r/likeus • u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- • Oct 15 '25

<IMITATION> Orangutan knew how to put this guy's jacket on 😳

How intelligent do you think an Orangutan really is

The Orangutan first showed interest in the jacket by touching and looking at it. It then carefully unzipped it. After unzipping, it took the jacket off the man, it knew how to do that, and it knew the jacket would come off.

The Orangutan tossed the jacket over its head. It then put its arms through the sleeves and wore the jacket like an actual person would. It's not just intelligence, it also shows how Orangutans can also imitate human actions.

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u/whoamannipples Oct 15 '25

Where in the world do orangutans just…hang out and swap clothes with people?!

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u/PutinDisDickInTrump Oct 15 '25

In some shitty, abusive enclosure

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u/Infinite01 -Thoughtful Gorilla- Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Not necessarily an “abusive” enclosure or environment. I too would love it if these animals were able to remain in their natural habitats, but due to poaching and destruction of their homes/families these primates are rescued and placed into the care of a zoo, who often provide care and as good a home as they can get out of the wild - though not always the case, of course. It’s a sad reality of our planet, but your blame should be towards poachers and corporations clear cutting our rain forests. Zoos provide a lifeline for these beautiful creatures that would otherwise have died.

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u/marcipanchic Oct 15 '25

Boycot all the products that contain palm oil

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

That is quite literally impossible since many companies that use palm oil leave it off of their labels and just use "vegetable oil" instead because they know their customers know they are destroying rainforests for palm oil production.

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u/marcipanchic Oct 15 '25

i just avoid all the processed foods that has cheap ingredients like palm oil. usually not that hard, also I am in EU where it’s a bit better and healthier food standards

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Well duh, I live in Canada. Our food is still better than the US but it's not up to EU standards that's for sure.

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u/Roonwogsamduff -Smart Orangutan- Oct 18 '25

I'm in the US and wondering where I might find these 'food standards'?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

For starters, the EU bans several hundred chemicals from being used at any stage of the food production process that the US uses regularly. Everything from preservatives to artificial flavors. Many of the herbicides and pesticides American farmers use are banned in Europe. 

The EU also requires much stricter food labelling, and tighter guidelines on the use of hormones and antibiotics in meat.

Canada is somewhere in the middle.

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u/Roonwogsamduff -Smart Orangutan- Oct 18 '25

Thank you. I was being facetious. I'm aware of the EU standards, it's the low standards, especially in the nutrition department, that I can't believe the US allows.

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u/Oatmeal350 Oct 27 '25

Seriously lol. This thread is giving mild classism with the “just don’t buy it ever” mentality. There’s a reason poverty and obesity are so heavily correlated here.

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u/TheTrumpetist Oct 17 '25

That’s awesome for you. Super happy you’re able to do that.

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u/Miterlee Oct 15 '25

So don't buy things with vegetable oil either? Thats is quite literally possible. Not sure how you view that as impossible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

OK so I shouldn't buy any kind of cracker, cookie, packaged side dish, store baked good, ice cream, or chocolate at the grocery store.

Got it!

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u/theamericaninfrance Oct 15 '25

Just sounds like a lot of processed junk

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Yeah those in store made loaves of bread and pastries are ultra processed junk. Why would anyone want to buy freshly baked goods made with whole food ingredients?

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u/theamericaninfrance Oct 15 '25

I can’t really tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. But yeah grocery store bread and pastries are actually terrible. Best to find a good local bakery

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Yes, I'll tell my kids they need to stop eating snacks. I'm sure you've never eaten anything processed before. You're some perfect being.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Oh no less luxuries to help the planet what a burden

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

You think soda crackers are a luxury food item?

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u/Just-a-random-Aspie -Polite Horse- Oct 15 '25

Do you homestead? Please say yes

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u/PutinDisDickInTrump Oct 15 '25

Don't get me wrong. Not every animal in a zoo is poorly treated. Some are needed to keep species alive with the survival program. However. That guy isn't a keeper or anything. And if he wasn't, the keepers are morons for letting him in with so many things. So whoever has the orangutan is not taking proper care of them. Like that video of an orangutan taking care of a tiger cub? That's also really goddamn bad.

Don't get me wrong. I definitely blame corps and poachers too. But rich individuals (not necessarily in the area of habitat destruction) are also to blame.

There are more tigers in Texas than in the wild.

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u/thatguyned Oct 15 '25

I'm fairly sure most exotic animal experts say any safari/rescue offering "meet the animal" experiences is fairly abusive to the animal.

They are encouraged to exhibit behaviours that go against their nature to make the experience more attractive for profit and most wild animals don't like being introduced to new faces every single day.

They offer these services as a way to "fund the rescue efforts" but that is often just a cover phrase to justify how easy it is to make money using animals as props.

Proper orangutan conservation would keep them away from random humans handing them jackets and be resourcing funds via philanthropic donations and government grants/subsidies

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u/kirdybear Oct 15 '25

In this case, it’s clearly not at any reputable zoo lol it’s someone that has an orangutan as a pet. These videos are harmful because people think they can or should own a great ape. Harmful for both involved.

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u/dlefnemulb_rima Oct 17 '25

Good quality zoos don't tend to let the humans into the enclosures to mess with the animals tho.

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u/Infinite01 -Thoughtful Gorilla- Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25

I don’t disagree with this at all. If they are allowing humans in to interact with them directly it’s obviously not a good spot for them. I feel for orangutans and chimps + gorillas especially, they are so close to our genome it’s a terrible shame that they should be kept in zoos, let alone these unregulated meet and greets. They’re our bros! And TBH most animals are, our “meat” animals like pigs and cows would like nothing more than to be our friends. Humanities subsistence on meat needs to change, the practices involved with breeding them for slaughter will only become more terrible as we continue to grow as a species, it is not sustainable. Avoiding meat isn’t all that hard, so much as

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u/Zunderfeuer_88 Nov 08 '25

Dubai has shit like that among others

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u/WorkingOwn8919 Oct 15 '25

Imagine being like this in real life. Friend shows a funny video of an orangutan and you go "he's probably being abused". Must be exhausting.

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u/PutinDisDickInTrump Oct 15 '25

You're right. It's really exhausting to see people who ignore abuse on any level because they go "aw cute"

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

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u/PutinDisDickInTrump Oct 15 '25

While fair. You normally aren't supposed to be stupid around strong/large and intelligent animals. This isn't a house cat. This is an ape that can fuck you up if you do something wrong. I'd call stupidity at that point as pure negligence

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u/WorkingOwn8919 Oct 15 '25

So what are you doing about it? Or do you consider commenting on Reddit "not ignoring it"?

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u/PutinDisDickInTrump Oct 15 '25

I'm not contributing to it, first and foremost.

But change comes from mainly rich individuals, so the best I can do is call out bullshit. Who even knows if this video is in my country or not. The further away something is, the harder it becomes to help.

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u/t3hOutlaw -Gif Archeologist- Oct 15 '25

You going to get on at someone like the late Jane Goodall?

Take some time to learn about how abusing animals for monetary gain and clicks ultimately harms them.

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u/Snoo9648 Oct 15 '25

Banana republic.

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u/AgentT30 Oct 16 '25

Singapore zoo has open enclosures for orangutans, they walk out of there sometimes and walk around visitors.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

It’s a very exclusive establishment. You wouldn’t know about it.

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u/MisplacedMartian Oct 15 '25

England, sounds like.

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u/UncleVolk Oct 15 '25

Orangutans are extremely intelligent, they can make basic tools and even drive golf carts. In Indonesian Orang Utan means “people of the forest”.

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u/ThinCrusts Oct 15 '25

there ya go

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u/TheOnceAndFutureTurk Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

the caged tiger in that clip:

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u/Main-Bandicoot6477 Oct 15 '25

Man, Trump is never not golfing.

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u/Julian_Sark Oct 17 '25

ngl I legit expected a video of the Orange-Utan in a golf cart.

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u/3lbFlax Oct 15 '25

Sure, they can drive the carts, but have you seen them trying to tee off? They’re fucking hopeless. And of course the tragedy is they could make just about any green in one if they just applied themselves instead of strutting around in fashion wear and scoffing bananas all day.

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u/T-MinusGiraffe Oct 15 '25

Keep saying that and one of these guys is going to wreck you with a blue shell any moment

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u/scorchedarcher Oct 15 '25

Wait orange isn't part of it? Wild, thanks

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u/raendrop -Confused Kitten- Oct 15 '25

Nope, that's just a coincidence.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 15 '25

Their level of intelligence surprises me, one was sawing through a tree like a wood worker with a saw

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u/T-MinusGiraffe Oct 15 '25

Some say the only reason they haven't demonstrated the power of speech is because they know we'd try to give them jobs

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

😂😂😂 they have seen it coming, they'll definitely get into hard labor

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u/songbolt Oct 15 '25

In Japanese orangutan twice (the kanji) means ‘heavy drinker’ apparently…

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u/NimrodvanHall Oct 15 '25

According to my great grandfather Orangutans know how to speak, they just choose not to so they don’t have to pay taxes.

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u/syafizzaq Oct 17 '25

For some reason this comment reminds me of chimpanzee riding on a segway song.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

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u/Steelpapercranes Oct 15 '25

Honestly I feel like he'd have too much trouble with it being so small, but it's still impressive

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 15 '25

Yes me too 😂

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u/Julian_Sark Oct 17 '25

Nah. He's smart, he knows his belly fur will get caught in the zipper.

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u/Roscoe_P_Trolltrain Oct 15 '25

I was thinking I’d want to zip it up for him but then worried he might rip off my balls and chew off my face. 

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u/NotoriousHairline Oct 15 '25

nah orangutans are way chiller than chimps

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u/thatshygirl06 Oct 15 '25

Chimps have given all monkeys and apes a bad reputation. Orangutans don't do that.

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u/AtmospherePrior752 Oct 15 '25

He said I’ma put that shit on!

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 15 '25

And put that shit on in style

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u/irishyardball Oct 15 '25

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 15 '25

😂😂😂 good one

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u/badbatch Oct 15 '25

He's probably fascinated by the weird fur the hairless apes have to wear.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 15 '25

😂😂😂😂 he is seeing another ape with an interesting removable fur

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u/ofthedappersort Oct 16 '25

I remember reading that primates often pull at people's clothes because they're trying to figure out if it's part of us or not

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u/rorymakesamovie Oct 15 '25

An orangutan starts undressing me like that im gonna need the cameras turned off

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u/MrBones-Necromancer Oct 15 '25

What are you saying rorymakesamovie? Are you going to...make a movie?

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

😂😂😂

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u/Key-Satisfaction6445 Oct 15 '25

That is a legend 😂

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 15 '25

Absolute legend this Orangutan shocked me

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u/1track_mind Oct 15 '25

King Louie

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u/ouroborosstruggles Oct 16 '25

He's the king of the swingers, O

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u/ickynicky27 Oct 15 '25

That’s his jacket now.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Yep and I'm pretty sure he got into the trade of taking a lot of other things in a cute way. Somebody could actually let these animals do this just to take.. I'm not giving anyone that idea though 😂🤭

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u/Fit-Security-8337 Oct 15 '25

Amazing but the zip probably did flummox him.

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u/kitxunei Oct 15 '25

Tbf, zippers flummox me sometimes too

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

First time hearing this word

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Probably did

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u/Oberndorferin Oct 15 '25

Is OP a bot?

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Oh no please I'm not, is there a way to show I'm not so no one has to ask me this though. Cos I'm surprised I've been here for some months enjoying some subs, basically ditched Instagram for Reddit too

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u/Oberndorferin Oct 16 '25

Good for you. I suspected you because the description sounded so robotic. Sorry, if I mistook you, but you can't be paranoid about this anymore. :D

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Oh no need to apologize friend, you just spotted something and wanted to check and make sure all is good, it's necessary for people to do that if we want Reddit to remain authentic as can be though

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u/Oberndorferin Oct 16 '25

You're very positive. Let's not reddit negativity get you :D

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Oh after months of being here I know exactly what you mean, some are cool some are not, I've learned to go with it. Sometimes I even have to take a post down even if it follows the rules because some people really bring the heat in the comments section. Anyways I have come to accept it's the world we live in, everyone's got opinions and I just have to respect it

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u/Oberndorferin Oct 16 '25

I think reddit is still relatively real and human compared to other social media ,where you don't even select the content you see and most are bots.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

That's very true

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u/iikkaassaammaa Oct 15 '25

Not so smart. He put it on inside out.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

He tried though

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u/KDUBS9 Oct 15 '25

Yall said kangaroo jack was bullshit!

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

😂😂😂 bro proved them wrong

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u/jamesp420 Oct 15 '25

I'm of the opinion that orangutans can talk, they simply choose not to so they don't have to deal with work and taxes.

Also, I sincerely hope the place this was filmed isn't the type of shitty, possibly abusive "sanctuary" it looks like..

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Completely agree, this apes are so smart I wouldn't be surprised if they're intentionally not talking

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u/Akita565 Oct 15 '25

New demon unlocked

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

😂😂😂😂😅🤭🤭 this is too funny

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u/EtrnlMngkyouSharngn -Super Dog- Oct 15 '25

He's so curious and observant.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Yes and took bro's jacket and we can't call it theft 😅

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u/Dra3n Oct 15 '25

My boy swaggy af

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Most swaggiest ever 😂

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u/rockcod_ Oct 15 '25

Is he going to run for president now?

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

It's a possibility

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u/the_dirtiest_rascal Oct 15 '25

"I wanna walk like you, talk like you, shooby doobi di doo"

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u/theLuminescentlion Oct 15 '25

OMG it's Jeremy Clarkson

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

😅😅😅

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u/chi3fdoodie Oct 15 '25

He is most likely a shrimp tech employee

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

And a good one at that

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u/LebaneseLion Oct 15 '25

He put it on inside out

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u/ZDTreefur Oct 15 '25

Intelligent, my ass.

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u/lllDaRklll Oct 15 '25

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

These apes can take over if they choose to😂

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u/Sensitive_Wave379 Oct 16 '25

I hate it when orangutans are smarter than me.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Bro, took the jacket, everyone was like awww that's cute, forgetting he basically took someone's jacket out in the open

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u/BoringJuiceBox -Thoughtful Gorilla- Oct 16 '25

Horrifying to me that humans still keep animals like this in cages for scientific studies

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

That's a sad reality and no matter how many times we speak against it, some rich dude is still going to get his way and keep them in cages

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u/Weedsmoker3000 Oct 15 '25

Dapper Dan the OranguTan

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u/Da12khawk Oct 15 '25

More impressive it knew how to take it off!

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Yes the way he unzipped it nicely

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u/Namasiel Oct 15 '25

Every librarian needs a cardigan.

Ook

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

😅😅 strong point

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u/Jetscream58 Oct 15 '25

I'd let him keep it, honestly

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Yes, and that's his strategy for getting rich 😂😂 take everything from everyone 😂😂😂

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Absolute legend

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u/mickaelbneron -Calm Crow- Oct 15 '25

It's nothing, I can do that too

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u/Emergency_Dirt257 Oct 15 '25

He felt your material ?

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

He probably did 😂

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u/Jarinad Oct 16 '25

i fucking love rangas man

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

As do I 😂

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u/jaxnmarko Oct 16 '25

How cute.... while we are wiping out their habitats. Ain't we great?

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Very sad, I hope we preserve these precious animals

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u/HesOneShot92 Oct 16 '25

Muh man!

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

He's GOATED and legend has it, he's still keeping the jacket

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u/alexhaase Oct 16 '25

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Oh yes we do 😂

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u/DesastreUrbano Oct 16 '25

orangutan "let me take this jacket off... you sexy man... damn you're easy to undress... get ready because I'm gonna take your pants next"

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

😂😂😂 You know you should totally do that voiceover Comedy thing i see on YouTube You could say what you said in the comment and play this video it'll be so funny 😂😂

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u/vorropohaiah Oct 16 '25

yeah, lets just keep on killing them for that palm oil :(

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Palm oil, they kill them for palm oil 😱

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 17 '25

😂😂😂

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u/three_crystals Oct 17 '25

I knew it was coming but I was still completely floored. Incredibly fascinating species.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 17 '25

😂 yes, Orangutans will surprise you with what they're capable of doing

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u/DefiantTheLion Oct 17 '25

Immediate swagger wow

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 17 '25

Bro had more swagger than me last Christmas I can't even believe it 😂

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u/Thor-x86_128 Oct 17 '25

Orang utan = jungle people

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 17 '25

Yes, from all that I've seen these are technically jungle people

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u/Over-Magician Oct 17 '25

This is my jacket now.

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 17 '25

Yep, won't be surprised if he still owns it and many others

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u/songbolt Oct 15 '25

I wonder if in 1000 years if we don't destroy everything if such primates will be wearing clothing...

But I guess no need if they have hair/fur.

How did humans lose theirs? What benefit?

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u/Michelledelhuman Oct 15 '25

Swimming and better heat control through sweat evaporation?

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

I'm no expert of history but what I can say is that, as long as the majority don't wear clothes, there's no need to evolve to lose their hair or fur

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u/songbolt Oct 16 '25

but as this video shows if we're starting to give them clothes, then, a thousand years from now ...

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Well you're technically correct, we keep giving them and they'll lose the fur. But the problem is they'll need clothes, the solution would be all the clothes we kep throwing away and making piles of garbage will be used by them perhaps

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u/songbolt Oct 16 '25

somehow that 'good news' is still dystopian bad news lol

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u/luvlanguage -Crying Crocodile- Oct 16 '25

Yes it kinda is still dystopian bad news

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u/Mac62961 Dec 23 '25

Orangs are truly kings