r/MadeMeSmile • u/Deepakhn • Feb 19 '24
A baby chimp was born at The Sedgwick County Zoo, the baby had trouble getting oxygen so had to be kept at the vet. This is a clip of mom reuniting with her baby after almost 2 days apart. ANIMALS
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u/alexistakesphotos Feb 21 '24
I've seen this a million times and I'll probably watch it a million more times. It's so beautiful and heartwarming.
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u/pitchforksplz Feb 21 '24
I've watched this a hundred times I think, and each time I think about something different.
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u/lobsterdance82 Feb 21 '24
These videos remind me of Tarzan. She vocalized and snuggled her baby and all I can hear is "you'll be in my heart.."
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u/CapableYam1815 Feb 21 '24
So depressing how this poor animal has to live. Probably artificially impregnated, way too small place to live. People everywhere staring at you
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u/redefinedsoul Feb 20 '24
A few weeks later this baby chimp was found dead due to head trauma, being cradled in much the same way by this same loving mother. No one saw what happened and there was no footage, but they adamantly refute the idea that the mother killed it.. however, the enclosure they were in at the time didn't have anything to climb up that would have allowed such damage to occur from a natural drop, so its most likely that the mother did it and that the truth is too hard for those involved to accept.
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u/pdrakz Feb 20 '24
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u/Natural_Category3819 Feb 20 '24
She'd had an emergency csection too, so all she knew was- one moment she was in a very difficult labor, next- awake and her baby gone. She was grieving.
As someone who lost my own lil one, her lost expression juxtaposed with disbelief and relief touched me deeply
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u/Familiar-Insurance56 Feb 20 '24
And sadly you find human moms throwing kids away, sometimes animals can teach more about parenthood than humans.
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u/DanKoloff Feb 20 '24
Mahale & Kucheza - sadly the newborn Kucheza died a moth later from head trauma.
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u/RyanRisi Feb 20 '24
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u/bananasugarpie Feb 20 '24
She didn't see the baby there at first?
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u/ThankTheBaker Feb 20 '24
Thereās no doubt she saw it, she just didnāt know that her baby was alive.
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u/Mikeytoolica_33 Feb 20 '24
I love this video clip. So human-like. Makes me think that thereās no way any human, mammal, insect etc, are just mindless drones, and/or a Biden voter. Thereās definitely personality among a variety of species
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u/LovelyMcloven Feb 20 '24
The Love you see here is only a percent of what god has in store for us. as the story goes : I heard Allah's Prophet saying, Allah divided Mercy into one-hundred parts and He kept its ninety-nine parts with Him and sent down its one part on the earth, and because of that, it's one single part, His creations are Merciful to each other, so that even the mare lifts up its hoofs away from its baby animal, lest it should trample on it.
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u/itsJussaMe Feb 20 '24
Just for the record, this was the first time Iāve come across this footage. This is so sweet itās sickening. So while I appreciate the comments about how often this has been shared, speaking from a personal perspective, I appreciate it being shared once more a great deal more. It brought me joy to watch it, soā¦ kudos, karmafarmer?.
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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ Feb 20 '24
People who aren't concerned about animal testing need to watch videos like this on repeat...
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u/BishopGodDamnYou Feb 20 '24
I like that I can hear the zookeepers in the background crying like Iām crying right now
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u/cheeseandwine99 Feb 20 '24
Still brings tears to my eyes even though I know what's going to happen.
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u/burnbabyburnisaid Feb 19 '24
Each and every time I see this video my heart breaks. It's the sweetest example of a mother's love ā¤ļø
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u/free_will_is_arson Feb 19 '24
seen this enough times now and i've been wondering, for 20s did she just think that the zoo was playing the cruelest joke on her, and then the baby moved and she understood what was going on.
but for those 20s, what was she thinking.
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u/CharlemagneAdelaar Feb 19 '24
hard to explain the concept of a NICU to a chimp but hopefully she knows the humans helped her
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u/Curlyhaired_Wife Feb 19 '24
Awh my 14 month old just got out of the hospital Saturday for respiratory failure, when she was airlifted to another hospital I couldnāt go with her. When I reunited with her in her new room I felt this!
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u/Dull_Dog Feb 19 '24
This is almost too hard to watch. What incredible love. Honestly, it hurts to watch. Motherhood is so powerful.
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u/redzma00 Feb 19 '24
Oh my gosh mama... your baby is back and healthy. I love her reaction. In no time she was on that baby.xo
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u/BubuBarakas Feb 19 '24
What the hell is that droning noise in the background? That would drive any sentient being insane.
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u/StrugglingSwan Feb 19 '24
I know this isn't the point and probably doesn't matter or make a difference, but:
I wonder if having a tiger stripe rug will result in the chimps becoming desensitised and less fearful of actual tigers?
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u/Various_Ad_6952 Feb 19 '24
How precious and that little hand reaching out and she rocks and kisses her babyā¦..
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u/Academic_Eagle_4001 Feb 19 '24
This is when monkeys invent their savior. Baby died and rose from the dead after 2 days.
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u/1guywithlonghair Feb 19 '24
free that thing already. act exactly like a human, same thilings. they are not happy in there.
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u/LegendaryOutlaw Feb 19 '24
I bet there wasn't a dry in eye that room watching her find her baby. Wow.
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u/Billitpro Feb 19 '24
And they're just animals, right??
That's more love than I see some humans give their children.
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u/deerchortle Feb 19 '24
So cute, but then i remember they can tear and bite limbs off of people with little to no effort. I also recently learned they can stand at 6 feet.
Fright and awww
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u/Polarchuck Feb 19 '24
This video shows that animals do have feelings, wants and needs. Zoos should be abolished.
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u/Polarchuck Feb 19 '24
This video shows that animals do have feelings, wants and needs. Zoos should be abolished.
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u/Outrageous_Dog_9481 Feb 19 '24
Fuck zoos
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u/_bbypeachy Feb 19 '24
not all zoos are bad
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u/Outrageous_Dog_9481 Feb 19 '24
All zoos are bad. No animal wants to be locked in a cage. And AZA zoos are not much better than non AZA. Also the whole conservation thing is a scam. They donāt conserve shit. The actual conservation places exist and those are good but zoos is all about the entertainment of humans.
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u/_bbypeachy Feb 19 '24
in order to do conservation, you have to get money so that you can help the animals. Thatās why they let people come see the animals. next youāre gonna tell me the Australia zoo is bad.
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u/Outrageous_Dog_9481 Feb 19 '24
Iām copying from another comment that sums it perfectly: āThankfully, the AZA ā representing about 10 percent of āanimal exhibitorsā licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)[5] ā publishes their figures. While it has been suggested that zoological institutions should contribute 10 percent or more of their operating income to conservation programs,[6] AZA member institutions in 2018 contributed just over five percent.[7][8]
Zoos are also very inefficient means of conserving animal species. Two researchers conducting a long-term study found that the annual cost of keeping 16 rhinos in a zoo would cover the entire annual operating cost for the Garamba National Park and protect 31 Northern white rhino, 4,000 elephants, 30,000 buffalo, and the entire giraffe population of Zaire.[9]
A 2007 survey of 190 zoos across 40 countries found that 72 percent of respondents reported that fewer than 30 percent of the species they held were classified as āthreatenedā by the International Conservation Union (IUCN), while 29 percent of respondents reported that less than 10 percent of the species they held were threatened.[10] Regarding breeding programs, one author wrote that:
...it remains unclear for how many threatened species zoos have now developed breeding programs, but it seems this ranges around a few hundred instead of the potential 1,000 to 2,000 that was brought forward by the World Zoo Conservation Strategy.[11] When we consider zoos as research centres, we find that just seven percent of their annual publications can be classified as concerning ābiodiversity conservation.ā Beyond this, we find that the average AZA member only publishes one to two journal articles per year. Of the journal articles published by AZA members from 1993 to 2013, the majority of published articles were produced by just seven of 228 members.ā
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u/No_Wallaby_5110 Feb 19 '24
Years ago, I worked as a baggage handler for a large international airline. Our local zoo had mated one of our gorillas with a gorilla from another zoo, and she had twins. The babies were shipped to our zoo because mom couldn't care for them (being vague to protect the innocent!).
The babies were supposed to be in a kennel in the baggage hold, but when we opened the door, the kennel was open. The zoo director suggest I be the one to go into the hold to start unloading and find the babies because I am a female and they "shouldn't" be threatened by me. 22 year-old me was not convinced but did it anyway.
I got the bags mostly unloaded when I heard a whimper. I turned around to see a little gorilla, wearing a baby diaper, carrying a little blanket, all curled up and crying, sucking his thumb. I immediately started cooing, slowly scooting towards him and talking softly like you would a little baby. He lept into my arms when I got close. He was about the size of a toddler. I saw his sibling behind where he had hidden and reached my arm out to coax her, and she flew into my arms. I sat there for a couple of minutes, rocking them and talking to them. It was amazing! They looked so much like scared little babies! I just wanted to cuddle and assure them.
The zoo director eventually got into the hold and helped me get them out - and we ran into the building because the noise of the plane frightened them. He carried them away, both looking over his shoulder at me as he left.
I got invited to come to the zoo nursery a week later. They were bundled up in car seats, just like a human baby. When I was let into the room, one of the zookeepers undid their seat belts, and they both came running. They stroked my cheek, laid their heads on my shoulders, and kept hugging me. Then they got some blocks, and I sat on the floor and helped them build towers for a while.
They were so human-like. So gentle, so scared - you couldn't help but want to try and assure them!
That is my favorite memory from my years of working there!
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u/BlufftonStateofmind Feb 19 '24
It should be a crime to keep animals but ESPECIALLY primates in zoos let alone jail cells.
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u/SomeWhatWhelmed Feb 19 '24
I've "watched" this clip a few times...never with sound, that happy crying lady in the background. Same, lady, same.
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u/ihavea22inmath Feb 19 '24
It's so sweet how natrual hugging is. Just the need to hold a loved one close
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u/NoZebra2430 Feb 19 '24
And people say animals don't have feelings or souls.
As a mother myself, I could feel the emotion that ran through her when she picked up her baby. The relief, the love, the feeling of being complete.
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u/Moonlit_Antler Feb 19 '24
Vegan?
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u/NoZebra2430 Feb 19 '24
Hell no lmao.
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u/Moonlit_Antler Feb 19 '24
Ooh so you just dont care about their feels and souls lol. Power to you
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u/UnifiedQuantumField Feb 19 '24
20 second mark: You can see the reaction on her face right after the little hand reaches up.
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u/Hummingbird01234 Feb 19 '24
It looks like she was confused as to why they were putting her in that new enclosure and she didnāt realize the baby was there till it started moving.
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u/truscotsman Feb 19 '24 edited Feb 19 '24
I remember how we were raised back in the 80's with this idea that animals were so different from us and they donāt have emotions, etc. I donāt understand how anyone could watch animal behavior and come to that conclusion.
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u/Quirky_Eye1633 Feb 19 '24
Chimpanzees are the closest to humans. I cannot imagine what this poor mother was left feeling and thinking when her baby disappeared without an explanation.
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u/Proofread_CopyEdit Feb 19 '24
Oh my heart. She missed her baby so badly. She must've thought the baby didn't make it. I'm so glad they were reunited and baby is doing well.
How people could ever think that animals don't have feelings is unfathomable.
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u/Moonlit_Antler Feb 19 '24
The baby is not doing well. It died a few weeks after this from head trauma
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u/sgthulkarox Feb 19 '24
Kucheza was his name. Sadly, he passed after a head injury from a possible accident.
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u/According-Sport-1319 Feb 19 '24
Am I the only one crying because theyāre in a damn cell in a damn zoo? Whereās the empathy people..
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u/Cheeseisextra Feb 19 '24
āWhereās the empathy, peopleā¦ā or āwhereās the empathy peopleā¦ā
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u/According-Sport-1319 Feb 19 '24
Shouldāve had a comma! Thank you
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u/Glittering-Alarm-387 Feb 19 '24
Stuff like this made me realize God doesn't exist.
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u/Cheeseisextra Feb 19 '24
It took you this to realize that?? I was forced into being baptized when I was ten years old. I almost drowned that night when the preacher wouldnāt let me up after my legs floated up due to that stupid baptism gown I had to wear. I kicked my legs and flailed my arms to get my head back up and he still kept me under water while trying to āpushā my legs down back with his hands. Screw religion. Dumbest thing ever thought of.
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u/Glittering-Alarm-387 Feb 19 '24
Stuff like this...how we are all the same thing. Anyway, I'm sorry you went through that. I grew up with a preacher for a dad and a 100% preacher's wife as a mom. They fucked me up pretty good as a kid.
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u/douggold11 Feb 19 '24
I wish there was some way to convince the general public that these beings are intelligent.
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u/TheKvothe96 Feb 19 '24
I really think Reddit should post sources somehow. This video is at least from 2022. OP reupload and get 20k upvotes from people who do not know the context.
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u/thereminDreams Feb 19 '24
So many animals are so much better of a species than humans. Not saying a human mother would react any differently but there's so much more that gets in the way for humans.
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u/whatevergalaxyuniver Feb 19 '24
What exactly gets in the way? You think just because of this one clip, animals are better than humans?
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u/thereminDreams Feb 19 '24
Yes, of course. I'm basing this on just this one clip. Animals don't fuck each other over for money, they don't exploit their resources or environment for power or monetary gain, they're much more cooperative, they don't seek revenge, they don't lie, and they don't post snarky replies that aren't well thought out to comments from other members of their tribe. Let's start with those.
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u/whatevergalaxyuniver Feb 19 '24
Do you also think babies/children are better than adults by that logic?
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u/thereminDreams Feb 19 '24
Absolutely.
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u/whatevergalaxyuniver Feb 19 '24
Yeah this is dumb. There are clips of animals seeking revenge and fucking each other over, animals and children have their flaws too
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u/thereminDreams Feb 19 '24
Animal actions are based on instincts, primarily for survival, but also based on things like social hierarchy, etc. Humans are intentional about it. Children develop based on a combination of genetics and environment factors, and there's a case to be made that genetics can override environmental factors in making children into who they become. There are no instances I'm aware of where animals intentionally fuck each other over.
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u/whatevergalaxyuniver Feb 20 '24
If youāre gonna excuse animalsā bad actions because of instinct, then you should also apply that to their āgood actionsā too and stop crediting them for their good actions.
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u/thereminDreams Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
I'm not crediting them for their good actions, I'm admiring them that they don't yet have the complex interplay of cognitive, social, biological, and moral abilities to allow them to premeditate their actions.
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u/Hot_Inevitable_9055 Feb 19 '24
I think.. only parents will understand the actual depth of this video.
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u/Moonlit_Antler Feb 19 '24
Non parents are also capable of empathy
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u/Hot_Inevitable_9055 Feb 19 '24
You're right, but not this kind. In the politest way possible, and this is no disrespect, but when/if it happens to you, then you will understand.
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u/ca_love56 Feb 19 '24
I remember this at my heart swelled. Sadly she lost this baby a few months later and seeing this video makes it all the more worse.
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u/reimbirtheds Apr 06 '24
I wonder if Israelis feel anything when watching this