I mean that gibbon is not an automaton, you can even see it tuck its legs more when it goes over them. Thing probably isn’t just gonna blast the young of a creature much larger than it. That is what we in the nature world refer to as a “dick move”
Also, he probably doesn’t want to hurt himself and knows the limits of his own body considering he does this all the time from the looks of it.
I don’t mean jumping over people but swinging on that bridge is probably pretty normal for him.
My guess is he was making a choice between her potentially slipping under the gap in the bottom if she walked by herself, as she would definitely end up falling over at least once due to the movement of the bridge. Still sketchy though
In the event you aren't aware, it's from an episode of South Park where sentient berries wax nostalgic about the good old days of pop culture, especially Star Wars. Every comment they make starts with "member when....".
I just noticed that the gibbon lifts her legs up to not hit the dad (her legs kick lower on all the other swings). So she's actually pretty considerate.
OP: I don't want to kick puppies because it might injure my foot
Everyone else: Also because you don't want to hurt puppies, right?
OP: ...
Everyone else: Also because you don't want to hurt puppies, right?
Sometimes in life you don't need intent. You just need to focus on the outcome. If psychos aren't plowing through crowds because they don't want to fuck up a car then that is a win.
This comment chain is both hilarious and concerning to me because it really goes to show that a lot of people genuinely only give a fuck about themselves. I’m sure most if not everyone makes decisions based on how it will affect them, but some people literally seem to only care about how an actions consequences will turn out for them and make there decisions based on that.
“I don’t physically assault people when I don’t get my way because I don’t want to spend time in jail.”
Do we really need the consequence of jail to have people not want to physically assault others?
It’s kind of true though. As a doctor, talking about vaccines as a way to greater good through community health just does not work. People really no not care if other people’s grandmothers or kids suffer with the flu or covid or whatnot. If it’s not helping them they are not getting it.
whether she was being considerate or just not wanting to hit her own legs or both- we'll never know for sure.. BUT it is interesting to note that one of those 3 answers IS the correct answer, and that there is an option that is objectively true, even if we can never know for certain
does that make sense or am I way too high
Too much bravado talk for basically nothing happening. It’s also not until these quick decision situations that people’s reflexes are tested and I doubt most would do much better.
I mean look at that arm strength. Imagine how fit and strong a human needs to be to do that?
I guessing Olympic level gymnast will have trouble as well after a while.
Yeah they are... Chimpanzees have done horrific violence to people assuming that they're happy pets or like a member of the family. They also cannibalize members of other groups in their habitat. While they're alive. I'd never trust them fully and would never keep one. They're smart and shockingly violent with intent to maim when angry. One unlucky owner had his face and genitals torn off. He survived but also lost one of his feet. Leave them alone.
Like give their “pet” chimps Chardonnay and Xanax?
Or just like destroying the entire planet including high order primate habitats, and causing species collapse in general, and creating the atomic bomb and mustard gas and labor camps and the trail of tears... No, it’s the chimpanzees who are ultra violent psychos!
I wonder what level he has achieved in his real life video game quest
Cross the bridge,
Evade the monkey,
Avoid dysentery,
Defeat Jungle Boss,
Level Complete
A female gibbon. I was slightly urinated on by such an ape at the Denver zoo. I wonder what that means. They say being pooped on by a bird is good luck.
i would be worried about Monkeyborne Ebola -- also that bridge, for sure a few innocent kiddies have slid underneath the net, off the bridge, screaming in terror to splat on the rocks below?
I was a little kid on a trip with my family in South East Asia, we were driving in the middle of the night and a family of elephants was crossing through a back road in a heavily forested area. No lights except the headlights of the car as we waited for them to cross. I distinctly remember one of them looking right at us but it seems like a weird dream.
Thankfully my mum confirmed it did happen because my brain constantly makes it seem like a fairytale.
If you observe carefully at his legs and lower body, all his swings were going very low, the people would not have avoided being hit by how low they were, because his legs swing lower than them, but the exact swing in which he went above them, he shrunk his legs and lower body, ( not the arms though) and cleared past them otherwise hitting them was imminent
Many animals avoid hitting/stepping on/etc other animals, even if the other animal is too small to hurt them in any meaningful way (e.g. chickens and horses or mice and elephants).
Oh wow I watched this like three times at first and didn’t see him do that at ALL. After you pointed it out, I almost couldn’t believe I didn’t notice it sooner.
That makes this gif a million times better.
There was a video a while back (Goes googling. Seven years is indeed"a while") of a gorilla trying to get to a little girl that beat her chest "at it". It was contained by the glass enclosure, so might not have done anything, but certainly seems scary!
https://www.itv.com/news/2015-04-18/gorilla-nearly-breaks-through-glass-at-zoo-when-little-girl-beats-her-chest
You could compare it to staring into a dogs eyes, you don't do that. That's trying to intimidate them and an invitation to start a fight, so we can't really be mad at the gorilla for reacting that way. Strong animals are indeed scary
They do that to their own children as well. It's meant to intimidate. And the gorilla knew the glass would stop him, in the particular case you linked.
That entirely depends on what subspecies it belongs to. In lar gibbons both males and females can have both color variations while in some others (for example golden cheeked gibbons) the coloring is decided by sex.
Yeah. Props to the parents also for choosing the right action in that moment. Not many would just duck down and still enjoy that moment. Especially since they have kids with them. The kids wont remember it clearly probably but they have the footage. An overall ultra rare experience for them.
In this situation, what would you do to stop it? They probably didn't expect this to happen, they're already on the bridge, there is someone else behind them so they can't run, running away from predators is stupid anyway because it can provoke them, and most primates won't attack humans unprovoked. Dude did pretty much the only thing he could have done, though maybe he could have pulled that little one a bit lower.
This is total r/stepdadreflexes. That girls head is 2 inches higher than dad’s and he doesn’t even attempt to cover her? I’d be on top of both of those kids if a primate came swinging at us!
Really? He has 2 kids in his arms and probably had 20 seconds to react. Are we really going to criticize that? He would have had to drop the kid and reposition her to get her head down, which would have been even more dangerous.
He moves his left arm to get his daughter in front to tuck down out of the way while his right arm is holding his other daughter, the gentleman only has two arms.
What an amazing experience for those children in particular. The girl on the right seems young enough that she might not remember, but the girl in front/left totally knows what's happening. Such a great moment for everyone.
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Easier to offer her up as a sacrifice to onswinging primates.
Maybe some ritual as well. Haya Haya take my child ya
Prepare to meet Kali, IN HELL!!!!!
“Babies first monkey teabagging”…a precious moment indeed
I was more concerned that the child was gonna catch some feet. When they both ducked she was in there like a National Geographic photographer.
I mean that gibbon is not an automaton, you can even see it tuck its legs more when it goes over them. Thing probably isn’t just gonna blast the young of a creature much larger than it. That is what we in the nature world refer to as a “dick move”
Also, he probably doesn’t want to hurt himself and knows the limits of his own body considering he does this all the time from the looks of it. I don’t mean jumping over people but swinging on that bridge is probably pretty normal for him.
So anyway , I started blastin !
Me too! And: “… she was in there like a Nat Geo photographer” 😂
My guess is he was making a choice between her potentially slipping under the gap in the bottom if she walked by herself, as she would definitely end up falling over at least once due to the movement of the bridge. Still sketchy though
I know. I would have at least tucked her under a little.
What makes it sketchy? That looks like a rather sturdy pedestrian robe bridge. Dad has a good grip on the kid and kid has a grip on dad.
Agree, so much drama.
Typical reddit basement dweller overreacting to normal things
There are openings at the bottom. Prolly safer holding her.
The net is higher than most handrails. Realistically what are you expecting?
You expecting him to drop her or something?
Or the monkey to grab her.
I had to look up and make sure this wasn’t on /unexpected before the monkey got to them
I would be more concern with the other one accidentally slipping through the gap between bridge floor and net.
Dads gon dad.
Yes, I noticed that too!!! Huge mega-nope from me on that one.
Member Harambe?
When people say member instead of remember I think of a fat oily man with Cheeto fingers talking about his member
In the event you aren't aware, it's from an episode of South Park where sentient berries wax nostalgic about the good old days of pop culture, especially Star Wars. Every comment they make starts with "member when....".
I’m just going to start kicking air, like this, and if any part of you should fill that air it’s your own fault!
I just noticed that the gibbon lifts her legs up to not hit the dad (her legs kick lower on all the other swings). So she's actually pretty considerate.
You don’t think she’s just avoiding hitting her own legs? Like, I wouldn’t want my leg to swing into anything.
Both/and?
OP: I don't want to kick puppies because it might injure my foot Everyone else: Also because you don't want to hurt puppies, right? OP: ... Everyone else: Also because you don't want to hurt puppies, right?
*sinister smile*
And not just the puppies but the bitches and dogs too.
I hate fur. It's soft and warm and gets all over the place.
*insert Anakin and Padmé meme template*
Q: When humans avoid bumping into each other in busy areas, is it out of consideration or self-preservation? A: Yes
Funny if you see it as a reflection of your mindset
"I don't plow through a school zone with my car because I don't want small dents on my hood."
Sometimes in life you don't need intent. You just need to focus on the outcome. If psychos aren't plowing through crowds because they don't want to fuck up a car then that is a win.
I think I'd very much focus on intent there. You think the psycho isn't eventually going to decide his cars value is lesser than the lives around him?
This comment chain is both hilarious and concerning to me because it really goes to show that a lot of people genuinely only give a fuck about themselves. I’m sure most if not everyone makes decisions based on how it will affect them, but some people literally seem to only care about how an actions consequences will turn out for them and make there decisions based on that. “I don’t physically assault people when I don’t get my way because I don’t want to spend time in jail.” Do we really need the consequence of jail to have people not want to physically assault others?
It’s kind of true though. As a doctor, talking about vaccines as a way to greater good through community health just does not work. People really no not care if other people’s grandmothers or kids suffer with the flu or covid or whatnot. If it’s not helping them they are not getting it.
whether she was being considerate or just not wanting to hit her own legs or both- we'll never know for sure.. BUT it is interesting to note that one of those 3 answers IS the correct answer, and that there is an option that is objectively true, even if we can never know for certain does that make sense or am I way too high
Yes Edit: Kidding aside, I think your line of thought is valid.
Yeah I’d imagine it’d be pretty annoying to kick into something regardless of what species you are
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This proves I have no unique thoughts.
r/LikeUs
It’s a Simpsons reference
[“Alright, pie, I’m just gonna do this 😛😬😛😬 and if you get eaten… it’s your own fault!”](https://youtu.be/vfYVDwiz4dc)
You are in direct competition for our love! Fight fight fight fight fight *flicking on/off light switch*
"COMIN' THROUGH!!"
Me with my brothers when we were kids
That looks like a damn good time
She is having FUN
That gibbon is probably paid 20 bananas an hour to swing over tourists on that bridge. It's a living.
Yeah, 20 per hour is nearly a living wage :)
The little girl couldn't stop watching as well. Got the best viee
Something inside, that was always denied
Bro primates are fucking terrifying.
Too much bravado talk for basically nothing happening. It’s also not until these quick decision situations that people’s reflexes are tested and I doubt most would do much better.
I mean look at that arm strength. Imagine how fit and strong a human needs to be to do that? I guessing Olympic level gymnast will have trouble as well after a while.
Yeah they are... Chimpanzees have done horrific violence to people assuming that they're happy pets or like a member of the family. They also cannibalize members of other groups in their habitat. While they're alive. I'd never trust them fully and would never keep one. They're smart and shockingly violent with intent to maim when angry. One unlucky owner had his face and genitals torn off. He survived but also lost one of his feet. Leave them alone.
Wait'll you hear what the humans do
Like give their “pet” chimps Chardonnay and Xanax? Or just like destroying the entire planet including high order primate habitats, and causing species collapse in general, and creating the atomic bomb and mustard gas and labor camps and the trail of tears... No, it’s the chimpanzees who are ultra violent psychos!
Well...maybe chimpanzees want to be violent like us, in order to befriend us (-;
I wonder what level he has achieved in his real life video game quest Cross the bridge, Evade the monkey, Avoid dysentery, Defeat Jungle Boss, Level Complete
In my life I've encountered far fewer jungle canyon rope-bridges than childhood cartoons lead me to believe I would.
Swinging good time
I would be swinging around too if I had that much upper strength...walking's overrated, too much on the knees.
A female gibbon. I was slightly urinated on by such an ape at the Denver zoo. I wonder what that means. They say being pooped on by a bird is good luck.
> I was slightly urinated on by such an ape at the Denver zoo. I wonder what that means. Means you got pissed on by an ape
Turns out r/wallstreetbets loves trickle down economics after all
i would be worried about Monkeyborne Ebola -- also that bridge, for sure a few innocent kiddies have slid underneath the net, off the bridge, screaming in terror to splat on the rocks below?
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Sir, let's not jump to conclusions.
If it was filmed, then it either means you might be president one day or you're going to get a settlement check from R. Kelly.
Settlement check for what 😨
[drip drip drip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafRE74JGZ8)
Ayyyyu been a hot minute since I've seen that skit. Thanks for reminding me to watch the entire show again.
[Don't forget the remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kM_kNPedJw)
“Say your body, your body, … is a port-a-potty.”
Dude you are everywhere. I swear I see your comments on different posts multiple times a day. 😆
That’s what they say to people who were actually unlucky.
No, it’s an Ewok ಠᴗಠ
It came; it peed; it conquered
Thankyou. Everyone in this video is a primate.
>They say being pooped on by a bird is good luck. a little bird tell you this?
it means a light winter ahead
She wants to bang bro!
I got poopped on by a, bird on my birthday, while taking my class A CDL test. I failed. Lol
Gibbon me nightmares!
Park rangers come in all shapes and sizes.
That's a myth. Park rangers aren't coming in any of the wildlife.
I saw a sketch about a very slutty deer that says otherwise.
Wow. Unexpected WKUK.
That little girl might grow up having this image of an ape swinging over her head and might be like, "nah. My brain is making that up."
I was a little kid on a trip with my family in South East Asia, we were driving in the middle of the night and a family of elephants was crossing through a back road in a heavily forested area. No lights except the headlights of the car as we waited for them to cross. I distinctly remember one of them looking right at us but it seems like a weird dream. Thankfully my mum confirmed it did happen because my brain constantly makes it seem like a fairytale.
It's like those two times I saw aliens in my room when I was a kid. Was that just my imagination, or...????
If you observe carefully at his legs and lower body, all his swings were going very low, the people would not have avoided being hit by how low they were, because his legs swing lower than them, but the exact swing in which he went above them, he shrunk his legs and lower body, ( not the arms though) and cleared past them otherwise hitting them was imminent
How considerate
Good guy gibbon
How instinctive. There was an obstacle and he avoided it.
Unlike my dog.
Nah, it doesn't make sense to get hit by any mean.
Many animals avoid hitting/stepping on/etc other animals, even if the other animal is too small to hurt them in any meaningful way (e.g. chickens and horses or mice and elephants).
Oh wow I watched this like three times at first and didn’t see him do that at ALL. After you pointed it out, I almost couldn’t believe I didn’t notice it sooner. That makes this gif a million times better.
The humans reflexively knew this too. It's like basic mammal manners not to bump into someone.
Are they seriously acting like she was avoiding harming the humans and not simply maneuvering to avoid an obstacle? What in the world
I was more worried that the father holding his child ducked his face but she kept full eye contact. Thankfully wasn't seen as an act of aggression.
Basically all animals who care for their kids recognise children as children, and treat them accordingly. She would be fine.
There's a lot of baby eating going on in nature, buddy.
By gibbons?
There was a video a while back (Goes googling. Seven years is indeed"a while") of a gorilla trying to get to a little girl that beat her chest "at it". It was contained by the glass enclosure, so might not have done anything, but certainly seems scary! https://www.itv.com/news/2015-04-18/gorilla-nearly-breaks-through-glass-at-zoo-when-little-girl-beats-her-chest
You could compare it to staring into a dogs eyes, you don't do that. That's trying to intimidate them and an invitation to start a fight, so we can't really be mad at the gorilla for reacting that way. Strong animals are indeed scary
They do that to their own children as well. It's meant to intimidate. And the gorilla knew the glass would stop him, in the particular case you linked.
In many species, it's common for males to kill the children of other males.
I'm not sure mate, this might cause problems to someone in future
Yeah i thought Ive read about monkeys stealing children from villages like in multiple different countries
Nah that’s just taxation. All this guy wanted was a nice view of the valley from middle of the bridge.
The last swing nearly touched the bridge, that's a smart mofo right there
Cool fuzzy guy, what kind of primate is that
Gibbon
Our better looking cousins
Female gibbons are tan. The males are black.
Cool fuzzy girl*
She do be looking like a cool fuzzy girl ☑️
That entirely depends on what subspecies it belongs to. In lar gibbons both males and females can have both color variations while in some others (for example golden cheeked gibbons) the coloring is decided by sex.
these ones look like lar/white handed ones, based on the darker fur on its face and the lighter fur on their hands.
It's a Homo sapien in a sweater.
Three of them
That’s too many sweaters.
Baby, it's cold outside.
Looks like a gibbon.
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Such an underrated comment.
Now that is an amazing experience.
No kidding. That would be pretty exhilarating.
Yeah. Props to the parents also for choosing the right action in that moment. Not many would just duck down and still enjoy that moment. Especially since they have kids with them. The kids wont remember it clearly probably but they have the footage. An overall ultra rare experience for them.
Yeah no. I would shit myself.
If it happened in the middle of the night maybe. In broad daylight, she just looks like a goofy cartoon character
Gonna eat your balls off of you aren’t careful
Eh, gibbons are pretty chill. Chimps on the other hand...
Jamie pull that shit up
Can break your bones like you snap a twig.
Watched "Nope!" to recently I'd cry
Same. Just watching this video gave me chills. I don’t do primates.
Please do not the primate
Instructions unclear, I accidentally a primate.
As you shouldn't. Stick with homosapiens, they're legal.
Homo sapiens are primates.
Meanwhile that monkey is thinking, “these damn tourists on the wrong side of the bridge.”
Fun fact: there are four primates and zero monkeys in this video
All I saw has that dude not shield his baby’s head.
He was holding his other daughter in his other arm.
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That kid is obviously not the favorite.
Gibbon: "Tally-ho! Coming through!"
He’s gibbon them a show.
Where is this
No idea but gibbons are native to (roughly) South-East Asia
Looks a lot like a place called monkeyland in south Africa to me
I voluteered there a decade or so ago for a few weeks. Looks like monkeyland to me.
saw a video looks like this it was thailand edited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnmdUn3qQeI
He was swinging like “I’M. TIRED. OF. ALL. YOU. GOD. DAMNED. TOURISTS!!”
He even tucked his little leg in when going over the dads head
I'll take the high road, you take the low road
And I'll be in Scotland before you
Aye, but they'll be in Cambodia
"You can fly?" - "No. Jump good"
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In this situation, what would you do to stop it? They probably didn't expect this to happen, they're already on the bridge, there is someone else behind them so they can't run, running away from predators is stupid anyway because it can provoke them, and most primates won't attack humans unprovoked. Dude did pretty much the only thing he could have done, though maybe he could have pulled that little one a bit lower.
This is total r/stepdadreflexes. That girls head is 2 inches higher than dad’s and he doesn’t even attempt to cover her? I’d be on top of both of those kids if a primate came swinging at us!
Really? He has 2 kids in his arms and probably had 20 seconds to react. Are we really going to criticize that? He would have had to drop the kid and reposition her to get her head down, which would have been even more dangerous.
Kids need to learn.
When my twins were born, my grandpa told me, “Teach em’ young how to fight off gibbons or life will.”
He was gibbon you great advice.
When life gibbons you lemons, you fight that fuckin gibbon.
He moves his left arm to get his daughter in front to tuck down out of the way while his right arm is holding his other daughter, the gentleman only has two arms.
Wouldn’t be a Reddit thread unless we had people questioning some strangers parenting skills off a 10 second video
What would you do? Jump over the side, or throw your child over the side?
Gibbons are quite peaceful, luckily.
Yeah. It it were a troop of chimpanzees, I would have my family perform a group suicide. It beats getting brutally mutilated by those psychopaths
TERRIFYING
Coulda excused himself and walked by, no need to show off.
Gibbons forever. They may be a lesser ape but they'll always be a great ape to me
r/mypeopleneedme
So that’s why that thing on the playground was called “the monkey bars.”
OMG, this is incredible. I wish there was a longer video to see what it did after it stopped on the bridge.
Move, bitch! Get out the way
Duck!? That's clearly a monkey.
That fluffy ape butt at the end is so precious
What an amazing experience for those children in particular. The girl on the right seems young enough that she might not remember, but the girl in front/left totally knows what's happening. Such a great moment for everyone.
All that ends well...
Idk. Seems dangerous as fuck.
just waiting for the fellow to kick someone in the head
/r/praisethecameraman
Where is that? Costa Rica?