Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Feeling miserable in the rain? These gorillas too | euronews 🇬🇧" video.

Their behaviour is so human and yet they are still cruelly treated in the wild by humans. Humans consistently underestimate the intelligence of other species and as a result show them too little compassion and empathy.
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@toughtalk747 do you lack Imagination? Do you always take comments so literally? I observed how human the behaviour of these animals appeared, showing considerable intelligence. I then observed that humans fail to recognise that animals are both intelligent and have emotions and therefore deserve considerable more respect and compassion than they currently receive from humans. How on earth could you interpret this as criticism of the zoo or the animal zoo keepers? It seem that not only do we underestimate the intelligence of animals, it is sometimes possible to overestimate the intelligence of humans.
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Nemo Krada humans are far better equipped to defend themselves. Not yet seen a gorilla or orangutan with an AK-47, RPG or IED.
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Scott ?????? the argument can be broadened far beyond the primates. Humans like to think themselves to be above and apart from the rest of nature, a very Victorian view. Humans are nothing special and such arrogance will be their downfall resulting in their extinction.
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Scott ?????? if humans have done so much to save other species, why are so many becoming extinct as the direct result of human activity? Like all those who do not like the message, you take aim at the messenger. If a superior alien intelligence visited the earth, it would conclude that humans are a vermin species, because it meets all the criteria; breeding without control, destroying its environment with its own waste and destroying all other species that crosses its path, consuming resources until nothing is left.
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Scott ?????? I think you just proved the point made in my previous post. Don't like the message, attack the messenger.
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Scott ?????? you did, by failing to recognise the potential significants of the video.
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@mrmusi4512 what God? Science has shown that humans and primates evolved from a common ancestor. It is extremely dangerous to assume that humans are anything special. Or of any more importance than any other animal on the planet. Humans are currently the most technologically evolved, but genetically there is very little difference between the primates and humans.
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@lobomonos5009 agreed, it is an intellectual deficit in the poachers and those who support them.
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Scott ?????? are you incapable of thinking in the abstract? Must you take everything so literally? Is it a military background that drove out any imaginative thinking, are you incapable of making connection to other news stories in the headlines? I made a simple comment, connecting the behaviour of these animals to human mistreatment of wild animals and you appoint your self as the defender of the action of the human race, defending the indefensible. It is not me who has delusions of grandeur, it is you who have a persecution complex. Have you a history of ill-treating animals? Do you hunt? Were you attacked by a wild duck as a child or did you get pleasure pulling the legs off spiders? Where do you get such a guilt complex that you feel the need to defend human cruelty to animals?
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Scott ?????? the report linked the extinction of the million with the inevitable extinction of humans, so they are the one million and one. The simple loss of all pollinating insects will be sufficient to destroy all human life. Not only would this result in the loss of all sources of food, but also the land vegetation that removes CO2 from the atmosphere.
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Scott ?????? The figure I used of ONE million species that are in danger of extinction is contained in a recent UN report. The fact that there are more humans on the planet now than ever before is no guarantee of protection against extinction, as you would know if you had studied population dynamics. It is perfectly possible to go from such a large population to nothing in a very short time. As the top predator, the human race is especially vulnerable to population collapse as a result of the loss of one of the many species on which it depends. The human race is so dependent on its technology to provide the food it needs that Its society is now unstable and subject to a cascade failure in the event of it being stressed. Global warming, which is one of the major factor in the increasing number of species extinctions, will most likely trigger the cascade failure that will lead to human extinction.
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@Baiko E would you care to detail my mistakes? Would you like to point out where I claimed to be a scientist? In fact I am a retired technologist, an electronics circuit designer with a background in science. Scott??? Is unlikely to post any more on this thread because he/she knows they made a mistake and did not fully understand the data. If anyone was being arrogant it was Scott for posting such supposedly definitive information without first checking if it was incomplete, out of date or completely irrelevant. Your error was coming to Scott??? defence without first checking if he/she was right.
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Arjun P eating them may be the downfall of the human race. Bush meat has been shown to introduce new diseases into the human race. Hemorrhagic and brain wasting diseases have been linked to the consumption of bush meat.
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@Hhhh22222-w if scarcity is reflected in value, there are so few of these animals left, they are of higher value than the over abundant humans. These zoo animals are certainly pampered and well looked after, but in the wild they are hunted and killed in the most horrible way to provide bush meat. A disgusting practice, because of the cruelty involved. But if you need a more selfish reason to condemn the practice, humans and Gorillas share 98% of their DNA code, this means that diseases can easily cross between the species. There are degenerative brain diseases that have been linked to the consumption of bush meat as well as a variety of deadly hemorrhagic fevers, and topically these apes can catch and carry Covid-19 and similar viruses. In the wild, the forests in which they live are a reservoir of pathogens, which could lead to the next pandemic. Their consumption as meat and the destruction of their habitat could release such pathogens into the human world with devastating consequences. Before anyone suggests that this is a good reason to destroy them and their forest home, it is worth noting that many medicines are based on forest plants, and only a small fraction of the plant species have been evaluated for their medicinal potential. So destruction of the apes habitat could also be the destruction of a potential cure for lethal human diseases, the classic example being cancer.
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In the wild, gorillaz have been observed using a large leaf as an umbrella or hat to fend off the rain.
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@pewdiepiemarzia1130 what do you not understand?
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@raoulduke9924 I do know the difference, android auto correction does not.
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@S A humans? You will be waiting a long time as they appear to be devolving.
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@adlerzwei don't think so. Animals receive all the cruelty of humans, bombed, shot, tortured etc, plus being kept to be consumed as food.
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@Baiko E and you clear are too stupid to understand the science. The figure of a million I gave for the number of extinctions is correct and is supported by the very scientists who Scott??? quoted without actually understanding the figures. I will explain again for the hard of thinking. The million figure is a conservative estimate based on the number of species that exist on the planet. It is a figure that includes species that science know exist, but have not been fully documented. In other words humans are killing species before they have even been studied. If you do not understand this you are stupid. So Scott??? Still owes me an apology for claiming my data was wrong. If anything his information was wrong and out of date, as was shown by the link I provided as a reference. I assume you did not bother to read this either.
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@nuffflavor is that really surprising, they are intelligent creatures who learn and copy the behaviour they see around them.
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