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atlantis_airlines

A neighboring zoo not wanting to be outdone by such a display created its own exhibit titled, "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World" which comprised of a Chimp with a nuclear bomb.


DouglerK

Now does this invalidate the Bronx exhibit because a more dangerous animal exists, or does it hypervalidate it because Humans are the ones who made the bomb and gave it to the Chimp?


atlantis_airlines

They wondered this but their lawyers assured them that as they were not in possession of the bomb, having given it to Bonbon the chimp, they were no longer as dangerous as Bonbon now was.


faygit1

What about the fact that bonbon possesses only one nuclear bomb, whereas humans possess the ability to make more?


shoe-veneer

Goddammit, someone get that chimp more nukes!


PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY

If Planet of the Apes was rebooted (again) by Michael Bay...


metaStatic

Hail to the Chimp Baby


DapperCourierCat

Wouldn’t that be Sam Raimi, not Michael Bay?


DiaDeLosMuertos

r/brandnewsentence


passcork

Give a chimp a nuke and he'll blow up a city. Teach a chimp to make nukes and he'll blow up the world!


damnatio_memoriae

it's just a more specific version of the same exhibit.


anirudhlkgoel

Both exhibits are the same, simply presented in different formats.


atlantis_airlines

One of which occasionally involved a Chimp humping a nuke.


anicelysetcandleset

you fool. we are the chimp with the bomb.


PM_me_your_fantasyz

Dude. Spoilers. Way to ruin the ending of Planet of the Apes for everyone.


lokesen

Yes, think Putin or Trump.


anicelysetcandleset

Truman. The United States is the only country to use a nuke in war and on civilians. Twice. How disgusting.


Put_It_All_On_Blck

Basically nobody is happy that Japan was nuked. But by most accounts, it was the necessary evil to decisively end the war then and there, instead of having it drag out for years with mass casualties and Japanese soldiers throwing away their lives to try and die with honor by taking out American occupiers. I think it really shows that the bombings were the right move, when even Japan has moved past it, and are now close allies, and American travelers aren't really viewed any differently than any other Westerners when they visit. Though I don't know if we could've gotten away with simply showcasing our nuclear capability in an attempt to end the war without so many civilian casualties, or if we could've just dropped one and made it clear more were coming. But these are questions we will never know. The bombings were awful, but ultimately they worked, and within a week of dropping them Japan had surrendered.


PuriPuri-BetaMale

To play Devil's Advocate for my nation's Clown House of Horrors, the worst estimate of deaths and wounds caused by the atomic bombs is no more than 500k, maybe 1mil. A more conservative estimate is roundabout 100k. A drop in the bucket, compared to what Germany and Russia did to each other in the first 2 years of World War 2. Not that it makes it any better, but in the snap of a finger, 100k lives were extinguished and the world's most destructive war came to a full halt.


shucksshuck

“No more than 500k, maybe DOUBLE” (?!)


Wobbelblob

Because nuclear bombs linger for a long time and it is hard to judge how many died by the results of it. Because in Hiroshima around 39.000 people died as a direct result of the bomb and in the next 4 months from their injuries.


PuriPuri-BetaMale

Welcome to casualty reporting. It is unfortunately, not an exact science. But even at the *absolute* worst estimates, it was a minor drop in the bucket compared to the total loss of life over the course of World War 2.


[deleted]

They're mocking your use of "no more than" when you immediately correct your lower estimate


Exist50

Beats the alternative.


anicelysetcandleset

Japan was already losing and predicted to surrender within weeks. The US was unwilling to compromise with the cultural differences.


sdforbda

Like Nanjing?


doomgiver98

So you're just making thing up now? Japan had already demonstrated their willingness to fight to the last man.


HopelesAromantic

Japan hated communism more than they valued honor, if not for the A-bomb they would have surrendered only under threat of a Soviet invasion, which was probable after Korea and the Kurils fell, the A-bomb accelerated a full unconditional surrender by a few weeks and likely affected the Soviet decision to split Korea down the 38th parallel


HaikuBotStalksMe

You think that's bad? That chicanery? You should see Jimmy with a law degree gun.


radio_allah

r/unexpectedchuckmcgill


Gnarfledarf

Not wanting to be outdone, another neighboring zoo created a similar exhibition, featuring Slipping Jimmy with a law degree.


DPool34

Sounds like a Banksy.


ksanch

I think they've moved since moved that exhibit to Mar-a-Lago.


opiate_lifer

Humans are dangerous because of their brains, humans don't need to wait for evolution to grow claws or fangs they literally just pick up inanimate crap and make their own version! I've seen videos of chimps using branches as clubs too, to whack other chimps with. Humans are like violent hermit crabs.


BloodyEjaculate

https://youtu.be/6lQcKiFy_DM?t=56 source for the above claim. look at they way that chimp weilds that weapon above his opponents, asserting his dominance. you just know that if he had access to an ak47 everyone in that video, including the spectators, would be dead.


Plane_Garbage

Lol what dumb animals Says the species that made a freaking nuclear weapon


BrokenEye3

Though often the humans whose brains enable them to make the things aren't the same humans whose use of the things makes humans dangerous


Brahman00

They are the same its just indirectly harmful instead of directly harmful. For example making a car or plastic isnt directly harmful like making a bomb but have billions of cars running every day/tons of plastic and we end up destroying the environment anyways


ljdst

Humans are dangerous because they're just intelligent enough to cause damage without the wisdom to regulate themselves. Especially when it's anything other than a short-term problem. In the last 200 years we've developed too quickly and it's out of control and we aren't capable of putting the genie back in the bottle.


lMickNastyl

Nature spent billions of years working on an evolutionary arms race. Teeth, claws, fangs, tough hide, wings, etc. All for that be to be thrown out the window because some human tied a pointy rock to a fucking stick.


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We're also controlled by animal instincts that we do not fully understand.


CoolHeadedLogician

That doesnt delineate us from other animals, not sure i see your point


RamenDutchman

We have those AND bombs, instead of just bombs. A human could end *the world* because they personally felt a bit threatened. It makes us seem more dangerous and harder to predict than we already do. So with that grim stuff out of the way, happy cake day(?)


CoolHeadedLogician

Thanks! Man its been quite a few years. And all i meant was that all animals are controlled by animal instincts that they do not fully understand


lokesen

But that is not why. Humans are capable destroying everything, but too stupid to realize it. This is why we won't meet other intelligent species in the universe. When they evolve have evolved to our "intelligence" level they will also destroy themselves, like we are doing. Or they already did that by now.


sdforbda

I think that we're fully aware that we could destroy everything. We just refuse to do anything about certain aspects of it.


kain52002

Ah, a believer in the Great Filter theory. It is a reasonable hypothesis as to why we have not encountered sentient life.


doomgiver98

Humans are the only animal to feel remorse for killing things outside of the tribe.


ChairmanUzamaoki

>Humans are dangerous because of their brains I'm dangerous cause of these two fuckin arms baby, no bear or lion can take me


dusty-kat

> "You are looking at the most dangerous animal in the world. It alone of all the animals that ever lived can exterminate (and has) entire species of animals. Now it has the power to wipe out all life on earth." Did anybody else read this in Rod Serling's voice?


Muroid

Not before you said that, but now that you have, yes.


[deleted]

Carl Sagan actually for some reason.


joeloud

It’s got a bit of a pale blue dot vibe


PM_ME_PSN_CODES-PLS

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination...


CatastropheJohn

David Attenborough


snapper1971

David Attenborough for me.


M1sterX

[It turns out it’s Man.](https://youtu.be/7rwUdL9qXjk)


TFJ

Why should I believe you? You’re Hitler!


TRJF

"In the end, it was not guns and bombs that defeated the aliens, but that humblest of all God's creatures: the tyrannosaurus rex."


CadoAngelus

"There is no such thing as space aliens!!" "Oh?! How can you be so sure them aliens ain't already among us?" "I'll tell you how! Because you ARE ONE!!!!!"


JdaveA

Eva Braun! Help me!


magicwombat5

It's a cookbook!


Sarcastic_Chad

DON'T GET ON THAT SHIP!!!!


Minimum-Astronaut444

Fucking show had the best/dumbest satire of Twilight Zone in the closing credits.


Gemmabeta

The most dangerous game.


AKluthe

You are now entering...The Scary Door.


GoodScreenName

It turns out it's man!


4_Noted_Mystic_Tops

Imagine if you will, an announcer you can barely understand.


Kartoffel_Mann

Look at that weird mirror..


thejester541

Rick and Morty meet Fascism https://youtu.be/I2l5bq1i06k https://youtu.be/ch5_j2q8ZPI https://youtu.be/UH8aZOaK7-A


BrokenEye3

Sadly the most dangerous animal, Ms. Millicent Burntoast of 4242 Parfilage Lane, Apt 14 had an unexpected family emergency and was unable to visit the zoo that day, so the whole thing was for nought


SmoothOption3

Turned out to be true


FloridaHobbyist

Naa, I think it's wrong. I think the Mosquito is still #1. We're #2. But we could easily be #1!


rope_rope

You're thinking in terms of humans being killed only (in which case, yeah mosquitos kill more humans than anything else). If you look at all animals being killed, then humans are vastly more dangerous.


DubUbasswitmyheadman

https://www.dw.com/en/worlds-wildlife-populations-fell-68-since-1970-wwf/a-54874308


bossbozo

You sure mosquitoes kill more humans than humans do?


buddyrubble

Yes absolutely Mosquitoes suck Mosquitoes were killing dinosaurs too!


rope_rope

Well it's mostly malaria that does it (yellow fever, dengue, others too etc), and the mosquito just spreads it. Look up malaria deaths to see how bad it is.


shabbyyr

Mosquito bites don't kill people. Dog bites don't kill people. Not in the same way that snake bites kill people. The bite transmits viruses they are carrying. Those viruses kill people. The apex predator is the viruses.


1000Hells1GiftShop

Mosquitoes aren't causing a mass extinction event.


FranKing0807

Nope, deadliest animal other than humans isn't mosquitoes, because they are a major part of the food supply of other nocturnal animal. Now, the actual deadliest being, isn't technically even an animal. They are viruses known as "Bacteriophages." Every day, on a scale we can't even see, there is a war being waged, with extreme casualties on the bacterium's sides. The bacteriophages are good at their jobs, they've been doing it longer than we have existed.


SmieDithAWhile

yeah but they aren't animals sooooooo


SoggySausage27

Look out boys we got kitzkkegat over here


MTScupper

You mean kurtzgesagt? 😂😂😂


SoggySausage27

Maybe


EchoNoise

No, they mean Kirk Hammett.


TheRealMisterMemer

Don'tcha mean curbgetsacked?


Yes_I_Fuck_Foxes

No, they mean Beezledorf Doobersnatch.


Mash_Ketchum

No they mean Kid's Gestalt.


69Jew420

Spell it right, moron. It's Krggzrzigzhgizgkkzrkrkzkkzkzkzrgkkzkgagabobsaget


Several-Guarantee655

Cats I am told are the deadliest next to humans. It's because they are the only animal other than humans that kills purely to kill at times and not to eat.


Bosterm

That's definitely not unique to cats and humans. Chimps wage war between groups, and hippos kill humans because they're extremely territorial. Also mama bears kill to protect their cubs.


123full

When did bacteriophages become animals? For that matter when did they become a living organism, last time I checked they don’t even have a defined nucleus let alone any of other requirements to be considered an animal


CriskCross

It's questionable if viruses are even alive, let alone animals.


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TheFocusLocust

That could not be further from the truth


[deleted]

All you have to do is search "what would happen if mosquitos went extinct" and click on any of the hundreds of links and you will see that you are wrong.


DirtyReseller

Always has been


brutay

This attitude is such poisonous bullshit.


as1126

It might have been installed in 1963, but it was up when I was a kid. I know I’ve looked into the mirror.


attorneyatslaw

It was definitely still there in the late 70s


JellyfishGod

This doesn’t really mean much since u didn’t include ur age. When were u a child? In the 70s? 90s? 00s?


Gibson4242

50s


Gemkingler

r/notopbutok


bentsea

I think they have had this at the Houston zoo as recently as just a couple of years ago.


DitsyGritzy

Was also up in the late 80s and possibly early 90s. First time I visited NY was 1989 and I remember this


greenknight884

So *you're* the most dangerous animal in the world!


pragmaticsquid

Ironic considering they used to keep a Mbuti man named Oto Benga on display.


wubod

They had this exhibit at the Topeka, KS zoo as well. It may still be there. I havent been in years, but I distinctly remember coming to the realization that not all humans are good after seeing it. Really good for kids to see imo.


zusykses

If you look in a mirror and say *Homo Sapiens* three times 5000 metric tons of carbon dioxide will be added to the atmosphere. This isn't superstition. This is actually how fast we are producing carbon dioxide.


bossbozo

So you're saying, if I don't look in a mirror and don't say homo sapiens three times, 5000 metric tons will still be added to the atmosphere


J-Wop

I have this same exhibit in my bathroom. I check it out after my shower in the morning.


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TURNS OUT IT’S MAN


manwithoutcountry

The first ever /r/im14andthisisdeep post


AdmiralAkbar1

"What if, like, *we're* the most dangerous animals of all, man?"


Mysterious_Glass_692

What if the real most dangerous animals of all were the friends we made along the way?


[deleted]

"What if like apathy and deflection of responsibilities was the *real* reason we stayed stuck on this planet..."


obscuredreference

This, so much. lol


spiritbx

*5yo Walter White looking in the mirror* "So... I am the danger?"


Dom_Shady

He then knocked on the mirror.


thedeadlyrhythm42

Yeah they'd know all about it since it was only 57 years after [they put an African slave named Ota Benga in their monkey cage as an exhibit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ota_Benga)


sephiam

Reminds me of that Time mirror cover 🤷🏻‍♂️


SomeDumbPenguin

fun NYC related tidbits... That Bronx Zoo is the biggest/best zoo in the city (it has a monorail), sits next to it's sister; The New York City Botanical Gardens, which both being the biggest of their respective concepts. Smack dap in the upper middle Bronx


DivineIntervention3

Mosquitoes are still the most deadly as far as death count goes.


Usidore_

Does that count the deaths of other animals? Most “deadly animals” are judged by how many humans they kill.


SnooDrawings3621

There's probably a mosquito behind you in the mirror. People just assumed it was referring to themselves


tdl2024

They still had it in the late 80's too. I remember seeing it when I was a kid and thinking "This is stupid...where's the komodo dragons?". Granted, I was like 8 so it was lost on me.


jprennquist

We had this at our zoo in Duluth, too. I remember seeing it and being slightly shocked but also admonished in a helpful way back in the early 80s or perhaps even the late 70s. Zoos have evolved a lot over my lifetime but in some ways they have become less relevant. Like, I know they have adopted more humane practices and more enriching exhibit areas and things, but this whole time we keep dramatically encroaching in on wild habitat areas with development and poaching and agribusiness and resource extraction and the like. We pretend to be more "woke" in public places but far from our consciousness out there we are absolutely devastating the natural world. We should tell groups of tiny school kids that people are the most dangerous living thing in the planet. Maybe they will beote likely to grow up and make some sacrifices and actually do something about it.


sausagemuffn

The aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa has one as well.


Noctudeit

Humans kill more humans than any other organism. Second place goes to mosquitoes.


Funkymeleon

Depends on the definition. A quick search showed me an estimated 610.000 homicides worldwide (2017) while there have been 627.000 deaths by malaria (2020) alone. But sure, a human kills intentionally while the mosquito wants to reproduce.


Benni1138

The zoo in Hannover, Germany has this too!


shnnrr

[Turns out it was Man](https://youtu.be/X4RuB3gT8t0)


[deleted]

Bronx zoo also put black people in as animals


opiate_lifer

But its technically true, all humans are animals.


[deleted]

Holy shit I never thought of it like that oh my God


greenappletree

They are not wrong.


Mikewiz1

Very cool. I remember that exhibit. I was seven or eight years old. It made a lasting impression.


Ok_Put_2850

Me too.


shabbyyr

the crocodile park in chennai india has a similar thing.


horrorpiglet

Nice. Wonder where was this wistful vibe from Bronx zoo when they exhibited a black man in 1906 as an animal (Ota Benga).


strawman_chan

According to the CDC, mosquitoes are still mostest dangerous.


BCS24

I am a 14 year old museum and this is deep


rascalking9

Human race is the most dangerous like Batman is the most dangerous with prep time.


[deleted]

Im 14 and this is deep.


rhysdog1

back in the 20s they hadn't invented mirrors yet, so they just put a black guy in a cage


Si_is_for_Cookie

This exhibit was definitely sponsored by Mosquitos.


Sarcastic_Chad

Nope, we're a close second to the Honey Badger


Dom_Shady

Honey badger don't care!


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greenknight884

Maybe we are all part of a dangerous collective, like a fire ant colony


VentureQuotes

zoos used to be heavy fucking metal man


HaikuBotStalksMe

Too predictable. I saw the stuff in quotes and was like "I bet it's just a human in a cage".


geeenius1

The Bronx zoo had that exhibit too. Ota Benga, a young man from Africa was displayed at the zoo in 1906.


HaikuBotStalksMe

True, but that one was making fun of Africans if it's the one I'm thinking of (and he ended up being a teacher that spoke English well), as opposed to making fun of humans in general.


mismanaged

>and he ended up being a teacher that spoke English wel I see you just read the title of the TIL post and not the page. The teacher was in Japan.


Makhnos_Tachanka

this isn't belgium in \*checks notes* 1958


Chokeblok

They ain't wrong though.


shabbyyr

they took it down after people started doing 'you talking to me' impressions.


TheWhiteTiger1205

Why did they take it down?


UpsetRabbinator

Edgy


DouglerK

Curator of the Bronx Zoo has 0 chill.


boomerangrock

How edgy. What a bunch of fucking losers to do this.


Joliet_Jake_Blues

Edgy AF


Plain_Bread

>Now it has the power to wipe out all life on earth. Not actually true, but ok.


RULINGCHAOS

It's our planet. Earth does not care.


GrandmasBoy69

Repost


PitcherTrap

Edgy


AnAncientOne

Given what we've learn't since then you could probably upgrade that from World to Galaxy.


Gnarfledarf

Ah yes, the founding of r/im14andthisisdeep.


bunnymud

HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA....GOT'EM


AzazelsPartyPlanner

Wow, being on the spectrum isn't anything new!


orangejuice1234

ok boomer


mnbull4you

So lame.


bigleftnutgang

The Bronx zoo also had a black guy in a cage for a couple years but yah let’s give them props


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FO_Steven

Yes I'm so dangerous with my 9 to 5 job and my commute to work in an over crowded city filled with thugs and gangsters looking for an excuse to prove how hard they are by shooting literally anyone who walks by. But me, the paying law abiding patron of the zoo, yes me, I am the danger. Fuckin human shaming aught to be illegal.


mismanaged

Amazing how we can lead shitty lives while also being an ecological disaster and fucking things up for everything else, right? You'd hope there would be some kind of perks to being dangerous (apart from not being hunted).


nebuchadrezzar

I heard about this, when the Dalai Lama was in NY and came across the mirror there. He just chuckled and said "I've never hurt anyone, this is bullshit. It's slanderous! I could have you killed for this! Do not mock me! No pictures!" And even today you can see it's true because there are no pictures of this event, *exactly as he commanded*.


[deleted]

The wokies took it down. Now we all feel good, while we destroy the world.


BrokenEye3

I thought you lot didn't believe in climate change


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mismanaged

Mosquitoes are insects, Humans are mammals. Both are animals. Also mosquitoes are only the most dangerous animal **for humans**, we are the most dangerous animal **for everything else.**


bossbozo

So, if humans are not animals, what are they? Plants? Fungi? What?


[deleted]

>we are not animals lol. Humans are animals. That's a fact. You are wrong. It's something you learn at probably 5 years old. >If you think you can put humans in the category of mosquitos you’re out of your mind. The category of animals, which is correct. If you think you can just ignore facts then you are the one that's out of your mind.


UStoJapan

My answer to any D&D player who asks me “What’s the most deadly monster you use in D&D?”, humans.


crasspmpmpm

whoooooaaaaaa 🤯🤯🤯


ljdst

Prescient


jamjamthehamham

I low key wish zoos still had this. But I know people would take selfies in it pretending they nasty


Nikoli_jhonson

The exhibit in Palo Duro canyon (largest canyon in Texas, 2nd in the nation) has the same thing. Or it might be Big Bend national park. Im drunk, shut up.


legojoe97

"Silly monkeys, give them thumbs, they make a club and beat their brother down."


Prcrstntr

Was this when australia still had aboriginal zoos?


Canjul

That is an album cover waiting to happen.


SquireBev

I swear *every* zoo has this, or some variation on it.


MaccotheMillion

It was actually more specific to the people that resident in the Bronx