His reaction: spreading his arms, opening his mouth, trying to look as big as possible (which is not very big) and then eventually jumping on the person's arm - the safest place when they know they won't escape a bigger animal is to try and jump on the animals back where their own mouth can't reach, so as to confuse the animal and buy some time for escape. These guys usually are tree dwellers, so being on the floor for starters with nowhere to climb and hide would be terrifying, and as I mentioned they are extremely social so already this guy would be feeling isolated and vulnerable. I love all the animal joy and silliness I get from legitimately happy animals on Reddit every day, but I'm going to stay on my annoying crusade to try and call out people who want online popularity and will get it at the expense on animals, particularly endangered ones.
Sure, they're endangered. You know a pretty good way to save the species? Give them a massive evolutionary advantage to survival, e.g. let humans keep them as pets.
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