A monkey pulls a dog out of floodwater onto a floating log in the rain: real or AI?

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“Thai-language caption, which Snopes translated as: "If we're gonna make it, we've gotta make it together, right?"”

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AI-MADE

No monkey saved a dog. The clip was made with Meta AI.

How sure we areVery high

Based on 3 strong and 1 supporting pieces of evidence.

What we found

The 10-second clip shows a monkey wading through a flooded village in heavy rain and hauling a dog up onto a floating log. It spread on X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok in late September and early October 2026, while Thailand was reporting deaths from flooding, and some posts said someone had filmed it in Thailand. One X post with a Thai caption, shared on 27 September, got millions of views. Snopes traced the earliest copy to a Thai Facebook page called Hot Story, where the post was labelled as AI content. The page's owner told Snopes by email that it was made with Meta AI and showed part of the prompt. Snopes rated the video fake. Animal rescue clips that appear during real disasters are a favourite of AI pages, so look for the earliest poster before sharing.

Key facts

Original source: The Facebook page Hot Story (เรื่องร้อนสตอรี่)
First published: September 2026, on the Thai Facebook page Hot Story
Earlier appearances: Not recorded
The claim you saw: “Thai-language caption, which Snopes translated as: "If we're gonna make it, we've gotta make it together, right?"” · not supported by the evidence
Signs of AI: Yes. Shown below, but not what decided it

The evidence, strongest first

How it looksThe clip lasts exactly 10 seconds, a common length for AI video. For a single frame the dog's front leg turns into a thin black shape. Small blue objects appear on the debris pile only after the camera zooms in, and the dog's paw lands on debris that does not move.

Detector scores are often wrong, so they never decide a verdict here.

What we couldn’t establish

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Bottom line

AI-made: the page that first posted it says it used Meta AI.

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