Here are a few of the WEIRDEST human animal relationships!
6 - Chito and Pocho
Crocodiles are one of the most aggressive and deadly hunters in the wild.
It doesn't matter whether it's a Nile, Saltwater, or American crocodile.
Crocodiles might as well be code for "certain death."
If one of these bad boys sets his or her sights on you, you're pretty much screwed.
Now with the human thirst for knowledge being what it is, and the benefits of scientific
understanding being well documented, it's reasonable that there are people who wanna
study these leftover dinosaurs in order to get to know more about them.
But swimming with them?
Or better yet, nuzzling them and petting them?
Hmmm, yeah, let's add that to the list of unsafe things to do.
Meet Chito, a Costa Rican man who swims with a crocodile.
His odd journey began in 1989 when he rescued an American Crocodile who he found dying on
the banks of the Reventazón River.
Apparently, a nearby farmer shot the croc after he tried to attack his livestock.
Chito, a fisherman, decided to take a risk and bring the crocodile home and nurse him
back to health.
I don't know how you nurse a crocodile back to health, but Chito figured it out.
Once he got the crocodile back on its feet, he probably thought everything was gonna go
back to being normal.
Except that the next day, he found the 16-foot 1,000 pound croc sleeping outside of his house
after Chito attempted to release it back into the wild.
In fact, the croc made himself at home, spending the next 22 years living in the water outside
of Chito's house, refusing to go back to river with all of his crocodile friends.
Chito decided to give his new pet crocodile the name of Pocho.
Chito would swim with Pocho, he would nuzzle him, and Pocho would come to Chitto when he
called his name, almost as though it were a dog.
Except Crocodiles are apex predators with millions of years of evolutionary killing
instincts.
Still, that didn't stop Chitto and Pcho forming the most unusual bond ever.
According to Chito, Pocho the crocodile made a decision and preferred to spend the rest
of his life with the man who saved his life.
So because Pocho made that decision, Chito decided to make one too.
He allowed Pocho to became a member of his family, along with his second wife and daughter.
Apparently, Chito's first wife had left him because he was spending too much time
with the crocodile.
Chito said, "Another wife I could get.
Pocho was one in a million".
I meannnn…….I really can't argue with that logic!!!
After a while, Chitto would perform a public ritual where he would swim in a lake with
his giant reptilian buddy as tourists would watch in disbelief.
There was even a documentary about him called "The Man Who Swims With Crocodiles."
Chito says he could interpret signals given to him by Pocho and knew when he was hungry
or agitated, which was usually a good time to avoid him.
Um yeah.
This is a good sign that Chito isn't totally off his rocker.
For the better part of 22 years, the two remained close until Pocho's natural death in 2011.
Chito and others who have managed to swim with these giant reptiles have worked to dispel
they notion that all crocodiles are aggressive and have advocated that more humans need to
protect them.
5 - Grizzly Man
Like crocs and snakes, bears typically fall into the category of "try your best to avoid
them if you don't know what you're doing."
Timothy Treadwell knew what he was doing and his life still ended tragically.
Treadwell, an environmentalist, filmmaker, and avid bear enthusiast, lived among a pack
of Grizzly Bears in Katmai National Park in Alaska for 13 summers.
During his summer adventures, he would often get close enough to the Grizzlies to touch
them, and would even play with the bear cubs.
Now, I'm not really a bear expert, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's not
recommended.
Please don't play with bear cubs.
Treadwell became the subject of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, a 2005 Documentary about Treadwell's
life among the bears.
The film mainly features footage taken by Treadwell until his death in 2003.
Though he had developed an unusual amount of trust with bears, Treadwell made a fatal
mistake.
During his summer 2003 session, he decided to stay an extra week in Katmai National Park.
This wasn't a great idea, since Grizzly Bears are known to become more aggressive
during the fall as they fatten up for hibernation.
Along with his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, Treadwell was tragically mauled to death by
a grizzly bear on October 6, 2003.
The day a plane was sent to pick the two of them up, their remains were found near their
campsite by a friend.
Among the carnage was Treadwell's disfigured head, his spine, and his dismembered right
forearm.
Ugh.
Katmai Park Rangers killed a bear near the campsite, and soon discovered human remains
in the bear's stomach.
Right before the gruesome attacks, Amie must have turned on a video camera, because a camcorder
was running when it happened.
Because the lens cap was still on, only the audio was captured, which was immediately
destroyed by Herzog, so the supposed audio that people have posted on the internet is
a fake recording.
4 - Kids Raised by Animals
You're most likely pretty familiar with a story called The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling's
story about a boy named Mowgli who was raised by Wolves.
This classic book has been adapted into comics, children's stories, two live action films,
and of course, the Disney version that a few different generations grew up with.
Anyway, it would seem that that whole scenario seems pretty far fetched right?
But, apparently there HAVE been some bizarre cases of children actually being raised by
wild animals!
In 1920 , for example, "The Wolf Children" as they're famously known, were supposedly
discovered in the Jungles of India.
I say supposedly because this one is pretty controversial.
Amala and Kamala as they were later named, were aged 3 and 8 respectively when a local
clergymen claimed to have found them.
Since no one else was around to witness this, some have alleged that the whole thing is
a hoax.
In any case, both girls died after a few years from contracting diseases for which they had
never built an immunity to.
In more recent verifiable cases, a little baby was found being protected by wild cats
in 2008.
Authorities in Argentina discovered a one year old boy surrounded by eight wild cats,
who apparently would snuggle up next to him to keep him warm during the harsh winter nights.
The baby would surely have frozen to death if these cats hadn't done that.
They also seemed to forage food for him, as he was seen eating scraps of food.
After some diligent investigating, it turns out that the boy was the son of a homeless
man, who had lost him while he was out collecting cardboard.
Relieved that his son was still alive, he did say to police that cats always seemed
to lookout for his son.
Wellps, I guess that's one solution to daycare!
Anyways, then there was the case of Chilean boy who was raised wild dogs, or the case
of Marina Chapman, who spent some of her formative years living among monkeys.
Born in Britain, she moved with her family to Columbia, and was kidnapped when she was
only four.
For some reason, her captors let her loose in the jungle where she was rescued by monkeys.
She spent the next few years living in a capuchin monkey colony where she was evidently provided
for.
She was ultimately rescued by hunters, and after a long and arduous process, was re acclimated
to human life.
The 2013 documentary Woman Raised by Monkeys details her incredible journey.
To be honest, I'm not too sure if I believe this one.
What do you guys think?
3 - Jane Goodall and her Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall is easily one of the most prolific Chimpanzee experts in the world.
Her world renowned study of Chimps began in 1960, even though she didn't have any professional
training in doing so.
It didn't really matter, because her research on chimps and the bond she formed with these
primates is truly amazing.
Goodall had a much different approach to studying animals.
At the time, researchers would give their subjects numbers instead of names in order
to maintain objectivity.
Goodal, however, decided to give them names.
And they were cool names too, such as David Greybeard.
She quickly discovered that primates have unique personalities, which was considered
revolutionary at the time.
She also observed other behaviors that no one else even imagined.
For example, she figured out that chimps use tools, that they aren't all vegetarians,
and that, at times, they have a disturbing proclivity for violence.
To the last point, Goodall witnessed female primates killing the babies of other chimps
in order to maintain their dominance.
Wellps…..another case of mother nature and biology….you really can't mess with either.
Of course she also witnessed plenty of peaceful and affectionate behavior among these incredibly
social primates.
Anyway, during the course of her research, which spanned more than half a century, Goodall
became the first, and to date, the only human to ever be accepted into Chimpanzee society.
Her close bond with the Chimps somewhat tainted some of her findings in the eyes of more traditional
biologists, but her insights provided us with a perspective of Chimpanzees we may never
have gotten otherwise.
That counts for something, doesn't it?
2 - Gabi and the Crows
"Gabi and the Crows."
It may sound sorta like some kind of alternative rock band from the 90's who've been coasting
off a one hit wonder from 1997.
Well it's actually not.
This story is actually pretty interesting.
Gabi lives in Seattle.
Okay for real, I promise this isn't about an alternative rock band!
But seriously, Gabi started an interesting habit in 2011 when she was just four years
old.
That habit was an odd proclivity for dropping food by accident.
When this would happen, crows would swoop in and grab the dropped food.
She noticed that the crows always seemed to be looking for her.
So she started giving them food on purpose.
The more she did this, the bigger her bird audience grew.
Eventually, she began offering daily meals to the birds in her family's backyard.
Each morning, Gabi and her mother would fill the birdbath with fresh water and peanuts.
The birds noticed this pattern and would gather each morning to get their food.
Here's where things take an amazing twist.
After more than a year of leaving food for the birds, the crows decided that they would
leave gifts of their own.
Now obviously they weren't stopping by Target to get her toys or Amazon gift cards.
The gifts were random items, mostly small shiny things.
This usually meant tiny pieces of metal, or small lightbulbs; basically anything shiny
looking that birds can fit into their mouths.
According to a story by the BBC, one crow even returned a lens cap from a camera that
belonged to Gabi's mom, lisa.
Lisa was out taking photos near the house,and must have dropped the lens.
The next day, the lens was sitting on the edge of the birdbath.
Hmmmmm!!!!
In an interview with the BBC, bird expert John Marzluff explained that humans and birds
can form a bond if the human forms a consistent feeding pattern for the birds.
While it's not unheard of for birds to bond and even communicate with people who feed
them, their exchange of gifts is a bit unusual.
But "a bit unusual" can sometimes be a good thing, and it may even land you in one
of my videos, and hey, that's gotta count for something!
1 - A Man and His Cobra
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Generally speaking, a highly poisonous snake, such as a King Cobra, would be exactly the
type of creature you want to avoid altogether.
And if for some reason, you can't avoid them completely, you probably don't want
it as a pet.
And if you absolutely must keep one as a pet, then perhaps you don't wanna have it cuddled
up next to you every night as you read it bedtime stories.
Welllllll then, meet Abu Zarin Hussin, a 32-year old firefighter who does exactly that.
In fact, keeps three, yes THREE King Cobras as pets.
He even lets them sleep in his bed, and reads them bedtime stories.
Just….what the f*ck?!
You might think that having a 14-foot King Cobra living in your bed would pose a threat.
And it absolutely does.
Hussin has been bitten by his snakes not one, not 2, not 3, but eight times!!!
Two of those bites have landed him in a coma.
But like a bad romance, he loves them anyway.
He describes the pain from a snake bite as very severe, to the point when you can't
even describe it.
So yeah, that totally makes sense why he wants to sleep with them in bed.
I get it.
It's a fetish.
<sigh>.
Anyways, like his father, Hussin is a trained snake handler, so he actually knows what he's
doing, and it says a lot about how risky handling something like a cobra is.
He even leads courses on snake taming and claims that he always takes precaution before
letting anyone near his pets.
Wait, I can take a snake taming course?
As far his job goes, he's an expert snake handler for the fire department, helping to
tame snakes who end up in people's homes.
But he's so dedicated to his pet snakes that rumors began to swirl that he married
his snakes.
Abu has denied these bizarre claims, saying that it's a story made up by people of different
beliefs and cultures.
Hey, even the daily mail thought he married his snake!
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