From the wiki:
Cribb and colleagues (2014) suggest that Bontius’s account referred not to apes (as this description was from Java where the apes were not known to be from) but to humans suffering some serious medical condition (most likely cretinism) and that his use of the word was misunderstood by Nicolaes Tulp, who was the first to use the term in a publication a decade later.[5]: 10–18
Damn, that’s the secret to escape the current society, just stop talking.
“So this is J.T. Cornpone. He has mutism.”
Me: “Well, technically it’s not mutism. That’s a physiological… Fuck. Now I have to move again.”
you joke, but there’s a dude in britain that silently stands in the street holding up traffic. the cops have no idea what to do with him because he doesnt speak a word no matter how many times they intervene. lol
You know, that would actually be the funniest possible concept if it actually turned out to be true. We discover the whole wild kingdom is like pulling a toy story on us. All animals are sentient, Our dogs actually speak perfect english.
It’s much like HHGTTG said about dolphins.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
Horses and oxen, which do not talk, are still compelled by man to labor.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
This is the plot of the 2001 film classic Cats & Dogs
This brought me childhood flashbacks holy shit
Ook?
Oook!
Hmm, since you put it that way life does seem rather more appealing when your only concern is where the next banana is coming from. Speaking of which, banana?
Of all the apes I’ve always thought orangutans would be the ones that were the smartest. Now maybe thats just because I watched Robin hood at a young age but I wouldnt put it past those bastards to just be like oh shit the humans are coming, look dumb.
Which version of Robin Hood has an orangutan?
He’s just a big ol’ guy
needs a haircut… but really, far preferable to the typical guy. doesn’t talk too much.
I always thought it was because they were orange
Orang means human or person (not “guy”, honestly), (h)utan means forest.
‘A Clockwork Orange’ possibly comes from Malay ‘orang’. Although Burgess alternatively credited a cockney expression, but no record of such an expression exists.
My other favourite Malay animal name is pangolin.
“What’s that thing that rolls up?”
“Thing-that-rolls-up (pengguling)”.
“Pangolin?”
“Sure lah”
