You know what they say, monkey see, monkey do.
But in this case it should be monkey shouldn’t.
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Recently a viral video of a chimpanzee using Instagram like a pro has surface.
In the video posted by twitter user @ Andrew Bloch we get to see the chimpanzee scrolling
through Instagram, examining photos and videos of itself as well as other adorable animals,
just like humans do when we’re bored.
Although a vast majority of people find this video adorable a few are conflicted with it.
What happens when the chimp learns how to read, write and hit up the comment section,
will they slide into DMs or leave you on read?
What aesthetic will they have?
WHAT FILTERS WILL THEY USE?!?!
Before you go down this spiral of curious questions, we gotta stop you right there,
because a chimp using Instagram is actually really bad says Prima-Tologists.
Dr. Ashley N. Edes tweeted “I don’t know the context behind this video but from the
background, it looks like this ape is likely a pet.
#PrimatesAreNotPets” she continued on by saying “Research has shown that sharing
images & videos like this fuels the exotic pet trade, which we never want to encourage.
Animals in the pet trade experience horrific conditions & struggle when they’re eventually
surrendered.”
So I for one found this video very cute and funny but after hearing what Dr. Ashley N
Edes had to say I totally understand how this helps to encourage the illegal pet trade.
The Jane Goodall Institute released a statement saying
“This is an awful portrayal of a captive live juvenile chimpanzee”
"The behavior demonstrated would not be considered a natural behavior for wild infant chimpanzees.
Play and tool use, as Dr. Goodall discovered, is common in chimpanzees – but in the case
of chimpanzees in inappropriate captive environments being introduced to behaviors they would not
typically demonstrate, there is a large amount of research around how that may cause detrimental
long-term effects to the individual animal."
Jane Goodall, an extremely well known and respect prima-tologist and anthropologist
pleaded for people to stop distributing this video on social media.
She said "Portraying chimpanzees in this way on social media [perpetuates] the illegal
pet trade in great apes, and as they cannot be domesticated, interactions with humans
as displayed by this video are highly dangerous, as well as harmful to the well-being of the
chimpanzee."
Keeping chimps as pets has been shown in the past to be extremely dangerous with several
chimp pet owners loosing fingers and getting serve damage to their faces due to the Chimpanzee
not being in proper care.
How do you feel about this video?
Let me know in the comment section below!
Speaking of comments it’s time for me to reply to some comments from my first video
“James Charles Forced To Apologize For Outrageous Tour Ticket Prices”
Pic-i-um one hundred says “Sipping soda... so whose the new guy”
Mikael Melo, I think I said it in the beginning of the video, but my name is Mikael Melo,
hello.
The De Sean Allen said “This new guy is about to get roasted”
As long as all the burns turn into a nice tan later then I think we’ll be good.
Cookie Monster Colton wrote “Am I the only one who realizes that the host for this video
sounds like Neville from iCarly” You’ll rue the day you said that, YOU’LL
RUE IT Wink
Little Rock Girls said “who else watches all the way to the end of the video waiting
for your comment to show up and it doesn,t” It was my first video!
I didn’t have any comments to respond to, but I hope this makes it up to you!
And last but not least we have Amy Johnson who said “I think the new guy did a good
job for his 1st time out” THANK YOU AMY, YOU A REAL ONE!
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