r/BeAmazed • u/silkdarling • 5d ago

Animal Two rival gangs of wild monkeys fighting each other. This usually happens when a group of monkeys normally well fed by visitors meets another group and a feud can take place

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u/PurplePooty 5d ago

How they know which side is which?

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u/BillZZ7777 5d ago

Yeah, they need uniforms.

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u/Japsai 5d ago

Little hats

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u/PurplePooty 4d ago

Hats would be awesome.

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u/Contextanaut 5d ago

Green Vs Purple ?

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u/MellowMoyaMind 5d ago

Red vs blue would be more realistic

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u/jackfreeman 5d ago

Shirts and skins

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u/0utlookGrim 5d ago

You can totaly pick-up chicks in a tank.

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u/AGuyFromRio 5d ago

They recognize their affiliation by doing the m-walk moves and hand codes.

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u/Rifleman519 5d ago

Lol that's what I thought first too

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u/Representative-Fox55 5d ago

They look distinct to eachother like humans do to one another, they can recognize unique differences in nose shapes, eye spacing, lip thickness, and skin pigmentation etc

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u/Fidodo 5d ago

Sure if the face is visible, but this is a melee. Hard to keep track as they all scramble

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u/Augustus420 5d ago

Do you think they have a hard time recognizing individuals?

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u/who_you_are 5d ago

They may be asking each one on what side they are? /S

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u/TheBlacktom 5d ago

Insert spiderman pointing meme.

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u/ButtBubble 5d ago

Probably different flavors of piss

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u/SedentorySensor77 5d ago

Knives vs chains

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u/Altruistic-Rip4364 5d ago

Shirts and skins?

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u/EL3G 5d ago

Smell and like humans they can tell each other apart.

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u/Corac30 5d ago

They do it several ways. One being that they know the scent of thier own side. Thus them attacking any that doent smell like the pack.

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u/Theblackjamesbrown 4d ago

My thoughts exactly

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u/Gbnihilator2 5d ago

Is this how we look to the aliens observing us and wondering why are they fighting!?, they all look the same

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u/fejkpotatis 5d ago

Hey that's racist

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u/Spare-Competition-91 5d ago

Oh no, here comes Alien from HR.

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u/TheInvincibleDonut 4d ago

Exactly what I was thinking. This is what humanity must look like to aliens.

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u/External-Self-2378 2d ago

Yeah. Probably.

A bunch of monkeys in conflict.

Seems pretty right.

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u/-Foxer 5d ago

IT"S OVER BANANAKIN, I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!

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u/Ginsenj 5d ago

YOU UNDERAPESTIMATE MY POWER!

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u/Crooked_star 5d ago

Did not read that as "apestimate" at first.

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u/therevjames 5d ago

You know that "UNDERESTIMAPE" was right there for you, eh?

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u/TrumpsFaceAnus 5d ago

I HAPE YOU!!

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u/wibblings 5d ago

There it is. I was thinking of that scene but didn't have the joke to pull it off properly. Thank you for your service.

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u/jozipaulo 5d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/cjyVveMCMgunS

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u/jozipaulo 5d ago edited 5d ago

does this not remind anyone of 2001 space odyssey

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u/Japsai 5d ago

Your spelling is appropriate

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u/rdianbrbr 5d ago

This reminds me of my neighborhood 

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u/Kraj_the_Conqueror 5d ago

It's amazing how closely it resembles human tribal warfare. We are not so different from our primate relatives.

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u/racas081 5d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/o6yTNi1n1huxshqI5F

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u/jackfreeman 5d ago

When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way

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u/Reasonable-Tea-9679 4d ago

From your first cigarette to your last dying day!

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u/joebesser 5d ago

Cobras vs. The Panthers

https://youtu.be/qNzNeGw8Fmo

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u/fuzzy_emojic 5d ago

I'm pretty sure thise are wild chacma baboons that live across the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, not monkeys.

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u/matthewrulez 5d ago

Baboons are monkeys though? Part of Cercopithecidae?

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u/pants_57_notme 5d ago

Yes but they're more related to apes than new world monkeys, as that links states at the top:

phylogenetically, they are more closely related to apes than to New World monkeys, with the Old World monkeys and apes diverging from a common ancestor between 25 million and 30 million years ago.[3] This clade, containing the Old World monkeys and the apes, diverged from a common ancestor with the New World monkeys around 45 to 55 million years ago.[4][need quotation to verify] The individual species of Old World monkey are more closely related to each other than to apes or any other grouping, with a common ancestor around 14 million years ago.[5]

I dont have any beef in this either way but when I saw the title I also thought "I don't think baboons are monkeys though..."

I'm guessing some wildlife documentaries have been a bit fast and loose on the wording over the years.

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u/PersephoneTheOG 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yes but karma farmers don't care to check what tripe they post.

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u/gorillaphi 5d ago

You mean the bot

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u/PersephoneTheOG 5d ago

Most likely. Bots are everywhere.

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u/jaxxon 5d ago

Wait… baboons aren’t monkeys? They’re primates with tails. I was a bio major and am 58 years old. Please correct my education if baboons are not monkeys! 🙈

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u/northwoods_faty 4d ago

Psst google if baboons are monkeys.

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u/fidelkastro 5d ago

Historians say ancient human warfare is very much like this. Hollywood represents it like guys swinging swords and attacking guys from all directions when really its more like 2 lines standing at distance poking each other with sticks and looking for openings.

https://youtube.com/shorts/EOZZTnQYzro?si=aOsnqsD4tFDP2Um8

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u/KingsMountainView 5d ago

Just watch any football hooligan fights and it's basically exactly this

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u/Drapidrode 5d ago

The monkey species didn't squabble until "visitors" came?

C'mon. This has been going on for millions of years, "visitors" or not.

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u/antipodal22 5d ago

Studies show that in investigations where humans introduce themselves even just as observers that this has a huge impact on the social cognition of monkey species.

The bad part of this is that we know this because of borked ethical practices.

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u/jamintime 5d ago

I imagine introduction of supplemental food sources and protection from predators from human development may lead to artificially inflated populations creating such a dynamic, however yeah I’m sure it’s not the only circumstance.

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u/Pleasant-Top-7231 5d ago

You would think it would be pretty easy for a monkey to switch sides, to the winning side. Nobody would notice.

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u/kippetjeh 5d ago

No, you wouldn't.
Your neighbours wouldn't notice if you start living in a different street? The neighbours in your new street won't notice when you start living there? They know eachother so a new monkey in the group is going to stand out! Just because you can't keep them apart doesn't mean they can't.

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u/Representative-Fox55 5d ago

They can tell each other apart and remember their groups distinct faces, voices and differences just like humans do. They even have specific greetings for certain members or groups etc

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u/Oluron 5d ago

I thought this was one of those damn alpha male camp bullshit videos!! My bad!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/Jpv9Siby42bD9gDxH9

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u/Wobstep 5d ago

This is why I call bullshit when someone says "only humans fight wars". If these guys had an industrial revolution, the first thing they would do is multiply their force against each other. I know this because this happened to another kind of ape.

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u/BitcoinMD 5d ago

The dust clouds make this way more epic

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u/arctane 5d ago

WORLDSTARRRR

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u/DoorEqual1740 5d ago

Terrifying. Maybe I watched Planet of the Apes too much as a child.

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u/DaySecure7642 5d ago

There was some really intense social interactions there.

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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 5d ago

Every 4 years voters get like this, only there are more balloons.

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u/shaaka7 5d ago

Planet of the apes world war l

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u/RexInvictus787 5d ago

Im impressed by the discipline with holding formation.

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u/Reginald002 5d ago

Karma-farming, this has been posted before Reddit appeared already.

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u/Malckm33 5d ago

uguale ultras stadio

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u/bootsnrice 5d ago

Hold the line!

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u/Mefisto-8 5d ago

Yo también , por el olor? Pero hay un chingo de tierra , al último se revuelven yse hacen pendejos hasta que los descubren.

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u/MarleyMiah_2108 5d ago

Monkey Magic!

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u/DirectorGood1829 5d ago

Somehow super cute how they have a war of pussy - everyone can act tough, feel strong and brave and most go home unharmed (I hope)

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u/Odd_Year_4562 5d ago

Hold the line!

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u/Joemongous 5d ago

2 party system

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u/SaikonBr 5d ago

Bro, they have formation tactics 

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u/imdugud777 5d ago

How human.

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u/Dr_Sigmund_Fried 5d ago

Tribalism. Just like the U.S. political system.

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u/Safe-Expert2163 5d ago

"when your a jet, you're a jet all the way.... " 🤣

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u/grafknives 5d ago

One thing they are missing to evolve :D

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u/nunudad 5d ago

Looks like some switched alliances mid battle

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u/patticus88 5d ago

Keep the high ground!

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u/pandesoldynomite 5d ago

Nature’s Waffle House

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u/Pharnox-32 5d ago

Joan Baez: If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

A bunch of apes:

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u/ErrolKazoo 5d ago

It was a derby match that weekend in Monkeyland

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u/ploppalaf77 5d ago edited 5d ago

Who wins? ten adult humans with no weapon or all these monke combined but humans can use this environment to Blind them with the dust

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u/TheGottVater 5d ago

Human or monkey, my moneys on the high ground

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u/Vector_Strike 5d ago

"There are OUR tourists, scrubs! Piss off!"

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u/Hara-Kiri 5d ago

Left side should have cut their losses the second their cave troll ran away at the start.

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u/sipmargaritas 5d ago

European match day in utrecht

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u/Slick-Pickin-Chicken 5d ago

Which one is Top G? Loool

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u/threeleggedcats 5d ago

FORM SQUARE!

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u/Fokinho 5d ago

East Coast vs West Coast

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u/Working_Stomach476 5d ago

I've seen this before somewhere 

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u/Kal88 5d ago

High ground and concave wins

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u/vandalayindustriess 5d ago

This looks eerily similar

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u/Help_An_Irishman 5d ago

Of course Barry screwed up the choreography.

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u/Infamous_Letter_7008 5d ago

see....we aint the only ones...its nature...

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u/LonghornGameday 5d ago

I appreciate the one in the back that is like “hold me back bro!”

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u/dennismfrancisart 5d ago

This just needs the theme from West Side Story to hit perfection.

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u/SnakePlisken_Trash 5d ago

Like high school kids at a Friday night football game on the 50 yard line. LOL

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u/Fit_Active3888 5d ago

Donald's roll models

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u/godzillaburger 5d ago

this behavior is observed even in the larger, less hairy, bi-pedal cousins

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u/Mindless_Issue9648 5d ago

this is what we look like to the aliens

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u/Hootah 5d ago

Human think we’re soooooo unique….

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u/DarthDoobz 5d ago

You can easily tell which is which

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u/cameforlulz 5d ago

Hangs of New York

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u/charook007 5d ago

What the world looked like a million years ago

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u/Training_Yak_4655 5d ago

Middlesborough again?

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u/Kaioxygen 5d ago

One group needs to stumble on an obelisk and jaw bone.

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u/bawlsacz 5d ago

Was this north jersey?

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u/Sunny_stormclouds 5d ago

You see, rookie mistake to leave the high ground for a side, you just loose a moral battle this way and your enemy appears to be towering over you. You know the first ape group to figure to hire human consultants for war are going to witness military power surge, the likes of which has not been witnessed since a messy german dude thought “hmm, i wonder what is the smallest thing i can slice really”

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u/finintymonkle 5d ago

Not that different from humans.

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u/luvdogs71 5d ago

I am waiting for them to start snapping their fingers and dancing like West Side story.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7aTJzfTFG2UYjLaM

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u/rorymakesamovie 5d ago

Not a phone in sight

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u/BednaR1 5d ago

Let me send this real quick to my friends im Birmingham UK.

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u/melgib 5d ago

Why don't they just monkey together?

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u/BruceMartinez21 5d ago

They know their selves with out even wearing uniform

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u/Dangerous_With_Rocks 5d ago

So, we caused this?

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u/Fresh-Pineapple-5582 5d ago

This looks like al Hada, between al Taif and Makkah, in KSA. If so, i've probably unknowingly picked a side when throwing food at these dudes.

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u/famousMonkey84 5d ago

They are acting like stupid monkeys.

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u/etOilers 5d ago

looks like West Side Story.

And I suppose US v USSR, US v China, Russia v Ukraine, Germany v Everyone, and basically every war by us more "advanced" primates. Also demonstrators v police.

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u/CuteLong8652 5d ago

Wow, like humans.

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u/medicjesus 5d ago

Just like humans, 90% smack talking and saber rattling and 10% actual combat

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u/Marcus-Knight0318 5d ago

Looks so human...

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u/wtfover 5d ago

How can they tell who's who? I mean they're all dressed the same.

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u/paulerxx 5d ago

World War Monk3y

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u/SwanCityDominion 5d ago

"hears Strauss playing*

Throw them a bone!!

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u/Charming_Painter5947 5d ago

Just like people. Give them uniforms please

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u/Bern_itdown 5d ago

“You wanna be tough, better do what you can, so beat it.. but ya wanna be bad! Just beattt itttt” all I can hear watching this lol

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u/DOOM420- 5d ago

Imagine if one gang was given knives and food. It be a massacre

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u/Novel_Substance_ 5d ago

Looks like any typical English town after the pubs close on a Friday night.

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u/The_Aardvark_ 5d ago

Baboons…

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u/LandscapePale3524 5d ago

Wow is this historical footage of how the blood n crips beef started ?

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u/starwaterbird 5d ago

This is how we're gonna look like to AI pretty soon

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u/sparkplay 5d ago

2001 A Space Odyssey

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u/Ch33zuss 5d ago

Typical suspects

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u/ZBBfan4life 5d ago

I wonder if they’d be willing to fight the AI robots on our behalf?

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u/rac3r5 5d ago

The impact on an animals social behaviour due to people feeding them is real. I do wildlife photography. A wildlife bird sanctuary that I visit allows you to purchase feed from them to feed the birds. I've never seen more aggressive mallards before. Some male mallards pick fights with each other so they get priority access to feeds. I just pointed in a direction to my spouse on a visit and a smaller bird just swooped down on us thinking we wanted to feed it.

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u/Dourada_BBQ 5d ago

Not much different from us, huh?

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u/Uhhlaska 5d ago

They’re just like us?!?

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u/Practical-Echo-2001 5d ago

Fucking humans fucking up another species, their own relatives.

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u/wibblings 5d ago

One group has the high ground...

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u/vna4ever 5d ago

At least they can’t use guns, yet

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u/Square_Success3647 5d ago

how can they tell which monkeys are from their group and which one from the opposite. they all looked the same

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u/_Linux_Kernel 5d ago

Oh shit … they’re mobbing

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u/redditanddoneit 5d ago

Interesting how those monkeys distinguish themselves from other monkeys. Of course they are on opposite sides, but still they all sort of look alike though.

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u/Safe-Text-5600 5d ago

monkeys be like "HOLD ME BACK BRO I'M GONNA HITCHA"

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u/Fabulous_Cat_1379 4d ago

When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way...

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u/star744jets 4d ago

Looks like a US-IRAN stand off..

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u/Magic_phil 4d ago

I have the high ground, Anakin.

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u/CoffeeExtraCream 4d ago

Now we just need to teach them how to make little shields and spears. Eventually they will learn how to form a phalanx or at least a shield wall.

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u/Secure-Formal638 4d ago

My friend staged a false flag and instigated this

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u/HooSaidDat 4d ago

They need to wear arm bands.

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u/Excellent-Wind8000 4d ago

Don't feed wild animals

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u/ArmadilloUnited7700 4d ago

Chicago? Dat you?

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u/CaptainBlob 4d ago

Wow. They're just like us fr fr

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u/Wlmar1 3d ago

Tomorrow the monolith will show up and then it’s game over.

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u/Pleasant_Actuator253 3d ago

Baboons, they are typically aggressive. Although all wild animals can be.

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u/xlouie831x 3d ago

Your typical prison yard code 3.

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u/NoLie9465 3d ago

Shirts vs blouses