Your Life as an Orangutan

In this video we discover what your life would’ve been like if you were born as an Orangutan

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[FrankBlaskovich]

i love how many references you added to real life orangutan interactions, the jacket, golf cart, leaf medicine, etc

[leflamewolf]

Fun fact, as referenced at the end of the video many cultures that grew around orangutans have legends that they are actually capable of human speech but avoid doing so around people so that they won't be forced to work. Honestly? That's fair.

[Orangutanluvr]

THE MEDICINE WOUND JOKE MADE MY ORANGUTAN RESEARCHER HEART HAPPY

[Rainbow_Sish_Kabob]

8:44 I like how you incorporated the recent news that orangutans use medicinal plants into the video.

[mrhalfsaid]

I love how the main joke of the vid is having Orangutans be as intelligent as humans just cause they want to stay as monke

[ICXR]

Wow, the lives of Orangutans are actually pretty chill compared to most other animals.

[darkpandalord]

Fun Fact: Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas all have sweat glands, but orangutans lack them. The branch that would include the orangutans branched off our evolutionary tree before we evolved sweat glands.

[rl]

8:45 I like the little detail of using the leaf as a way of tending to his wound. Orangutans actually do this, and this behavior was documented recently with an Orangutan who had an injury in the same spot the one in the video had. Great reference!

[trevorlee]

8:45 I like the reference to the orangutan found using plants to heap himself.

[docu-menter]

I want to add some very minor information : )

Orangutans near research centre in Borneo sometimes like to imitate human bipedal stance, and sometimes even does bipedal walking on the ground. I am pretty sure it's uncomfortable for them to do that, but they do it for the lolz anyway.

This is something that their Sumatran counterpart can't have as much, even if they are intrigued by how human walk. Because of...well...Tigers.

[riskybusinessish]

the scratched face plant ointment application is very fresh and newly documented behaviour! well done to add it in!

[rosswebster]

Brilliant storytelling in this one! I love that this strays away from the often overused trope of orangutans being just passive victims of habitat loss and adapting to the influx of humans.

[DnDj]

Look what u did... now he has to pay taxes

[Real_Arthur_Morgan]

This is genuinely my favorite series of youtube videos.

[Night_City_Vibes]

I was calling BS on the boat than I googled it, these guys are almost human

[ndmeenyweeny]

At 8:44 was a nice little reference to that one male orangutan who was spotted rubbing herbs on his damage faced which later healed completely

[Danosauruscrecks]

I like that they go back to check on their mom

[juanc]

That "Bending nature to your will" bit actually caught me off guard good one

[misanthropicservitorofmars]

Worst part of orangutans is they used to be all over Asia. Unfortunately, some humans and denisovians saw them as a food source…

[vincentclark]

I like the addition of them using local leaves to heal a wound on their face, like the recent article!