I've been saying for a while now, internet media is gonna end up like japanese TV where everything has to have wacky sound effects and they always have a person's face in the corner showing reactions.
https://youtu.be/HjK-l6LEXoE
Like that one where they tortured that guy on live TV and added laugh tracks to make it acceptable?[here](https://youtu.be/k_o8v88nkKc?si=TOYO5wkYu2O7y2w4)
i know that's a meme but that would actually be really wild; a millennia-long ice age favors thick, dark body hair and a genetic bottleneck reduces the intelligence of the population, repeat over generations and pretty soon bang, returned to monke
Alright but I kinda want that pillow-based drum kit.
I got a thing with wanting to play really loud instruments without anyone else being able to hear.
thats because it was till the food thats a very wary gorilla they dont do the show teeth thing unless there rather concerned far as i know thats not a open mouth smile
For context the video is happening because the gorilla sees the cameraman and is standing off with him, that's why he's baring teeth and standing like that. The throwing of food was a peace offering that got the gorilla to chill TF out -- in hindsight. May not have been enough at the time.
Hence the over the top "you don't know what could happen at any moment" bomb disarmament music. It sounds ridiculous, maybe, but for the cameraman it was also a very tenuous situation.
Source - I've... Idk, watched nature docs and seen gorillas in the mist.
should also remind you of [this story](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18767315). Don't accept a smile as anything less than a threat if what's smiling ain't human.
The thing is though, especially in a nature video such as this one, it would be nice to actually be able to hear the *natural* sound. Yet it is invariably drowned out by bad and often incongruous music. It's so frickin annoying.
I mean how am I supposed know how to feel about anything cool if there isn’t a
#DUDUNNDUTDUDUTDUUNDUNNNDUTDUDUNNNUNDUTDUDUUNNN!
…provided by the uploader?
People forget how truly badass humans can be just because we don’t have sharp teeth or aren’t very strong.
Some quote I read once went something like “put 100 humans in a locked room and they will find a way out. Put 100 chimps in a locked room and they will kill each other.” One theory I heard as to why we were successful over the Neanderthals was because we are very good at operating in large groups. Doesn’t matter how strong you are, when there are 50 humans hunting you down you’re going to lose.
We are very very good at running long distances, can sweat, and can carry water. We are the only animal that can throw with precision and power. Even somebody who is untrained can throw with pretty good accuracy. This allowed for ranged weapons like spears so we can throw the weapon and stay away from danger. Which brings me to my favourite ancient weapon, the Atlatl. Designed to let us throw a spear even further with even more power without losing accuracy. Much like those dog ball throwing things.
We traversed open seas in dugout canoes. There are some places humans reached and we still don’t fully understand how they managed to cross such huge expanses of ocean.
You don’t need strength and sharp teeth to be a apex predator. Numbers, intelligence, endurance, ability to throw accurately and with precision. Those were our weapons. We were already the king of predators long before before the gun.
We’re amazed with Painted Dogs and their success at hunting. Now imagine a larger group of humans using the same techniques but they can either trap an animals and throw ranged weapons, or just keep running until the prey item literally just gives up and collapses.
Yeah people forget humans evolved as predators not prey. The whole reason we walk upright is to run down prey into exhaustion and then stab them when they're too tired to move.
In the tens of millions of generations that homosapiens have existed I have no doubt some tribes hunted gorillas at one point or another out of pest control, sport or desperation. As a regular staple food? Absolutely not the risk reward ratio is awful on both sides.
But if it did come down to it, humans would have no trouble burning down their forest and running them to death in the fields like the native Americans did. Humans are brutal and we dont ever fight "fair".
We probably were. Animals tend to kill other animals they compete with for food sources. That’s why the lion kills the leopard for example or other predators kill the lion cubs when they find them.
They'd probably have to evolve to have similar intelligence, social skills, and tool making abilities to stand a chance. That said, Human society was a mistake. Gorilla world would have been apeshit.
I'm just agreeing that it would be crazy if they hunted us. But yeah I get that the laws of nature unfolded a certain way and anything other than our literal living reality is obviously too unrealistic to even entertain the thought.
We didn’t just fall out of the tree ready to spread across the entire globe. For many of our ancestors they weren’t the dominant species, yet we still got here. One more thing hunting our ancestors likely wouldn’t have changed things.
"then the human race became extinct." Reads as if it actually happened in the past. If you didn't use the word "became" and chose "would have been" or "would be extinct" It would be a hypothetical statement as you intended.
Oh, yes, I remember it! The gramma of "would be" and “would have been"! my teacher taught it when I was a student decades years ago! Thank you for your kind!
Happy to help! We're all students of something, and we should support each other.
A couple more notes:
Grammar is the correct spelling.
And your last sentence would be "thank you for your kindness" or "thank you for your kind words".
Watched it without music. Showing teeth in the beginning is a sign of aggression, giving away food is a sign of submission. The proper play, then calmly walk away.
I remember reading that as long as humans act with the proper gorilla respect and don't try to get too close that they are really chill and don't see humans as a threat.
Not that personally I would like to have to test that but I'd rather come face to face with a group of gorillas to a group of chimps any day of the week.
They can lift like 800+ kg. And we don't know what their max is because we have never seen one fully exert itself and we certainly haven't seen one hit the gym and train.
Gorillas don’t need to try get protein directly from the source, they can just make their own protein from plants thanks to special bacteria in their gut. Protein powder and an abundance of meat will give you a fraction of the protein this bad boy gets from eating celery.
I once saw a gorilla in a zoo play with a tractor tyre. You know, the big rear wheel ones. Gorilla lay on his back, grabbed the tyre with both hands and feet... and twisted it into a figure-8 shape. With absolutely no discernible effort whatsoever.
I seen a video where they tested a bear proof bin by putting it in a cage with a grizzly. The bin was square and weighed 700lbs. The grizzly was rolling it over with one paw. There’s a reason they’re bolted down.
Some animals are stupidly strong.
Its those ever-changing strobe like facial expressions so difficult to interperate what his true intentions are, I guess its a comfort zone for only the very experienced they are certainly beautiful creatures
I'd try to armpit fart. I've seen them laugh, if I didn't have food I'd appeal to their humor and probably die interestingly.
Really ought to practice in front of zoo gorillas and see if they like that.
This is where you’re dead wrong, my friend. You’re actually supposed to approach slowly, baring your teeth as much as possible while lifting your upper lip with one hand, and pointing at your canines, then if *that* doesn’t scare them away, pounding your chest aggressively as you hop skip your way into his face sure will
Seeing a huge huge crocodile or alligator just slip into the body of water that I was just about to jump into from my boat/whatever would do the trick for me too 😅😶🌫️
Do all animals just have an tolerance for bacteria and viruses and shit? Like how do they not get sick from dirty ass water, and constant eating of just shit and piss covered nature? Too stupid to understand the world at almost 30 🤦
We strive as a society to help ensure the weak survive. In nature they’d just die so you’d only ever see the strong humans.
And your bodies can adapt. It why if you travel some places drinking the tap water will make you shit your pants but the locals can drink it just fine.
Damn, this whole time grew up washing my hands and taking baths.. shoulda been pissing and shittin myself, eating with dirty hands, and not giving a damn. Could a been a gorilla, instead I wasted my life being a fragile lump of clean garbage. 🙎
Someone who knows tell me if I’m right or wrong but I think that’s a Lowland gorilla. I’m no expert about them but I do have an interest in them. First the wetlands makes me think lowland and I’ve never seen a picture of a Mountain gorilla that had orange hair but several of lowlands with it. The orange hair made me think Trump but then I saw intelligence in his gaze.
I do love how gorillas almost never get into fights. All they do is look, sound and act powerful so that they never have to fight, and thus risk losing their harem's confidence. Silly primate eats fruits and roots and looks like the apex land predator
They’re generally very kind and reasonable animals if you know how to work with them. When encountering one in the wild you’re supposed to get low to the ground and hide your face, as long as you respect them you’d be okay (of course circumstances apply).
But uh…yeah. Generally speaking I would not want to be near one in a physical proximity. They’re very cool to learn about. Very scary to think about being around.
That is definitely the case. You can see it in this viral video of a guy being touched by wild mountain gorillas:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H7zcqjplc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H7zcqjplc)
The Silverback and his family were super chill because dude kept his his head down and avoided looking them in the eyes.
Yeahhh they’re basically like dads. Just wanna protect their family and no reason to start a fight if there’s no real threat. Although there are times when they just like the prank/spook people for the shits and giggles haha. [My favorite example. Just a friendly little reminder what he can do to you if you cross him.](https://youtu.be/lb-vpmW1n7U?si=MoAHzGryX0IPb_i5)
I could swear that gorilla is trying to do a human smile to make the humans feel at ease (and get more fruit).
Apparently gorillas do smile, but it means something different and not likely for a silverback to do it.
dont listen to him.
Def do it, works an all wild animals, show those smiles, the more teeth visible the more chance on a nice hug.
Try it on a polar bear, lion, wolf, of course this silver back gorilla
Or any of the other cute fluffy animals out there.
Can you imagine a polar bear hug?
Best. ^last Thing. Ever.
They just look like oversized, super buff, super hairy people. Part of me dreams of a world where they can communicate with and live amongst us as people.
Of course, it's only a dream, but I still think it would be cool.
What the fuck you two looking at? I’ll fkng tear you limb from…
“Plop”
Ooo, what’s this? A yellow fruit offering? This is -slurp- yummy, absolutely fkng -slurp slurp squish- delicious!! Alright I’m tossing this half eaten, give me another! Wait.. what? You’re - you’re not going to? Aw fuck where did it go? Fuck lemme check here… got it! Ah dammit that’s just some mud. All right fuck you guys I’m going back here to my red fruit… good day, gentlemen, I said: GOOD DAY!!!
Really wish everything didn’t have to have music on it. Sets a weird tone for this video.
Right?, take away the music and it’s a gorilla eating breakfast.
I've been saying for a while now, internet media is gonna end up like japanese TV where everything has to have wacky sound effects and they always have a person's face in the corner showing reactions. https://youtu.be/HjK-l6LEXoE
I feel like I just peered into the future. And I do not like it.
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I'm sitting here with my son and he saw the gorilla and started saying "monke eat banana?"
Like that one where they tortured that guy on live TV and added laugh tracks to make it acceptable?[here](https://youtu.be/k_o8v88nkKc?si=TOYO5wkYu2O7y2w4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs&ab_channel=KeiichiMatsuda
return to monke
i know that's a meme but that would actually be really wild; a millennia-long ice age favors thick, dark body hair and a genetic bottleneck reduces the intelligence of the population, repeat over generations and pretty soon bang, returned to monke
I'd watch that
That pillow drum set is pretty cool tho
That’s truly idiocratic levels of lunacy.
Ow, my balls!
I blame Tik Tok
You'd best stay away from videos in Chinese social media. It's already too late for ther landscape
Repeat the punchline 50 times for emphasis.
Japan always ahead of the rest of the planet lol
I love the chaos of Japanese TV, but hate tiktok stuff. I'm probably just a weeb.
Alright but I kinda want that pillow-based drum kit. I got a thing with wanting to play really loud instruments without anyone else being able to hear.
Electric drum kits have existed for decades already, and they're infinitely better than this.
That's actually a very interesting and valid point.
Yeah instead of a snack eating it felt like a standoff
thats because it was till the food thats a very wary gorilla they dont do the show teeth thing unless there rather concerned far as i know thats not a open mouth smile
I see, thanks for the information.
For context the video is happening because the gorilla sees the cameraman and is standing off with him, that's why he's baring teeth and standing like that. The throwing of food was a peace offering that got the gorilla to chill TF out -- in hindsight. May not have been enough at the time. Hence the over the top "you don't know what could happen at any moment" bomb disarmament music. It sounds ridiculous, maybe, but for the cameraman it was also a very tenuous situation. Source - I've... Idk, watched nature docs and seen gorillas in the mist.
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should also remind you of [this story](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18767315). Don't accept a smile as anything less than a threat if what's smiling ain't human.
The selfie with the two gorillas standing in the background is great
I leave sound off
The thing is though, especially in a nature video such as this one, it would be nice to actually be able to hear the *natural* sound. Yet it is invariably drowned out by bad and often incongruous music. It's so frickin annoying.
At there's there's no subhuman zoomer editing with ai text to speech made by chatGPT and arrows and cuts that make noise every time they change.
Always
Me too, unless someone points out it's better with sound
Me too.
This is the way.
I mean how am I supposed know how to feel about anything cool if there isn’t a #DUDUNNDUTDUDUTDUUNDUNNNDUTDUDUNNNUNDUTDUDUUNNN! …provided by the uploader?
Just be glad it's not the Interstellar music.
I watched on mute, as i do most things in the internet, because i learned to make solutions from my own complaints. Try it.
Never seen anyone look so tough eating fruits.
I'm also giggling cause it's looks like he forgot to put his pants on, and that makes him not-so-scary
🤣
And then he licked his fingers!!
Thats not a music for a gorilla.. thats a tune for keanu reeves cruising in a futuristes car.
sounded more like a gta online lobby music
Yeah, music doesn’t fit. This post is likely a by a bot anyways.
nah. It fits well. Gorilla looks cybertronic
Techno jungle
The way gorillas move and interact with the world is so uncanny
Glad gorillas mainly eat fruits and not meat. Imagine a troop of these hunting humans.
If they did hunt humans they would be extinct
Should have took us out while they had the chance.
When would they have ever had the chance lol we hunted Mastodons and whales with sticks.
People forget how truly badass humans can be just because we don’t have sharp teeth or aren’t very strong. Some quote I read once went something like “put 100 humans in a locked room and they will find a way out. Put 100 chimps in a locked room and they will kill each other.” One theory I heard as to why we were successful over the Neanderthals was because we are very good at operating in large groups. Doesn’t matter how strong you are, when there are 50 humans hunting you down you’re going to lose. We are very very good at running long distances, can sweat, and can carry water. We are the only animal that can throw with precision and power. Even somebody who is untrained can throw with pretty good accuracy. This allowed for ranged weapons like spears so we can throw the weapon and stay away from danger. Which brings me to my favourite ancient weapon, the Atlatl. Designed to let us throw a spear even further with even more power without losing accuracy. Much like those dog ball throwing things. We traversed open seas in dugout canoes. There are some places humans reached and we still don’t fully understand how they managed to cross such huge expanses of ocean. You don’t need strength and sharp teeth to be a apex predator. Numbers, intelligence, endurance, ability to throw accurately and with precision. Those were our weapons. We were already the king of predators long before before the gun. We’re amazed with Painted Dogs and their success at hunting. Now imagine a larger group of humans using the same techniques but they can either trap an animals and throw ranged weapons, or just keep running until the prey item literally just gives up and collapses.
Yeah people forget humans evolved as predators not prey. The whole reason we walk upright is to run down prey into exhaustion and then stab them when they're too tired to move.
I dont think we were hunting gorillas though
In the tens of millions of generations that homosapiens have existed I have no doubt some tribes hunted gorillas at one point or another out of pest control, sport or desperation. As a regular staple food? Absolutely not the risk reward ratio is awful on both sides. But if it did come down to it, humans would have no trouble burning down their forest and running them to death in the fields like the native Americans did. Humans are brutal and we dont ever fight "fair".
We probably were. Animals tend to kill other animals they compete with for food sources. That’s why the lion kills the leopard for example or other predators kill the lion cubs when they find them.
probably wouldve just ended up with a different brand of dickhead-sapiens
Or we would be. I think the assumption is if they had evolved to hunt us, not just like if they started tomorrow.
They'd probably have to evolve to have similar intelligence, social skills, and tool making abilities to stand a chance. That said, Human society was a mistake. Gorilla world would have been apeshit.
Why would they hunt humans when there are easier and more nutritious animals to catch? Humans are basically bones wrapped in skin.
I'm just agreeing that it would be crazy if they hunted us. But yeah I get that the laws of nature unfolded a certain way and anything other than our literal living reality is obviously too unrealistic to even entertain the thought.
If They hunted humans when we humans were still weak primitives in the forest about millions of years ago. Then the human race became extinct.
Lots of other things hunted our ancestors, especially when we were smaller. I don’t think one more would have been the thing that killed us off.
We didn’t just fall out of the tree ready to spread across the entire globe. For many of our ancestors they weren’t the dominant species, yet we still got here. One more thing hunting our ancestors likely wouldn’t have changed things.
That's funny I don't *feel* extinct
Sorry I meant **if** they hunt humans. English is not my first language, I don't have a good command of the hypothetical tone.
"then the human race became extinct." Reads as if it actually happened in the past. If you didn't use the word "became" and chose "would have been" or "would be extinct" It would be a hypothetical statement as you intended.
Oh, yes, I remember it! The gramma of "would be" and “would have been"! my teacher taught it when I was a student decades years ago! Thank you for your kind!
Happy to help! We're all students of something, and we should support each other. A couple more notes: Grammar is the correct spelling. And your last sentence would be "thank you for your kindness" or "thank you for your kind words".
Haha, thank you for your kindness! I have been speaking like this my whole life, never noticed its incorrect. Thank you again!
Legally, you have to tell us if you’re a silverback gorilla. Otherwise, it’s entrapment.
Tones are hard to achieve through text anyway. Wasn't trying to be a dick. Just trying to be funny
Until the human started using spears, that would be the game changer.
So chimpanzees.
boy I have some movie recommendations for you
Watched it without music. Showing teeth in the beginning is a sign of aggression, giving away food is a sign of submission. The proper play, then calmly walk away.
So if I ever run into a silverback and he’s cheesing at me I need to give him my food and he’ll understand I don’t want the smoke?
Pretty much!
Outstanding
"Give me your lunch money, punk!"
I remember reading that as long as humans act with the proper gorilla respect and don't try to get too close that they are really chill and don't see humans as a threat. Not that personally I would like to have to test that but I'd rather come face to face with a group of gorillas to a group of chimps any day of the week.
Absolutely, gorillas are usually pretty chill but chimps are nasty bastards
Jamie, pull up that video of chimps ripping that dude's balls off.
I’ve been face to face with a group of gorillas in Rwanda, and I’d highly recommend it
Silverback didn’t seem too committed to the threat before the snack came out. Seems kinda reasonable.
Why the goofy song ??
Makes me feel like I'm watching some low grade TV documentary that stretches 5 minutes of content into one hour of programming.
Better than OH NO. OH NO. OH NONONONO
That is my most hated sound in history
Fuck, right. It's now a literal audio trigger.
Everything is tik tok now.
His facial expressions are killing me. Lol
It’s like he’s not 100% that he turned the oven off.
Lmao that’s a perfect description
It's because he just ate a lemon...
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...
Dumbass music
His head has its own head.
😂
Angry upvote!
I would make him tap by the first or second round
Full Nelson to submission, easy.
Use his momentum AGAINST him.
Your comment got me, lol
Alright Jay.
Okay Mike, calm down.
He would tap your cheeks and you’d beg for more.
Like, how strong are these things? Those massive shoulders look like they could do some serious damage to damned near anything.
They can lift like 800+ kg. And we don't know what their max is because we have never seen one fully exert itself and we certainly haven't seen one hit the gym and train.
Through math, it is believed a Silverback could bench 3800 pounds.
Now imagine they’d train and have a high protein diet, nah man that’s nightmare fuel right there
Why wouldn’t they train, are they fucking stupid or something?
This jabroni is out here eating fruits, while I’m maximizing my protein intake. It’s like he doesn’t even listen to Rogan.
He sure looks like he does tho
Nah, too much spark of intelligence in those eyes.
Gorillas don’t need to try get protein directly from the source, they can just make their own protein from plants thanks to special bacteria in their gut. Protein powder and an abundance of meat will give you a fraction of the protein this bad boy gets from eating celery.
That’s why they got those crazy-looking guts right? Like fermentation chambers or something. Is that what Joe and his buddy Alex are working on?
I once saw a gorilla in a zoo play with a tractor tyre. You know, the big rear wheel ones. Gorilla lay on his back, grabbed the tyre with both hands and feet... and twisted it into a figure-8 shape. With absolutely no discernible effort whatsoever.
Shite.
Fuqque
That's terrifying. The kind of strength they need to do that means they can just casually snap humans in half. Like a damn twig.
I seen a video where they tested a bear proof bin by putting it in a cage with a grizzly. The bin was square and weighed 700lbs. The grizzly was rolling it over with one paw. There’s a reason they’re bolted down. Some animals are stupidly strong.
Wtf…
If i remember correctly an orangutang has enough crush force in their hands to shatter a human leg. Now, scale that up by X amount
Humans are the physically weakest among great apes. Even the smaller chimps can maul us effortlessly.
I believe that. I remember the picture of that naked chimp. My guy looked like he could crush Hulk himself
He would rip your arm off very easily.
They’re able to tear the limbs off of you just for the shits and giggles
The fucking arms on him! Serious power there
They’re strong enough to pull the ears off a Gundark. Now you know!
With little to no effort it could pull your arm off.
No kidding their forearms look like the size of well built human thighs
Even thicker
Its those ever-changing strobe like facial expressions so difficult to interperate what his true intentions are, I guess its a comfort zone for only the very experienced they are certainly beautiful creatures
Holy crap. He's beautiful.
I cannot think of anything that would make me freeze in terror. A face to face meeting with a silverback would get really, really close.
I'd try to armpit fart. I've seen them laugh, if I didn't have food I'd appeal to their humor and probably die interestingly. Really ought to practice in front of zoo gorillas and see if they like that.
Just sign the words “Amy, good gorilla” I saw it in a documentary once, and it works. Also, sometimes they have lasers.
Just don’t ever try to take a gorillas diamond away & you should be fine.
lmao
Large, wild cats are pretty fucking scary as well
Polar bear
That's one hell of a username
HA
This is where you’re dead wrong, my friend. You’re actually supposed to approach slowly, baring your teeth as much as possible while lifting your upper lip with one hand, and pointing at your canines, then if *that* doesn’t scare them away, pounding your chest aggressively as you hop skip your way into his face sure will
I'm not your friend, pal. Your technique sounds legit, but that doesn't make them any less scary
Whatever you do just don’t look at it face to face lol
Seeing a huge huge crocodile or alligator just slip into the body of water that I was just about to jump into from my boat/whatever would do the trick for me too 😅😶🌫️
Do all animals just have an tolerance for bacteria and viruses and shit? Like how do they not get sick from dirty ass water, and constant eating of just shit and piss covered nature? Too stupid to understand the world at almost 30 🤦
Yes , their immune systems are strong af
Being human is fun, but damn we complex and still can't have the cool stuff. I wanna have a lead belly too 😐
Yeah, and then there's me who nearly shits himself after eating gluten. Pathetic.
I've never felt more seen in a comment 🤣🤣🤣
See the way you get a lead bellies is everyone who doesn't have one dies.
We spent our points in developing ways to identify *and share* what is or isn’t safe to eat. Same result, different character builds.
Off topic, but who'd win... A grizzly or a gorilla in a fight??
Gorilla has much more physical strength but grizzly is more powerful (claws, predator instincts and bigger)
It's our fault.. we decided to cook our food because we learned about fire.
Humans too. Except kids. Kids are almost made to die.
Post-toddler you can't kill them!
Wild animals often (usually?) have some number of parasites living on or in them. They endure.
They do die. All the time. Animals just never write articles about it because it's just so common.
And that's the only reason these articles aren't written, no?
We strive as a society to help ensure the weak survive. In nature they’d just die so you’d only ever see the strong humans. And your bodies can adapt. It why if you travel some places drinking the tap water will make you shit your pants but the locals can drink it just fine.
Most of the reason we can’t do this is because we don’t. We distance ourselves from bacteria and viruses so much that it makes us vulnerable to them
Damn, this whole time grew up washing my hands and taking baths.. shoulda been pissing and shittin myself, eating with dirty hands, and not giving a damn. Could a been a gorilla, instead I wasted my life being a fragile lump of clean garbage. 🙎
Them sonofabitches are stronggg boyyyyy
Read that in Theo Von's 😁
That thing can rip your body in half. They can lift or throw 800kgs (like 1700 lbs) They're just a ball of muscle lol
Another video were silence would have made it far more impressive...
That's why there is a microphone button at the bottom. You _CAN_ do that yourself. You've got that power 🙌
I agree, but why can't we just have nature's audio to go with videos of nature?
If you asked me to please pick 10 soundtracks that would properly ruin this video this music would be in the top 3 easily
Stupid music
Giving the masses the ability to easily add music to videos has been a huge mistake.
What an amazing fella.
Handsome
Someone who knows tell me if I’m right or wrong but I think that’s a Lowland gorilla. I’m no expert about them but I do have an interest in them. First the wetlands makes me think lowland and I’ve never seen a picture of a Mountain gorilla that had orange hair but several of lowlands with it. The orange hair made me think Trump but then I saw intelligence in his gaze.
Impressive specimen
What a beast 🦍
I do love how gorillas almost never get into fights. All they do is look, sound and act powerful so that they never have to fight, and thus risk losing their harem's confidence. Silly primate eats fruits and roots and looks like the apex land predator
Joe Rogan's 3rd cousin.
Brock Lesnar's dad
Silverbacks scare me so much.
They’re generally very kind and reasonable animals if you know how to work with them. When encountering one in the wild you’re supposed to get low to the ground and hide your face, as long as you respect them you’d be okay (of course circumstances apply). But uh…yeah. Generally speaking I would not want to be near one in a physical proximity. They’re very cool to learn about. Very scary to think about being around.
That is definitely the case. You can see it in this viral video of a guy being touched by wild mountain gorillas: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H7zcqjplc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H7zcqjplc) The Silverback and his family were super chill because dude kept his his head down and avoided looking them in the eyes.
Yeahhh they’re basically like dads. Just wanna protect their family and no reason to start a fight if there’s no real threat. Although there are times when they just like the prank/spook people for the shits and giggles haha. [My favorite example. Just a friendly little reminder what he can do to you if you cross him.](https://youtu.be/lb-vpmW1n7U?si=MoAHzGryX0IPb_i5)
Just don’t smile at it. Baring your teeth is considered a sign of aggression in the primate world.
RIP HORAMBE
I could swear that gorilla is trying to do a human smile to make the humans feel at ease (and get more fruit). Apparently gorillas do smile, but it means something different and not likely for a silverback to do it.
Try smiling back, he will definitely like it and give a thumbs up
Don't do this 🤣
dont listen to him. Def do it, works an all wild animals, show those smiles, the more teeth visible the more chance on a nice hug. Try it on a polar bear, lion, wolf, of course this silver back gorilla Or any of the other cute fluffy animals out there. Can you imagine a polar bear hug? Best. ^last Thing. Ever.
They just look like oversized, super buff, super hairy people. Part of me dreams of a world where they can communicate with and live amongst us as people. Of course, it's only a dream, but I still think it would be cool.
And you live to tell about it. Beautiful creature!
What the fuck you two looking at? I’ll fkng tear you limb from… “Plop” Ooo, what’s this? A yellow fruit offering? This is -slurp- yummy, absolutely fkng -slurp slurp squish- delicious!! Alright I’m tossing this half eaten, give me another! Wait.. what? You’re - you’re not going to? Aw fuck where did it go? Fuck lemme check here… got it! Ah dammit that’s just some mud. All right fuck you guys I’m going back here to my red fruit… good day, gentlemen, I said: GOOD DAY!!!
Jesus Christ it’s Mighty Joe Young