it's unbelievable that he remembers such things, but they are traumatic. I guess what i mean to say is how humans and great apes are really not that far apart. remarkable!
@SloveintzWend Yes, but my point was that Humans tend to degrade on such beautiful animals saying that they are aggressive, stupid, monsters. Which brings to the question you just read...
Michael's recounting of that awful story brought tears to my eyes... It is so horrible that he had to remember that event. What an incredible creature.
@TheN1ghtR4p1st Actually, tons of people every day work on finding the potential of animals, and the sad truth is that most studies show that, while animals may behave intelligently, they don't really reason but copy or use instincts. Sure, some animals are smarter and some can do surprising amounts of stuff, but animals like Koko are exceptions - like we have Einsteins, there's often animals that stick out and with proper training can surprise us.
@TheN1ghtR4p1st very wise statement, this creatures are so amazingly smart, super strong and at the same time so gentile and loving. it is sad to see what man does to them.
@DavidFiveThirteen It is hard to know if he was not trained to tell that story. The same thing they do with children that go to psychologist. They will teach the kid any story they want, and the kid will tell the made up story like it is the truth.
@coffeefish most of the talking in psychotherapy is done by the person who is undergoing it, thats why it feels awkward when they never say anything and your just sitting on the chair reflecting, theyre trying to make you think about your own life and correct your own problems.
Wow. Michael was a fine figure of a gorilla. What a handsome chap! Male model material surely. (at 1.37 the image there is a veritable calendar pinup..as are the subsequent ones)
How sad. Why did he die so young?
I have the contact for a woman here in the UK who is on the selection panel for a programme in Cameroon that looks after orphaned gorillas. My dream is to go one day... (if they haven't been made extinct by the inhumane practices that go on!)
I was fortunate enough to meet Michael in 1972 and the experience has stayed with me ever since. After some initial hesitation on my part, we finally broke the ice after 6 days. He asked me if I lived locally and I told him not really, I had to take a train. It turned out he lived in Wandsworth but cycled in. We spoke about football and what a great bunch the marketing team was. Surface stuff, you know, but he made me feel welcome and involved me in the tea run. Top guy and a solid colleague.
@TheN1ghtR4p1st Yes but we always look for life on other planets so we have a better understanding of the universe, apes can't exactly open up books on astronomy or such. Apes have been around for a long time, look at us we evolved into being able to create youtube, apes have not. They are intelligent, but not more intelligent than us so whats the point. We need to find intelligence beyond ours.
@TheN1ghtR4p1st such a true comment, im trying to say that to my friends but theyre like ''who gives a fuck humans are the smartest anyways'' i wanna punch them so hard when they say such ignorant like that.
Animals have their own innate intelligence different than, but not inferior to humans. How arrogant to claim the deficits in animal intelligence make them dumb, when the deficits in human intelligence are destroying the planet.
I'm all for admitting these apes can be intelligent, at least intelligent for an ape, but what worries me is when people start to act as if they are human, and are no longe dangerous animals purely because they are smarter than the average animal. Some people almost sound like they want them to be classified as human and allowed to live among us, it's at that point you have to bring them down a notch into reality.
@The505Guys the hell is wrong with you. No one said that they wanted them at the same status as us. These people taught him sign language. That's no where close to where we are. By taking them down a notch, I hope you don't me killing them. There a endangered specie.
You've never heard the expression 'taking someone down a notch'? It means getting them off their high horse to to speak...
As for you claiming 'no one said they wanted them to have the same status as us', well I'm amazed you've read every single post from everyone in the world regarding apes, but there are people out there who have views on them that are extreme and sometimes bordering on the worrying, it's just a fact, no need to attack me for god's sake.
@The505Guys Well those people are those crazy pet people who think dogs are close related to us. Apes are awesome but they have potential and people are just trying to find what that is.
Michael's mother would be so proud of him if she could have seen where he went in life. I wonder if anyone ever told michael that. I certainly hope so.
@TheN1ghtR4p1st new caladonian crows have a language as sofisticate as our own. they can also create basic tools and pick locks. i dare say their smarter then most of the catholic church.
Such beautiful art he created! And such sadness when he recounted his mother's death. It really makes you take a step back and think of the needs of other species on the planet. They're not just "animals", they have minds and feelings and needs as any human has.
and people say that gorillas and apes are nothing like humans...if thats true...how is it that they can be taught things like signing and communication skills?
i believe that there is more human things about a gorilla than we know...
I don't accept this. They just gave the gorilla some paint and brushes. For me, if the animal wants art, it will made their own, it will find a way to express itself. In this way, it is artificial.
@ELSOL102 not really, the human children have natural desire for painting or recreating the world, the animals doesn't have such desire, if they had they would do this. Of course it is all connected with the society, with the family...For example I took by myself some paint tools and paint all over the walls...hahaha...
@dancergirl3131 No you can't accept the fact that people are using the full potential of an Apes mind. Monkeys aren't just Monkeys, they are mammals, humans are mammals as well, we are no different, our minds are just smarter.
@Caeseur Actually, it does. Due to us being on the top of the food chain, we can do whatever we want, to whomever we want, without any real consequences. Wiping out every gorilla on earth wouldn't affect us at all.
Just because we are at the top of the food chain doesn't mean that we don't rely on other animals to survive. We may not be directly affected by every gorilla dying, but you'd be a fool to think that there wouldn't be consequences somewhere down the line for us.
Thanks, good reply. We are a young species with short lives. We make rash statements thinking we are above the destruction we cause. We can continue to kill off other creatures, wrongly thinking we were given this authority divinely or whatever, and suffer a profound spiritual death. What is a world worth without a wilderness that makes us feel small and part of a greater whole?
@Dimak666 Actually, due to us being at the top of the food chain, we NEED EVERY LINK UNDER US TO SURVIVE. Did you have biology in middle school? Since we can do whatever we want, why don't you try destroying every plant on earth and see how long it takes for us to die out. Newsflash: we aren't autotrophs, we need other organisms not only for food, but for air as well. Just like your body maintains homeostasis, the food chain does the same for the environment. DUH.
@cocoisloco0623 Until gorillas start producing oxygen or are considered to be a crucial source of food, I can safely say that we don't depend on them. Perhaps you're the one who should attend a biology class.
@Dimak666 But what he's trying to say it that Gorilla's my help spread seeds to plants that give oxygen and they might eat plants that would otherwise take over and kill off all the others. The ecosystem is very delicate. Every animal has a roll to play and when one goes extinct everything goes haywire.
@JDV9308 Are you serious? Do you really think that if gorillas disappear, the whole ecosystem would collapse, due to them not spreading the seeds? That's very implausible, to say the least.
@Dimak666 Did you miss the part where he signed that his mom was killed for meat? I'm not a retard, I know gorillas don't produce oxygen. Not once did I say that Gorillas produce oxygen. I simply said that WE AREN'T AUTOTROPHS just to prove that we depend on other organisms for survival. You may not eat gorillas, but some people do in fact eat them, just like some people eat dog or cat. I'm pretty sure wiping out an entire species would affect somebody somewhere.
@Tyme2Die CONTINUED for dbl. post. "however Ive yet to interact".... with any species that Broadcasts horride stupidity.(in regard to Dimak666) humans ONLY THING TO endange them& most other animals..Question WHY the fooook would anyone wantNO be able to kill any animal unlessPERHAPSstarving.in that case i pick fish i hear they may not have pain receptors Idk. WE ARE ANIMALS period develope your tiny disgusting minds plz!!& HURRY up.I feel as if i was born 3,000 yrsORmore to early to even enctnr
@Tyme2Die CONTINUED for dbl. post. "however Ive yet to interact".... with any species that Broadcasts horride stupidity.(in regard to Dimak666) humans ONLY THING TO endange them& most other animals..Question WHY the fooook would anyone wantNO be able to kill any animal unlessPERHAPSstarving.in that case i pick fish i hear they may not have pain receptors Idk. WE ARE ANIMALS period develope your tiny disgusting minds plz!!&HURRY it would seem, i was born 3,000 yrsORmore to early to even enctnr
@Tyme2Die CONTINUED for dbl. post. "however Ive yet to interact".... with any species that Broadcasts horride stupidity.(in regard to Dimak666) humans ONLY THING TO endange them& most other animals..Question WHY the fooook would anyone wantNO be able to kill any animal unlessPERHAPSstarving.in that case i pick fish i hear they may not have pain receptors Idk. WE ARE ANIMALS period develope your tiny disgusting minds plz!!&HURRY it would seem, i was born 3,000 yrsORmore to early to even enctnr.
@Tyme2Die tytyty so much for that comment bsd300d is another example of human ignorance disease, as I sometimes call it. Dogs cats....ALL animals or creatures communicate and have such deep expressions body language etc. I enjoy so much interaction with other species. I speak a couple languages but even if i knew them all i would run into the worldwide disease of ignorance\hate& don't forget INSECURITY at every corner of the planet. However i have yet to communicate with any speciesContNxtpost
@Tyme2Die tytyty so much for that comment bsd300d is another example of human ignorance disease, as I sometimes call it. Dogs cats....ALL animals or creatures communicate and have such deep expressions body language etc. I enjoy so much interaction with other species. I speak a couple languages but even if i knew them all i would run into the worldwide disease of ignorance\hate& don't forget INSECURITY at every corner of the planet. However i have yet to communicate with any speciesContNxtpst
I'm amazed that he remembered something that most likely happened before he was a year and a half old. But it must have been tramatizing, so maybe that's why he remembered it.
@JaymiLei because we are not animals nor do we share an overwhelming amount of genetic and physiologic homology with animals especially the apes. (sarcasm) Of course they have thoughts and emotions, you think that complex could evolve in such a short evolutionary age as the human mind? not likely
@duncanish44 Firstly, do not talk to me like I am simple. I am in the medical field and have a pretty good handling on the genetic similarities between humans and other primates, thanks. What I meant was that I wasn't aware Michael (and other apes) have emotions that are similar to humans, rather than purely survival instincts and nothing more. You should probably just let people enjoy this video and the wonder of this animal instead of ridiculing people's comments.
@JaymiLei because we are not animals nor do we share an overwhelming amount of genetic and physiologic homology with animals especially the apes. (sarcasm) Of course they have thoughts and emotions, you think that something thatcomplex could evolve in such a short evolutionary age as the human mind? not likely
@JaymiLei because we are not animals nor do we share an overwhelming amount of genetic and physiologic homology with animals especially the apes. (sarcasm) Of course they have thoughts and emotions, you think that something thatcomplex could evolve in such a short evolutionary age as the human mind? not likely. Sorry about the Sarcasm I do agree with general statement but "the more than we ever thought" was too much.
@JaymiLei They are more humane than we are ; Elephants have this wierd thing when someone dies they visist them every year at the place they died in ... We forget whoever dies .
@JaymiLei thats completley untrue, i wouldnt call a smart gorilla humane, humanes are the cuase of many animals extincion, its our faults that we cut down trees, make coats out of their skins, and hunt animals just for the hell of it. Do not call an animal humane, an animal is better than humane
@itta320 First, before you start talking to me as if I'm condoning animal cruelty and the destruction of the environment you might want to learn how to spell HUMAN correctly. Secondly I said that gorilla's emotional capacity is human-like, not that they are acting like humans. AND just for your information I am a member of PETA and a vegetarian so maybe you shouldn't make assumptions about people you don't know, and a comment that makes no sense.
@JaymiLei first of all im not american so im not obligated to know your language 100%, secondly i wasn't implying anything about what you do, all i said that comparing human* to gorilla, that gorillas are not destructive like humans are. that is all, so there is no reason for you to be offended, your just looking for an argument
i can't believe micheal died leaving koko alone and no friends
ThePball3r 4 days ago
"And his dog"
Yeah right. Doesn't look anything like a dog
*They bright a photograph to the picture*
HOLY CRAP was I wrong.
Treviath 5 days ago
well if guerillas get proud of there children im pretty sure michaels mother would be very proud of how brilliant michael is.
SaNtOsLeOsTv 5 days ago
So the dude out the green mile died? that so sad.
rockandstroll 6 days ago
@rockandstroll that so sad me now cry.
BrickVsJaw 3 days ago
it's unbelievable that he remembers such things, but they are traumatic. I guess what i mean to say is how humans and great apes are really not that far apart. remarkable!
caridyer13 1 week ago
He looks badass. Apes are tough. Real tough.
Is sad that he had to tell us that part of his history.
Whatever. I think we all know deep down that we share a bond with apes.
gukonni 1 week ago
Koko is fat as fuck... Micheal is awesome
Whyyousuchadumbbutt 2 weeks ago
this is crap
WHlTEDEVlL 2 weeks ago
Why am I on this video lol
Gl0veCompartment 1 month ago
@Gl0veCompartment why are you?
jimbobhk2009 4 weeks ago
Can Koko teach other gorilla sign language?
InfiniBox 1 month ago
Michael will be miss love you Michael
Gaopk 2 months ago
I keep seeing the same question, "How did Michael die?" So I looked it up and found he died of a heart attack.
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He probably died from a broken heart...
farronx 2 weeks ago
This is why I'm a vegetarian.
Robangledorf 2 months ago
@Robangledorf but murder adds to the flavor
TJ5897 1 month ago
@TJ5897
heartless.
SkemeKOS 4 weeks ago
@Robangledorf
This is why I am not a vegetarian. I only eat sentient beings. To gain their power,
EntrophyZone 1 month ago
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@EntrophyZone
heartless.
SkemeKOS 4 weeks ago
why do the allways say polite
prophetsofpenance 2 months ago
wow never knew Gorillas can paint
coolroblox09 2 months ago
how did he die? i dont think any species of animal should be put through this. they need to show these videos to the pouchers.
JordanGuitar11 2 months ago
He's got some nice pecs. Wish mine were as big.
PoopyThumb 2 months ago
poor Michael. At least when.he lived his last years with the scientist who taught him sign language, he was loved and cared for. :(
mariesadler 2 months ago 2
Its amazing that Koko could understand the poachers wanted his mother for meat
HToothrot 2 months ago
@HToothrot thats Michael not Koko.
JordanGuitar11 2 months ago
It brings us to the true and bitter question... Who is really the true Gorilla?
mybuttlookslikeurfac 2 months ago
@mybuttlookslikeurfac No basically we're all apes.
SloveintzWend 2 months ago
@SloveintzWend Yes, but my point was that Humans tend to degrade on such beautiful animals saying that they are aggressive, stupid, monsters. Which brings to the question you just read...
mybuttlookslikeurfac 2 months ago
What amazing gifts life gives! And to think that these beautiful creatures are only 2 chromosomes different than us!
FieryLeo13 3 months ago
thats a shame. his art was beautiful.
Funnyfish66 3 months ago
how did he died he was younger than koko
regil93 3 months ago
Michael's recounting of that awful story brought tears to my eyes... It is so horrible that he had to remember that event. What an incredible creature.
threadbarecomedy 3 months ago
@TheN1ghtR4p1st Humans are not intelligent, Einstein was, the rest of us ....no
:-/
twistedbass15 3 months ago 2
@twistedbass15 ...that comment right there was just ignorant/unintelligent by saying no other humans are intelligent...shows what u think of urself
austincox23 3 months ago
@austincox23 I see things for what they are not what i want them to be, just look at the human race. I don't see intelligence :-D
twistedbass15 3 months ago
@twistedbass15 I do, but to each their own i suppose
austincox23 3 months ago
@TheN1ghtR4p1st Actually, tons of people every day work on finding the potential of animals, and the sad truth is that most studies show that, while animals may behave intelligently, they don't really reason but copy or use instincts. Sure, some animals are smarter and some can do surprising amounts of stuff, but animals like Koko are exceptions - like we have Einsteins, there's often animals that stick out and with proper training can surprise us.
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Animals still should rule this planet. We are just one big frickin parasite.
MrBeekzz 3 months ago
this is incredible
spaggetieboy 3 months ago
dumpert !
rapidekasper 3 months ago 29
can all gorilla's learn sign language if we teach them?
kitty16226 3 months ago
cut like rambo.
sammcneil20 3 months ago
wow i bet that mofocka works out every day
DallasGreen123 3 months ago
@TheN1ghtR4p1st very wise statement, this creatures are so amazingly smart, super strong and at the same time so gentile and loving. it is sad to see what man does to them.
chris03653837 3 months ago
for some reason the idea of Michael describing what happened in the past is amazing.
knivesthe 3 months ago
Michael was jacked
Dragonlacrosse07 3 months ago
wow that flower painting is incredible
drskltl 3 months ago
Michael is not a man of few words, Michael is a Gorilla.
danpt2000 4 months ago
lol MICHAEL IS A BETTER ARTIST THEN ME! I love him and Ko Ko.
TheAdventuresOfUs37 4 months ago
@TheN1ghtR4p1st We do, we just haven't found any civilized animals around us yet.
Sonofsweetness 4 months ago
these animals are the future of our planet, one of our evolutionary jobs as a species was to help them follow our footsteps.
TheTrenchface 4 months ago
omg that makes me SO sad to see him have those bad memories! who knew they remember these things!!
DavidFiveThirteen 4 months ago 34
@DavidFiveThirteen brought a lump to my throat too.
VinnyMonster1 3 months ago
@DavidFiveThirteen Shouldn't you be all like poaching is bad, instead of oh the memories?
AureoFox 3 months ago
@AureoFox indeed, poaching is bad. and the trauma imprinted on the minds of animals like Michael is bad as well.
DavidFiveThirteen 2 months ago
@DavidFiveThirteen It is hard to know if he was not trained to tell that story. The same thing they do with children that go to psychologist. They will teach the kid any story they want, and the kid will tell the made up story like it is the truth.
coffeefish 2 months ago
@coffeefish most of the talking in psychotherapy is done by the person who is undergoing it, thats why it feels awkward when they never say anything and your just sitting on the chair reflecting, theyre trying to make you think about your own life and correct your own problems.
prophetsofpenance 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@DavidFiveThirteen When ape orphans arrive at various wildlife care centers in gorilla and orangutan native habitat, it is obvious they remember.
RReederHunt 2 weeks ago
Wow. Michael was a fine figure of a gorilla. What a handsome chap! Male model material surely. (at 1.37 the image there is a veritable calendar pinup..as are the subsequent ones)
How sad. Why did he die so young?
I have the contact for a woman here in the UK who is on the selection panel for a programme in Cameroon that looks after orphaned gorillas. My dream is to go one day... (if they haven't been made extinct by the inhumane practices that go on!)
s1ndydoll 4 months ago
sweep from butterfly guard at 0:11
but seriously, this video is touching and that story of his mother.... wow.
nirvana2465 4 months ago
really sad
longfootbuddy 4 months ago
damn my nigga micheal they has you in the pin again?
anditl21 4 months ago
AMAZING !!!
FuckFaschists 4 months ago
I was fortunate enough to meet Michael in 1972 and the experience has stayed with me ever since. After some initial hesitation on my part, we finally broke the ice after 6 days. He asked me if I lived locally and I told him not really, I had to take a train. It turned out he lived in Wandsworth but cycled in. We spoke about football and what a great bunch the marketing team was. Surface stuff, you know, but he made me feel welcome and involved me in the tea run. Top guy and a solid colleague.
HitMeQuick 4 months ago
Rest Peacefully Michael. I wonder if there is an ape heaven? o_o
Tekari101 5 months ago
@Tekari101 There are many apes in heaven... humans are apes!!!
SElement91 5 months ago
He looks a lot like Djimon Hounsou
carpediem881000 5 months ago
@TheN1ghtR4p1st Yes but we always look for life on other planets so we have a better understanding of the universe, apes can't exactly open up books on astronomy or such. Apes have been around for a long time, look at us we evolved into being able to create youtube, apes have not. They are intelligent, but not more intelligent than us so whats the point. We need to find intelligence beyond ours.
puttsardarda 5 months ago
I shit you not but Ive seen expensive paintings that look like the ones michael drew
krunkaintdead69 5 months ago
A magnificent beast.
TemplarX2 5 months ago
@TheN1ghtR4p1st Hell, some humans still look at other people (races) as "animals". lol
SoundMercenaryProd 5 months ago
WoW, What a handsome ape.
Lordluigibro 5 months ago
@TheN1ghtR4p1st such a true comment, im trying to say that to my friends but theyre like ''who gives a fuck humans are the smartest anyways'' i wanna punch them so hard when they say such ignorant like that.
onefourzerobpm 6 months ago
Animals have their own innate intelligence different than, but not inferior to humans. How arrogant to claim the deficits in animal intelligence make them dumb, when the deficits in human intelligence are destroying the planet.
nwgs4nzfx2 6 months ago 3
a macho gorilla
47lionking 6 months ago
apes teaching apes
my god
BlowBackBenny 6 months ago
@BlowBackBenny It begins...
Floydzkrieg 5 months ago
What a handsome gorilla.
UneditedIssues 6 months ago
I'm all for admitting these apes can be intelligent, at least intelligent for an ape, but what worries me is when people start to act as if they are human, and are no longe dangerous animals purely because they are smarter than the average animal. Some people almost sound like they want them to be classified as human and allowed to live among us, it's at that point you have to bring them down a notch into reality.
The505Guys 6 months ago
@The505Guys the hell is wrong with you. No one said that they wanted them at the same status as us. These people taught him sign language. That's no where close to where we are. By taking them down a notch, I hope you don't me killing them. There a endangered specie.
mrawesomedood44 6 months ago
@mrawesomedood44
You've never heard the expression 'taking someone down a notch'? It means getting them off their high horse to to speak...
As for you claiming 'no one said they wanted them to have the same status as us', well I'm amazed you've read every single post from everyone in the world regarding apes, but there are people out there who have views on them that are extreme and sometimes bordering on the worrying, it's just a fact, no need to attack me for god's sake.
The505Guys 6 months ago
@The505Guys Well those people are those crazy pet people who think dogs are close related to us. Apes are awesome but they have potential and people are just trying to find what that is.
mrawesomedood44 6 months ago
Gorillas are fucking amazing
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now u have gorillas in the white house.
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TheDogod 6 months ago
@fyte4luv808 Wow, that was really clever. Did you come up with that on your own or did someone help you with it?
urna55 5 months ago
that is fucking amazing.exactly why people needa educate theselves bout gorillas and learn they cant be provkin them n shit at zoos
joemcbobinite 6 months ago
He was such an amazing artist and a beautiful soul. May he Rest in Peace.
amymetfan 6 months ago 3
Michael's mother would be so proud of him if she could have seen where he went in life. I wonder if anyone ever told michael that. I certainly hope so.
cujo55544 6 months ago
goddamn that is a smart gorilla
ChanielDang 6 months ago
CAESAR! COME HOME!
MegaHusk 6 months ago 2
@TheN1ghtR4p1st new caladonian crows have a language as sofisticate as our own. they can also create basic tools and pick locks. i dare say their smarter then most of the catholic church.
kenscottmaclean 6 months ago 3
Is it just me... or is Michael kinda hot...?
anthlanz 6 months ago 85
@anthlanz exscuse me?
dieghettozz 6 months ago
@anthlanz I seriously believe that you think that. This is why we can't have nice things.
AssistingHealth 6 months ago
@anthlanz Its just you.
rabbitphobia 5 months ago
@anthlanz He is rather studly, isn't he!?
SElement91 5 months ago
@anthlanz JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJ LFMAO JA JAJAJAJAJAJA
kaffei2 5 months ago
@anthlanz
hehe yeahh..wish my boyfriend had that muscular chest!
vitsui 4 months ago
@anthlanz lollllllll if u have a primate fetish then yes
DontForgetIran2010 4 months ago
@DontForgetIran2010 lol humans are primates
XpoldingToast 4 months ago
@anthlanz lol thank god im not the only one who noticed that..better looking then most men these days
tamithomas 3 months ago
@anthlanz very handsome! and smart
MochizMuM 3 months ago
@anthlanz heh if u were willing no doubt a rich guy would pay you for a video of ......it
ultrazeen380 3 months ago
I always thought it'd be awesome if I walked into a zoo and saw a gorilla curling weights haha
KennyMak 6 months ago
Michael was ripped. Gotta get that workout
jarodjenkins 7 months ago
dayuum look at those pecks
undergroundjackal 7 months ago
It is painful to think that Michael's potential will never be realized...
Xiphos0292 7 months ago
aww but wasnt michael supposed to be koko's mate :( now she's all alone
Maximo20009 7 months ago
I want an Ape.
cakadokey 8 months ago
What caused his death? How did Koko react. Did Koko ever invite Tiger to stay?
JaniceParton 9 months ago
Such beautiful art he created! And such sadness when he recounted his mother's death. It really makes you take a step back and think of the needs of other species on the planet. They're not just "animals", they have minds and feelings and needs as any human has.
TheSeverusSnape 10 months ago 3
what kind of being could harm these creatures?
Supaflow7 11 months ago
@Supaflow7 err... humans, no?
ShadeAKAhayate 10 months ago
He seems to be quite a gorilla stud. Although I don't know what gorillas find attractive in males.
hamstergirl591 11 months ago
@hamstergirl591 lol! Yeah, he kinda came across as a gorilla stud to me too. Probably attracted lots of gorilla girlies :)
KellyySue143 10 months ago
What does gorilla taste like?
SeminarioMAE 11 months ago
I clicked for six pack thumnail ... DAMN MIKE !!!
ConceitedEnt3 11 months ago
and people say that gorillas and apes are nothing like humans...if thats true...how is it that they can be taught things like signing and communication skills?
i believe that there is more human things about a gorilla than we know...
iannicely1 11 months ago
i bet he died because they thought him that he was going to die some day....
Randomaccounttable 11 months ago
Quincy talks too!
0LittleRed0 11 months ago
I don't accept this. They just gave the gorilla some paint and brushes. For me, if the animal wants art, it will made their own, it will find a way to express itself. In this way, it is artificial.
sergiomarchelli 11 months ago
@sergiomarchelli I disagree with you. When a child is a child the parents give the child paints and brushes...it's part of the learning process.
ELSOL102 11 months ago
@ELSOL102 not really, the human children have natural desire for painting or recreating the world, the animals doesn't have such desire, if they had they would do this. Of course it is all connected with the society, with the family...For example I took by myself some paint tools and paint all over the walls...hahaha...
sergiomarchelli 11 months ago
this is weird. no offense but monkeys are monkeys. lets not try and make them speak english.
dancergirl3131 11 months ago
@dancergirl3131 No you can't accept the fact that people are using the full potential of an Apes mind. Monkeys aren't just Monkeys, they are mammals, humans are mammals as well, we are no different, our minds are just smarter.
TofuDeliverer 8 months ago
@dancergirl3131 NOT monkeys
jpmetroidkiller96 6 months ago
what a boss.
NibbleHusky 11 months ago
fucking hell there is no god and this planet does not only belong to humans!!!
Caeseur 11 months ago
@Caeseur Actually, it does. Due to us being on the top of the food chain, we can do whatever we want, to whomever we want, without any real consequences. Wiping out every gorilla on earth wouldn't affect us at all.
Dimak666 11 months ago
@Dimak666
Just because we are at the top of the food chain doesn't mean that we don't rely on other animals to survive. We may not be directly affected by every gorilla dying, but you'd be a fool to think that there wouldn't be consequences somewhere down the line for us.
biscuithammer00 11 months ago
@biscuithammer00
Thanks, good reply. We are a young species with short lives. We make rash statements thinking we are above the destruction we cause. We can continue to kill off other creatures, wrongly thinking we were given this authority divinely or whatever, and suffer a profound spiritual death. What is a world worth without a wilderness that makes us feel small and part of a greater whole?
duncanish44 11 months ago
@Dimak666 Actually, due to us being at the top of the food chain, we NEED EVERY LINK UNDER US TO SURVIVE. Did you have biology in middle school? Since we can do whatever we want, why don't you try destroying every plant on earth and see how long it takes for us to die out. Newsflash: we aren't autotrophs, we need other organisms not only for food, but for air as well. Just like your body maintains homeostasis, the food chain does the same for the environment. DUH.
cocoisloco0623 11 months ago
@cocoisloco0623 Until gorillas start producing oxygen or are considered to be a crucial source of food, I can safely say that we don't depend on them. Perhaps you're the one who should attend a biology class.
Dimak666 11 months ago
@Dimak666 But what he's trying to say it that Gorilla's my help spread seeds to plants that give oxygen and they might eat plants that would otherwise take over and kill off all the others. The ecosystem is very delicate. Every animal has a roll to play and when one goes extinct everything goes haywire.
JDV9308 11 months ago
@JDV9308 Are you serious? Do you really think that if gorillas disappear, the whole ecosystem would collapse, due to them not spreading the seeds? That's very implausible, to say the least.
Dimak666 11 months ago
@Dimak666 Every living thing on the earth is connected and any decrease in the gene pool affects everything to some extent.
ELSOL102 11 months ago
@Dimak666 Did you miss the part where he signed that his mom was killed for meat? I'm not a retard, I know gorillas don't produce oxygen. Not once did I say that Gorillas produce oxygen. I simply said that WE AREN'T AUTOTROPHS just to prove that we depend on other organisms for survival. You may not eat gorillas, but some people do in fact eat them, just like some people eat dog or cat. I'm pretty sure wiping out an entire species would affect somebody somewhere.
cocoisloco0623 11 months ago
@Caeseur No god? Good, that means i can stab you in the face.
bsd300d 11 months ago
@bsd300d
Fucking stupidest thing I've read all day.
Tyme2Die 11 months ago
@Tyme2Die stupid seems to be a very prevalent theme here at youtube.
pandemonic01 11 months ago
@Tyme2Die CONTINUED for dbl. post. "however Ive yet to interact".... with any species that Broadcasts horride stupidity.(in regard to Dimak666) humans ONLY THING TO endange them& most other animals..Question WHY the fooook would anyone wantNO be able to kill any animal unlessPERHAPSstarving.in that case i pick fish i hear they may not have pain receptors Idk. WE ARE ANIMALS period develope your tiny disgusting minds plz!!& HURRY up.I feel as if i was born 3,000 yrsORmore to early to even enctnr
cdriveslidewayz 6 months ago
@cdriveslidewayz
wtf are you even saying?
Tyme2Die 6 months ago
@Tyme2Die CONTINUED for dbl. post. "however Ive yet to interact".... with any species that Broadcasts horride stupidity.(in regard to Dimak666) humans ONLY THING TO endange them& most other animals..Question WHY the fooook would anyone wantNO be able to kill any animal unlessPERHAPSstarving.in that case i pick fish i hear they may not have pain receptors Idk. WE ARE ANIMALS period develope your tiny disgusting minds plz!!&HURRY it would seem, i was born 3,000 yrsORmore to early to even enctnr
cdriveslidewayz 6 months ago
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@Tyme2Die CONTINUED for dbl. post. "however Ive yet to interact".... with any species that Broadcasts horride stupidity.(in regard to Dimak666) humans ONLY THING TO endange them& most other animals..Question WHY the fooook would anyone wantNO be able to kill any animal unlessPERHAPSstarving.in that case i pick fish i hear they may not have pain receptors Idk. WE ARE ANIMALS period develope your tiny disgusting minds plz!!&HURRY it would seem, i was born 3,000 yrsORmore to early to even enctnr.
cdriveslidewayz 6 months ago
@bsd300d
not really helpful, the face stabbing that is.
duncanish44 11 months ago
@bsd300d
If the only thing stopping you from stabbing someone in the face, is an imaginary man in the sky, you need serious help.
Tyme2Die 11 months ago 2
@Tyme2Die tytyty so much for that comment bsd300d is another example of human ignorance disease, as I sometimes call it. Dogs cats....ALL animals or creatures communicate and have such deep expressions body language etc. I enjoy so much interaction with other species. I speak a couple languages but even if i knew them all i would run into the worldwide disease of ignorance\hate& don't forget INSECURITY at every corner of the planet. However i have yet to communicate with any speciesContNxtpost
cdriveslidewayz 6 months ago
@Tyme2Die tytyty so much for that comment bsd300d is another example of human ignorance disease, as I sometimes call it. Dogs cats....ALL animals or creatures communicate and have such deep expressions body language etc. I enjoy so much interaction with other species. I speak a couple languages but even if i knew them all i would run into the worldwide disease of ignorance\hate& don't forget INSECURITY at every corner of the planet. However i have yet to communicate with any speciesContNxtpst
cdriveslidewayz 6 months ago
cut/neck lip(girl) hole 1:23
can anyone describe this, at all? lol
trahh 11 months ago
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@trahh I think he is trying to say his mother had her mouth open "lip(girl) hole" when she was killed "cut/neck"
YoshiShell 7 months ago
Where is your "God" now?
maxwolfeee 11 months ago
this is proof that animals can generate teir own thoughts
dkguydkguy 11 months ago 2
I'm amazed that he remembered something that most likely happened before he was a year and a half old. But it must have been tramatizing, so maybe that's why he remembered it.
SuperMrsPunk 11 months ago
I never imagined an animal could have memories like witnessing the death of his mother, they are much more like humans than we ever thought
JaymiLei 11 months ago 74
@JaymiLei because we are not animals nor do we share an overwhelming amount of genetic and physiologic homology with animals especially the apes. (sarcasm) Of course they have thoughts and emotions, you think that complex could evolve in such a short evolutionary age as the human mind? not likely
duncanish44 11 months ago
@duncanish44 Firstly, do not talk to me like I am simple. I am in the medical field and have a pretty good handling on the genetic similarities between humans and other primates, thanks. What I meant was that I wasn't aware Michael (and other apes) have emotions that are similar to humans, rather than purely survival instincts and nothing more. You should probably just let people enjoy this video and the wonder of this animal instead of ridiculing people's comments.
JaymiLei 11 months ago
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@JaymiLei because we are not animals nor do we share an overwhelming amount of genetic and physiologic homology with animals especially the apes. (sarcasm) Of course they have thoughts and emotions, you think that something thatcomplex could evolve in such a short evolutionary age as the human mind? not likely
duncanish44 11 months ago
@JaymiLei because we are not animals nor do we share an overwhelming amount of genetic and physiologic homology with animals especially the apes. (sarcasm) Of course they have thoughts and emotions, you think that something thatcomplex could evolve in such a short evolutionary age as the human mind? not likely. Sorry about the Sarcasm I do agree with general statement but "the more than we ever thought" was too much.
duncanish44 11 months ago
@JaymiLei we are much more like gorillas than we ever thought
Lambretta1995 11 months ago
@JaymiLei They are more humane than we are ; Elephants have this wierd thing when someone dies they visist them every year at the place they died in ... We forget whoever dies .
ConceitedEnt3 11 months ago
@JaymiLei thats completley untrue, i wouldnt call a smart gorilla humane, humanes are the cuase of many animals extincion, its our faults that we cut down trees, make coats out of their skins, and hunt animals just for the hell of it. Do not call an animal humane, an animal is better than humane
itta320 10 months ago
@itta320 First, before you start talking to me as if I'm condoning animal cruelty and the destruction of the environment you might want to learn how to spell HUMAN correctly. Secondly I said that gorilla's emotional capacity is human-like, not that they are acting like humans. AND just for your information I am a member of PETA and a vegetarian so maybe you shouldn't make assumptions about people you don't know, and a comment that makes no sense.
JaymiLei 10 months ago
@JaymiLei first of all im not american so im not obligated to know your language 100%, secondly i wasn't implying anything about what you do, all i said that comparing human* to gorilla, that gorillas are not destructive like humans are. that is all, so there is no reason for you to be offended, your just looking for an argument
itta320 10 months ago
@JaymiLei and are you implying that im stupid and that i have no education because i accidently spelled human wrong?
itta320 10 months ago
@itta320 You do know Chimpanzee kills and eat each other in the wild, right?
Frogger0neXx 6 months ago
@JaymiLei There is a HUGE difference between animals and primates.
Freddan0 8 months ago
@Freddan0 Primates are animals
daman2344 8 months ago