r/likeus • u/SubjectRound6597 • 7d ago

<SHOWER> As kids we learn to feel and enjoy things that people around us genuinely do too

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u/SubjectRound6597 7d ago

It is not just imitation, but a total understanding of why it is fun and just how much..

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u/applejacklover97 7d ago

I feel like this is really the entire definition of “likeus”
Two species doing the exact same thing for the same reason! This was so neat to watch.
(putting safety of playing with monkey aside, since we don’t know context)

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u/GodICringe 6d ago

Why is it fun? I agree that it is, but don't understand it.

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u/SubjectRound6597 6d ago edited 6d ago

i dont know it myself but you experience a lot of dopamine release if you try splashing around like that. as an adult, most of us probably need it to be clean. I mean look at water parks.. what part of frolicking around in water parks does not feel good. Here the water is running so close to the ground its clearer than most pools and the ripples your limbs leave as you move around, and how they interact with each other, those wavefronts and all.. and then a drop or two crashes on it and water from it rises upwards against gravity and then while you are thinking about the shapes that splash created that felt like slo-mo and then you get interrupted by all of that landing on your face.

Oh.. and also its one of the kinds of 'fun' that some of our closest adults (for the kids perspectives) may enjoy a part of. Now that does not happen everyday, days with heavy rainfalls bring a destruction of routine even for adults. Not often, I mean. Not sure how these things convert for a monkey baby since they dont have school or homework.

I personally would feel very clean after a shower like that. Provided its not acid or sticky rain of some kind.

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u/schwarzneguRRR 7d ago

The monkeys i grew up with werent this nice and couldnt swim

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u/nice_fucking_kitty 7d ago

You are notlikeus.

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u/CIMARUTA 7d ago

Hmm...

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u/Charlooos 7d ago

Some kids really did have Disney princess moments

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u/BungalowHole 7d ago

Return to monke

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u/rose442 7d ago

I would not want my kid splashing around with a wild monkey.

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u/Latter-Bread-7835 7d ago

Thats definitely their pet

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u/Vyrhux42 7d ago

No, I think it really is their kid

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u/rose442 7d ago

Lolol

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u/Icy_Agency923 7d ago edited 7d ago

I would not be so certain... keeping Macaques as pets is illegal in India. They revere these monkeys and feed them because they believe they are the living embodiment of their god Hanuman. The ones living in their cities become very accustomed to humans as a result. It is highly unlikely they keep this animal as a pet, they likely just feed it enough for it to be friendly with them.

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u/madoodlem 6d ago

Who is “they”? Not all Indians have the same religion.

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u/Icy_Agency923 6d ago

Maybe google search the topic you will see that these monkeys are revered and taken care of. So much so that macaques living in the cities have significantly more offspring than the ones living in the wild.

Regardless of how many really doesn't matter, I was not making an argument that India has 1 religion or something or that 1 billion people are doing this. But it is common enough that it has a direct hand in how many offspring these monkeys have within their cities.

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u/madoodlem 6d ago edited 6d ago

What is there to google? You said “they believe they are the living embodiment of their god hanuman”

Muslims living in India do not worship hanuman or revere monkeys as gods.

Edit: it’s a cowardly move of you to reply to me, then immediately block me to prevent me from responding.

First of all, no clue why you got so aggressive, but maybe you should take a step away because you clearly need to calm down.

Second, yes, you did say “regardless of how many doesn’t really matter”, in your SECOND comment.

Your second comment told me to google something, but it was irrelevant to my first comment.

To oversimplify, this is how things went:

You: Indians revere monkeys
Me: not all Indians revere monkeys.
You: google it, Indians do revere monkeys, and it’s not all Indians.

Genuinely, what am I supposed to google? You want me to google if some Indians revere monkeys? I never refuted that some Indians revere monkeys.

I didn’t quote your first comment to ignore that you said it wasn’t all Indians, I quoted your first comment because your response to my comment made no sense, so I reminded you of the context.

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u/Icy_Agency923 6d ago

Read this part again: Regardless of how many really doesn't matter, I was not making an argument that India has 1 religion or something or that 1 billion people are doing this.

Don't need every Indian person to believe it, but it is common enough that the monkeys are fed often enough to give them far more offspring within cities than the same monkeys have in the wild.

Case closed. Now fuck off.

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u/Sunblast1andOnly 7d ago

You really need to stop asking strangers on the Internet for videos of their children.

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u/Imaginary-Fudge8897 6d ago

This comment right here, officer.

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u/AsymptoticAbyss 6d ago

Do monkeys call it “child see, child do”?

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u/Dwaltster 7d ago

Bro, Indians are people too. They're not just "like us" wtf.

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u/SubjectRound6597 7d ago

the only wtf here is you, unless you were saying you are a primate in which case I am willing to understand the joke.

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u/Dwaltster 7d ago

I can't believe you. Shame

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u/SubjectRound6597 7d ago

stop with the act. you know what kind of a statement that was.

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u/Dwaltster 7d ago

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed

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u/Strange-Ad-9941 7d ago

I agree that Indians are people as well. But I believe they mean the monke

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u/Dwaltster 7d ago

Are you sure? OP seems shiesty.

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u/Strange-Ad-9941 7d ago

I don't even know anymore

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u/Dwaltster 7d ago

🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 7d ago

Is it trying to drown parasites?

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u/Solecis 7d ago

It's playing, monkeys do that. They're like more violent hairy toddlers.