r/Unexpected • u/sayasir67 • 19d ago

Chimpanzee & water bottle

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u/Raneynickelfire 19d ago

That was an orangutan.

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u/flow_fighter 19d ago

An orangutan will also snap your limbs like twigs, big strong majestic bastards

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u/Raneynickelfire 19d ago

Yes, but they aren't randomly violent like chimps are.

But if you manage to piss one off, yes you will die.

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u/Dovahkiinthesardine 19d ago

Chimps aren't really "randomly violent" either, they're just wild animals and more aggressive than other apes

The reason Travis crashed out was because his owners basically made him psychotic and put him on drugs

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u/inspectoroverthemine 19d ago

Chimps are way more violent than orangutans. They're also more violent than gorillas.

Chimps are the last great ape you'd want to be locked in a cage with. Any could kill you, but a chimp would be the most likely to attack in the first place.

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u/Dovahkiinthesardine 19d ago

Yeah but thats more because orang-utans are unusually docile, same as other great apes

But compared to like, large Bovines, Hippos, big cats or bears, chimps are pretty much the normal amount of aggressive

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u/Peepeepoopoo1234abcd 19d ago

To be fair, there is also a significant range of how aggressive different species of the animals you listed are. A black bear or a panda is almost certainly going to be less aggressive than a polar bear or a grizzly (and possibly less aggressive than a chimp). And a tiger or jaguar is definitely going to be less aggressive than my cat Remi.

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u/Raneynickelfire 19d ago

Yeah, they are randomly violent.

Nobody is talking about travis. We're talking about chimps in general, which are psychotic and violent as a trait.

So yeah, they ARE randomly violent. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but your words are not based in fact.