and chanting noises of course we're talking about  monkeys they are one of the most intelligent  

beings on earth and share more than 98 of their  genes with humans monkeys being our evolutionary  

forefathers explains why humans can sometimes act  like monkeys but it's always more interesting to  

see monkeys exhibiting human behavior here are  10 times monkeys acted like humans keep watching  

till the very end as you will not believe what  that monkey did number ten orangutan asking for  

a banana is it just me or orangutans the wise  chubby big friends of the forest who don't say  

much but are the smartest ones to take advice  from no just me anyways in our first video we  

have our friend the orangutan communicating in the  language of the gods his clever hand gestures are  

eerily similar to what humans do when they ask for  something he gestures the human across the gap to  

hand over the banana although it looks more like  he's the king asking for what the visitors have  

brought for his highness his majesty also appears  to be very sophisticated as he doesn't litter in  

his cage and promptly returns the peel however  what happens afterwards is proper human behavior  

when our giant orange friend finds out the treats  are over it makes its disappointment properly  

known to his human visitor by hurling rocks at  him or maybe it was just returning the favor  

with rocks number nine monkey scrolling through  social media like a boss the internet is currently  

in love with the video of a chimpanzee scrolling  through an instagram feed because we love when  

animals do things that humans do do you think  a monkey can use a touchscreen smartphone well  

this one can a chimpanzee can be seen operating a  mobile phone with astounding confidence he scrolls  

through his human friends instagram feed and  gallery casually pausing to see videos and photos  

he probably has faster technology learning than  most boomers as he opens his owner's gallery he  

stumbles upon a video of himself with his owner  when he was younger you can see the chimp takes  

a pause to watch the complete video he seems a  bit nostalgic leaving us with a few questions  

do you think monkeys are as smart as we  are let us know in the comments down below  

number eight monkey uses a vending machine in  this video an adorable capuchin is seen trying  

to use a vending machine the little guy excitedly  climbs aboard the stool to access the coin outlet  

he dually feeds the vending machine two coins  the next part is the most relatable the monkey  

is clearly in the mood for a drink and he needs  a fast he resorts to instinctive slapping as the  

machine tests his patience finally after a few  seconds of corrective punishment the machine  

gives up and the capuchin gets his fresh drink  did you know that monkeys understand barter  

trade this explains the capuchin's confidence the  takeaway message from this video is twofold one  

never be afraid to try to learn and two  everything is fair in love for liquor number seven  

monkey owns the ping pong game if you played  ping pong before you know how much practice it  

takes to really hit it off with the game well  this monkey appears to be geared up for a game  

with a human competitor the monkey starts  off well scoring a point in the beginning  

the human was not playing exquisitely well but  we give the monkey credit he knows the game he  

knows the moves the ape is confident as he doesn't  budge from his position and plays on the offensive  

it goes on to show that with good practice nothing  is impossible even playing mini tennis with a  

different advanced species my pick for today  is probably the most artistic monkey out there

that being number six brent

brent is a chimpanzee who retired from the  entertainment industry and medical research unlike  

other retired chimps brent has a hidden talent to  put it into perspective he is the picasso of the  

ape world he lives in louisiana in a sanctuary  called chimp haven where he spends most of his  

time playing with colors and painting brent is no  ordinary painter either he has a peculiar style  

of painting where he uses his tongue to color the  canvas his artistic talent has won him many prizes  

including a ten thousand dollar prize in 2013 at  the age of 39. not only does this chimp live the  

dream but his dream earns his fellow brothers  a sustained sanctuary truly wholesome isn't it  

number five monkey fires an ak-47 this clip gives  a whole new concept to guerrilla warfare the video  

shows a group of armed african soldiers goofing  around with an ape until one of them thinks it'd  

be a good idea to hand the ape a loaded weapon in  a sassy move that takes the soldiers by surprise  

the ape starts firing the ak the ape seems pretty  confident in operating the soviet assault rifle  

as he takes control of the situation on the ground  the burst of bullets from the rifle makes the  

soldiers jump here and there who is the monkey now  if you're a fan of the planet of the apes series  

you must be having a blast watching this one more  unexpectedly the power pose at the end makes you  

cheer for the clever monkey number four or sultan  appropriately named for his personality sultan  

which means leader in urdu was a chimpanzee  used in psychological experiments by the late  

psychologist kohler sultan and his teammates  were used in a series of experiments designed  

to find out the approach monkey brains takes  while solving problems up until then monkeys  

were believed to learn only from trial and error  strategy sultan helped kohler prove otherwise as  

his advanced problem-solving strategies dazzled  his experimenters in one experiment sultan piled  

up crates lying around and used a stick to get a  hold of bananas hanging from the ceiling although  

his peers showed similar results sultan's almost  human-like thinking impressed kohler the most  

here's a trophy for making it this far in the  video number three austin the monkey genius  

in the 1970s scientists in the u.s performed  various language and cognition based tests as  

part of the lana project austin was part of  the later experiments designed to understand  

the social function of language he was one of the  pair of pygmy chimpanzees the experiment was being  

conducted on the other being his buddy sherman the  two chimps reportedly understood spoken english  

and used abstract code to communicate with  each other how cool is that william hopkins  

a primatologist said that austin was one  of the smartest chimps he'd come across  

if you're an ape fan and you know about  the monkey who used a computer screen and  

a flashlight to explore his mouth yes that was  austin number two kanzi the linguist chimp kanzi  

is a chimp who was part of the great ape language  experiment according to one primatologist he  

had an exceptional language aptitude kanti  was reported to have a vocabulary of 5 000  

words and usually used around 500. the unique  thing about kanzi is that he was the young when  

he was brought into the lab with his mother not  only that he learned to use words as a third party  

from the trials on her mother kanzi was capable  of mimicking human sounds and expressions  

but he usually used his keyboard to communicate  on a more interesting note kanzi was seen and  

photographed roasting marshmallows a great way  to link humans and monkeys he was also reported  

to deliver sarcastic and interjecting expressions  indicating the effect of language comprehension  

from a young age could a chimp be any smarter  you'll find out later in this video number one  

congo you know someone has a mad talent when pablo  picasso is a fan of their work like brent congo  

was a chimp with a passion to paint unlike brent  however congo was young when he was first handed  

a paintbrush congo is said to have painted with  a definite understanding of symmetry and depth  

his strokes were confident and deliberate and he  possessed a unique taste for compositions and mixe  

within two years of being handed a paintbrush  congo painted a whopping 400 paintings some  

of these painting considered abstract art were  more popular at auctions than artworks by renoir  

one of these painting hangs in the studio  picasso representing his admiration for his chimp  

contemporary congo left us at the age of 10  due to tuberculosis we can only imagine the  

height he would have achieved in the world of  art if he had lived on thank you for watching  

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