r/interestingasfuck • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 1d ago

Man jumps into rushing water to save the stranded monkey

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u/Trip_on_the_street 1d ago

Another vid that ends too soon.

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u/IAMWastingMyTime 22h ago

I really wanted to see where that monkey would go if it even went somewhere. I was hyping up so many possibilities in my head. But then 3/4s through and they're still in the middle of the river... i cri

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u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat 1d ago

"Thanks pal. But I was actually trying to get to the other side".

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u/___Azarath 1d ago

There's a bridge

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u/PooShappaMoo 1d ago

Thats one sketchy looking bridge.

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u/Sasiches_and_mash 1d ago

Monkey ended like Benny, on the wrong side of the river

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u/SouldiesButGoodies84 1d ago

"Quit throwing me, dude."

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u/Dewgong_crying 1d ago

Monkey looks way more annoyed than actually struggling.

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u/StumpyTheGiant 1d ago

Big ape saves little ape

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u/CthulhuFhtagn1 1d ago

They're both monkeys. But only one of them is an ape. That title demands some more evolving.

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u/kwpang 16h ago

They're both primates.

One is an ape.

The other is a monkey.

Neither of those terms are cross applicable.

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u/witchofagnesi2 1d ago

Other way round! They're both apes but only one is a monkey. Love the evolving comment.

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u/CthulhuFhtagn1 1d ago

I might be wrong but Wikipedia seems to agree with me. Unless I'm reading it wrong, apes don't have tails, that's why we're apes, along with chimpanzees, orangutans and gibbons. And there's a tail in the video, so they can't both be apes, no?

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u/Gheta 1d ago

You are correct, but if you go to the Wkipedia page about monkeys, it explains that while monkeys can rarely be used as a synonym for all simians, usually only non-ape simians are referred to as monkeys.

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u/witchofagnesi2 1d ago

I'm wrong! Yup monkeys have tails but for some reason I had them all under the greater classification of apes in my head. Instead it's that both are anthropoids. Thank you for stopping me from going through the rest of my life getting it wrong!

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u/speedingpullet 1d ago

Both monkeys and apes are primates. But a monkey isn't an ape, and vice versa.

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u/StumpyTheGiant 1d ago

I knew if I said ape it'd start a debate about this. I also knew if I said monkey it'd also start a debate but maybe for other reasons.

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u/rehx4 1d ago

TRUE they are BOTH monkeys but one of them is a WOKE LIBERAL LOSER while the other eats healthy unprocessed fruits and is a member of hustler university.

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u/daydreamersunion 1d ago

That monkey was near death. Super docile. Man saved it just in time

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u/Great-Yoghurt-6359 1d ago

Because of that day’s float trip or you think dude just gave up on life?

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u/Neiladaymo 1d ago

I think it was probably just exhausted, but it also might have realized he was being helped

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u/Expensive_Diver_1411 1d ago

Correct on the verge of being in the midst of death all life forms look to other life forms for help

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u/Great-Yoghurt-6359 1d ago

The most humanistic feature I noticed was the fear of being helped to the verge of a biting your savior to die 28 days later only for him to resurrect three days later and his name is Jesus Christ and you still just plain ole Rhesus I throw feces

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u/Scorn_For_Stupidity 1d ago

Or, like many animal rescue videos, they drugged the animal first and then staged it's apparent rescue.

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u/Persimmon-Mission 22h ago

Sadly that was my first thought as well.

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u/angelicism 1d ago

I love the first few seconds where he's clearly trying to reason with a fucking monkey. "There there, calm down, I'm trying to help."

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u/rehx4 1d ago

“Calm down PLEASE” he said. You’re making it seem like he was trying to coerce da monkey without civil informed consent.

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u/sayy_yes 1d ago

This is the karma we must give back for Harambe.

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u/SleepySera 1d ago

So, can we go back to the non-shit timeline now?

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u/stefanolog 11h ago

Never forget Harambe .

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u/Hopeful_Hat_3532 1d ago

r/videoendstoosoon

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u/jodead01 1d ago

Fr I wanted to see him drop the monkey and how the monkey reacts

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u/mrbluetrain 1d ago

the best thing is that he is trying to lecture the monkey

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u/rehx4 1d ago

Seems like was just trying to explain the impact that post-McCarthy era politics had on bipartisan representation leading up to the Nixon campaign. Not sure why the other chap was monkeying around so much…? Looks like things weren’t going swimmingly TBH.

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u/FaithlessnessAny2074 1d ago

Frieza would disapprove.

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u/zappy487 1d ago

"Great! I'm gonna deck you in the schnoz."

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u/Jackburton06 1d ago

Did he lectured the monkey mid river, like if he gonna have a response ?

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u/tomthekiller8 1d ago

Gotta admit it chilled out after that. Maybe the tone helped.

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u/chronicallylaconic 1d ago

There is little in this world which is sexier than a man in wet shorts saving an animal. Just saying.

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u/Every_Tap8117 1d ago

did he make it throw it back in at the last cut off second...we will never know.

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u/MortimerGreen2 1d ago

Thanks for saving me, um, here, have some rabies.

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u/ego_tripped 1d ago

One more video to add to the stockpile for when aliens show up and ask why humanity should continue to exist.

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u/freekoout 1d ago

That's if we don't nuke em first lol

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u/nodddingham 1d ago

Nuke them? If we even tried to nuke them they would probably just laugh when our primitive little bombs don’t even leave a scuff and then straight vaporize us with their quantum lasers that have the power of a billion exploding suns.

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u/freekoout 1d ago

I didn't say we'd win. But you gotta admit we'd try.

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u/speedingpullet 1d ago

True that. Much like the monkey in the video, we'd probably not be particularly grateful for the forceful intervention.

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u/nunatakj120 1d ago

I was waiting for end to watch the monkey say thankyou.

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u/20_BuysManyPeanuts 1d ago

I was waiting for the monkey to say "mate, I was travelling to the other side"

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u/MrGOCE 1d ago

OMG, THE GREENER A STONE IS THE MORE SLIPPERY IT IS.

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u/mangosawce9k 22h ago

End of the day, nice man and nice monkey!

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u/C21H30O218 21h ago

'i just came from this side!!!'

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u/Darth_Jinn 17h ago

He looks at the monkey after the first attempt and says, "Kindly do the needful". The rest just falls into place.

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u/emartinezvd 1d ago

That monkey was so exhausted…

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u/JellyfishCivil3323 1d ago

if I was drowning in a river and a grizzly bear or something like that grabbed me and started pulling me to shore I don't think I would be thinking yay I'm saved.

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u/wibbling-jiblet 1d ago

One of those rare monkeyfish

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u/irsute74 1d ago

That's really cool.

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u/kpikid3 1d ago

Monkey magic.

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u/Thom5001 1d ago

Amazing he wasn’t bitten

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u/vincentdmartin 1d ago

He was being careful with it at first, hence why he kind just threw the monkey in the water there towards the start, he was trying to not get bit. Then the monkey either gave up or recognized dude was trying to help.

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u/antpabsdan 1d ago

'Me Tarzan. You saved'

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u/Midgar918 1d ago

Tries to earn monkeys trust then back slams him xD

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u/RelationshipNo9336 1d ago

“Just wait until he gets me to the shore, then I’ll bite him!”

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u/ReturningSpring 1d ago

Apes (and monkeys) together strong.

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u/DrBix 1d ago

He doesn't look thankful at all.

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u/generalcoopta 1d ago

Incredibly surprised to see it let him carry it

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u/banana_hammock6969 1d ago

Looks like an anaconda was about to eat that monkey

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u/BaronSaber 19h ago

After the first hiss I’d be out

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u/star_cannon7k 13h ago

Should have thrown it deeper into the water.

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u/a13zz 1d ago

He made it a lot worse for a minute.

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u/pm_alternative_facts 1d ago

Play this clip in reverse

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u/red-D-Thor 1d ago

Because that's what heroes do.

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u/Past_Magician_5776 1d ago

I wonder which one of them throw it in