AMAZING!! Smart Chimpanzee Start Fire with LIGHTER & Put Out Fire....

[lightonhands]

Secretly planning his escape. Gotta learn as much as possible

[Moriachik]

He's an intelligent Ape, but I get the feeling that it's not intelligence so much as memory/ repetition that he's using.

That, and I'm pretty sure it's hard for any normal Chimpanzee to chance across a lighter and learn how to use it like it was intended. I'd be pretty impressed if any chimp anywhere could make a fire without some kind of training or human tools.

[Rawentron]

i bet that lady one will wake up burning

[miguetohme]

Asi nos habran enseñado los extraterrestres a nosotros? jajaja

[demanpunk]

he didn't pick up the empty bottle...

[soberek]

It's about time the monkey would spank us...

[LuigisVid]

3 years after. !!Welcome to the Planet of the Apes¡¡¡

[slypjOGh00dnigga]

Some chimps just want to watch the world burn.......

[habretumente]

SI LA MUJER SE CREE INTELIGENTE POR QUE NO ELLA APRENDE EL LENGUAJE DE LOS MONOS. ADEMAS EL POBRE MONO ESTA AMARRADO SIN LIBERTAD.

[MrTellysavalas]

That fire was still smoking when they walked away. Way to start a wildfire, *Kanzi*

[Colonel3012]

Yes...perfect....this is what the World needs.....fire starting monkeys. Turn him loose with a 5 gallon can of gasoline and a book of matches, and please, for the love of Christ, get that video on Youtube...!

[brotherbandit]

technically, Kanzi cheated. He learned by watching a documentary about the our own taming of fire.

[rumores100]

Oh my GOD......... THE APE PLANET IS COMING IS COMING

[0001musicman]

It's a bonobo not a chimp u moron(s)

[Cao13]

that's cheating. We started with two sticks and lot of friction, this bastard got the thing pretty much done already. "click and add some logs".

[Gryffster]

AND he left his rucksack behind

[daniau]

wwoooow...Impressive.

[godhasdied]

¿Señora por que dejan la botella del agua?

[JMcH]

lol! So the chimp is given a MANUFACTURED LIGHTER (one that requires the user just to push the button), is allowed to play around with it, discovers that the button moves and causes something to happen, watches the human put the sticks on the fire, is directed by the human to do certain things, and suddenly... "EVOLUTION IS PROVEN!" Take the human out of the equation and see what a chimp does with the lighter.

[ByTheBeardOfZeus001]

@JMcH I think one of the most important things here is that he is not afraid of the fire, like most other animals, and is fascinated with it. It at least presents a plausible scenario for our ancestors acquiring fire (we need to first not be deathly afraid of it) and being fascinated when it gets started in nature (potentially from lightning strikes). Enough so that they would be motivated to transfer and tend to the flames.

[JMcH]

@ByTheBeardOfZeus001 - He's not afraid of the fire because he doesn't know what it can do to him. Good gosh! There's a human there who is helping him! Remove the human and you will eventually see him stick is bloody paw in the fire and learn to fear it.

[Rampant7990]

@JMcH If you actually think he hasn't felt the heat, or been burned by fire before , you're on dope. Moron.

[JMcH]

@Rampant7990 - Feeling heat doesn't make someone afraid of fire and actually, yes, I seriously doubt he's been burned as he has a human there directing every single one of his actions.

[Rampant7990]

@JMcH He's not afraid, because he is intelligent enough to learn what fire is, what it does, etc.

[JMcH]

@Rampant7990 If you actually think he's smart enough to learn what fire is and what it does, you're on dope. Moron.

[gaijinlaw]

@JMcH What, and I'm seriously asking here, does this have to do with evolution?

No one in the video or the comments mentioned evolution. YOU brought it up.

What we're looking at is fascinating and previously unseen behavior in Pan paniscus. It has bugger all to do with descent with modification via changes in allelic frequency in a population.

[JMcH]

@gaijinlaw - Sure it doesn't. Keep telling yourself that.

[gaijinlaw]

@JMcH No. YOU made the assertion. Back it up. What does this have to do with evolution?

[JMcH]

@gaijinlaw - According to evolutionary theory, what drives genes being passed down, my friend? Survival. If you survive, you can pass on your genes. What can ensure survival? Better food, better water, better skills, better knowledge and understanding, better tools, etc. Learning to use fire increases survival and thus helps drive the passing of genes. According to evolutionary theory.

[ustickx]

Lol. She exaggerates what she thinks he can do or think, but he was pretty cool. I didn't realise bonobos looked quite so human!

[yanisequeponer]

¿Cual de los dos es el chimpance? XD

[CaUcAsIoNhIsPaNic]

I want a monkey friend... ):

[apolosjp]

She deserves to be punished for this crime, let bound her to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day!!!!!!!!

[daoh1128]

Ape's planet come on here!

[keitarosebas]

OH! jaja, it prove everything about our past and how the monkeys could learn some human activity and do it, so amazing dude!

Thumbs up for DarwinxNature xD

[MrAshleySheridan]

Have to object to the description, chimps aren't as smart as humans, maybe just this woman who fails at grammar and basic sentance structure. A child of 7 could do better.

[Rarae192]

@MrAshleySheridan I think it was a self-comparative.

[mordinvan]

@MrAshleySheridan

"basic sentance structure" you say?

How's she do at spelling?

[ByTheBeardOfZeus001]

Wasn't there a series of documentaries with Charlton Heston in it that warned us of this day?

[NoDeity]

Bonobo. Not the same as a chimpanzee.

[lennypop]

Alguien olvidó enseñarle a esta señora sobre disposición de basuras!

[RuloisHot]

que inteligente

[CrazyAl1991]

this is amazing

[lemike321]

leave a fire with half water over it... and start a brush fire.....

poor cameraman... he prob had to be the one to extinguish the fire properly!

[benetx]

Damn, I don't know what's worse, the video or the comments.

Obviously the monkey was trained for a long time by a "reward system" like you do with a stupid dog. The monkey even looks very old, very familiarized with humans and with no sign of wild instinct. Human understood the "need of heat" and how fire works, the very first times he just used to find it and keep it as a torch, to start a fire was a matter of learning. This is something the stupid animal will never do.

Dislike.

[TheUlisesFreedom]

@benetx Ok, you need to understand this is a beggining, the human race don't understand everything from the very start, they need to learn by himself, what's happening here is what humans had to do, but with some help from another specie, he's been trained, and the descendents will be trained too, and as the evolution says, someday they will learn the how and the why of the fire. the evolution takes time, don't be a closed mind and don't call stupid to the animal... Greetings from México

[pastormaker1]

@benetx I don't know which is more laughable-your claim to special knowledge of the way in which this "stupid" bonobo learned to make fires, or your sad ignorance of the fact that bonobos aren't "monkeys".

[TIPinkUnicorn]

Somehow I have the feeling that this will end badly. Have you seen the documentary "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

[PuttingOnTheFoil]

Yes, he learned this all on his own with absolutely NO encouragement from ANYBODY. Well alright, maybe a little, but he did pick up calculus completely on his own.

[jeffdee]

Next thing you know, they'll be fixing carburetors and playing tabletop role-playing games! Do a search for Cavemaster on Kickstarter :)

[DannyInCanada]

You really should have made sure that the fire was *properly* out before leaving. But still: absolutely amazing.

[Rashidalq]

NO! THIS WAS THE ONE ADVANTAGE WE HAD! You, lady, have just become Prometheus to the race of Chimps!

[soangry]

They taught a primate to set fires. This can only end badly... I mean hilariously.

[CAESARbonds]

@soangry

planet of the apes becomes reality.

[Leelyn05]

that is a bonobo

[randomactoffun23]

@Leelyn05

Well observed! You get a cookie!

[Leelyn05]

@randomactoffun23 are you being a smartass?

[Sammeroo]

@Leelyn05 Chimpanzee is a distinction that can include all members of the genus Pan, which includes bonobos (pan paniscus) and common chimpanzees (pan troglodytes).

THE MOAR U KNO...

[Leelyn05]

It is still a Bonobo not a Chimpanzee,Thank-You!!