Comments on: Rocky the Orangutan Goes on a Hollywood Audition

By: Hanne

Hanne — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:33:37 +0000

This is exploitation of an endangered species. A small group of people work tirelessly to get the word out on how these creatures are being killed and tortured for among other things smuggling baby orangs into the entertainment industry. And for what? For it to be destroyed by a commercial for a huge product with people thinking they’re cute and it’s perfectly OK to make them work for a living instead of living as they should.

By: Scott Beale

Scott Beale — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:02:02 +0000

It’s interesting how the first comment always seems to dictate the direction of subsequent comments.

By: wahyuni

wahyuni — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:39:49 +0000

Very sadness… Orangutan should be in the forest… not acting like human… their attitude not like in your video…
Don’t you know if you got one Orangutan in forest, you must kill 2 until 10 others orangutans??? first, her mother and her friends with their mother.
Habitat Orangutan is only in Sumatra island and Kalimantan/Borneo island… they are Indonesian critically endangered and will be extinct.
Where did you get the orangutan?
Really, it’s not funny, but your video like nightmare for me…

By: RIchard Zimmerman

RIchard Zimmerman — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:20:52 +0000

What would possibly make Levis think this is acceptable? It’s not funny. It’s stupid. And shameful. Orangutans are critically endangered and could be extinct in the wild in less than ten years at the current rate of deforestation in Indonesia.
Hey Levis– If you’re reading this, I have a challenge for you: Why don’t you help save the orangutans instead of exploiting them? Visit redapes.org and learn how you can help….

By: Michelle Desilets

Michelle Desilets — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:57:25 +0000

Orangutans and other great apes should not be used in advertising. Not only is it demeaning for such an intelligent and sentient creature, it is widely known that these “ape actors” have usually been taken from their mothers at a young age (this orangutan would still have been with its mother in the wild at its age.) Furthermore, to get a strong animal like this to act and do as they are told requires either excessive force or denial of food, or both. Finally, this orangutan will soon be at an age where he is unmanageable and no longer cute. What happens to him then? As orangutans can live to 60 or more years, who is to look after him after his acting career is over.
It is morally reprehensible to use apes in this way.