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Sometimes a time-out just isn't enough....
@Meowology
7 жыл бұрын
LOL
@Lauren72382
5 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@tomsperduti2967
2 жыл бұрын
LMGAO!
@ghostinthemachine4591
2 жыл бұрын
😂🤣😂😂
@kekaharris6618
2 жыл бұрын
That's fucked up 😂😂😂
Some parents love their babies so much that they could just eat them up.
@LuDaCo93
7 жыл бұрын
MedEighty yee
@ohboy1113
5 жыл бұрын
Oof
@Bramon83
3 жыл бұрын
How does this comment only have 117 likes...
@dabooser1048
3 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAHA savage
in the chimp this is very common, I guess bonobos are different. if the baby had died naturally or from another ape then eating it is just a way not to waste calories/energy used to raise it
@valtterisopenpera9306
7 жыл бұрын
common nope chimps sometimes eat their enemies if it comes to killing but that is rare chimps fight a lot but they rarely kill because chimps live in small family groups
6 жыл бұрын
anabolicmind OR, maybe it just taste good?
@nimblebimble
4 жыл бұрын
Valtteri Sopenperä After humans, chimps kill their own species the more than other great apesZ Killing is certainly not rare in chimps. Also, they don’t live in small family groups, but in socially complex troops which can often grow surprisingly large in number.. Infanticide within troops has prominently been recorded in Chimpanzees. Uniquely, both male and female chimps have been known to be perpetrators.
@BoxofCrowns1013
3 жыл бұрын
@@valtterisopenpera9306 but these are bonobos not chimps. Theirs a key difference
@valtterisopenpera9306
3 жыл бұрын
@@BoxofCrowns10133 years old comment but i was answering to the part where he said that in chimps cannibalism is common when it is rare and when it happens its against enemy groups
If a baby dies of natural causes, eating the body has a few possible benefits. Other than simple free meat, leaving a corpse lying around could attract scavenging animals that could pose a threat to other members of the troop, particularly the other young.
@burnwankenobi803
4 жыл бұрын
mrsanity what animal is a threat to chimps?
@florencefinnigan3980
4 жыл бұрын
Big cats, snakes, poisonous insects.
@crkcrk702
3 жыл бұрын
No, not true. Chimps so bonobos too I guess show much respect to their deads. But... Maybe for youngs it's not the same? Maybe it differs between cultures? Maybe this bonobo mum had big mental problems (probably)? And other bonobos didnt find a problem by eating a child they didnt know?
@anttheknee64
3 жыл бұрын
@@crkcrk702 we don't really know what's considered morally right among bonobos or chimps, so this could be a normal mum
@crkcrk702
3 жыл бұрын
@@anttheknee64 yea but I know a chimp mum was concerned about her young baby who died since she carried it for more than a month
I nearly had the same problem with one of my ex's, she started talking about frying up the placenta.. That's the point when you realise that enough is enough!
@EchoesInTheMind
7 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@ashtonbybee4837
7 жыл бұрын
im genuinely curious if your being serious or not?
@biggus6633
6 жыл бұрын
But does it taste good?
@imapaperdoll2218
4 жыл бұрын
@@biggus6633 it tastes like liver.
@assassin0547
4 жыл бұрын
ashton bybee People actually do this, makes me sick tbh 🤮
Was going to dislike the video, but then I thought, um..well, it's not Earth Unplugged's fault. They're just showing it to us. Disliking is like disapproving their work, not the content of the video.
@ErikGsson
7 жыл бұрын
Yep!, I get sad when people dislike because of the story within, and not like for the effort from the youtuber.
@iamjimgroth
7 жыл бұрын
Mohamed Farouk Actually, the function of dislikes and likes is to help other users find or avoid good or bad content.
@MarkShaneHansen
7 жыл бұрын
Jim, he was considering disliking the video because of the actions of the animals, not because he didn't like the video. I.e. not bad content.
@iamjimgroth
7 жыл бұрын
Mark The Gr8 Possibly. People in general probably dislike the video because they didn't like it, which is perfectly valid, even if the reason they didn't like it is of what it depicts.
@MarkShaneHansen
7 жыл бұрын
Jim Groth If they dislike because they don't like the video, it's valid. If they dislike because they don't like the behavior of some animals depicted in it, that's not valid. But of course, that's just opinions.
I once saw two street puppies eat their dead brother. By the gods that was a bad day
@thelegend-e7919
7 жыл бұрын
+براہمداغ it's a dog eat dog world out there
@cassony0987
7 жыл бұрын
lol
@NikkieRoxxx
6 жыл бұрын
couldnt say this any better, eh?
@veiserexab1428
3 жыл бұрын
Some animals would eat their own offspring's fresh corpse and might share it to other members so it would not go into a waste
@Sandman27-88
3 жыл бұрын
@@veiserexab1428 yes but usually we equate intelligence and empathy with these great apes yet look at her chomping away NO MATTWR HOW CLOSE THEY ARE TO US THEY ARE STILL HORRIBLE CRAZY DISGUSTING ANIMALS I ABSOLUTELY ABHOR But we have to save em!!! 🤦🏻♂️ seriously we can’t let them go extinct. We need them around and we need to get their numbers up to put a male chimp and a male bonobo in a chimp lab cage together in new Iberia LA!!! 🥰🤣🤣🤣
So there are 2 possibilities: 1) this is a behaviour that most bonobos would do under certain situations 2) this is an abnormal behaviour expressed by this particular female, much like human cannibals in western society. given that she is sharing with her troop who are also eating it, probably the first one.
@SeanStrife
7 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not... this isn't the first report of cannibalism in bonobos... so it's more than likely the first possibility you listed.
It may be rare for bonobos, but for animals in general, it's not unheard of.
Bonobo cannibalism... Bonobobalism?
@Icemagor
7 жыл бұрын
Bonobo Canobolism
@gabem4208
7 жыл бұрын
Canobonobolism
@Icemagor
7 жыл бұрын
Perfect
@Mountchoirboy
6 жыл бұрын
both are perfect. Funny how we love to make fun of horror
@angelobellino5716
6 жыл бұрын
Master Therion Bonoboner
I'd like to point out that the multiple (3) warnings on this video about how graphic it supposedly is are a really interesting choice by the Earth Unplugged folks. I mean, we see animals eating meat on nature documentaries all the time - I would assume that most people expect that there will be some eating of animals when watching nature documentaries, because that's what omnivores and carnivores do. So, that would mean that the warnings were unnecessary - most of us could have anticipated the gore. What's interesting then is the warnings themselves - they're not actually because the video itself is graphic, but because the context could be considered unnerving to many humans. Interesting to think about how they had to couch this video in protectively worded warnings, even though cannibalism is something that happens in nature, and procedurally is not that different from any other carnivorous activity, just because the idea of it makes humans alone uncomfortable.
@leomdk939
4 жыл бұрын
Bonobos resemble humans in a lot of ways. That's the part that could be disturbing to people -- seeing an animal gnawing on a dismembered arm is more disturbing to people than typical carnivorous gore or even non-primate cannibalism.
@crkcrk702
3 жыл бұрын
@@leomdk939 i agree a spider eating its baby isnt gore
@solitairecatnaps4444
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, it definitely makes us humans uncomfortable. All those videos of bonobos holding and loving on their offspring like humans and other great apes, then this is a jarring revelation.
@kimmiewise1044
2 жыл бұрын
@@solitairecatnaps4444 It’s even more jarring considering humans aren’t really any better. If you look at what many were forced to do to survive Holodomor, it’s gruesome to say the least. And that was in the 20th century not even a 100 years have passed…
Perfect timing for Halloween.
Not so rare in the animal kingdom, from crocodiles (who eat up most of their own young) to lions, who also occasionally snack on their own ill/dead cubs.
It's absolutely not clear if thats a young bonobo
When your grandparents grew in WW2 and you aren't allowed to throw away food
I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and banay-nays. I like to oot, oot, oot, ooples and bonobos...
It didn't kill the baby but It was like "Bummer!Ahh well. I was getting hungry anyway."
She's just had enough of being vegan.
Peace, love, and cannibalism... Seriously though bonobos are probably more similar to chimps and humans in this way than many like to admit.
Is that her older kid sharing its baby brother/sister with her ? it must very persuasive.
This family is religious, that's their religious practice.
@sbellaharris
7 жыл бұрын
shenglongx oh I'm sorry, I forgot that atheists eat babies. My bad.
@sbellaharris
7 жыл бұрын
shenglongx haha. there you go.
Some tribes do this with thier dead, animal protien is just too valuble to waste.
@uvwuvw-ol3fg
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed, it has been said that it's often done in a ritual ceremony to show respect, etc.
You know when u see something cute and you say "gosh I just wanna eat you". yeah I think the mother took that too literally
Get all your vegan friends to watch this looool
@Hewnrewk
7 жыл бұрын
Extremely rare, doesn't make it natural ;) Yea you're right, big difference, apes are closer to us so even more relevant ;)
@sapphire48481
7 жыл бұрын
Henka44 yuk
@sapphire48481
7 жыл бұрын
Sorry, spoke out of turn.
@biggus6633
6 жыл бұрын
Henka44 Oh please what do you know about life? What do you know about what is natural and what is right or wrong. The truth is you only want to believe in what makes you feel good. Remember this: belief is not truth. What one believes doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true or right.
@nofearonlylove21
6 жыл бұрын
Its a behavior not a design just so ya know
I'm guessing there was something wrong with that baby & mom was thinking "waste not want not!"
You can hear them talking to each other at 01:10
@Killbunny
7 жыл бұрын
LKAChannel wow dude. Bonobos have an amazing vocal skill.
This behaviour is seen in other animal species(go search forexample "Do rabbits eat their offspring") .. Some explanations could be.. Mother lacks nutrition? Baby is handicapped/deficient in some way? If prey animals are scared they might also eat their young to not give up their location.
We don't share anything close to 98% of our DNA with them. The actual measurement-after considering non-coding sequences, arrangement of genes, etc-yielded results closer to 60-70% similarity. The original 98% figure came from an early study that ignored regions thought to have more variation and only considered genes (thereby ignoring non-coding segments, which happen to make up the bulk of our DNA).
@PaulBarthmaier0
7 жыл бұрын
You realize that you're making an unsubstantiated claim, right? It would be helpful to see a reference on this, maybe a link to something peer-reviewed?
@iamjimgroth
7 жыл бұрын
Even if this is true, what does it matter? The subject is only ever brought up to prove we have common ancestry.
You're grounded... literally
yo dawg it's like harambe all over again!
0:17, "yoo you've got a little facemeat on your lip. Lemme get that for you. "
Now I am hungry
fascinating
My lizards siblings ate his leg, he was alive at the time. He lived and is a healthy adult now though
@kjeezy2990
2 жыл бұрын
That’s hardcore
But was it an opportunistic meal or did the mother kill the chimp due to lack of food
When sharing is caring when too far.
Pretty sure it died itself and she was hungry
Very interesting this has to be extremely rare behavior I wonder if the mother or any group of the pack did the actual Killing or if they are just seizing the opportunity for a rare meal of meat. Could have been a number of things starvation, natural causes, detection of a fatal disease or even killed by a opposing group, or a male within the group to speed up the mating process , could have also just pissed the wrong adult off and was made an example of
Need to show this to the kids
I looked up bonobos being tickled
Acctualy, what happened is that another ape kidnapped the mother's baby and ate him, probably thinking that he was Just a fresh meat.
Well this is awfully appropriate for Halloween. Something tells me it was intentional...
When mama tells you to act right, you'd best act right.
Wow they're just like us
Wow!
I've often wondered if this was the start in our evolution to go from 4 limbs to 2 walking and hunting for meat, they've already started using tools...
@anttheknee64
3 жыл бұрын
A major environmental pressure caused us to go bipedal. this was habitat loss. essentially, due to climate change, the jungles that we previously lived in were either turned into safaris, or we had to move into safaris, I'm unsure. anyways, the grass was tall there and we were already adapting tool use, so bipedalism would give us an advantage. with bipedalism, you could hold and make tools using both hands, instead of using our hands to walk quadrupetically. the lack of trees also made it useless to keep opposable thumbs on our toes for climbing, so very gradually, our feet became more fit for bipedalism, along with other bodily structures. in conclusion, there were very specific circumstances that led us down this path.
Our family dog once gave birth (her 4th time) and some unfortunately didnt make it, i was saddened but shocked afterwards when i witnessed her eating the pups that didnt make it
@opensprings
5 жыл бұрын
Why didn't you stop her?
@alexyap4686
5 жыл бұрын
They were already half eaten by the time i noticed it was her pup she was eating and to be honest i was horrified at the sight but also contemplated the fact that it may be a mother thing and what she should be supposed to be doing for some reason, is it that too abnormal of a behavior for our dog to have done that?
@opensprings
5 жыл бұрын
@@alexyap4686 I don't think it's abnormal, I just think it's weird. And it's just really gross to me
@kjeezy2990
2 жыл бұрын
My dog had 5 puppies.. woke up the next morning to 4..
The baby may have been sick, I know mother cats and dogs have been known to kill thier newborns if there's something wrong with them, hopefully thats all it was
@watchensee
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah or the baby was stillborn or just died.
The horror...
Were they starving? That may explain it.
Broooooo...for the first 1o seconds of this vid I LITERALLY THOUGHT MOM WAS LITERALLY EATING BABY WHO WAS MOVING ALIVE IN FRONT OF HER.. Just casually chewing on a hand...while he playfully hops around.. then of course I see it was prob one of his little bros and sis..... Still completley SAVAGE AND BRUTAL nonetheless
Maybe she had a serious case of the munchies.... Reefer Madness.
Maybe the baby was stillborn and the mother decided to consume its remains, rather than just leaving it to rot?
@Gra1i1ude
3 жыл бұрын
I've seen it in dogs with dead pups, half a pup in a whelping crate is a jarring sight.
@watchensee
3 жыл бұрын
@@Gra1i1ude A lot of animals will eat their own dead young, hamsters/rabbits/wolves ect. will do it too. It's thought to be a natural instinct to keep the nest or den clean. Nature is not fair nor kind.
@Gra1i1ude
3 жыл бұрын
@@watchensee Indeed 👍
_I guess you could say... It's cannibanannalism...Kill me_
Even hamsters and gerbils can resort to eating and sharing one of their own whenever they think they can't take care of it.
@watchensee
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah or if the baby is still born.
That Bonobo turned into a hamster
This is upsetting, I heard that bonobos' are very pieceful and gentle. Someone must find the reason behind this.
@ahabtheplant
7 жыл бұрын
bloodnovski A ritual sharing?
@fatsamcastle
7 жыл бұрын
bloodnovski it's nature, even humans have eaten their own children
@fatsamcastle
7 жыл бұрын
BrotherWoody1 bonobo lives matter, hands up babies down
@Bastacat
7 жыл бұрын
Not sure ''must find'' is the right approach. It would be interesting,sure,but that's about it. In general,who cares - it's their busyness,if not for the curiosity of human species,we shouldn't care,we should leave the animals to their own devices and know better to keep distance as much as possible.
@rogeriopenna9014
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, we must call the Bonobo Cops.
what...the...
A lot of times animals eat their babies when they die because itnattracts predators if youmleave it there and is easy food
that is sad,but more info is coming out about other primates and monkeys that have done this
@amazingsupergirl7125
3 жыл бұрын
Terry Rose that’s because it happens all the time. This is a big deal because bonobos eat fruit and vegetables not meat. They shouldn’t even know how to kill. This is probably their first time. Imagine catching a koala or a panda eating their baby. That’s how bizarre this is.
The son had cancer and the mom is eating out the cancer. OR, the mother was just famished.
Wasn't as graphic as I imagined, it is pretty strange for such domesticated creatures
@solitairecatnaps4444
3 жыл бұрын
These are wild bonobos.
@d05wtt
Жыл бұрын
“Domesticated”
@TrvisXXIII
Жыл бұрын
@@d05wtt maybe I used the wrong terminology, they’ve been known to be gentler than most ape species
Thought they're the chimpz ? lol
WARNING: This video contains graphic footage than some people may find distressing Excellent...
@MedEighty
7 жыл бұрын
In other words: WARNING: Your morbid curiosity compels you to watch this.
Dogs eat their owners when left with their corpses. Doesn’t mean they aren’t heartbroken or that they didn’t care about them. It often starts as licking and morning and then moves on to consuming.
@amazingsupergirl7125
3 жыл бұрын
The Merrymaker's Orchestrina abut dogs will also starve to death without eating their owners. It depends on the dog.
@cheshdagamer894
3 жыл бұрын
Thats not true.
What da heck!
It could be sick too
Why am I here
🤣🤣🤣🤣
A lesson to the brother there.. Do your home work or you are lunch
Harambe?
Bad breakup?
I was eating.... Why did I click?
@TWJfdsa
7 жыл бұрын
checking the menu?
@brianpso
7 жыл бұрын
I am eating, and I can still eat just fine. What's the problem with watching this while eating?
@LlNDEN
7 жыл бұрын
I clicked... Then started eating
@EchoesInTheMind
7 жыл бұрын
LlNDEN That is as savage as it gets. Not that I stopped eating lol
@11jeopardy11
7 жыл бұрын
LlNDEN I eating... Then I started clicked
Maybe the bonobo in question simply was a psychopath.
Maybe the foot was infected or it didn't work properly?? I know mother cats eat their dead.
Might be what they do with there dead instead of a funeral.
Damn. I thought they were the peaceful ones.. -__-
@asishrameshun
5 жыл бұрын
Same here :(
so much for settling their differences having sex.,
"The baby just would not stop crying officer.."
Maybe it was already dead
Mother of the year
Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit ....
:(
Anybody else hungry after watching this?
@protocetid
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah I went and grabbed my own kid!
@chaoswolf1999
7 жыл бұрын
protocetid enjoy your meal my dude.
@sardonyxz
7 жыл бұрын
protocetid your comment is so horrible but I couldn't help laugh 😂😂😂😂😂
Horrible camera skills. Made me dizzy 😵
If tribal humans did it, I'm not surprised here.
... maybe it's false and just for... halloween? oO
It was I DIO
Gives a new meaning to, “your baby is just so cute that I could eat it alive!” However, jokes aside, us humans valued our young and if bonobos shares over 90% of our DNAs, let summarise that they share the same value about their young too. Now, humans fall pregnant and due to all these incredible advancements in the medical fields, whilst expecting you can be tested and scanned at various stages of pregnancy and if unfortunately something is found wrong with the developing foetus, the carrier will be given options to terminate, and usually in modern humans it’s all about the money and not having enough to deal with the prospect of having a diseased or disabled child, we have that luxury. Unfortunately wild animals don’t, and if the pregnancy doesn’t end in a miscarriage, the baby will have to be bore. The kind of reputation wild life shows put across about bonobo apes, I’m very adamant that this mother killed her baby, and from can be seen of the remains of the infant, it’s not a newborn. I’m thinking the infant was born diseased and had obviously been taken good care off by its mother, as the mother seems to have an older offspring in her care that looks very comfortable with its mother. It seems the baby did die, but because bonobos don’t have the luxury that us humans are spoilt with, (the bonobo mother can’t go on Instagram, Facebook and write about her grief and talk to Oprah,) she’s a wild animal and still is a mother to her toddler and yes, I do have a strong belief that animals do mourn, but she’s still a mother and she still have to look for food and survive a hard life in the wild. She would have understood something was wrong with her newborn, that she’s already invested so much of her energy into, so it makes sense for animals to recycle the remains of their offspring especially when they still got other offsprings depended on her to survive into adulthood. In the animal world, there’s only two choices they have over the remains of their babies, abandon or eat it. I do actually believe if that bonobo mother didn’t have other offspring to raise, she wouldn’t had eaten her dead baby and would have done the typical things we seen great apes mothers and other mammals do where they’re seen mourning the lost by carry their dead offspring or staying close to it, tending to the corpses as if still alive until advancement of decomposition became too much for them. There’s also been stories of great ape mothers actually hiding the remains of their young somewhere hidden so that their bodies wouldn’t be scavenge upon by predators
/r/natureismetal.
Awesome disease infested creatures will in fact eat anything surpassing a pig hands down
Wheres the proof in this video ??? As far as I see it's just you telling us about this video that we can't see fully what's going on ? So how can you see what's going on ? Was you there blood ? I call bullshit
Both of the babies are present, this is fake news. They eat bush babies. Small mamal living in Congo jungles. What a joke!
Still a better love story than Twilight.
What's so bad about it? Bipeds should do the same to stop overpopulation.
@alabamianalien7081
6 жыл бұрын
Brian H. Stastny Alabamians are gods
Maybe it died
gross
I know you will call me crazy but is it maybe some kind of... ritual??
Every bonobo should do this to her baby.