Is the video on which the chimpanzees shoots from the machine gun on African soldiers?

For more than ten years, a video is distributed on the network, on which the monkey gives AK-47, after which the primacy begins to shoot in different directions, scaring people. We checked the authenticity of this record.

In Runet, this viral video is very popular on VKontakte. So, in 2024 in public "Come in, treat" And "Such a planet"With the titer" no one expected "and the signature" taught leather ", it received 3.1 million and 247,000 views at the time of writing this text, respectively. The same video in different years gained many views in other publics and on personal pages of users: for example, 121 000 In 2017, 100,000 -In 2018, 31 000 -in 2020 and 255,000 - In 2022. In addition, YouTube has several Russian -speaking channels, where this video gained more than 1 million views in 2011, 2012 And 2017 year. “The military in one of the African countries join the manual monkey. They give her to hold Kalashnikov’s assault rifle. The monkey feels absolutely confident with the AK-47, ”says one of the descriptions.

In the comments under the video, in addition to many racist remarks in which Russian-speaking Internet users compare Africans with monkeys, some joke that the “planet of monkeys” would look like that in real life.

On the network you can find many different options for this video. Their duration may vary: from approximately 20 To more 40 sec. Also, the record can be Crusted or Crossed With the addition of music.

The most complete version of the video lasts 42 seconds. In this version, in the beginning on a black background, inscriptions appear: “R. Wyatt, November 8, 2009. Reference with the behavior of primates 21 of 27. Monkey with AK-47. Record from a soldier from West Africa. " In the lower right corner, the time counter is located, and on the left is the signature “Research Library 20th Century Fox”.

The earliest appearance of the video was “tested” on the YouTube channel Apeswillrise (“Monkey -hollow”), where the video was published on July 6, 2011. There, the record scored more than 84 million views.

This account was dedicated to the blockbuster advertising “Rise of the Planet of Monks” from the studio 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) whose world rental Started In early August 2011. The call to buy tickets for this film is in the description of the viral video. In addition, on July 8, 2011, this video was posted by one of the official accounts Studios 20th Century. The synopsis of the tape reads: “A young scientist experiences on monkeys a new medicine for Alzheimer's disease. The drug finds an amazing side effect: it increases the intelligence of primates several times. ” In the center of the plot is the chimpanzees Caesar, who learned to speak.

Consequently, a viral video about a monkey with a machine gun was part of an advertising campaign to promote a feature film. Back in 2011, specialized cinema sites, Reportedthat the Fox studio has created Series Video about how primates do unusual things. For example, in one clip Chimpanzees cuts a carcass into pieces with a machete. But could the film makers use a real monkey recording with AK-47 for marketing?

At the beginning of the video, the name of the director Rupert Wyatta appears, and some publications, for example DELFI, in the summer of 2011, it was stated that the film “The Uprising of the Planet of Monks” has an episode with the military from West Africa, which give an automatic chimpanzees. However, there was no such scene in the picture itself. In 2011, the Ape with AK-47 video received nomination for the VIRAL VIDEO Award, and on the page of the vote were indicated The authors of the video: Director Tommy Ministry of Council (also the second operator), producer Stef Smith, installer Lasse Yarvi and operator Paul Atkins, that is, the recording was not made up by a soldier of an unnamed African country.

Although the video and staged, experts declarethat monkeys really amplified to use a variety of weapons arsenal. “I have no doubt that chimpanzees can be trained to own weapons as shown there,” he said John Mitani, a primatologist from the University of Michigan, specializing in the behavior of chimpanzees. Steve Ross, a primatologist from the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, also agreed that the chimpanzees are cognitively and physically able to handle weapons and added that they even use it in the wild. “It was noticed that chimpanzees use rudimentary weapons (for example, throwing shells, clubs and spears), so they can understand that the tool can be used to harm or damage,” Ross said. “Will they understand what a gun is, it’s more difficult to say.” Any shooting performed by chimpanzees is likely to be limited to imitation. Mitani believes that chimpanzes-actors would learn to use an automaton to please their trainers and get a reward, but I’m not sure that the monkeys are able to use firearms for intentional harm: “I don’t think that, shooting from weapons, a chimpanze can be aware of [consequences of the] that he does.”

Thus, the video stylized for documentaries from Africa was actually shot specifically for promoting the Hollywood film.

Photo on the cover: screenshot video @apeswillrise (YouTube)

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