We've watched enough seasons of Monkey Life to remember Ben moving from one group to another after nursery. What a true shame to lose him in his prime. 😢💔
God called him home to the Animal Kingdom in Heaven because he needed him to be a alpha leader of the chimps in heaven. And I wholeheartedly believe we have contact with animals in heaven. Heaven is whatever you wish it to be
This is such a shock. Poor Ben, he was such a magnificent chimp.🥺 Ben, may you be at peace in that jungle where there will be no more poaching, no more killing of your brothers and sisters, nor destruction of your home. We will miss you always, buddy. RIP⚘🦍⚘
Sorry for your loss at monkey world. It must be so difficult, especially for Jeremy who hand reared him since newborn. Little did Ben know he was known across the world. From New York state USA 🇺🇸
The photography is excellent, capturing the bits of nature that surround these very fortunate primates. Alison always has my utmost respect and admiration. She must deliver the news of any of the primates who die, but she does so with intelligence and candor all the while injecting her empathy. It is to the credit of the astounding care-staff that these losses are not in vain. [Watership Down: "My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today."} My condolences. Thank you for the touching remembrances of Ben, he was glorious, he was loved.
RIP Ben! You will be sadly MISSED! Thank You MONKEY WORLD! You allowed BEN to enjoy the little time he had to be a Full Blown and Happy Chimp! I'm 65 and starting to watch many friends sadly die off! My Chimp friends cause me sorrow and sadness when they pass on. Just like my human friends! I'm thankful that Ben hadn't suffered before his death and that he just Died! RIP!
Wow when they said a loss, I did not expect it to be Ben!! He was one of the best looking chimps in the group. R.I.P. Ben. Sorry to the team for their loss. Im glad Amie has a family now. Watching her playing with the others was so heart warming. I wish people would learn that these guys need to be with their own kind and are not meant to be pets.
I wouldn't say this about the smaller monkeys but chimps are apes that have 97% of our human DNA so have to look at them differently then the small monkeys. Maybe the mother chimp who pushed them to the side when they were born knew something that us humans didn't know or could not feel. Both Pip and Ben died a early death and maybe that knowledge is in the 3% DNA difference. Humans may have lost the ability to recognize that there is something wrong with their newborn baby that chimps retained. It is something to think about?
Who all else was literally CRYING at the news of Ben's passing as you watched this.... (thought for sure at first that they were gonna tell us that BART took a fast turn for the worse and very suddenly died in his sleep from complications of his Diabetes!!)..... that can also well remember when both he AND Pip were first born at the Park and both of their mamas rejected them?!? 😭😭😭 Such lovely and PERFECT tiny little adorable baby chimps that just adored each other and were always cuddled up together or playing together and then taking their very first steps and exploring together, too... exactly like the O-rang babies Bulu & Reiki when they first came to the Park as tiny little babies and met each other, too.🥰 Come to think of it.... didn't Patricia's daughter Pip, who was fathered by the exact same Alpha male- Hynunya (his first 2 babies) ●ALSO● die from a very sudden and totally unexpected heart attack right out of the blue exactly just like this one regular usual morning shortly after all the chimps were first let outside in the morning?? I'm certain that she did... and at a VERY young age (she was less than 2 or so years old at the time, back several years ago) for a chimp to be having serious heart problems like having a sudden fatal heart attack for apparently NO rhyme or reason whatsoever very soon after waking up in the morning & then starting to move around to go outside and exert themselves even more just like Ben did and then died the exact same way very soon afterwards at a still very young age for a chimp, too. Sooooo... I'm thinking that it's a fairly •HIGH• likelihood that whatever it's called that Alison said it is that caused the heart attack (in BOTH Pip and Ben) while they were both still very young chimpanzees... that it is something genetic passed on from Hynunya that both of the mothers (Cherry & Patricia) sensed and/or smelled was "wrong" with both of these babies when they were born which caused them both to reject their first babies. (Maybe a blood PH issue with only just these 2 particular females since it seems to have only affected the very first 2 babies that Hynunya sired while he was still fairly young himself)?? 🤷♂️ Animals won't put any time or effort in to nursing & raising a baby that they sense or know •WILL• die at a very young age due to any "defects" that they sense/smell in the baby at it's birth. They will simply just reject and abandon that baby right after giving birth to it (as both Cherry & Patricia did) so that they can then go on to immediately try to have ANOTHER "healthy" baby in order to repopulate their group with strong healthy offspring that they •know• will have a much better chance of actually living long enough to finally reach it's full adult sexual maturity so that the repopulation cycle can continue for the entire group's survival. Because Cherry & Patricia have both had other babies in the years since Ben & Pip were born that they both KEPT and raised and were/are •VERY• excellent mothers to those newer babies that were NOT sired by the same male... it certainly does make me wonder if it wasn't just something genetic/hereditary that both babies were born with regarding Ben and Pip both dieing of the exact same thing in the exact same manner of a VERY sudden fatal heart attack very soon after they were being let out to move around and exert themselves much more the very first thing in the morning.. and both while at still such a very young chimp age. So now It just seems more than likely that both mothers rejected Ben & Pip right after they were born very close together at that time several years ago... because both of those chimp babies were sired by the exact same Father around the exact same time of only just a few weeks apart... both Pip & Ben's mother rejected the babies due to sensing something was "off/unhealthy" with them at their birth so that they both then had to be hand-raised by Jeremy and Park staff... and then both of those rejected babies later died at such a tragically very young age due to the exact SAME heart issue.
@@Chenoashouse Thanks for that clarification. If anyone else can chime in on this I'm quite curious, as the theory R. Sanders laid out is interesting, but we don't know for sure. It could still be true, even if Pip died from surgery complications there could have still been the same underlying undiagnosed heart issue. Interesting hypothesis at the least.
@@mchevre Pip had been extremely upset preoperatively. It was during the time when they were still having to dart the chimps to give the initial sedation to get them on the stretcher so they could take them to the hospital, afterall, they knew what was coming. They never even got to start the surgery, she went into cardiac arrest very soon after the gas anesthesia was started and they couldn't bring her back. The discussion with Mike the vet was that maybe she had too much adrenaline in her system from being so very upset with the darting process, that the rest of it was too much for her heart. I believe they did an autopsy (necropsy for animals?) afterwards and that is what confirmed the heart attack. Ben died of a fibrosis of the heart muscle, I think they said, that would have been seen in Pip's heart if she'd had the same condition, I would assume, but could be wrong. I was so upset when Pip died, too, wondering if she might have not had the fatal heart attack if they had just waited to so the surgery another day, it wasn't a life threatening situation, if I recall correctly. I don't presume to know more than the vets and the Monkey World staff but I am a retired newborn intensive care nurse and the frailest babies can have very similar stress responses with disasterous outcomes, just like Pip. She was always a very nervous gal and it was so wonderful that she and Ben had each other for so long for friendship and support. I envision Pip greeting Ben joyously as he crossed over the Rainbow Bridge, the two of them climbing and living in peace in a safe forest full of fruit and jellies, and all the goodies they loved. I thank God that He gave us humans the capacity to love our animal friends, what a richness they add to our lives....Hope the info is helpful. God bless all of you, my Monkey World, friends, may He ease your grief as we say goodbye to a beautiful boy.
Do you ever wonder if the mothers rejecting Ben and pip,they knew from the beginning something was wrong with them,and that’s why they abandoned them,just a thought.
