As you can imagine, this brief video was posted on YouTube by Dan Zaleski and has received well over 3 million views in less than a week. The orangutan at the Barcelona Zoo just couldn’t resist monkeying around when he saw this lame trick of placing a chestnut in a Styrofoam cup, putting the lid on, shaking it up, quickly dumping it before Dan removes the lid and shows the bewildered little fella an empty cup. The orangutan paused ever so briefly before reacting in the best possible way–throwing his head back, opening his mouth, laughing wildly and falling back in disbelief, legs high in the air.
Maybe you question if he was laughing at the actual trick or the lameness of it. . . ?
Well. . .
I’ll be a monkey’s uncle
and I usually am. . .
W E
all usually are when it comes to
Communication.
Who would have thought that a really bad
magicians trick
would have caused such a laugh-a-thon for an amused orangutan?
If only, huh?
If only we’d spend half as much energy trying to
amuse
connect
communicate
convey
interact
unite
link
reach
each other. . . .
Usually what’s
N O T
S A I D
S H O U T S
T H E
L O U D E S T !
I remember reading an interview with Jane Goodall, the world renowned Primatologist.
She was asked if chimps have emotions.
She said something like,
“. . .well they don’t have human emotions because they aren’t human. They have Chimp emotions which are just as real and might be human-like in many cases. . . .”
A B R A C A D A B R A
Maybe the real
Magic
is that we
ever understand
each other. . .
You can bet your Monkey’s Uncle
that we desperately
n e e d
to
(keep trying)
. . .and now
for my next trick . . . .
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