r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Crown_Collector1 • 2d ago
đ„ macaque monkey interacting with a kitten.
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u/jeremy-o 2d ago
The expression on her face when it snuggled up to her was the same expression as the one on my face when I saw it snuggle up to her đ
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u/keelhaulrose 2d ago
The monkey went from "what is this thing?" to "I'll protect it with my life" in an instant.
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u/terradactil99 2d ago
They do that and then they'll also kill and eat them, as they do with small dogs. All the time.
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u/Vinegarinmyeye 2d ago
Yeah, as a kid I lived in a place with macaques in the wild, killed 3 pets we had (2 cats and a dog) - and at one point a group of about 10 of them started to attack me (I was 5 years old), fortunately I was able to get indoors.
These guys are pack hunters, and fucking arseholes. Yeah in captivity they seem chill, in the wild they are far from it.
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u/GreenEggsAndCrack 2d ago
They're assholes in captivity too. Primates are not to be trusted, ever.Â
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u/Purplepeal 2d ago
Like us I suppose. We love baby animals too but we kill them and eat them.
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u/terradactil99 2d ago
Thatâs actually a valid point. Like lambs. My older brothers and sisters watched the killing of the spring lambs at our relatives farm but I thankfully was never around for it. It was said to be devastating for some people to watch. They cried with tears and all. (The lambs). So yeah. You have a point.
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u/nucumber 2d ago
That's how Paul McCartney became a vegetarian.
He was at his farm in Scotland and one day his family sat down to a dinner of lamb roast. While eating they saw sheep playing outside and thought "ewww.... " and that was the end of that
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u/inboil444 2d ago
my momâs family is old school western us shepherds and she described the slaughtering of the lambs to me once. basically all the men solemnly go far away with the lambs so nobody (including the lambâs mothers) have to witness it in any way. it is a task you have to harden your heart for
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u/CORN___BREAD 2d ago
Yeah I was reading every comment about how they can also do bad things and all I could think was someone could say the exact same things about humans.
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u/TypicalProgram5545 2d ago
It's true. A woman in Ghana had some monkeys, they killed four of her kittens after they had been 'playing' with them
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u/PoppyLoved 2d ago
SHUT YOUR MOUTH LIAR
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u/Competitive_Force529 2d ago
I was constantly worrying if the kitten acts defensive and monkey snaps killing it, all ended well
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u/terradactil99 2d ago edited 2d ago
They carry them around for a while and the puppy/small dog/kitten gets sick from lack of food and water or keeps trying to escape or the monkey gets hungry and theyâll drop them from a rooftop or treetop and jump down and eat them. Thatâs how they roll. That kitty is monkey food 10/10.
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u/ALoz- 2d ago
This is the comment I was looking for. I was also thinking on the monkey many ways to torture the poor thing like plucking each whisker, causing it baldness around the eyes due to too much touching it, inserting fingers in the anus out of curiosity or in the worst case, at the first real scratch the monkey receives, a gory death due to a fit of rage.
They look lovely but monkeys can be unpredictable.
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u/Bannon9k 2d ago
That monkey expressed emotion I've felt every time a kitty curls up in my arms. Watching this made it feel like it's a primal emotion inherited from our mutual ancestors.
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u/lucidity5 2d ago
Thats why I love this video too, its such clear emotion, and so familar to what we experience. Even its little behaviors, the gentle touches, the rapid little "kisses" to entice it over, and the big eyebrow raises in surprise and delight when it finally crawls in her lap. Its so human
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u/ijustfarteditsmells 2d ago
It's such bullshit when people say animals aren't intelligent enough to feel emotions like empathy.
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u/19Alexastias 2d ago
Animals have emotions but they do not necessarily express them the way we do, and in particularly ascribing emotions based on comparing facial expression to humans is very often incorrect.
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u/lucidity5 2d ago edited 2d ago
Anyone who says that is likely incapable of empathy themselves. Its such an objectively stupid statement, designed to elevate humans above the animal kingdom, like we arent just smart apes. Or to try to make it okay to treat other animals like objects, to justify factory farming or other cruelties.
"Yes, but humans are more important than animals." said Brutha.
"This is a point of view often expressed by humans." said Om.
-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Now, thats not to say animals arent also capable of cruelty. Intelligence comes with the capacity for both, and many animals are much more intelligent than we give them credit for. They just had their intelligence evolved for very different goals than we did, so as to be nearly unrecognizable if you don't have empathy.
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u/paulinaiml 2d ago
She was adopted by the kitten
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u/Royal-Tough4851 2d ago
CDS does not discriminate. Itâs not just for hoomans
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u/WeimSean 2d ago
It's that look a little kid gives you when they're holding a kitty and it starts to purr.
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u/6SucksSex 2d ago
Little kitten, I will protect you with my life⊠Let me pick this piece of poop out of your butt
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u/4toTwenty 2d ago
âŠand taste it
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u/syds 2d ago
just like us
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u/reason_mind_inquiry 2d ago
What?
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u/PM-me-letitsnow 2d ago
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u/loolapaloolapa 2d ago
When i saw it I asked myself 'why do they always stick their finger in asses of others?!'
Then I remembered I do the same..
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u/Zolazo7696 2d ago
Why stop at just 1 finger? I'm looking for at least 4 knuckles, 5, if you treat me real nicely.
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u/SaintedTainted 2d ago
Monke checking for worms, and I have heard they know herbs&plants that treat worm infections!
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u/6SucksSex 2d ago
This is plausible. I was wondering if the pick n sniff was to check what the kitten eats, so the monkey would know what to feed it.
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u/SomethingIWontRegret 2d ago
It's just regular grooming. Monkeys will take turns picking parasites out of each others's fur. It improves the health of the troop and also makes for tasty snacks.
Probably our petting behavior with our companion animals is an echo of this behavior.
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 2d ago
Cutest thing I've seen this morning
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u/Crammit-Deadfinger 2d ago
This should be in r/natureisfuckingcute
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u/myjupitermoon 2d ago
Also on r/likeus
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u/simiomalo 2d ago
Makes me think "they aren't like us" it's more that "we are like them".
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u/sabamba0 2d ago
We have the same anscestors so both of those mean the same exact thing
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u/urnewstepdaddy 2d ago
Everyone loves kittens
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u/Pithyperson 2d ago
You haven't met my mother in law.
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u/onefst250r 2d ago
Whats the difference between inlaws and outlaws?
Outlaws are wanted
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u/octopusboots 2d ago
Meet old rescue cats ladies. We all hate kittens. I have three helping me type this comment. I know of 15 who need help but I can only do three right now. Want a kitten? Will ship. ;)
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u/Own_Instance_357 2d ago
Annnnd now I have to go watch all the SNL Kristen Wiig cat lady videosAnd I'll be here with all of you
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u/legendary_millbilly 2d ago
I always am amazed by how fucking close we are to animals.
That monkey looks like anyone would playing with a cute little kitty like that.
I am just a hairless monkey.
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u/Mediocre-Sundom 2d ago
Well, we are animals, by definition. Great apes, to be precise. So yeah, kinda just big hairless and tail-less monkeys who think very highly of themselves.
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u/probablyuntrue 2d ago
jokes on you, I don't think highly of myself at all
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u/Nacarqeqia 2d ago
Hairless? Have you ever been to Caucasus? đ
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u/SaveTheDrowningFish 2d ago
Iâm Chewbacca third cousin on his Mexican side, they call me Chuy
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u/ThePennedKitten 2d ago
Some people try to argue we arenât animals. So self aware and yet so not.
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u/Abject-Investment-42 2d ago
If you observe a horde of baboons in the wild, and then look at the behaviour of your colleagues at work, you are going to recognize a startling amount of similarities. Of course most physical interaction is replaced by the verbal, but the dynamics and patterns are amazingly relatable.
Yes, we are just hairless monkeys who learned a trick.
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u/asyncopy 2d ago
A lot more public sex in front of everyone though I have to say
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u/SpeakerOfMyMind 2d ago
Because we forget we are animals and that we are a part of nature. I think it is unhealthy, not to say we need to go live in the wild or act differently, but because we desperately need a new relationship with nature, and I think psychology would be helpful with how narcissistic our world has become.
I had to take environmental history for my history major, I wasn't looking forward to it, especially with how many different approaches for such a class. I ended up adoring it, my professor took the approach of prehistory to modernity, showing the timeline of us removing ourselves from nature and a lot of different ideas here and there. It ended up being one of my favorites and most impactful.
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u/KarlDeutscheMarx 2d ago
You also pick at kitten's buttholes?
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u/visionofthefuture 2d ago
Yeah my buddy refuses to lick his butthole clean so I have to use a wet paper towel smh
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u/Timberwolf_88 2d ago
If you haven't been in close proximity to monkeys/apes and seen them interact, you definitely should some time. It's uncanny how similar they are in their behaviors as we are.
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u/MithranArkanere 2d ago
Any animal that evolved from another is considered to be in the same clade, so by that calculation, humans are still bony fish, and whatever type of animal gave birth to those. I think placoderms. And you can go back all the way to a hypothetical "last universal common ancestor" or LUCA that is the ancestor of all life on Earth, and a "first universal common ancestor" or FUCA that would be the ancestor of LUCA and a bunch of other possible forms of life that didn't make it.
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u/Grandmastabilbo 2d ago
I donât trust monkeys! One second nice as pie then something sets them off and that kitten is missing its face.
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u/OperatorP365 2d ago
My brain is right alongside with you, this was a very cute interaction but holy CRAP I was waiting for something bad to happen....
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u/wondermanthesecond 2d ago
itâs always âthis thing is so cuteâ then âyou accidentally scratched me so iâm throwing you off a cliffâ
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u/Viracochina 2d ago
I think it's good our brains sputter off the warnings, cause monkeys can go ape shit, quick. THIS interaction was cute though!
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u/madlama4 2d ago
Macaques "Mothers" are very caring. They even adopt orphans in their tribe. So this particular kitten is completely safe.
It's always the male ones that are dangerous.
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u/ThePennedKitten 2d ago
Good to know. Less chance of random scalping (my introduction to the idea that monkeys go from 0 to 100 real fast).
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u/heathert7900 2d ago
Tbh the scalping everyone knows of happened when that monkey was on benzodiazepines and kept in a human household
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u/Eusocial_Snowman 2d ago
It sounds like you're talking about the chimpanzee that ate that poor woman's face and hands.
Monkeys just kinda randomly scalp people all on their own, for funsies. NSFW obviously, this is a video of a monkey scalping some guy.(for funsies)
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u/BJ3RG3RK1NG 2d ago
âAlwaysâ is outright false.
Males are absolutely more dangerous as they are larger and more aggressive. But to say female macaques are literally never dangerous is doing a disservice to truth. Itâs a wild animal, and is completely capable of doing harm.
And while this kitten is probably fine, it is by no means âcompletely safe.â This is, again, a wild animal. It could respond negatively to a plethora of things and end up hurting this kitten.
Letâs ease up on the confident spreading of misinformation.
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u/maybeknismo 2d ago
Cats aren't completely safe around humans. I'd argue the depths of depravity human stoop to is much worse.
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u/emibemiz 2d ago
Was looking for this comment. Everyone debating on how quickly the monkey couldâve turned, which isnât wrong but Iâve seen humans do worse shit to cats.
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u/Ravenouscandycane 2d ago
I play checkers with lady monkeys on sundays can confirm they are always kind
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u/madlama4 2d ago edited 2d ago
One, I said Mother macaques, not female macaques.
two, I've lived my whole life quite near to family of monkeys. probably about 100 monkeys. And it's always Juveniles and Male monkeys who cause problems. Mother Macaques carrying baby NEVER fight for obvious reasons. They will scream and yell but won't engage in altercation. And if they take liking to kittens or puppies then they take care of them too.
three, Not every statement has to be made Lawyer proof. If you wanna be pedantic be my my guest.
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u/clitter-box 2d ago
I was getting nervous when it kept going for the cats eyes đ
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u/Acceptable-Bullfrog1 2d ago
Kitten looks like it is recovered from an eye infection, a common problem for kittens. Monkey was picking at the crust.
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u/thatshygirl06 2d ago
Not all monkeys and apes are like chimps.
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u/ShredGuru 2d ago
Hell, not even Bonobos are like chimps, and they are LIKE chimps.
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u/ScreamingJar 2d ago
Chimps give orangutans, bonobos, and gorillas a bad name. Chimps are terrifying.
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u/terrible_misfortune 2d ago
better than apes, from what I've seen, chimps tend to be the violent ones, old world monkeys otoh aren't as strong or crazy.
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u/von-cronberg 2d ago
Monkeys, macaques especially, kill people in India frequently. They chased a government official off his balcony.
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u/Any-Spite-7303 2d ago
Thatâs what Iâm sayin! Cute, sure. Dangerous, unhinged and unpredictable? Yep.
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u/Morkamino 2d ago
I've seen how monkeys treat dogs they have as pets (yes, thats a thing. They keep dogs around). I wish i didnt know. I was very scared for this kitten
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u/Homunculus_316 2d ago
That would be a Chimpanzee sir. These are Macaque monkeys. Although they are known to have a gang culture, they are very soft hearted animals. I grew up around them. They are seen as divine beings, hence why soo much of them roam Hindu Temples and other holy pilgrimage spots for Hindus.
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u/iaodfngiofdahgh 2d ago
That monkey showed how I feel every time my cat curls up in my arms. It felt like a basic feeling passed down from our common ancestors as I watched this.
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u/Keyboardpaladin 2d ago
Do animals like monkeys think some animals look cute and also have a similar response to their cuteness as we do?
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u/Otherwise_Map_2018 2d ago
I don't know the english term, but there is a certain pattern of how young animals (including humans) look that make them cute (big eyes, big paws, small mouths, this stuff). Works regardless of species.
Which is why we feel the need to protect puppies and kittens just like human babies. Since the pattern is pretty universal among mammals and since it helps us protect our young, I assume every species reacts to it in some way. So this monkey is very likely to think that the kitten is cute.
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u/LotusVibes1494 2d ago
Interesting to consider what goes on in the monkeyâs mind without language to actually label it as being âcuteâ. I can think of ways that I think without using language, like abstract problem solving, imagining a shape, or a color, or what something would feel like before I do it. But language is interspersed with all those thoughts, or when the thought is finished then I automatically apply language to it, which makes me further categorize it and compare it to things. But the monkey is just having this very raw experience of the kitten in comparison. Not sure what Iâm getting at, just fascinating to think about what their consciousness is really like.
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u/PourJarsInReservoirs 2d ago
I'm not sure how science would prove it, but that's absolutely what I thought. It's an instinctual thing that many mammals have, is how I think about it, from what I've read or heard.
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u/Any-Spite-7303 2d ago
Something tells me that itâs not a good idea for the monkey to âkeepâ that kitten. Sure, THIS interaction is cute, but I hope someone intervened and the cat is safe and sound.
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u/Patchman66 2d ago
Yeah. Monkeys are known to steal small animals like kittens, puppies, or even smaller species of other monkeys and keep them as their âpetsâ. Being a monkeys âpetâ involves being carried around and poked at all day with no access to proper food or water. :( I also hope someone intervened.
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u/Superb_Bench9902 2d ago
Afaik Macaques mothers are very well tempered. This situation in particular doesn't look dangerous. I doubt the monkey would keep the cat eithet way tho
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u/koalatea_matcha 2d ago
Yup, even if the monkey is being really gentle, it will bring the kitten up on trees and buildings. Iâve seen kittens fall from great heightsâŠ..
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u/melquiades_is_alive 2d ago
We had a female monkey at the mini zoo in our village when I was a kid. Very similar looking monkey, only black. We loved each other unconditionally. She used to take care of me the same way this monkey is doing to the kitten. I came to visit her 2-3 times a week with vegetables she liked. It was 30+ years ago, I still love you Kati đâ€ïž
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u/SadLittleWizard 2d ago
At first I though, "that monkey is making some weird faces and sounds at the kitten."
Then I remembered all the weird sounds and faces I make at kittens...
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u/BlackberryBoy2_0 2d ago
I love cats, especially r/Catswithjobs , Zookeeping is the calling of this little one
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u/5trange_Jake 2d ago
Is the kitten safe with the macaque?
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u/augowl_ 2d ago
In the short term, likely. The lip smacking it was doing was basically a sign of it saying âI mean you no harm/I am not a threatâ.
In the long term, no. Outcomes range from it not knowing the needs of this kitten to keep it alive at best to this monkey or others around it getting curious about how long the kittenâs intestines are at worst.
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u/ComfortableSock2044 2d ago
Anddd now that's your cat, macaque!
I love how he pushes his face into the kitten. We get it, dude. Samesies. Enjoy your first cat. It's a lot of work.
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u/Send_one_boob 2d ago
As cute as this may look, the kitten will die.
Animals don't know what other animals eat. The kitten will starve, unless the macaque lets it out of its sight in time so it can get away and catch some bugs, mice, or other small animals.
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u/krustyjugglrs 2d ago
I got really scared at first because I also follow the natureismetal sub.
I'm really glad it wasn't that sub lol.
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u/IntoTheMurkyWaters 2d ago
Might look cute but that could have ended horrible in 1 sec. Fuck the person who placed the kitten there.
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u/CyonHal 2d ago
What kind of sick fuck stages a kitten in front of a monkey for clicks? Could have gone horribly wrong
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u/Monkfich 2d ago edited 2d ago
These sort of things generally donât happen naturally. Normally the cameraperson obtains the small animal then takes it to the predator. Then they proceed to film them whilst the predator investigates and works out whether it is food or not. And they normally do realise they are food.
And the creator is MONKEYCLIPS2024. No way in hell this isnât staged, and he had no idea how the monkey would react initially.
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u/DaanishKaul 2d ago
This monkey will torture the kitten by dragging it everywhere. As for me, this picture is not sentimental at all, as such monkeys are very nasty and harmful.
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u/PsychologicalRisk526 2d ago
Macaques are one of the most violent monkeys out there, I'm glad nothing happened to the kitten
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u/No-Sense-6260 2d ago
This reminds me of the gorilla that took care of a pet kitten, and became incredibly depressed when it died, so they had to get her a new kitten baby.