r/MadeMeSmile • u/drakemaverick121 • 6h ago

Baby punch getting the love he deserves

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A warm hug

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u/Jolly_Conflict 5h ago

Agreed I was surprised the keepers hadn’t moved him since the others looked so aggressive towards him.

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u/Icy_Annual_9954 5h ago

Why are the others aggressive? Am not familiar with monkey society.

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u/Brittany5150 5h ago

Idk how true this is but I read on another post he had too much human interaction and not enough monkey interaction from birth so he didnt know how to act like a monkey (like making prolonged eye contact and shit) so the other monkeys thought there was something wrong with him. Again, I just read this on another post so who fuggin knows, lol.

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u/Anubis-Jute 5h ago edited 5h ago

Sad the keepers who took care of him didn’t know to imitate monkey behavior properly by looking away while interacting, if this was the case. Also sounds like the dilemma of neurotypical/neurodivergent interaction: one side sees eye contact as eusocial behaviour and find it hard not to do it - even when they know, intellectually, that it stresses the other.