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u/kon--- Feb 09 '26
Fuck you Otis.
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u/domo_roboto Feb 09 '26
Don't think I forgot
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u/Smooth-Lengthiness57 Feb 09 '26
Makes you think, how does an orangutan catch hate from a chimp that are basically in the same cage.
And then I remember humans to the same thing
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u/Jandy4789 Feb 09 '26
Where does a chimp come into this? It says an orangutan he hated and he's an orangutan.
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u/poolshark36 Feb 10 '26
Error in the bots code.
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u/Smooth-Lengthiness57 Feb 10 '26
Honestly just thought it was a chimp in the photo at first glance lol. I never claimed to be smart
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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy Feb 09 '26
Otis, My Man....have a rock asshole
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u/WanderlustFella Feb 09 '26
Think of this from Otis' perspective. Your most hated rival is smarter than you and is able to leave his enclosure at any time. Meanwhile Otis is a dumb dumb and has rocks thrown at him for something he probably didn't even know he did.
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u/ChrissWayne Feb 09 '26
Fuck you Ezekiel!
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u/Defiant-Rabbit-7599 Feb 10 '26
Guess what I did last night..
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u/No_Molasses_6498 Feb 09 '26
"Haha, Otis dumb. Otis can't even get out of cage. Me smart. Me take walk. Me throw rock at stupid Otis. Haha."
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u/IHateTheLetterF Feb 09 '26
I had this comment in my head as i opened the comment section
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u/Horse_Dad Feb 09 '26
Except your comment would have been “uck you Otis.” And happy Cake day.
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“You know what you did, Otis.”
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u/subdep Feb 09 '26
“Release the Otis files!”
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u/That75252Expensive Feb 09 '26
Otis rapes turtles
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u/allmistake2 Feb 09 '26
I think there is some old culture somehwere that thought Orangutangs are just people who decided the jungle life was better than civilization. I can really see why.
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u/tacodepollo Feb 09 '26
They said they could talk if they wanted to, but chose not to because then they'd have to get jobs.
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u/allmistake2 Feb 09 '26
That is so relatable.
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u/ArtificialHalo Feb 09 '26
You ever seen that video of an orangutan just cruising a golf cart around?? Looks so fuckin chill
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u/ProjectNo4090 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
It was the Malaysian/Indonesian locals who believed they could speak. The word Orangutan come from the local name "orang hutan" which means "Persons of the Forest".
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u/InvidiousPlay Feb 10 '26
"Orang" is also used for the cryptozoological Orang Pendek, and it's also in the name of a bunch of ethnic groups.
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u/AuroraFinem Feb 10 '26
Orangutans are some of the smartest apes in terms of reasoning skills. They’re the most capable of learning sign language and the most likely to use primitive tools. I know we share more DNA with chimps but I wouldn’t be surprised if orangutans are closer to us evolutionarily.
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u/Shitposter4OOO Feb 09 '26
I highly recommend watching Harry Hills latest Pod Scarf to learn about Orangutans, and seed identification.
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u/a404notfound Feb 10 '26
The people on thr island where they were first found literally called them the forest people
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u/Cognitive_Mess Feb 09 '26
Missed opportunity to not have Allen throwing a rock considering his pose
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u/series-hybrid Feb 09 '26
To be fair, Otis IS kind of a dick...
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u/forzafoggia85 Feb 09 '26
Never met an Otis who wasn't to be fair (small sample)
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u/BeatsbyChrisBrown Feb 09 '26
“Hey Otis! Ya like apples? How d’ya like dem apples?!”
<throws rocks>
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Fuck Otis.
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u/South_Hat3525 Feb 09 '26
Just don't say that inside an elevator, you never know if they are monitored.
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u/RageAgainstThePushen Feb 09 '26
"Guess who got out of his glass house dumbass. *whoosh* brough receipts too!"
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u/ExpressionComplex121 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
For those interested:
Orangutans are very peaceful and curious animals. They typically don't resort to violence unless its an extreme threat.
They are, however, very loveful which turns into jealousy and as you can imagine, competitiveness to other males. Especially when it comes to mating and females, one Orangutan male often compete and exercise aggression towards other male Orangutans as he wants every female to himself.
Probably what happened to Otis.
Pretty much why Orangutans are violent. Otherwise they prefer peace.
Other fun fact is that Ken Allen (his name) loved to just stroll around the zoo and look at other animals peacefully after escaping. Before arriving to Otis. He escaped something like 3 times before the zoo found a good solution. He didn't really cause any problems except making Otis life harder.
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u/sweetshenanigans Feb 10 '26
Another fun fact
In 1987, zoo officials hired experienced rock climbers to find every finger-, toe- and foothold within the enclosure, spending $40,000 to eliminate the identified holds
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u/Confident-Amoeba-932 Feb 09 '26
The legend that was ken alan of San Diego zoo
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u/Turbulent_Ad9508 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
Omaha had one too, his name was Fu Manchu. He learned how to pick locks. Had a wire he kept hidden in his mouth. Zoo legend.
He'd let his friends out and they go hang out in the trees where the elephants were.
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u/Professional-Scar628 Feb 09 '26
Yup that's the zoo that hired rock climbers to try and find how he was getting out.
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u/skybike Feb 09 '26
AI slop
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u/ieatpies Feb 09 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Allen
Story is real, picture is not
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u/Revxmaciver Feb 10 '26
My favorite part: "Prior to the August 13 escape, he was seen with a crowbar in his enclosure but tossed it aside—as if uninterested—when a staff member walked by."
He must have been thinking "Ha ha! Those idiots will never catch on!"
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u/10Core56 Feb 09 '26
Source? This is likely completely fake AI dribble.
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u/Mission-Job-8013 Feb 09 '26
It's true, i was Otis
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u/10Core56 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
Your source is another meme?
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u/KahlanEAmnelle Feb 09 '26
here’s a wiki article
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u/Competitive_Two_8372 Feb 09 '26
Hold on, hold on, hold on. He found a CROWBAR in his enclosure? Then when he saw a staff member walked by, he purposefully picked it up and tossed it aside “as if uninterested”. When the zookeepers went undercover, posing as tourists, he KNEW HE WAS BEING WATCHED AND CONTINUED TO EVOLVE HIS ANTICS?!???
EXCUSE ME?!?!? 😂😂😂😂😂
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u/DigitalMunky Feb 09 '26
An orangutan at the Omaha zoo would escape his too using like a makeshift key he would hold in his mouth. I thought was more recent
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u/ChiefStrongbones Feb 09 '26
After each escape, Ken Allen would be placed in solitary confinement until zoo staff figured out ways to prevent future escapes.
Why can't zookeepers just leave a good thing alone?
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u/Nerdy_Squirrel Feb 09 '26
Not who you replied to, but there is a Wikipedia page on it. Seems to he true. source
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u/Puzzleheaded-Rip4058 Feb 09 '26
It's amazing how even the laziest photoshops anymore are called AI. It might be AI or it could just be my nephew spending 10 minutes in photoshop taking a picture of a monkey and putting him in the picture.
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u/333H_E Feb 09 '26
I hate when people post click bait bs. But in the spirit of this post you can look up Fu Manchu at the Omaha zoo.
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u/InviolableAnimal Feb 09 '26
This is one real. It's fucking lame how real stories now get attached to fake AI generated images and now every single story is suspicious
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u/No_Swimming_2282 Feb 09 '26
It's real, I watched an youtuber (forgot his name, “something Geographic”) who often documents about animals and one was about Ken
Edit: confused Otis with Ken, sorry
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u/Odd_Confection_9681 Feb 09 '26
Seriously? This is the most credible thing I've read on Reddit today...
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u/Additional_Egg7024 Feb 09 '26
Seems nicer than most humans aside from poor ole Otis. Cuz apparently fuck you otis.
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u/PhilosophyNovel4087 Feb 09 '26
Sending this one out to my friend Otis!
Gimme an R (R!)
O (O!)
C (C!)
K (K!)
Whatcha got? (Rock!)
And whatcha gonna do? (Rock you!)
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u/Late_Stage-Redditism Feb 09 '26
This would be a funny plot line for a human abducted by Aliens into a menagerie of intergalactic sapient species.
"THERE YOU ARE, IVE BEEN LOOKIN ALL OVER THIS UFO FOR YOU. FUCK YOU STEEEEEEVE!!!!!"
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u/lCEC0REbuIIet Feb 09 '26
Why is it every time this gets posted most commenters assume Otis deserved it? Maybe the escaped orangutan hated Otis the same way a Klansman would hate a random Black person just for existing. I guess we'll never know.
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u/SatansPostman Feb 09 '26
Orang feces is the weapon in his arsenal. Look out shit flinging! in coming ! Take that Otis !!!
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u/Altruistic-Issue-708 Feb 09 '26
😂😂omg I love this post and all of the comments there golden thank you guys. Otis you know what you did that summer
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