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In footage posted to the site by a woman named Lola Testu, the great ape can be seen sidling over to the shades moments after they were dropped into her living quarters.
"I accidentally dropped my sunglasses in the orangutan enclosure at a zoo in Indonesia," a caption introducing the clip explains.
The woman filming the video from above the enclosure initially fears that the animal might have other ideas for her sunglasses.
"Oh no, don't eat it," she is heard saying.
But the orangutan knows better than that.
Within seconds she has opened both arms of the shades and is preparing to put them on.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/orangutan-steals-zoo-visitors-sunglasses-in-video-viewed-over-24-million-times/ar-AAMQSN5?ocid=msedgntp
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)They are crazy smart and magnificent creatures
Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)ansible
(1,718 posts)Always fascinated me how they got all the way to Asia, all the other big primates are in Africa only.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Orangutans are the only ones who survived this long
Maru Kitteh
(28,313 posts)Kittycatkat
(1,356 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)brush
(53,735 posts)IcyPeas
(21,839 posts)Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)sheshe2
(83,637 posts)She looks great in those shades.
Did she toss them back in the end and get a treat? Looked like it.
Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)sheshe2
(83,637 posts)She opens her glasses as I sometimes do when my hands are full. Mouth for one stem and a finger for the other.
This was wonderful to watch.
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,311 posts)spooky3
(34,401 posts)Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)Duppers
(28,117 posts)Rangs are the best.
Archetypist
(218 posts)It should read "Human drops sunglasses; orangutan finds glasses". The orangutan did not steal anything.
Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,944 posts)Hekate
(90,538 posts)viva la
(3,266 posts)The O looks very cool!
wnylib
(21,312 posts)looks through them, and then experiments with turning them another way, apparently trying to figure out what they're suppposed to do. Unimpressed with the view through thrm, she tosses them back.
catchnrelease
(1,944 posts)I think she was doing a trade, you see a bunch of some vegetables thrown to her after she flings the glasses out. Keepers can often get the great apes to do a trade for something found in the exhibit in exchange for a prized food item. Sometimes they will even bring things they find in exhibits to their night quarters and offer them to keepers in an offer to barter. They are WAY smarter than most people realize.
wnylib
(21,312 posts)I think most animals are. We are arrogant in our assumptions about the lack of animal intelligence.
Scottie Mom
(5,812 posts)Thanks for posting this!
Xolodno
(6,383 posts)Monkey see, monkey do.
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)Talitha
(6,558 posts)burrowowl
(17,632 posts)DFW
(54,268 posts)That's setting rather a low bar.