggered Travis, especially considering that he never touched Sandy. Chimpanzees are known for violent displays.
When people are intoxicated they act different and are more aggressive then their usual self like my dad, putting a chimp on drugs is like putting an already aggressive and violent person on drugs
Yes animals do "snap" lol. It happens all the time. But I wouldn't use snap. That's just how they are and have been for millions of years
Yes animals do just snap. Hippie lol
@@badcooper235 Not exactly. The term "snap" kinda suggests the violence is unprompted, but animals that are raised by humans will pretty much never suddenly attack them for no reason at all. The thing is, humans are really bad at knowing what animals expect, and so animals raised by humans still end up hurting people all of a sudden, because of one mistake someone made. In this case, giving a chimp a drug and handling something it considers its property.
So story time. I used to leave the TV on for the dogs, mostly bc they were extremely neurotic and just needed to hear voices and conversations whenever the family was out of the house. At the time we were experimenting with channels to see what calmed them the most, what prevented the most accidents.
Somebody left the TV on to Animal Planet while everyone was out of the house for school and work. I came home earliest and was surprised the dogs didn’t rush up to greet me as usual-they were both sitting on the couch with a thousand yard stare. I wondered what they were watching so I looked at the guide.
“Killer Chimps” Chimpanzees attack humans they previously befriended.
I remember staring at this in shock and realized they were running a 1.5 hr special on this when I heard someone on TV go, “Hey! I found another body. I think he’s breathing!”
I never changed a channel and turned off a TV faster than right then.
Poor dogs..!!😰
Dogs really had a mental trauma back then. Be careful with your fluffy kids.
@@nellymurkthewitch yeah. We (as in the family) thought we were helping them that day. We made sure to not show them Animal Planet or National Geographic for similar reasons. Anyway, we found out home shows worked best for them -no violence like nature shows nor dramatic yelling and arguing like E!, TLC, or any news network. The more you know
@@charlottewilliams1707 I imagine things like children's TV (maybe a bit busy), cooking & gardening shows, educational science stuff like Bill Nye's stuff, or just an entire collection of Bob Ross' stuff on repeat would be pretty effective.
Chimp gangs tearing up hikers... maybe not so much.
Though I wouldn't be surprised if listening to sir David Attenborough wax poetically over beautiful imagery of rainforests and birds of paradise and waterfalls and aerial shots of mountains and the like could keep even the most neurotic dogs nice and relaxed. So long as it didn't feature any mid-sized or larger carnivores (especially the social ones) trying to fetch a meal, that is. Sir Dave can do almost anything, but sometimes nature is just so very cruel.
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3:18 Kellogg like, the cereal? Is this the cereal guy? (I paused at this point)
A few years back I saved a wild bird that couldn't fly due to a broken wing. I took a week taking care of it clumsily before reliving the full treatment/nursing to a mini zoo that's located in the same huge community centre that also let my animation studio rent a space in it. The mini zoo contained a few small reptiles and mammals, as well as birds and a group of chimpanzees. It took a whole month for the zookeepers to properly nurse it to health. I was one weekend too late in enquiring its final news (I was so busy and forgot to go check on the bird until a month passed by) - that when the zookeepers finally let the bird fly outside of its enclosure to free it, the chimpanzees had been closely watching, and coincidentally the bird flew too close to the chimpanzees' cage as it made an ascending turnaround. One of them caught the bird in midair and chomped its head off, then devoured it whole. Nothing was left of the bird.
damn chimps
@@Durka-Durka nah... I wasn't angry at them. I was traumatised even just by hearing the unfortunate account from the zookeepers, but the chimpanzees sure didn't belong in a huge iron cage all their life just for the sake of human entertainment. They belong in the wilds. The bird though... All that effort it took for us to care for it meant nothing to vindictive apes. So yeah, lesson learned - don't mess with the wilderness and nature, and it's all about survival outside of human territory.
wow what jerks
@@MollyHJohns True that they don't belong in cages. And killing the bird might've come naturally whether they were in a cage or not. Chimps eat meat occasionally
@@MollyHJohns As a bird person I am angry at them lol, fk them.
They kill anything even if they don't actually get enough food for them.
Not to mention they are fed in the zoo. ☠️
But thank you for trying anyway, birds are going extinct a lot because they have too much unnatural predators in the area or because of light pollution.
4:16 just a correction, he didn’t call the experiment off because it was ruining his son, he called it off because the results were underwhelming.
Yeah, that makes more sense. A dude who was willing to do all that crap to his son in the first place seems like someone who would go on no matter the personal cost, unless he wasn't getting what he wanted.
Horrifying the way his son was just a possession to this guy. I feel so bad for Donald Kellogg.
Honestly what was up with people named Kellogg doing weird unethical shit
Monstrous family. Evil.
That was the most disturbing thing in this video. That man was no father in the true sense of the word, only in a biological one. What kind of heartless person would do that to another human being, let alone his own son? :(
We have a legendary chimp in Norway. He is in his 40s and is a mascot for our country's zoo. He was raised by humans until he was placed in the zoo, as he was rejected by his mum at 6 weeks. Julius is highly beloved.
I hope that stays that way.
@@TF2Scout.. I reccomend gooling Julius the Chimp if interested. This li'l guy was so at home with his humans, that he watched TV with the family and slept in the family bed. Also he has his own song that every Norwegian child born at least between 1990 and 2010 know by heart.
Gross and disturbing.
@@moth300??
@@WierdArtistMarcell The chimpanzee and sleeping in the same bed.
Thanks man I appreciate you making these videos and I hope that you have a blessed day
I know this video is mostly about how danger chimps are, but I can't believe there's people out there who legitimately think they could fight a komodo dragon, seriously have they even seen one?!
Fighting a Komodo bear handed would be game over for anyone, no exceptions. Only some of the strongest people could hope to out muscle it, and we’re still talking about a 10ft long lizard that will hunt water buffalo.
They obviously never dealt with an agressive lizard before. Komodos are that but huge and packing deadly venom and have no quarrels with making you a meal.
@@burningcheerios3119 at first glance next to the other animals, I'd only pick the others cuz they'll kill me faster. You have the best chance of survival against it if we're assuming they all want smoke.
If I look at it like that I understand why they'd rather take the komodo
I could totally take one of those easily, or my name isn't dunning-kruger.
I got so happy when he chose the Gorilla out of the four animals... I also used the same logic as why I stand a chance surviving it for 37min compared to other animals
Well yeah. The gorilla is the huge dude at the gym. He could beat you over the head with your own car, but if you don't start nothing, there won't be nothing.
To all my fellow researchers now and in the future: when you run into your institutional review board being a pain in the butt about approving your research plan, think back on Kellogg’s experiment and remember that this is why we can’t have nice things (alongside other horrors like the Milgrim experiment, the Stanford Prison experiment, etc).
Tuskegee. Still has black people in America afraid to see doctors, and as someone who relies on good medicine, I find it an appalling consequence worth noting.
MK ultra, Mengele's obsesion with albinism and twins, the 731 unit, and others I don't rember right now.
@@ThatGuyUpThere During the days of MK Ultra and such, CIA agents used to prank each other by putting LSD in their colleague's coffee.
Just discovered this channel and it’s literally one of my favorites by far already 😂😂😂
What got me about the komodo fight at the very end wasn't the ferocity or size of those lizards, it was that when one hit the ground the camera *shook*. That animal weighs in the range of 200 lbs and it's ALL muscle and claw and tooth and scale. Like a walking assault weapon.
so dragon is an accurate description of this walking assault weapon of a lizard
Don't mean to be the killjoy, but the camera shaking was due to movement from the cameraman not the lizard falling...200lbs falling wouldn't make enough force to shake a camera in someone's hands.
I was at a zoo once. There was some big cats across from some monkeys. We decided to look at the monkeys first then go across the lane to see the panthers.
Maybe not five minutes later, there's screaming and commotion behind us and we turn around to see all the monkeys launching their poop at another family.
At that moment I was really glad we moved on when we did. The zookeepers jumped to cover and close their enclosure.
I wish I could get the naive "humans are the only living thing that does bad things" people i know to watch these.
Well it's kinda funny the 2nd highest offender is closely related to us
Send it
@@omgitsclinton At least the 3rd isn't. Damn dolphins
@@omgitsclinton I don't know. Orcas are about neck and neck with chimps.
@The Stonefish No. Intelligence breeds the ability to see maliciousness for what it is. Everything on this savage shithole planet is malicious.
5:28 "...check your snakes for toilets..."🤣🤣🤣
Years before Travis, a coworker was thinking about getting a chimp for a pet...after a weekend chimp sleepover she decided nope: "it took 4 strong men to get him in his cage" 😳
Chimp sleepover?!
@@777StarrySky yeah sounds weird. Coworker is a tiny woman and her hubby was slim but average. No kids. Chimp handler/owner suggested they let the chimp stay with them over weekend. Some damage was done to the house but they were okay. I think they were very lucky. Btw, early 1990's
@@thejudgmentalcat Glad they were ok, sounds like terrifying experience. Also Chimp Sleepover seems like some sort of event at a local zoo: Bring your sleeping bags and nap with chimps!
@@777StarrySky And after learning what we know about chimps, 😳😵💫
@@thejudgmentalcat Yeah, no thanks for me! 😨
Did a college internship at a zoo and took around a film crew from the local sports team so they could film some between period footage of players with animals at the zoo. In the reptile house, the keeper was sitting with an eight foot Komodo dragon and petting it like a dog. With the door to its enclosure open. I asked "can I pet it?". Keepers response: a flat "no". It moved only slightly and the film crew, cameras and all, ran with quickness down the hall. And so did I.
the fact that it takes some of them YEARS to master some of their tools/technology is crazy cool. like itd go against survival instinct to waste energy on something that doesnt necessarily work, even after the first few tries, but they realize that if they get it down itll be a lot easier in the long run. amazing, scary but amazing
@@gillfordrevereththe69th95 saying "no offense" after being racist doesnt make it any less offensive. 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Rumor has it there was a gang of chimps that were smart enough to use manchettes, lord help us if they get a hand on a gun.
I remember someone saying "an orangutan's scares in me the same way a wolf does.
A chimpanzee scares me the same way as a stranger who's been following me in the distance for way too long"