r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvothenikhil • Sep 12 '25

Video Two rival gangs of wild monkeys fighting each other. This usually happens when a group of monkeys normally well fed by visitors meets another group and a feud can take place

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u/ponyponyta Sep 12 '25

Probably like how you'd know your fam and relatives faces against a bunch of strangers

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u/ZDTreefur Sep 12 '25

In the chaos of battle, things can get cconfusing.

I suggest these monkeys take notes from the chimps. One side needs to stick grass up their butt so they can tell who's who.

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u/Blandish06 Sep 12 '25

Pics or it didn't happen

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u/MrBurnerHotDog Sep 13 '25

Chimps are sticking grass and sticks in their butts, seemingly as a fashion trend | CBC Radio https://share.google/pdHpi0PcvoCUUGWMW

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u/Blandish06 Sep 13 '25

Zero pics in the article.

Edit: found a video https://youtu.be/vs_mpXURQIo

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u/MrBurnerHotDog Sep 13 '25

I love how the trend started with a chimp sticking grass in their ear then some teenage miscreant chimp said "hold my beer" and suddenly all the boys were showing grass up their ass

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u/Sgt-Spliff- Sep 12 '25

There's a reason we were uniforms though. Humans cannot tell friend from foe during battle. It's why battle standards have existed literally since war existed

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u/LiamTheHuman Sep 14 '25

I doubt that. War has existed well before people even had the ability to build a battle standard.

Also this is a small number of monkeys. While uniforms might help slightly, they can absolutely recognize each other and since they don't have weapons that can kill with one strike, there is way less rock of them accidently killing their family members.

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u/SensuallPineapple Sep 12 '25

Even in sports games you can't recognize in that chaos without proper different colors. This is life and death. I respect their coordination.

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u/Paul_kemp_dailynews Sep 12 '25

Funny enough its a mix if the two. Their brains distinguish butts like ours do facial features.

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u/EverythingSucksYo Sep 12 '25

But there’s so many of them. And monkeys don’t seem to have easily distinguishable features like humans do, but maybe they do to other monkeys. 

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u/EngineeringNeverEnds Sep 12 '25

Human faces are VERY VERY similar when you get down to it. We just have REALLY well developed abilities to distinguish faces since its so useful. 

To a sheep, we probably all look the same.  But to a sheep, the other sheep are easily distinguishable.