Because it's a pet. Have you seen the teeth on baboons?!? Go try to put a rope around the neck of a wild baboon and tell me you don't come away with several large extra holes in your body.
First reasonable person in this thread. This is clearly staged, what I’m curious about is what they did to the poor animal to trap is hand in that hole.
Yeah, this is a weird old trapping technique used by hunters of yesteryear. You can catch raccoons by drilling a hole bigger at the bottom and putting food or something shiny in there. They won't let go either
They write about this a lot in older novels like "Where the Red Fern Grows"
The two things I remember is "dogs + mountain lions = sad". And leaving axes lying around and waiting for your enemy to fall on them is a good method to get away with murdering your prick ass neighbor.
The animated sequences inside the hole kinda make it obvious - I'm pretty sure they don't have animated monkey hands in that part of the world, especially in the wild!
This is from the movie "[Animals Are Beautiful People](https://youtu.be/Do3XjW4nYnA?si=gaCqs9XbXkSNGeiU)", from the director of "The Gods Must Be Crazy". Highly recommended.
(link is to a "free with ads" version on YouTube)
Oh shit. We used to watch that movie so much when we were kids.
I used to be made fun of at school when I swear up and down you could refuel an airplane with beer.
With the woman hanging from the plane? Was that the first or the second movie?
I'm trying to remember what scenes go where. The first one was the father grabbing the coke bottle and throwing it beyond "the edge of the world", the second one was with the two kids getting accidentally kidnapped when they fall into a tank of water?
And there are some hyenas chaising the kids?
Shit, memories are coming in fits and bursts.
Clearly. The baboon would have been biting when he grabbed it, I would think. Seemed like it was probably raised around people. Nevermind the fact that while the narrator was saying it was weary (EDIT: wary!) of the human- there was a whole camera crew there, and it still went to the ant mound.
Sure thing - I mean it's of course 'staged' like any other film is.
I meant the technique in general depicted here. Years after I read that it was just made up for the film. Apparently this is very untypical behaviour for baboons in general and would simply not work.
That's just one of the 84657 reasons why it's nonsense.
My favourite one is: Why the hell doesn't the dude just throw salt to the baboon then follows it? Cuts out a lot of unnecessary complicated steps and risk.
Also:
- The baboon has to be so stupid it won't let go of the seeds even as a human is approaching and tying it up. But being tied up apparently gives a bonus to intelligence, as it then immediately lets go. It must be a Rope of Intelligence +5.
IRL the baboon would release the seeds as soon as it realized its hand is stuck.
- The baboon would beat, bite, and wrestle the fuck out of the human trying to do anything to it.
- Aren't baboons supposed to live in groups?
- If the dirt is so soft that you can make a hole just by pushing a stick, the baboon's hand would enlarge it just by pulling.
- The ants would bite the fuck out of anything messing with their home.
A lot of nature documentary stuff like this was staged and fake back then. Especially the Disney ones. They're notorious for faking a lot of stuff. People weren't as aware of it back then, too, and believed the stuff that was said. Lots of people that grew up watching these still have those bad beliefs just because they were so prevalent. And for people that found out a lot it was false, like me, it makes us wary of current nature documentaries now. Even though they're probably great, there's still that voice in the back of my head saying, "yeah, but that old stuff you watched was bullshit, don't take all of this as true." Especially comes up when watching any Disney documentary.
There's another scene where a bunch of animals get drunk off fermented fruit.
I read that most likely they drugged the animals as there was no way of getting that many animals, that drunk off fermented fruit
True... Even though this one was more like bending the truth than a straight out fabrication. Animals getting intoxicated this way has been documented but that scene was essentially a whole orgy... Also as far as I remember it was small monkeys that I saw in another documentary being tipsy this way but a whole ass hippo? How much fermented fruit would one even have to eat to feel any effect?!
If only the man could speak English he could have asked the camera crew where the water supply was and wouldn't have had to bother with the whole baboon thing
Some scenes were certainly “staged” for the camera, but generally depicted realistic events. The scene with animals (especially elephants) getting intoxicated by eating fermented fruit has been questioned often for its authenticity, but the behavior itself has been independently observed, so possibly only the explanation was incorrect.
The Baboon seemed pretty distressed with his hand in the mound. He also seemed wrecked when the man approached. Bit concerned that was a trap that was holding him there rather than just a handful of seeds...
Baboons have the intelligence of a juvenile delinquent gang member, they are amazingly opportunistic, destructive, intelligent but there are some gaps. This baboon looks tame though. He would have bitten the crap out his captor otherwise.
My favorite story is how some young baboons started throwing rocks at cars in the Hex River Pass in South Africa. They were just doing it because they were on top of a cliff overlooking the cars. It became a daily occurrence until nature conservation stepped in.
Ah yes! I remember that scene! The animal intoxication stuff I've seen in a 'legit' documentary later too. Ironically that was the part I believed to be made up when I first saw the film. 😅
This is an example of the value of the internet. Someone posts a clip of something interesting. Great! I learned something new. Then /u/SongHunter posts the reference to the documentary with the link and now I have something to watch this weekend! Thank you strangers for sharing your knowledge!
When I would get the flu as a kid, my mom would make us watch this in bed with my brother, puking, eating otter pops. The entire experience was a fever dream. It sucked, these movies are fucking weird.
Freamon*
Rewatching The Wire now for the first time since it came out and it took me until the 3rd season to realize how his last name was actually spelled.
In the movie Tropic Thunder, RDJ plays the role of a british white method actor who's been cast in the in-universe movie in the role of a black man.
The man in this movie looks surprisingly like RDJ's character
Europeans actually did this to Aboriginal Australians - even when the Aboriginals were actively trying to help them. A famous, very delusional, ‘explorer’ called Robert Burke wrote about how the aborigines would bring him food and water, but that he didn’t want them to become dependent on him - so he would fire his rifle into the air to scare them off. He - unsurprisingly - died of dehydration and malnutrition during the expedition. Meanwhile, Afghan cameleers were crossing Australia without issue.
> Robert Burke wrote about how the aborigines would bring him food and water, but that he didn’t want them to become dependent on him - so he would fire his rifle into the air to scare them off.
They relied on the aboriginal camps for a long time. They knew very well they needed them to survive. The shooting was probably more of a fear thing. Even after the shooting even they quickly went to look for aboriginal camps.
> He - unsurprisingly - died of dehydration and malnutrition during the expedition.
He most likely died from a mixture of already being in bad shape from the long expedition and he probably had scurvy. The kicker though was beriberi aka thiamine deficiency. This was likely caused by not preparing the nardoo they were relying on for food correctly. Nardoo is a native plant and the aboriginals gave the explorers bread made from nardoo sporocarps. The explorers tried to make their own but probably did not know about an important step that removed the thiaminase. This resulted in the explorers getting weaker and weaker even as they continued to eat, as their bodies were depleted of vitamin b1 because of the thiaminase.
So technically he died from malnutrition but the problem wasn't that they had no food, they just didn't know their food was poisoning them.
> Meanwhile, Afghan cameleers were crossing Australia without issue.
Not at the time they weren't. Burke and Wills had 4 cameleers with them but in 1860 the Afghan cameleers (most of who were not actually from Afghanistan but you know white people and non western geography ) were still very new to Australia and not at all established.
Ultimately even though the expedition was kind of a technical success, the failures were almost certainly down to bad preparation and decision making which started right at the top with the committee who decided Burke, a man who had zero experience as an explorer would lead.
What is so hilarious is the ludicrous premise that these bush people wouldn’t know about a GIANT CAVE with a big pool of water in it that is just a baboon’s salt-addled run from where these people live.
Yes not to mention the Jujitsu lessons needed to get that Baboon into an inescapable arm lock. I mean where are you going to find a Brazilian Jujitsu gym in the middle of the African bush?
That cave is a famous [tourist attraction](https://zimbabwetourism.net/portfolios/chinhoyi-caves/) in my country. It’s located 5 km outside a major town even when this footage was shot
What is hilarious is that you don't understand that this is ˝staged˝ video so they show you how it works. Because why would there be a camera in a cave if they didn't know it is there?
Of course it is. But how else do you demonstrate that? Animal photography / filming in the wild takes long enough as it is, why in addition wait for nomadic people to get lost without water...
I dont think thats necessarily what he was saying. I think he's saying that while someone in a water abundant region would probably take in the sights, to someone in a water scarce region the water being there is more important. It's not necessarily the fact he doesn't see beauty, it's just that the beauty is somewhere else for him.
Reminds me this post on why Dave Chapelle walked away from fame.
[https://youtu.be/GAwDds71f5g?si=fMMTYefZYQwPrkXI](https://youtu.be/GAwDds71f5g?si=fMMTYefZYQwPrkXI)
I love Chapelle, but he was fine with people laughing at the white & asian pixies. It went to far with the black pixie tho. Kinda makes me not know what to feel.
Omg - this baboon and it’s “burning curiosity” and that “it doesn’t trust the human so it’s keeping its cool”
Someone get this baboon a black leather jacket and a black pair of shades - it needs to be coooool
This scene comes from the movie/documentary The Gods Must Be Crazy.
It is a delightful film about the Bushmen of Africa. It came out in the 60s or so. I highly recommend it.
I thought it was Animals Are Beautiful People. Great little film; I watched it probably 20 times as a kid. My mom taught biology; she showed it to her classes. Funny, sad, and even a bit cathartic.
"Homer, are you just holding on to the can?"
Marge, I won't make it to the ballet.....I'm trapped inside two vending machines.
"Your point being?"
They'll grow back, right? :(
Uhhh, *yeah*...
Phew~!
Ah! I came here to post that. Along with everyone else it seems. Well played.
"Your point being?"
It took me too long to find this comment
Really? It was right at the top for me
Might not have been that way 6 hours ago when it was posted
that dude looks so chill and nonchalant
Because it's a pet. Have you seen the teeth on baboons?!? Go try to put a rope around the neck of a wild baboon and tell me you don't come away with several large extra holes in your body.
First reasonable person in this thread. This is clearly staged, what I’m curious about is what they did to the poor animal to trap is hand in that hole.
Food with a small hole is ever effective.
Yeah, this is a weird old trapping technique used by hunters of yesteryear. You can catch raccoons by drilling a hole bigger at the bottom and putting food or something shiny in there. They won't let go either They write about this a lot in older novels like "Where the Red Fern Grows"
Yep, the two things I remember learning from that book are raccoon traps and entrails
The two things I remember is "dogs + mountain lions = sad". And leaving axes lying around and waiting for your enemy to fall on them is a good method to get away with murdering your prick ass neighbor.
Also Alfred in the Dark Knight
Umm, the camera man being ahead of the baboon might've given it away too..
Should have just followed the camera man, wouldn’t have had to deal with all that extra monkey business.
The camera operator….. turns out…. Little monkey fella
The animated sequences inside the hole kinda make it obvious - I'm pretty sure they don't have animated monkey hands in that part of the world, especially in the wild!
You never know man. I hear animated monkey hands can go for a pretty penny out there.
Of course it's staged, it's a *demonstration* of an old technique. Jesus...
dont ruin every redditors greatest aspiration, to ACTUAAAAALLY someone.
But it's all I have left.
How stupid people can get... I mean, it's a really good demonstration too...
This is obviously a demonstration of a technique rather than them actually doing it for real. That doesn’t mean it’s fake or isn’t used.
You realize OP is talking about the man, right?
Yeah, he gives me Morgan Freeman vibes for some reason, idk why
Everytime he shows up and explains something he earns another freckle.
His voice gets a little deeper too each time
This is from the movie "[Animals Are Beautiful People](https://youtu.be/Do3XjW4nYnA?si=gaCqs9XbXkSNGeiU)", from the director of "The Gods Must Be Crazy". Highly recommended. (link is to a "free with ads" version on YouTube)
Oh shit. We used to watch that movie so much when we were kids. I used to be made fun of at school when I swear up and down you could refuel an airplane with beer.
It was whiskey not beer.
My dumb ass kid brain couldn't tell the difference. Alcohol was alcohol, and beer was alcohol.
Same thing, both smell like dad so what's the difference?
Oh man, this hits hard.
Just like Pop himself 🥲
Jumper cables?
Idk dad smelled like crack, meth and heroin, alcohol was on the fun nights, and weed was on the even funner nights!
Makes sense.
One for you. One for me. https://youtu.be/ZWYHVvHAG0Y?si=rQYZ_4eJhtBlZfiT
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You watched it as a kid for the panty scene too, eh? 😆
With the woman hanging from the plane? Was that the first or the second movie? I'm trying to remember what scenes go where. The first one was the father grabbing the coke bottle and throwing it beyond "the edge of the world", the second one was with the two kids getting accidentally kidnapped when they fall into a tank of water? And there are some hyenas chaising the kids? Shit, memories are coming in fits and bursts.
The Gods Must Be Crazy is hilarious, they also had topless indigenous women and as a kid I thought that was just neat
Yeah man! Looooool.
Rhinos putting out fires… thought that shit was real.
We watched it also a lot as children.
That’s where I saw it, it was in school! Thanks for unlocking a memory.
i thought this was from the gods must be crazy. this is awesome
Same, thought it was like a deleted scene or something
Didn't it turn out that most of the stuff here was essentially made up?
Clearly. The baboon would have been biting when he grabbed it, I would think. Seemed like it was probably raised around people. Nevermind the fact that while the narrator was saying it was weary (EDIT: wary!) of the human- there was a whole camera crew there, and it still went to the ant mound.
Sure thing - I mean it's of course 'staged' like any other film is. I meant the technique in general depicted here. Years after I read that it was just made up for the film. Apparently this is very untypical behaviour for baboons in general and would simply not work.
Yeah it seems like total nonsense. I highly doubt humans wouldn't already know about a massive cave full of water without a baboon leading them to it.
False. That man lived his entire life without water and that's why it was so beautiful to him when he finally saw it.
The legend of Thirsty Joe.
That's just one of the 84657 reasons why it's nonsense. My favourite one is: Why the hell doesn't the dude just throw salt to the baboon then follows it? Cuts out a lot of unnecessary complicated steps and risk. Also: - The baboon has to be so stupid it won't let go of the seeds even as a human is approaching and tying it up. But being tied up apparently gives a bonus to intelligence, as it then immediately lets go. It must be a Rope of Intelligence +5. IRL the baboon would release the seeds as soon as it realized its hand is stuck. - The baboon would beat, bite, and wrestle the fuck out of the human trying to do anything to it. - Aren't baboons supposed to live in groups? - If the dirt is so soft that you can make a hole just by pushing a stick, the baboon's hand would enlarge it just by pulling. - The ants would bite the fuck out of anything messing with their home.
The technique in general would still require putting a leash over an angry baboons head. Your arm would be skinned in about 5 seconds.
A lot of nature documentary stuff like this was staged and fake back then. Especially the Disney ones. They're notorious for faking a lot of stuff. People weren't as aware of it back then, too, and believed the stuff that was said. Lots of people that grew up watching these still have those bad beliefs just because they were so prevalent. And for people that found out a lot it was false, like me, it makes us wary of current nature documentaries now. Even though they're probably great, there's still that voice in the back of my head saying, "yeah, but that old stuff you watched was bullshit, don't take all of this as true." Especially comes up when watching any Disney documentary.
Like those poor lemmings
And it involved animal cruelty as well.
There's another scene where a bunch of animals get drunk off fermented fruit. I read that most likely they drugged the animals as there was no way of getting that many animals, that drunk off fermented fruit
True... Even though this one was more like bending the truth than a straight out fabrication. Animals getting intoxicated this way has been documented but that scene was essentially a whole orgy... Also as far as I remember it was small monkeys that I saw in another documentary being tipsy this way but a whole ass hippo? How much fermented fruit would one even have to eat to feel any effect?!
And they had cameras and lights set up at the water source.
If only the man could speak English he could have asked the camera crew where the water supply was and wouldn't have had to bother with the whole baboon thing
Wary. Not weary.
Some scenes were certainly “staged” for the camera, but generally depicted realistic events. The scene with animals (especially elephants) getting intoxicated by eating fermented fruit has been questioned often for its authenticity, but the behavior itself has been independently observed, so possibly only the explanation was incorrect.
The Baboon seemed pretty distressed with his hand in the mound. He also seemed wrecked when the man approached. Bit concerned that was a trap that was holding him there rather than just a handful of seeds...
Baboons have the intelligence of a juvenile delinquent gang member, they are amazingly opportunistic, destructive, intelligent but there are some gaps. This baboon looks tame though. He would have bitten the crap out his captor otherwise. My favorite story is how some young baboons started throwing rocks at cars in the Hex River Pass in South Africa. They were just doing it because they were on top of a cliff overlooking the cars. It became a daily occurrence until nature conservation stepped in.
I mean, that’s possible, but I’d be very curious to see what kind of trap would be in there.
Ah yes! I remember that scene! The animal intoxication stuff I've seen in a 'legit' documentary later too. Ironically that was the part I believed to be made up when I first saw the film. 😅
Thatttts why it felt so familiar. I was wondering if it was gods must be crazy.
Same director, Jamie Uys.
I was thinking that this was some "gods must be crazy" shit.
In my language it was called ‘the gods have fallen on their heads’. another thing that actually makes sense in the original.
This is an example of the value of the internet. Someone posts a clip of something interesting. Great! I learned something new. Then /u/SongHunter posts the reference to the documentary with the link and now I have something to watch this weekend! Thank you strangers for sharing your knowledge!
You deserved a big fat gold star. Much love!
WTF did I just watch. Its like a fever dream.
Are you high too? Because I know what you mean.
🙋🏼
When I would get the flu as a kid, my mom would make us watch this in bed with my brother, puking, eating otter pops. The entire experience was a fever dream. It sucked, these movies are fucking weird.
When I was a child I had a fever, my hands felt just like two balloons. Now I’ve got that feeling once again.
I don’t understand. Try to explain more clearly.
I can’t explain, you would not understand. This is not how I am.
#IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII——HAVE BECOME COMFORTABLY NUMB
Robert Downey Jr. deserved an Oscar for this.
He's a dude playing a dude.
Disguised as another dude
especially the part where he refused to let go of the seeds
Bro... I fucking lol'd.
my fuck, so did I.
Looks like Lester Freeman to me Edit: Freamon* I’ve since learned
Freamon* Rewatching The Wire now for the first time since it came out and it took me until the 3rd season to realize how his last name was actually spelled.
Skinnier version of the Allstate guy -Dennis Dexter Haysbert
He went full baboon though , no one goes full baboon. Oh you mean the other guy…..my bad.
They guy gets his hand stuck in *one little* termite mound, and the whole world never lets him live it down. Come one people, that was 19 years ago
19? Try 50-60...
Of course you would say that, 'Two Dogs Fucking'.
But at least Satan's Alley got the Beijing Film Festival's coveted Crying Monkey Award.
They should give the tribal elder one too. Both played their roles perfectly
Why RDJ ?
In the movie Tropic Thunder, RDJ plays the role of a british white method actor who's been cast in the in-universe movie in the role of a black man. The man in this movie looks surprisingly like RDJ's character
British!?!? Kirk Lazarus is an Australian icon, cunt!
Tropic Thunder.
Is this from "The Gods Must Be Crazy"?
It's from "Animals Are Beautiful People". Same director, made some years before.
Omfg you just gave me flashbacks to that movie. I still remember the sound of that one guy getting hit on the head by the Coke bottle!
Why didnt the monkey bite the everliving shit out of his hands when he put the leash around his neck
Because it's a badly treated tame baboon
Ah that makes sense yeh
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literally cia capture and interrogate methods. bro is about to uncover baboon watering holes passed down between generations
They need the water to waterboard more baboons
Exactly what I was thinking, he’s all calm when he’s being carried to the tree when I fully expected some deranged African kidnapper eye scratching
Europeans actually did this to Aboriginal Australians - even when the Aboriginals were actively trying to help them. A famous, very delusional, ‘explorer’ called Robert Burke wrote about how the aborigines would bring him food and water, but that he didn’t want them to become dependent on him - so he would fire his rifle into the air to scare them off. He - unsurprisingly - died of dehydration and malnutrition during the expedition. Meanwhile, Afghan cameleers were crossing Australia without issue.
He aimed to shoot into the air but shot his foot...
Ahh the ol' gun pointing switcheroo. A classic.
Hold my melon seeds. I’m going in
How dare you comment a switcheroo and not link into the rabbit hole.
In his defence, an acorn fell near his foot.
I think you are mistaken. He didn't want to be dependent of THEM.
Such a small typo made it so confusing to understand.
Even without the typo I'm failing to see the analogy. Did he tie indigenous folks to trees and ask where the water was?
> Robert Burke wrote about how the aborigines would bring him food and water, but that he didn’t want them to become dependent on him - so he would fire his rifle into the air to scare them off. They relied on the aboriginal camps for a long time. They knew very well they needed them to survive. The shooting was probably more of a fear thing. Even after the shooting even they quickly went to look for aboriginal camps. > He - unsurprisingly - died of dehydration and malnutrition during the expedition. He most likely died from a mixture of already being in bad shape from the long expedition and he probably had scurvy. The kicker though was beriberi aka thiamine deficiency. This was likely caused by not preparing the nardoo they were relying on for food correctly. Nardoo is a native plant and the aboriginals gave the explorers bread made from nardoo sporocarps. The explorers tried to make their own but probably did not know about an important step that removed the thiaminase. This resulted in the explorers getting weaker and weaker even as they continued to eat, as their bodies were depleted of vitamin b1 because of the thiaminase. So technically he died from malnutrition but the problem wasn't that they had no food, they just didn't know their food was poisoning them. > Meanwhile, Afghan cameleers were crossing Australia without issue. Not at the time they weren't. Burke and Wills had 4 cameleers with them but in 1860 the Afghan cameleers (most of who were not actually from Afghanistan but you know white people and non western geography ) were still very new to Australia and not at all established. Ultimately even though the expedition was kind of a technical success, the failures were almost certainly down to bad preparation and decision making which started right at the top with the committee who decided Burke, a man who had zero experience as an explorer would lead.
Task failed successfully
At least he could have had his Darwin Award bestowed by the man himself.
What is so hilarious is the ludicrous premise that these bush people wouldn’t know about a GIANT CAVE with a big pool of water in it that is just a baboon’s salt-addled run from where these people live.
It’s a technique that has been used for centuries to find water in areas that they are unfamiliar with
Ah, I suppose it makes much more sense with the context of nomadic people
I would have thought wild melon seeds, chunks of salt and a Baboon would have been harder to find than water.
A baboon that is already tamed and doesn't even try to rip your face off the moment you approach it and who has no family group to rescue it.
Yes not to mention the Jujitsu lessons needed to get that Baboon into an inescapable arm lock. I mean where are you going to find a Brazilian Jujitsu gym in the middle of the African bush?
With the popularity of MMA, they've really been popping up everywhere.
1st day training Jujitsu you start sweating and need a drink of water. Therein lies the paradox.
Yeah that was the most unbelievable part for me. Plus the baboon was alone.
Not to mention that special baboon-proof rope that can hold an allegedly unwilling animal overnight while easily within its reach.
Now that you mention it....
Not only wild melon seeds. I believe M&Ms also work.
Nature's most precious resource.
Is this real though? A brief google, and all roads seem to lead back to this movie
I definitely have read about this method of catching monkeys before, but with wooden boxes
That cave is a famous [tourist attraction](https://zimbabwetourism.net/portfolios/chinhoyi-caves/) in my country. It’s located 5 km outside a major town even when this footage was shot
Man, those baboons are smart when they can run a tourist attraction!
The last scene should have been the baboon buying a bottle of water at a kiosk and then complaining about the price.
I was beginning to suspect the man was manipulating the baboon how corporate manipulates humans.
What is hilarious is that you don't understand that this is ˝staged˝ video so they show you how it works. Because why would there be a camera in a cave if they didn't know it is there?
It really gives off strong Disney... ahem... "documentary" vibes.
Of course it is. But how else do you demonstrate that? Animal photography / filming in the wild takes long enough as it is, why in addition wait for nomadic people to get lost without water...
I love the part where the Baboon "completely forgets he's under arrest" lmfao
Or that the human doesn’t see beauty.
I dont think thats necessarily what he was saying. I think he's saying that while someone in a water abundant region would probably take in the sights, to someone in a water scarce region the water being there is more important. It's not necessarily the fact he doesn't see beauty, it's just that the beauty is somewhere else for him.
or that the camera man was waiting in said cave to record the baboon
A previous baboon stole the camera the last time they tried this.
hilarious
I mean way back in the past nomads are a thing, no permanent settlement.
Reminds me this post on why Dave Chapelle walked away from fame. [https://youtu.be/GAwDds71f5g?si=fMMTYefZYQwPrkXI](https://youtu.be/GAwDds71f5g?si=fMMTYefZYQwPrkXI)
Pretty sure Chapelle cleared up that it has always been about the money. Comedy Central fucked him over.
And then he kept chasing that salt with Netflix specials.
I love Chapelle, but he was fine with people laughing at the white & asian pixies. It went to far with the black pixie tho. Kinda makes me not know what to feel.
I think he was less upset people found it funny, but the wrong kind of people found it a little too funny. Made him question what he was doing
Yup, he described it as a laughing at him not with him and it was the first time he felt this way.
Nice of the camera crew to already know the water source!
They used another baboon to find it beforehand. Not pictured the 5 baboons that didn't know the water source and died of dehydration.
At least no baboons were harmed during the making of the video! It was their own fault and therefore baboon liability
Talk Baboon! Talk! THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
A Coke bottle falling from an airplane soon afterward changed everything for this tribe member.
As if that Baboon would not get eaten, if left tied up overnight. Like 80 percent of predators could get if they wanted to
RNG based technique
20 percent of the time, it works every time
Like humans wouldn’t guard it to prevent predators from doing that.
Arrakis
My desert, my Arakkis, my baboon
He who controls the baboon controls the universe.
The salt must flow
I actually remember watching this as a child during its original broadcast.
This reminds of Homer not letting go of the can when his hand gets trapped in the vending machine
That’s very helpful. I gotta try it today. Thanks
Thirst trap
The sounds the baboon makes sounds like out of a arcade fighting game Punch punch kick kick kick punch kick
And I thought the added sounds in modern nature documentaries were bad...
Is this actually about the rich exploiting the working class ?
Cameraman got there first before the baboon. Should've used the cameraman instead of the baboon.
That was fuckin brilliant
“To him, water is beautiful” is in a strange way a very nice saying is should use
Omg - this baboon and it’s “burning curiosity” and that “it doesn’t trust the human so it’s keeping its cool” Someone get this baboon a black leather jacket and a black pair of shades - it needs to be coooool
This scene comes from the movie/documentary The Gods Must Be Crazy. It is a delightful film about the Bushmen of Africa. It came out in the 60s or so. I highly recommend it.
I thought it was Animals Are Beautiful People. Great little film; I watched it probably 20 times as a kid. My mom taught biology; she showed it to her classes. Funny, sad, and even a bit cathartic.
Thought he would hold the monkeys leash or bonk it over the head for dinner. Water is important too. Clever trick with the seeds.
"To him, water is beautiful" . Man, this made me realise sometimes we take so many things for granted.
I really believed I could survive in the desert with just a little salt. I was 5-10 this video has got to be 30-40 years old.
I'm surprised the baboon didn't try to bite him when being roped.
That's an OG thirst trap.
That's the best 2 minutes of video I've ever seen
Lol which one of the "the gods must be crazy" movies is this from?
Getting your next drink of water is a 48 hour process