Is it Fair to trick an Orangutan?

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Is this fair?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6YKjGS-WxU

After all it's not a very good trick.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

That's hilarious! I love it.

 

[Trebuchet]

He's literally ROTFL!

 

[fuelair]

I love primates with a good sense of humor!!!!!

 

[666]

Is this fair?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6YKjGS-WxU

After all it's not a very good trick.

This video is private.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This video is private.

http://abc7chicago.com/pets/video-o...ter-after-zoo-visitor-performs-trick/1117823/

 

[stanfr]

Awesome! I always sucked at sleight of hand, but after watching that I think I may take up magic again and limit my audience to orangutans

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Awesome! I always sucked at sleight of hand, but after watching that I think I may take up magic again and limit my audience to orangutans

It was really poor slight-of-hand. You'd know exactly when he ditched it.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

It was really poor slight-of-hand. You'd know exactly when he ditched it.

Oh come on. Uri Geller was at least as good and look how far he went.

 

[marplots]

Oh come on. Uri Geller was at least as good and look how far he went.

He was quite big with the orangutan demographic.

 

[Trebuchet]

He was quite big with the orangutan demographic.

That's an insult to orangutans. They are smarter than that, and make good Librarians.

 

[marplots]

That's an insult to orangutans. They are smarter than that, and make good Librarians.

It was the spoon bending that hooked 'em. Orangutans (and, I think Chimpanzee) love to destroy cutlery. It's why you never see them eating with knives and forks in the wild.

(I think that discovery came courtesy of Jane Goodall, but might have been Dian Fossey. Some science chick, anyhow.)

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

That's an insult to orangutans. They are smarter than that, and make good Librarians.

If they make good Librarians why are there none employed by John Larroquette?

 

[fuelair]

He was quite big with the orangutan demographic.

thus D. Trump loved him!!!!!

 

[tuco]

I wonder what s/he find funny. The magic or the trick?

 

[Polaris]

The people on Sumatra used to say the orangtan was the smartest creature on the island because it had convinced the Dutch tax-collector that it didn't know how to speak. If one gets fooled by a simple magic trick, that's on the orang.

 

[Denver]

I don't know if we can ascribe human traits to orangutan reactions. He/she may not have noticed the trick at all, and just gotten bored and fallen back for fun or some other reason.

Still a great video though.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I don't know if we can ascribe human traits to orangutan reactions. ....

Why not? Do you think we can't draw conclusions based on evolution?

 

[Denver]

Why not? Do you think we can't draw conclusions based on evolution?

No, I don't think we can assume an animal understood a magic trick and reacted to their being tricked by it, by their facial expression.

I'm sure a primatologist could give a better answer. Otherwise, you could be seeing want you want to see.

 

[tuco]

I don't know if we can ascribe human traits to orangutan reactions. He/she may not have noticed the trick at all, and just gotten bored and fallen back for fun or some other reason.

Still a great video though.

What human traits? Sense for continuity? Maybe even dogs have that. Or is it learned? Kids acquire this ability from my observations (at certain age just like "understanding" colors), acquire understanding that stuff cannot just disappear and when it does its either "magic" or "trick" depending on understanding of reality.

This orangutan apparently has sense for continuity.