How smart are orangutans? - Lu Gao
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Along with humans, orangutans belong to the Hominidae family tree, which stretches back 14 million years. But it’s not just their striking red hair that makes orangutans unique among our great ape cousins. Lu Gao shares some amazing facts about these incredibly intelligent great apes from Asia.
Lesson by Lu Gao, animation by Anton Bogaty.
I love how Fu Manchu escapes his cell, and just stays at the zoo and hangs out with his friends
That's because he knows and/or knew, that staying close to the zoo meant he would not have to forage for food, but instead just be given food.
Monké smart
Even I didn't think of that. Iranians are the best
Orangutan
@@tylerwilson5769 was that autocorrect? If so thats hilarious
I saw a video of an orangutan making a trade with a guy for a banana
I just came from that video
Same
No way? What a coincidence! I've also seen that.
Here's the video czcams.com/video/qVF6cO6_dF8/video.html
@@stevenlee6407 I also came from that video 🤣
1:08 orangutans have better Reproductive Life Plan than most people
Yup
i was thinking the exact same
Yup
They don't even need to worry about food or taxes, while we're struggling simple math
We have a lot of things to learn from them
“The Person of the forest” part touched my heart lady 😢
me too 🙁
Orang = person
Utan (hutan) = forest
@@lurifos9576 thanks for this etymology
*People* of the forest
Yup that part touched my heart too, i understand little bit Malay language, but never realized that orangutan is mean "person in the forest"😢
Orang = Person
Utan(hutan) = Forest
"It's gonna be a sad, sad Earth if we lose these faces of the forest."
-Steve Irwin, speaking about orangutans
F
Bruh
@@pumpkinsdontcry?
Nothing last forever you know even the sun or the earth even the galaxy
@@Acer67 Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to preserve what we have. It is our ethical obligation to our future generations and to the future of the planet.
Fruit Soup? Ma'am, that's called juice.
So is that really a big problem
@@atas2561 yes
But there soup in the box..?????
@PEW PEW BOOM the only difference is soup is usual warm. Tomato soup becomes tomato juice at room temp technically
@PEW PEW BOOM no, but cold tomatoes soup is just juice
I recently heard this story where a member of the orangutan survival foundation went into the habitat to remove a venomous snake from the nearby river, however one of the orangutans thought the man had fallen in the river and offered a helping hand up, it was quite amazing to see and just goes to show that some animals are more human than they seem.
What is human ? Human you mean Human supposed did not do a cruel things?
Who says we are the top existence? Heck i wouldn't be surprised if orangutans got saved from this planet and not us humans
That orangutan is close enough to human, probably because he grows up in conservation facility before
@@NevrrPresntt You are so out of topic.
Dude humans are animals... We aren't above animals because we are mammals.
Orangutan is like that wise man that knows literally everything.
literally some random indian guy on youtube
like Dr. Zaius
I'm your 300th liker here & bye.
THIS ANIMATION IS SO FRIGGIN CUTE
This was my thought too, so nice!
same thought 😍
Shirangi Leo, is your name a reference to Futurama, or does it just sound similar by chance?
alazka16 the animation is..... *FABULOUS*
alazka16 WHY ALL CAPS
*f r u i t s o u p*
Ugandan Warrior He is trying to find da wey
best comment I’ve seen so far
Dank_Souls lol
Orangutans dex casuls, no wounder they get killed
soup fruit
I just know that one of them can drive a golf cart
in Malaysia/Indonesia, Orang means people and Hutan means jungle
Mun Chung they are basically forest people
Yes brother
interesting
The Natives of Borneo say that the only reason Orangutans don't speak is because then they'd have to work.
Man in the jungle
0:30
Now that is a useful double chin.
Well now I must invest in one for when the aliens put us in enclosers
I used them to hide remote when we, human still watch tv back then
@@arikakarin2323 What's a tv?
@@J_Mat hes being sarcastic
How to type
Here after watching orangutan driving golf cart
I'm convinced one day orangutans will replace me and no one will know lmao
Edit : I live in the middle of forests in Malaysia, its rare but we do see orangutans occasionally, and they really are smart.
Are you a ginger?
@@manuelalonsodominguezvazqu2145 I don't think anyone is ginger in Indonesia
Honestly sounds like a horror show, imagine when ur relatives visits and an orang utan opens the door a
@@berserk322 He is from Malaysia bro different countries. But yeah pretty sure no one in SEA are naturally ginger.
@@manuelalonsodominguezvazqu2145 are you assuming him a ginger orangutan? 😂
So what is stopping them from joining society...
Racism against gingers~
they have no souls
communication and language skills
+Miguel Meneses Hernandez I have no soul and I find your comment offensive. #SoulLessPride
PancakeVsWaffle No we aren't.
I am a chameleon and you are a butt~
very easy to answer, most people are not as smart as them and have only onedirectional thinking.
So the only problem that the Orangutans needs human help with, is caused by humans. Cool.
you cause a problem
you fix it
Yeah but not all problems need to be there from the beginning..
while it's true we can't make something out of nothing, we choose what we have to sacrifice and what we doesn't sacrifice
Or humans can just make smarter choices...
let me tell you, most human is a parasite
It's heartbreaking that so many of these gentle creatures are getting hurt by humans...
We just uploaded a video about an adventurous rescue mission, where Orangutan Nenuah - she was forced to work in a wildlife show in Thailand - is brought back to her native home, by helicopter. The moment when she felt the grass of her native forest underneath her feet for the very first time will give you goosebumps.
Talker: The orangutans were very smart
Me: So is that why the smart people in my class have orange hair??
bro wtf😂
They might be orangutan in disguise..
🤔 Hmmm.
Humans: look how orangutans are smart!
Aliens: look how humans are smart!
We're basically just smart monke
Some more than others, maybe the 1 or even 2% should make Contact. Aliens don't need to know about the 98% lol
@@edjoultz9678 yee
@@leesengwee4692 i wish we just stayed as monke just as smart as hooman
@@leesengwee4692 but we're apes-
"Outsmarting their extinction requires creativity, empathy and foresight that our species share."
What an absolutely brilliant line.
They are going to live like us I’m calling it
BET! Where do all humans share this empathy? We can't even set up a country wide system(anywhere) in which people will not end up starving.
@@ballsdeep9981 inequality in resource distribution has nothing to do with empathy. I can have empathy for people who are starving but still be unable to help them secure resources. The world isn’t fair and saying so doesn’t prove a lack of empathy.
Outsmarting our own extinction requires the same.
Just read that as she said it made it even crazier and I smoked a bowl lmao
This video is absolutely magnificent. The information, animation, voice over and general composition is top notch. The writing is superb and the subject matter is very interesting. I am so glad that this team has been producing such videos.
Thank you.
'...requires the creativity, empathy and foresight that our species lacks...i mean shares.'
I don't understand just how mentally sick you have be to go and kill an endangered animal...
I have been to countries like that, when you are so poor you can barely feed your family it makes you do alot of things you arent proud of.
Alex Alvaradocali yeh your right. I guess in reality I cant point the finger really, if I had to shoot an elephant to feed my family I would :/
Also, don't forget our own backyard. We have endangered species here too and our actions, while not direct like poachers, are affecting livelihoods of so many species. And take into account that Indonesia is the world's biggest producer of palm oil and rubber, the demand of which are influenced by all of us.
Money always be the answer
@RedRose7997 Best comment but it makes sheeple rage.
*How smart are orangutans?"*
Probably smarter than me during exams
*Apes from Rise of the planet of the apes shown* Object in mirror are closer than they are appear.
Look at this monkey
Who's "m"?
@@simpleinverso8628 it was supposed to be 'me'
I am ngl, COMMON SENSE
@@Casteray I'm just messing with y'all
i just saw one driving a golf cart so .... yeah they're very smart
2:19 me waiting for the shower to get warm at 3 am
Relatable
I think Orangutans are my favorite animal
#savetheorangutans from the Indonesian government
My favorite animal is the homo sapien.
+123 guy It's not the Indonesian government. It's everybody who uses paper and pencils. Everybody who uses palm oils and buys wooden chairs and tables.
+Superman I wouldnt necessarily say everyone, but I see your point.
my favourite is harambe
It's so sad that there is so many animals going extinct, because of selfish people that can't think about the future😥
yeah...
+Machiavelli "soon" no. Genetic engineering nor is our understanding of DNA advance enough.
I want to punch those people but Selena stopped me and said to kill em with kindness so I will give the a pie.. poisonous pie... DIE SELFISH ANIMAL KILLER PEOPLE
+Machiavelli no we dont have the technoology yet and even if we do they wont be the same as theyel have to been born from anothere animal so theye wont have the same brain as there normal self
Actually, WE DO have that. We already know how that works. We can clone things, and it is very possible to clone a human. However, it is very unethical.
"waiting 8yrs to have another baby." Imagine if human being room the same responsibility upon themselves.
The animation is so wonderful! I've never orangutans portrayed so playfully, as they should be. Bravo to the illustrator-@ Anton Bogaty!
you're weird
@@thegamergirl6164 kid
@@greeno_productions9932 bro
Video: *says fruit soup*
Me: *w h e e z e*
We have fruit soup as dessert in Indonesia, but I think its kinda different from Orangutas have haha
time stamp
wheeze
looks like someone has never heard of tomato soup XD
@@yolo-sy6zl tomato is a vegetable
In this comment section: people who don’t know that fruit soup is a thing that is different from fruit juice
@@FulllNameUnknown yes, In Indonesia it's different type of fruits chopped into little pieces and then flooded with milk/syrup/whatever you like
@@egretta2863 yes
@@egretta2863 Are pieces small enough to pass through a straw?
@@slomo4672
smaller than a pee hole atleast
@@slomo4672 nnope.
thats why im confused
so im sure thats juice
I really like how they added in awareness of deforestation and poaching
"Give them two million more years and they'll invent guns."
no they invent neo-buddism
No they join with Gorillas, Chimpanzees and Bonobos to form an animated band super group.
190000 years*****
No need to, we have invented guns, so they only may learn to use them.
How many soldiers know about guncrafting? They only learn to use them.
@@SoulAcid1 you didnt get the joke
For the first scene, i' glad orangutan as the smartest animal.. but i feel so bad when dumb people from my country deforesting orangutan's home and causing fire. Shamely, Malaysia and Singapore also got the impact, their country is polluted by fire in our forest.. Please forgive our country who called itself the Emerald(green) of Equator..
They arent the smartest animal. That title goes to humans, followed by dolphins.
+rodrick160 allright2 :v
rodrick160 i dont think humans are considered as animal...
Anh Tu Phan that's relative :v
biologically we're living creature :v
3:13 Di luar sana orang sangat bangga dengan hutan Kalimantan dan semua spesies yang langka di dalam nya, mereka juga sadar pentingnya pohon bagi kelangsungan hidup, tapi kita sendiri yang merusak nya, semoga hutan Kalimantan tetap aman walaupun jadi ibukota baru,
#savetheforest
Tunggu, saya tinggal di Kalimantan Selatan
Dan itu benar bro
@@garikm24 yoi man
Semoga dengan jakarta yang tetep jadi pusat perekonomian, hutan kalimantan ga terganggu, gue orang jakarta asli gue ikhlas jakarta di rusak asal bukan hutan sumatra kalimantan sama irian jaya :(
What language is this?
@@sukhmandersingh4306 Indonesia becaus you know orangutan from?
As an indonesian i think we MUST stop deforestation, because i cant live without funny orangutan videos
3:33 that's super sad
IKR
it's true! every year there is an event that kalimantan forest got burned by people that wanted to grow palm tree to produce oil but they didnt care to its effect and called it as accident by nature because of the heat stroke.
Dude palm oil plantation is a quick Rich scheme ,but it works.
Dude every one knows that but fair play
Lkl
Why can't people live together with these amazing creatures?
Money
people are greedy and pathetic with no care for others.
The ability of humans to see other groups as less deserving of life due to being different than them never fails to impress me, in a very sad way.
Me too, it's discouraging...
due*
@@bawlstars7857 corrected
Ever taken antibiotics?
@@uhwhat4400 self preservation != superiority complex
"No matter how good you're, there would be Asian that's better than you."
The same is evidently true for le munki
I don't you should use 'you are' as a contraction there
@@samwrihiro You're correct. Source: I'm a native English speaker.
The animation in this is absolutely wonderful. Something about it is just simplistic and so pleasing to watch.
3:43 I actually shed a tear.
Video: talking how orangutans are extremely smart, comparable to a human being in their fist years, how they are capable of making tools and learning basic patterns as well as they are self aware
Coments: *wheeze* S O U P F R U I T F U N N Y
This channel is amazing! I hope they'll keep making this beautiful videos :))
I still can't get over how my man picked a whole lock
Orangutans have a lot of time on their hand in a zoo.
I'm Indonesian and it's sad to hear that forests are being cut down for our own resources. I think that preserving the orang utangs are very important. RIP orangutangs
RIP T_T
Same
Ramen Noodle you can't even spell "Orangutans" right, it's not "Orangutangs" which in Indonesia mean Orang(People)+Utangs(Debt) -> Debt People xD? lol, what a shame...
@Gen Vuelham
Ey! Hello Filipino neighbor! It's honestly cool to know that "Utang" also means "Debt" in Filipino :O What about the word people in Filipino? Hihi, anyway we had so many similarities, didn't we =)?
@@ultimaxkom8728 its actually hutang not utang, but i guess when you say it informally you called it utang
This was so well crafted! Thank you!
Such a great and educative video. Thank you so much. More people should know about our beautiful cousins!
I learn more stuff watching these videos than actual school
i've heard they also belch loudly to alert others to stay out of their territory
Same goes with humans but with guns.
If you live in murica, that is.
Smart enough to expertly drive a golf cart.
1:31 the way they’re sitting just make me laugh!
Chad posture
Apes together strong
3:18 that's the reason why Indonesian government chose Komodo as a national mascot rather than that cute creature
We have to support our citizen, they can't stay rich if you stop buying palm oil, are you proud indonesian? Buy Palm oil^___^
@@fajardiniarikamil2712 yes kill the orangutans for palm oil for money. that is very considerate of our ending planet and for the animals.
Ah... I felt sorry for Orangutans in Riau Province
Fajar diniari kamil what in the world is wrong with you?!
@@fajardiniarikamil2712 no I'm not, as an Indonesian it's such a shame for me to consume products from palm oil industry, it's like drink orang utan blood that's being killed.
The animation style is so freakin cute. A really well-thought-out and informative video!
I just watched an orangutan driving a golf cart, I'm in love with them now
I love how the major unsolvable problem orangutans face is basically us. There is something deeply wrong with us, that we need to change somehow if this world is to survive.
Hopefully we as a species can turn things around before it's too late for orangutans and so many other species that the activities of profit-hungry capitalists threaten.
@@zoyadulzura7490 I see your point. If only it were just capitalists. The nuclear weapons Vladimir Putin is sitting on were built, for the most part, by communists. It's really people in their billions, multiplying like rabbits, and chewing up the natural world around them like termites. While believing, often enough, that God told them to do this.
We are killing our own kind, forget about other species
greed
Capitalism
the orangutan hugging the person gave me life
3:55 and in Arabic it is "the human of the forest"
4:10 me during entire lockdown, even right now
"Orangatangs live high above the ground"
Me : and they are thicc
*Orangutans
*orangutan
*Oranges
This video is absolute best. Love learning and hearing the magnificent orang utan🌟
Long life for these beautiful creature
Yes, that's true! I'm from Sabah, Malaysia where we have multiple sanctuaries that help the orangutans. The word 'orang' means people and the word 'utan' or 'hutan' means forest!
Edit: I'm not sure what the people in this comment section is arguing about
Saya pun bukn kau sja
yes... but much more in indonesia.. borneo/kalimantan and sumatra island
@@andisetya1757orangutan is made from n.b language man
@@hexag0nyt283 n.b?
sAbAh iS pHiLLippiNes
Edit: basic sarcasm
This deserves a lot more views and likes.
I like the art style and the facts!
This is awesome!
So cute animation ❤️. Loved the explanation.
I am Indonesian, living in Java to be exact.
A brief: We have more than 17.000 islands, and our population is about 250.000.000 people, where almost 200 millions of them live only in Java and Bali. I would say this is why our people are less concerned about the other islands such Borneo and Sumatra where deforestation occurs the most; simply because it doesn't have a direct impact in our lives. We hardly get paid for our daily needs, how do we take care of other things like that? I mean we don't have a choice.
The second reason is that we are developing country, we need money to feed poor people in small cities. Thus, we let foreign investors to invest in such industry because we are helpless to process our own natural resources.
So would you rather to; save the orangutans and let the number of unemployment raise, or just leave it that way.
My friends who live in Borneo say that the haze happen every year due to the deforestation, that it becomes a common thing.
One local actor said that: Indonesia is not a POOR country, Indonesia is POORLY MANAGED country.
thank u.
its what I thought from the situation.
its tragic but normal that we will destroy the world more because
of the problem u show and its not just indonesia.
But is there no kind of possibility for reforstation?
Sama
Yes but poor choices have poor consequences. I would consider it a poor choice to continue to allow deforestation to happen, destroying thousands of acres of natural rainforest that is home to an endangered species. The consequence would inevitably lead to extinction, which is horrible... no matter how many people are employed- it's not worth losing a beautiful, intelligent species over. Ever.
This is why the Netherlands never should have granted Indonesia independence. Your country would perform much better under Dutch rule.
Mark Wiering no ones granted Indonesia independence, not even japan. Indonesia do it by itself
We had an orang that would take his tricycle apart and put it back together. It was taken away from him when he started prying on the chain link.Former language project animal.He knew over 100 sign language signs.
I love orangutans. The ending was such a great reminder of how connected we are to them.
Only 30,000 left!?! That's heartbreaking.
About "Fruit Soup" TED-Ed is a channel with over 10 million subscribers, this a fully animated video and the lady reading is extremely skilled. There is no way on earth that they meant juice, after all, this is an orangutan we're talking about, it was probably specifically made for orangutans and technically wouldn't count as juice.
It’s probably extra pulpy, something thicker like an ice cream malt
This is wonderful. I always thought I knew a lot about animals, but this blew my mind!
every time i come to this video, my eyes get wet, ready to drop some tears. It's incredible we believe we are alone or we are the ones ("we are humans, not animals", making the millions of species animals but just us not. Such a weird thing to think)
3:02
... i'm not sure I would have that idea
Me neither
Just out of interest, how do you know if an animal has recognised itself in a mirror?
The orangutans recognise that there is a mark on their face which was put there by scientists
The test is debatable in its legitimacy, but the procedure is the animal is anesthetized and paint is put on a place that the animal can't see themselves like their face. If the animal touches the paint spot while looking in the mirror it's assumed they recognize themselves.
What about dolphins, how do they touch their face. They have self awareness as well
@@cheeksweeper9678 dude, imagine those dolphines have fingers or at least longer arms
I have only been excited to see orangutans one time at a zoo. Once we got there, the orangutan stared at me and my partner with unflinching apathy for a couple minutes before we just walked away kind of shook. I try not to anthropomorphize, being a marine biologist, i know how silly it is when humans do that, but it just seemed different with orangutans. Anyway, I felt like it shouldn't be kept in a zoo and we didn't deserve the show.
BEAUTIFULLY DONE!!! GREAT JOB!!!
Love this channel
I so like this kind of animal, they're very smart and practical, perhaps we should learn something from theirs.
0:49 - 0:52 when i just have my hair cut
Amazing video, thank you!
“How smart are orangutans?”
*Smiling Orangutan* : 😈
Did everyone get that fruit soup 😂
It's different types of fruits chopped to small piece
@@egretta2863 ok ok
how would the pieces fit in a straw
@@igp899 we don't use straw to eat it, we use spoon or fork
@@egretta2863 i know
but
here it says that
the orangutan used a straw
@@igp899 there’re straws that big enough to get the pieces pass through, but sometimes the pieces might stuck too 😂
Tha parrot sound in the beginning is from serious sam 2
Man orangutans really do be just better versions of human beings
So we are not going to talk about how awesome the animation is?
Oehhoeehoe I wanna be like Youhoehoe...walk like you talk like you!
great song from jungle book
The King in jungle book wasnt an orangutan, he was actually a gigantopithicus, a now extinct species that was much larger :)
+Thomas Richardson That's only in the most recent film. In the 1967 classic, King Louie is most certainly an orangutan.
FrennisDaemon but doesnt the he refer to himself as a gigantopithicus in the original song?
Thomas Richardson Most definitely not.
I love all the primates so much! this artstyle is great too! it reminds me of Craig McCracken's old cartoon artsyles! great stuff!😁👍❤️
Love this art style
I love orangutans. I could sit and watch them all day interact with their environment and other orangutans. I'd even interact with them if they let me.
Near as I can tell, the best way to remove palm oil from your diet is to avoid buying any premade baked goods or candy- only buy ingredients, and bake sweets yourself if you want them.
Just about any baked or processed product contains palm oil these days.
2:48 it call juice
Actually, It's different types of fruits chopped into small pieces
From : random Indonesia person
I can’t express how I love this video.
This brings me back to my favorite Edger Allen Poe storie.
Smarter than my co-workers. I know that much.
"How smart are orangutans?" 🦧 --- probably smarter than the orang* in the white house.
lol hahhaahahhaahhahahahahahahah xddddddddddddddd trump bad joe biden good republicans bad thank you for the reddit gold kind stranger keanu chungus
the last statement is a kicker 👍🏻
Beautiful video!!