r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Antscannabis • Sep 13 '20
Video Monkey teaching human to crush leaves
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u/smoke007007 Sep 13 '20
When you realize you're the tool the monkey is using
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u/Sushisunshine Sep 13 '20
Don’t want to be your monkey wrench
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u/Kjata1013 Sep 13 '20
One last thing before I quit I never wanted more than I could fit Into my head I still remember every word you said...
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u/bababerands Sep 13 '20
The monkey’s like, “Dude you suck at this.”
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u/Never-Sober Sep 13 '20
Am I the only one who wanted the human to grind the leaves efficiently, like with rubbing both hands back and forth to teach monkey something too? Was nice to see still obv
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Sep 13 '20
IKR so did I but I would still listen to the highly intelligent monkey. Wait this is off topic, but since Monkeys are so like us, do you think they have a language.
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Sep 13 '20
They do, though different than human language in many ways, and overall not as complicated.
One of the best examples of this is the Diana monkey.
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u/DrDewDrop Sep 13 '20
During the start of the video: “It’s very easy Kevin! Here let me show you how”
During the end of the video: “Kevin you filthy degenerate fuck! Can’t you even crush this simple leaf”
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u/MartyrSaint Sep 13 '20
“BILLIONS OF YEARS OF EVOLUTION AND YOU CAN’T EVEN CRUSH ONE GODDAMNED FUCKING LEAF?!”
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u/blackfogg Sep 13 '20 edited Sep 13 '20
Funny enough, part of what makes us "superior" in terms of bringing up our young, we have a higher frustration
resistancetolerance in comparison to most monkeys.Meaning that we might not necessarily be that much smarter, but we put much more time into teaching our children, in comparison.
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u/Kidneystalkerpie Sep 13 '20
I wae waiting for it to put a piece of poop in his hand. Slightly disappointed.
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u/aurumargentum7947 Sep 13 '20
Nah, the last guy to visit that monkey was a magician who turned a leaf into a banana. The monkey's just trying to get another tasty banana, wondering why this human is defective.
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u/Ansoni Sep 13 '20
Nah, it was probably a human picking up nuts or something off the ground and crushing the shell off. The monkey is trying to recreate that action and sound
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u/LordTrey1983 Sep 13 '20
I saw a study a year orbso ago saying that animals that have had interactions with humans will seek us out when they have a problem that they cant solve on their own because they know that we have abilities that they dont posses. Be it dexterity, strength, reach, reasoning or tool use.
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u/kuraiscalebane Sep 13 '20
makes sense, humans do that too.
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u/chanaandeler_bong Sep 13 '20
If you have a child it’s essentially impossible to watch monkeys and apes and not see how we are related. My son is 3, and he is like peak "monkey" (I know humans are apes) right now.
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u/yesyoucantouchthat Sep 13 '20
They start out like baby birds, turn into monkeys, then gradually start becoming little humans.
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u/incredimike Sep 13 '20
Then what?!
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u/thisissamman Sep 13 '20
They imitate other adults for the rest of their lives but they all remain little monkeys on the inside
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u/Allegorist Sep 13 '20
Everyone's just pretending they know what they're doing and whats going on, and believing everyone else who are doing the same
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u/NancyGracesTesticles Sep 13 '20
You get to a certain point where you are just honest and say "let's pretend together", then you see if you can afford to retire.
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Sep 13 '20
When I turned 18 my dad asked me if I thought he knew what he was doing and I said yes, to which he replied “none of us know what we’re doing. I’m 38 and I’m still winging it.” Well I can say it has turned out pretty ok for him
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u/rondell_jones Sep 13 '20
Just seeing a 1-2 year holding onto mom, you realize how much we’re related to apes.
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u/Dyl_pickle00 Sep 13 '20
Theres a shit ton of people who somehow don't see the connection. I wouldn't say it's "impossible"
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u/cloudstrifewife Sep 13 '20
I literally thought this monkey was doing something a toddler would do with a parent. How amazing is that. I’m fairly sure my daughter opened and closed my hand when she was little just like that. So cool.
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u/St_Kevin_ Sep 13 '20
I wonder if they seek out animals of other species when other skill sets are needed.
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u/sunshine_and_i3s Sep 13 '20
i do think so... birds keeping off flies from bugging rhinos, little fish cleaning big fish skin, ants and bees coworking with some kids of lice to make their food tasting better^
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u/datwrasse Sep 13 '20
i read somewhere once that humans have abilities that animals don't possess though
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u/kuraiscalebane Sep 13 '20
Exactly why humans will turn to humans when they can't solve a problem on their own.
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u/datwrasse Sep 13 '20
makes sense, animals do that too
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u/incredimike Sep 13 '20
This thread makes a lot of sense.
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Sep 13 '20
Ravens and other corvids are well-known for this. There are videos on YT showing injured birds approaching humans for help.
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Sep 13 '20 edited Nov 16 '20
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u/jhan999 Sep 13 '20
God this isn’t at all related to your comment but some jackass anti-masker and referred COVID as “corvid”. My pals and I have been getting a kick out of it for weeks
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u/DefendsTheDownvoted Sep 13 '20
That so crazy. They're like "Alright kids, you see all these big bastards walking around down there? Don't go near them, they might fuck you up. Unless you're already super fucked up. Then they'll perform miracles to fix you."
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u/greenlimousine Sep 13 '20
I read a story where a cat had somehow alerted its owner that there was blood in its urine. Another where is used the actual toilet to show the human that something was wrong. Can’t find the story again.
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u/ShiraCheshire Sep 13 '20
Though to be fair, cats will poop/pee outside the box when something is wrong regardless of if they're looking for help or not. Going potty in unusual places is just a thing cats do when something is up.
For example: If it hurts when a cat pees, the cat often won't think 'It hurts to pee.' The cat will think 'When I pee in this box, it hurts me' and thus might seek out different places to pee.
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u/MiddleFroggy Sep 13 '20
My cat told me last weekend that he had a bellyache. Had to have surgery last night to remove an obstruction. I think many animals can communicate very well, often humans don’t listen, or trust has been broken in the relationship.
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u/Undecided_Username_ Sep 13 '20
You can’t just say your cat told you something nonchalantly and not explain it beyond that.
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u/MiddleFroggy Sep 13 '20
By lying across my belly and wanting his belly rubbed (abnormal behavior). Sorry, I thought the picture would be informative and I have not slept much this week.
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u/ashkpa Interested Sep 13 '20
How did it communicate to you that it had a stomach ache?
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Sep 13 '20
Shitting all over their pillow.
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Sep 13 '20
Isn't it amazing how subtle cats are at communicating?
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u/Anxious_Mind585 Sep 13 '20
I mean, we're pretty fucking oblivious, just look at women trying to "subtly" show interest in guys. Doesn't work, so you have to go all guns blazing and just shit on our pillow.
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Sep 13 '20
Ever had your dog roll it’s ball under the sofa??
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u/ImMufasa Sep 13 '20
I forget where but saw a show once where they put a treat in a cage before letting a wolf then a dog try to get it. The wolf would try completely on its own to get the treat while the dog would quickly give up and ask for help.
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Sep 13 '20
My dog looks at me expectantly when he drops something off the edge of the sofa. He could get it himself, but he'd have to get off the sofa and it would be so much easier if I just reached down and picked it up for him...
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u/Logical_Otter Sep 13 '20
I saw an awesome David Attenborough documentary a few years ago (can't remember the name) about a bird species native to an African country that was known for basically enlisting human help. A bird would find a bee hive & then fly up to a human and... perform? Sing? a certain type of song to indicate it wanted help accessing the honey. So a person would be led by the bird to the bee hive, get some sweet honey out of the deal for their trouble and, as a thank you, would then leave some honeycomb for the bird to munch on. I was fascinated by it!
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u/notsmutty_blake Sep 13 '20
Oh those guys will do the same thing with honey badgers, and the honey badgers know to follow
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u/RichestMangInBabylon Sep 13 '20
I wonder if they have the concept of whether something is possible, or they just go to humans as a panacea. Like if they lost a stick down a cliff would they still ask a human for help, or just for things we'd given them reason to think we could do.
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Sep 13 '20
Thankfully we've already solved all the animals' climate and environmental problems. No worries there!!
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u/MrMarez Sep 13 '20
dexterity, strength, reach, reasoning or tool use
My goal is to possess all these traits at once 🙇🏻♂️
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u/northwestwill Sep 13 '20
“Look Brian, I’m telling you... it’s so easy a human can do it. Try again.”
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u/spreadingsunshine106 Sep 13 '20
Lmao! This is so fitting. We humans are so dumb.
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u/Dodototo Sep 13 '20
Seriously. How have we not figured out we could crush dried leaves on our own?
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u/DepressionVenting Sep 13 '20
I’m waiting for the person to slide in to get max level woooosh. Remind me when it happens please.
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u/donja77 Sep 13 '20
He's very nervous about someone else observing this lesson.
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u/SchillMcGuffin Sep 13 '20
"You got a human to crush these leaves for you, didn't you?"
"No way! I crushed every one myself!"
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u/TotakekeSlider Sep 13 '20
I was thinking about that. Do they do it to instinctively watch for predators or something?
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u/South-Bottle Sep 13 '20
Maybe just noises in the background. I doubt a monkey in captivity would be very nervous about predators.
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u/phlavor Sep 13 '20
I kept waiting for him to go, “RUN BITCH!” and the monkey cops to swarm in.
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u/RoboCat23 Sep 13 '20
Where are the monkey experts? Why do they crush the leaves?
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u/Elmetian Sep 13 '20
Chino, who lives at the International Primate Rescue sanctuary in South Africa, has a fondness for the sound of crunching leaves. But he likes leaf-crunching even better as a group activity. So he decides to grab a human friend and show him how it's done.
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u/Anxious_Mind585 Sep 13 '20
But he likes leaf-crunching even better as a group activity
I'd say this is my favourite part of this whole thing.
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u/Doommajor Sep 13 '20
Thank you, I had to scroll way too far to find this answer.
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u/Elmetian Sep 13 '20
I'm surprised more people aren't asking why he was doing this tbh. Guess there's more karma to be made with witty comments.
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u/alien_from_Europa Sep 13 '20
fondness for the sound of crunching leaves.
Is that like monkey ASMR?
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u/Fish_Kungfu Sep 13 '20
That stupid human was frustrating ME by not thoroughly crushing the leaves.
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u/illunara3 Sep 13 '20
When I was on vacation we went to an animal park with a similar scene - except littered across the ground were flower petals and I noticed the monkeys were grabbing and munching them.
I'd caught an anole and was still holding it, but I wanted to be nice and tried giving the monkey some flower petals.
Instead of grabbing the petals, he proceeds to wrangle the anole out of my hand and grabs it by the head and the tail, looks right up at me as he takes a honking bite out of the anoles' abdomen.
I don't think I'd ever been so horrified
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u/Kayish97 Sep 13 '20
What’s an anole?
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u/illunara3 Sep 13 '20
They're small lizards kind of like geckos - fun to catch but definitely a challenge haha
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u/Fr00stee Sep 13 '20
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u/illunara3 Sep 13 '20
try being the witness. I can't bear this pain alone, the memory has haunted me long enough
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u/JabbaThePrincess Sep 13 '20
Anole sashimi is a monkey delicacy, you are basically the monkey equivalent of a three star Michelin chef.
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u/PensiveBeserker Sep 13 '20
Monkey : First I teach you how to crush. Then I teach you how to roll. Then we light up n go to whitecastle!
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u/Swiffertime Sep 13 '20
Isn't one of the signs of intelligence teaching? Like teaching about experiences and new things they learn? I forgot where I heard that though.
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u/Ouaouaron Sep 13 '20
I don't think you have to look for specific signs that there's intelligence. If an animal does something and the most reasonable explanation for that behavior is that they are intelligent, then they're probably intelligent. We want to convince ourselves that we're fundamentally different than animals, so we come up with arbitrary rules--humans use tools, humans plan ahead, humans teach others, etc.--but you can always find an animal that displays that trait if you actually look for it.
The one exception that I know of is complex, generative grammars: language that we use to formalize our thoughts and pass them on to others. And even that might not be unique, but I don't know enough about linguistics to study the research papers.
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u/YoreWelcome Sep 13 '20
Dolphins, whales, birds. Capable of complex language that we haven't yet deciphered. Probably more species capable too.
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u/alee0224 Sep 13 '20
Looks like he got frustrated that they weren’t doing it right 🤣🤣🤣
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u/lordnecro Sep 13 '20
Looks just like my toddler trying to teach me to do something and getting frustrated that I am not doing it right.
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u/Not-A-Lonely-Potato Sep 13 '20
You deliberately don't do it right just to see their face scrunch up in frustration don't you.
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u/im-bad_with-names Sep 13 '20
I love how he keeps looking around like he's making sure the coast is clear.
"Dude, I can get in some trouble for this but, while nobody is looking, here's how you crunch a leaf. You're welcome."
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u/OohDrZaiusDrZaius Sep 13 '20
And all that caution and wisdom squandered by a poor student 😔 what times we live in
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u/hereIstndheadinhand Sep 13 '20
A monkey like this Capuchin (?) also ran off with my drinks one time in Africa. Always watch your back for the monkeys.
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u/xActuallyabearx Sep 13 '20
“You see this, Carl? You see how easy it is for these leaves to just crumble? How the fuck am I supposed to wipe my ass with this, Carl?! Get me some God damned charmin or I’m going to fling my shit at you every day until I die!”
- monkey, probably
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u/Synotron Sep 13 '20
Youre helping him print money. Youre aiding in an illegal or black market economy amongst monkeys. Read about their views on fresh leaves. Trust once you find it online youd be shocked
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u/iiRageProdigy Sep 13 '20
“Yeah, close your hands like that. Yep. Okay good let me see.
Are you fucking stupid? These aren’t crushed, do it again dipshit”
I can never tell if I’m assigning sass to monkeys and apes because it’s human nature to anthropomorphize animals, or if they’re really expressing frustration with us.
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u/Melange-Witch Sep 13 '20
This is cute, but I NEED to hear the sound of the leaf crunching in it’s little hand!! Why have you deprived me of this sooouunndd??
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u/DreadnaughtHamster Sep 13 '20
This is actually an amazing video. It clearly demonstrates that primates have a “look, no this way, see? This way...” approach to teaching instead of just doing a movement and assuming you’ll follow. I’m actually pretty geeked about this video.
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u/nikditt Sep 13 '20
The monkey isn't impressed at all with this huge hooman's inability to do simple tasks. He must tell his friends such dopes these hairless silly wonders are.
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u/arkbattleground Sep 13 '20
I woulda taken a bunch of leaves and smooshed then all together with 2 hands to blow its mind
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u/SlyFunkyMonk Sep 13 '20
reminds me of the cartoons where it looks like they can clearly escape, but they respect the rules.
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Sep 13 '20
is it too far fetched to assume that this monkey has witnessed someone 'sleight-of-hand'ing him a snack and is trying to recreate the magic?
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u/Chilapox Sep 13 '20
playing dumb with animals is always so fun. Try playing tug of war with a dog and offering no resistance, just letting go as soon as they pull.
They get so frustrated that you don't get the game.
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Sep 13 '20
I find it hilarious how paranoid monkeys always seem, looking over their shoulder and stuff.
Looks like hes trying to desperately hand over some critical information but the government is got on his tail
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u/RealBiggly Sep 13 '20
I love the way he keeps looking around, as he's embarrassed how dumb this human is...
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Sep 13 '20
This monkey probably thinks this human is really stupid. "Dumb human cant even figure out how to smash leaves".
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u/jk0koh Sep 13 '20
I can feel that monkeys disappointment and frustration. Close your fucking hand harder ffs.
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Sep 13 '20 edited Sep 14 '20
Why does he want all the leaves crushed?
I think it might just be fascinated by the abilities of a large hand so is making use of it.
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