Treehugger.com – This moving footage not only challenges those who might question the extent to which animals experience the loss of a life, it bridges the perceived differences between the natural world and we humans who are harbingers of so much death therein.
And, now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
How Many Deaths Is Walt Disney Responsible For Worldwide?
After watching the Obamnation read his speech off a teleprompter encouraging Egyptian Caliphate/Islamsicks holding up signs saying:
‘YES WE CAN ALSO’
I Would have shot Ole’ Yeller” six times…
” Chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary relatives, have the highest rates of cannibalism among non-human primates; chimpanzees also have the highest rates of predation (of red colobus monkeys) among nonhuman primates. ”
But,but,they’re just like us. Hmmm.
I’m impressed,the hounds are getting old.I wonder if I got a chimp if he would be a natural dogger for deer and coon hunting.I have a feeling that if I named him Bonzo he would be a natural.
Ah,balanced reporting.Keep it coming.
But we’re not allowed to mourn the deaths of unborn children
“But,but,they’re just like us. Hmmm.”
I can see the resemblance.
The juxtaposition isn’t valid, IMO, because the chimps in the second video were just doing dirty work on behalf of the Jews.
What I see is a momma chimp constantly checking for signs of life and movement in her dead baby. I don’t see mourning or grief. I see confusion and lack of understanding.
When you watch these you absolutely know where in a declining civilization.
Back to animal spirits & mysticism.
From folks who live in la la land.
Who scream in agony for the tree’s.
Hey, if there this human the next time they eat their young which happens, we can charge the ape with murder. As long as its not a child or baby.In Human land its perfectly okay to kill the unborn or those being born. This is more leftist moral diarrhea, that means nothing to these relativists. Only the con matters.
JMO
MikeM @ 9:54
What you are witnessing is a Liberal voter. The confusion and lack of understanding is a prominent identifying trait.
The confusion is “How do I get my Social Assistance cheque now and should I report this?”
Wake up Chimp! Chimp, wake up! Chimp! Wake up!
safety forced and Rev, exactly.
Domesticated farm animals will also nuzzle dead offspring or pen mates. Sows will on occasion eat their own young. Pigs and chickens will cannibalize a stranger if put in the same pen.
Having lived in Africa I can tell you that chimpanzees are smarter than some humans!
The animals world is often cruel and ugly. The human world is, too, but at least we can choose not to be. Should we compare ourselves to animals? No.
In closing, here’s to George, the curious little monkey.
http://www.curiousgeorge.com/#/home
The clips seem to show a broad range of emotional states. That’s hardly surprising since chimps are “higher” primates. It would be absurd to assume that the human emotional range would have arisen completely de novo from no evolutionary precursors.
The full sophistication of the chimps’ thoughts leading to the emotions must remain, for the moment, a secret known only to the chimps.
“It would be absurd to assume that the human emotional range would have arisen completely de novo from no evolutionary precursors.” – DrD (12:18)
Absolutely. The more sentient social animals (chimps, elephants, dogs) *clearly* feel emotional pain when someone close to them (it could be an owner, in the case of a dog) passes away. Humans certainly have a far more developed and multilayered cognitive sense that greatly exacerbates – and lengthens the duration of – feelings of grief; when a chimpanzee’s (or a gazelle’s) infant dies, mama isn’t wondering “Was I good mother?” or “If I had made different life choices, might Raoul have been spared…?”
In the case of Kate’s brilliant and prankish juxtaposition, the touchy-feely, self-righteous people who suggest that the perceived differences between the natural world and we humans who are harbingers of so much death therein are illusory purposefully neglect to take into account the entirety of the ‘natural world’s’ behaviour. Chimps and dogs feel sorrow, but they also happily and without remorse devour the still-twitching flesh of other panic-stricken, sentient beings. So…are the differences between humans and animals illusory, or is it simply the case that certain people feel an emotional need to demonstrate their superiority by publicly asserting their own imagined special communion with the “natural world”?
Ever see a cow that has lost her calf dashing around, bawling in panic, and finally returning, time after time to the place where she left the missing calf? Guess we’re closely related to cattle too.
No, she is a related to cattle, not the rest of us.
Re: the second video (chimp hunt). Have you ever seen a gang of thugs pick on a smaller/weaker person…I would suggest that the veneer of civilization runs very shallow (if at all) in these humans. However, we the civilized folk are FORCED to treat these “people” as if they’re civilized by the caterwauling “progressives” (not enough basketball courts, playgrounds, hugs, whatever!!). If a bear started attacking your kids you would shoot it dead..you don’t reason with it nor do you allow it to live..in order to allow it to attack other people’s children. Yes, my point is that criminals/thugs are not very far off from animals and we should put them down like we do any dangerous animal. Anybody object to Paul Bernardo or Russell Williams or that guy sentenced to 25 years for raping kids in Thailand being put down? (I didn’t think so)
You’re welcome to move to any Muslim country – they’re quite happy to execute criminals, and they have enough progressives to maybe fill a taxi. Since you have so much in common, I’m sure you’ll get along great!
Not sure what the purpose of the video juxtaposition is supposed to demonstrate. Humans act in exactly the same way, loving and caring towards those closest to us, hateful and violent towards our enemies. When humans hunted with spears, arrows and rocks some 20,000 years ago the scene was probably as violent as the chimps hunting the colobus monkeys. Now we get our meat from slaughterhouses.
@scherminator
The video is pointing out that while the chimp show’s confusion and a lack of understanding of what has happened people are tring to link it with evolution and human grief but it is false hence the reason iti s looking around and just in a state of confusion it deos show some signs of confusion though …and the juxstaposition is disney and nat geo try to make bears and tigers and snakes and chimps out ot be these freindly lovable cuddly aimals that you can just walk up to and pet and feed and the other video show’s the exact opposite hence here title and hence the two compltley different video’s one say’s look it is peaceful loving and feeling pain and suffering (witch it is clearly not) as if to say see i am gentle and freindly and and i hurt to just like you. and the other video show’s them in there more true behavior so for the fraction of time it may feel sad the other 99% of the time iti s on the hunt it is vicious and is never to be taken lightley they are awsome carnivors and hunters like a tiger ,snake ,bear,polar bear,lion, you name it. they are not your friend they want to eat you if they can ….they are not human or even remotley like humans!!!
paul @ 8:24, “you name it. they are not your friend they want to eat you if they can ….they are not human or even remotely like humans!!!”
Kind of like “progressives”.
Alex, time for you to switch hands. Apply lubricant liberally. Don’t worry, your Mom won’t be home for a while.
Biologically we are not that different from chimpanzees, and there is a huge overlap in our DNA.
However, our brains are larger and are more complex.
So on the one hand the difference between us and them is smaller than you might think, but on the other hand in the area of cognitive ability we reign supreme.
I prefer to look at these things from a scientific angle, rather than from the two extremes, one being that animals and humans are 100% equal, the other being that an animal like the chimpanzee is no more important or useful or intelligent than a cockroach.
It appears that Alex sides with the child rapists and murderers…like I said the “progressives” have led Western civilization down the wrong path. These past 40 years were an interesting and expensive social experiment, but I think it’s time to let the real adults run the show again.
“It appears that Alex sides with the child rapists and murderers”
It appears you’ve holstered your head in it’s usual place. Stop being such a retarded leftists.
Read any of Jane Goodall’s books to see how human like Chimps are. Their use and making of tools and passing knowledge to their children was a shock to scientists and the subsequent discovery of how clever so many animals are in tool use is still astounding behavioral scientists.
Remember chimps and orangutans only have offspring once in several years so of course they would feel an emotional attachment to them. Are some human males much different than male primates when they can just walk away after impregnating a women caring nothing about the fate of their child?
The difference between animals and humans is this: humans act/animals react.
Environmentalists have killed millions of human beings with their ban on DDT. It comes down to this – animal lives are worth a hell of a lot more than human lives to these “people”(except for their own lives, of course).
I’ve never understood this overarching notion that an animal’s life is always less important than a human life.
If I was given one bullet and allowed to shoot either Robert Mugabe or an elephant, I would shoot Mugabe. Are people saying they would save Mugabe over the elephant?
If you are down to the last few remaining tigers on earth, and the only solution left is to shoot the poachers, would you not shoot them?
If an idiot decides he’s going to wander the jungle on foot, and gets eaten by a lion, do we then shoot the lion?
I’m not saying that all animals deserve death – your comparisons don’t make sense. If you had to choose between shooting Mugabe or a rabid dog that was closing in on your family that might be a more realistic comparison.
How about this – who would you save – a newborn puppy or a newborn human being? The puppy has as much right to live as the human but anyone who would choose the puppy and let the little human baby die is scum in my books.
RJ, it is of course possible to find examples that work the other way (although I don’t think your puppy example has any substance to it).
My point is that some people insist that every animal life is worth less than every human life. I disagree with that position. I think there are times when an animal life is worth more.
For example, in days gone by, organizations like the WWF (before they became hangouts for ex-commies), used to advocate shooting of poachers. Not so anymore. Now even the lefties don’t want poachers to get shot.
It doesn’t have to involve life and death either. I think circuses are an absolutely stupid idea. The notion of taking elephants out of the jungle, and training them against all their instincts to do tricks is backward. If a circus owner says that unless he can do such things he and his family will starve, then I say fine, let them starve if they are so incapable of finding something else to do. I side with the elephants in that case.
“The difference between animals and humans is this: humans act/animals react. ”
That’s so sophomoric that it’s barely worth a response. Anyone who’s watched wolves / tigers / lions track, run down, and kill their pray would never say something so foolish. The organization and premeditation amongst Ape species is even more blatant, but plenty of other species exhibit clear evidence of deliberate thought and action.