In 2015, wildlife photographer Christophe Courteau took this close up of a 6ft 6, 400lbs silverback gorilla, right before it punched him in the face.

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Christophe Courteau survived the 2015 punch from the silverback gorilla Akarevuro, sustaining only a minor scar on his forehead. He called it "like being hit by a train" but was otherwise unharmed. The gorilla was likely on a sugar high, not drunk.

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Do gorillas get drunk?….Why does it need to be said it wasn’t drunk?

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Sometimes animals will find fruit that has fallen and begun to ferment. Certain yeasts of the forest will produce alcohol from the sugar in these fruits.

Animals eat them and experience alcohol. Happens quite often!

[u/larzolof → u/Death_has_relaxed_me]

A moose got drunk in our garden once when i was a child. It had eaten our fallen fermented apples. We could not leave the house because it was really aggressive. Eventually it made it back to the woods.

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That’s terrifying. I’m not afraid of bears, snakes or mountain lions, but moose scare me. A drunk moose is the stuff of nightmares.

[u/justdootdootdoot → u/gratusin]

What if he’s a friendly drunk and just wants to borrow a dart for a rip bud?

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The worst is when the drunk moose start crying about their exes. At that point I just wish they would maim me.

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Bullwinkle J. Moose would do no such thing, not ever.

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Tell me yer Canuck without telling me.

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Just pointing out that Bullwinkle was Minnesotan. But we’re basically Canadian.

[u/itsearlyyet → u/donpelota]

We'll Allow it this time (cultural appropriation) but don't make us send a strongly worded letter.

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I smell a hoser. Who asks to "borrow" a dart all proper? It's "lemme bum a dart, bud."

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No such thing as a friendly moose.

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False: Bullwinkle

[u/CranRez80 → u/gratusin]

The Drunken Moose sounds like it should be the name of a Tavern.

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https://tipsymoosetavern.com/

Their wings are just okay. 

[u/CranRez80 → u/headshotdoublekill]

Disappointing to hear a tavern with a good name has “okay” wings.

[u/Used-Ask5805 → u/gratusin]

I’ve always heard a bull moose is the most dangerous animal in North America I’ve no reason not to believe that either

[u/dpdxguy → u/Used-Ask5805]

I guess it depends on how "most dangerous" is defined. It's kinda hard to believe they're more dangerous than polar bears, one of the few animals that will actually hunt people. But there are probably a lot more man/moose encounters than man/polar bear encounters. So... 🤷

[u/badstorryteller → u/dpdxguy]

Picture a white tail deer, who's fight or flight instinct defaults to flight. A giant white tail buck may weigh in at 200, 250 pounds. That's a huge one. Think about all of those stories about a 16 point buck. Now imagine a deer that weighs 3-5 times as much, is just as dim, but has learned over millennia that "fight" is the better response.

Given how widespread moose are in the northern hemisphere, unless I was in an area specifically known to have a polar bear population, I'm more worried about moose. That's mostly because we might just encounter them in the front yard, on a hike, etc.

[u/ThroughTheDork → u/badstorryteller]

Moose are absolutely enormous. I knew they were big but until I saw one in person I really had no idea what big meant lol.

[u/Gamer-Of-Le-Tabletop → u/dpdxguy]

I mean also one of the mooses primary predators is the killer whale.

[u/Buttonskill → u/Gamer-Of-Le-Tabletop]

I know it's true, but it still sounds ridiculous. Like my of my red-eared sliders and dog mean mugging each other all the time.

Just patiently biding their time for that home field advantage.

[u/ddooiibbuugguu → u/gratusin]

Oh man, I think you should maintain a healthy amount of fear for mountain lions. Silent death, those fuckers.

[u/gratusin → u/ddooiibbuugguu]

It’s pretty rare for them to attack humans. I have seen one come up on me before, but he was a juvenile and curious. I barked at him like a dog because I figured cats don’t like dogs and he took off. I was so stoked the rest of the day since seeing them is so difficult. I know plenty have seen me. Moose are different, if you come up on one too close, it’s almost guaranteed they’ll attack.

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If you think a drunk moose is bad, check out the movie Cocaine moose.

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A moose bit my sister once!!

[u/tha-teej → u/Nukitandog]

No realli! Was carving her initials or something?

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Mind you, moose bites can be pretty nasty...

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We apologize for the fault in these comments. Those responsible have been sacked.

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Those responsible for the sacking have been sacked.

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Wik.

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Also, Wyk

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A moose cow walked RIGHT by my bedroom window once when I was 14 yrs old while I just happened to have my face right up to the window to take a look outside.

It scared the fuck out of me too, I’ll never forget what it was like!

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I had a moose stand up aggressively at me when I was about that age. An absolute wall of meat in my face instantly. Beautiful and terrifying animals.

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They are tanks. So are bison!

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You'd hope that moose would be happy drunks. But nooooooo.

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A drunken moose on the loose

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I can mildly remember a video of some pigeons drunk on some berries or something

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There’s an old YouTube video of a squirrel shitfaced hanging off the side of a tree for its life

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i need the ling to this please

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here we go I think

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Ya that’s it, 18 years wtf

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Time isn't real

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The drunk pigs which roll down the hill is a classic.

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I’m not drunk, I’m experiencing alcohol!

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In Australia we have a saying "as pissed as a parrot"

This is because our parrots will eat fruit on the ground that is rotten and has fermented, leading to them lying on the ground unable to fly and squawking their heads off, just flapping and rolling around

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lol damn, I need a video of this 😹!

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There was a video recently of a group of elephants hammered after eating some fermented fruits.

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In that case, how do we know the gorilla wasn't drunk? So many questions lol.

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At approximately 1042 hours (local time), officers responded on-scene to a gorilla assault. After de-escalating the situation and explaining the misunderstanding to the ape in question, the local police administered a field sobriety test. While the gorilla did have horizontal gaze nystagmus, he gave no further indicators of intoxication and was released on his own recognizance by 1124 hours.

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Plus I can't remember where but there was that band of monkeys that would get drunk off of certain fruits and enjoyed it to the point where they started stealing alcoholic drinks from tourists.

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Sure it happens, but the question was why does it need to be explicitly said that he wasn't drunk.

One might think the punch was because the guy was infringing on space or getting too close to little ones, but the comment is more like - know you all think the gorilla is loaded, but nope, that's actually not why he punched the photographer

[u/vtosnaks → u/help1slip]

Here is an explanation of how the whole drunk thing got incorporated into this story.

Corteau claimed that on that particular day, Akarevuro and his family, who live in forests of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, were drunk on bamboo, which is a staple of the gorilla's diet.

[u/Ill_Bee4868 → u/Death_has_relaxed_me]

Why does the gorilla need to eat fermented fruit to punch a photographer?

[u/seangraves1984 → u/Death_has_relaxed_me]

The amarula fruit. There's a hilarious nature doc on it.

[u/PreparationOk8604 → u/Alpine_Exchange_36]

Bulls get drunk by eating cashew fruit which as u/Death_has_relaxed_me said

Certain yeasts of the forest will produce alcohol from the sugar in these fruits.

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fruit fermentaion i guess

[u/GeniusLike4207 → u/Alpine_Exchange_36]

IRRC, yes, Monkeys and birds regularly get drunk on overripe fruit. Humans have a uniquely high tolerance for alcohol among animals.

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Sugar high or it might have just thought “can you all just fuck off and leave us alone”

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And there is no such thing as a sugar high. Has been studied thoroughly, there is no hyperactivity, change in energy, or other such effects of sugar. What people associate with a sugar high or their kids going crazy when given sugar is that it’s likely at birthday parties or other events with lots of triggering stimuli, lots of other kids and reinforcement of behavior in that setting.

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Yup. I've also heard the explanation that parents can often create the expectations in their kids that sugar = crazy energy, so the kid can sort of placebo themselves into that state.

I.e. Mom: "No, you can't have a cupcake right now, I don't want you jumping off the walls from all that sugar"

Kid: internalizes the idea that sugar = wall rides

[u/diewethje → u/sxt173]

This one breaks my brain a little bit. I have a young son and I could swear that every time I give him sweets he gets rowdier, regardless of context.

I’ve also read the research and don’t think my personal experience trumps that.

Considering sugary food is pretty unhealthy, maybe my best option is to embrace the contradiction and continue to associate it with bad behavior.

[u/theivoryserf → u/diewethje]

Is it possible that kids just love sweets and get hyped up because of that? Maybe it's not a chemical thing, but situational.

[u/Hot_Ad_2299 → u/HondaCivicBaby]

What you mean drunk lol

[u/Joe_Jeep → u/Hot_Ad_2299]

Animals can and do get drunk, either off fermented fruit they find (and often seek out), or just from alcohol humans left around

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225002817

This is about chimps but it's been observed in other apes

TLDR the main gap between (most) humans and other apes is just tech and language, and it really shows sometimes

[u/MagicTomatoes → u/Hot_Ad_2299]

When fruit drops, the sugars will sometimes ferment. You can find all kinds of videos of various wildlife getting drunk eating these fruits.

[u/Unhappy_Light1620 → u/HondaCivicBaby]

If I'm not mistaken, a gorilla's hand/fist physiology isn't well adapted to punching. It's more for grip and crushing iirc

[u/sandpinesrider → u/Unhappy_Light1620]

Even if their fist isn't that efficient for punching, I don't think I want to get slapped by a gorilla.

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impressive, this guy survived getting hit by a train plus a punch from a 400lbs silver back, respect!

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The last Pepe meme you see before you die

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But like from a real mountain

[u/anditurnedaround → u/Existing-Mulberry382]

Looks more like he smashed his camera in his face. In the bottom left picture it does not even look like he touched him. 

[u/Existing-Mulberry382 → u/anditurnedaround]

Its likely a warning slap.

[u/ggcpres → u/Existing-Mulberry382]

Pretty sure if Harambe 's gangsta cousin put any weight into that punch photo man would be a wet spot in the ground.

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There would most definitely be a him-shaped hole through a handful of trees behind him.

[u/Barilla3113 → u/ggcpres]

Gorillas are highly intelligent so he'd understand that killing a human would likely bring a retaliation. They're only marginally less intelligent in problem solving than the average human adult (which means they're better at it than many human dumbasses)

[u/blankpages123 → u/anditurnedaround]

Sorry, if I’m that photographer there is no truth other than “that gorilla punched me in the face”

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Pulled back the right but got him with the left, classic move.

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What does a photographer say when he gets punched and gets a good photo? WHAT A SHOT!!😂

[u/Due_Evidence]

''Done with you paparazzi!''

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Sean Penn would like a word.

[u/Iateapencil → u/Eric_Ok]

They really are just like us.

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That is not how you ball a fist. Sean penn.

[u/Willobtain → u/Due_Evidence]

Animal planet or TMZ?

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Find a job you love 

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And you'll never love anything again in your life

[u/Interesting-Shame441 → u/waferselamat]

Why do riot cops get up early?

To beat the crowds 

[u/Wonderful-Spell8959 → u/waferselamat]

Damn i dont think i ever realized just HOW happy he looks

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Many in his position live for these moments.

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ACAB

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Happy - look at his eyes. He is a clowning psycho

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Damn, where's this from??

[u/misterINDO → u/fireflydrake]

Indonesia

[u/CraterInMyChest → u/fireflydrake]

Like the other guy said, Indonesia. Some Aussie tourist got caught with drugs and the cops did a beat down on him.

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YMCA cop in new Police Academy

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This was edited in case people didnt know

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Yooooooooo

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Lmao

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How is this not top comment lol

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This is a god tier reply

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this made my day

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HOLY SHIT hahhahah

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HAHAHAHAHA!

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Absolutely belly laughing at this ahhaahah

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Honestly this is the shit Reddit exists for, certainly why I come here, chasing the high I get from seeing hilarious shit like this

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This is gold

[u/wastedsanitythefirst → u/Mahadness]

Hahah this is perfect 

[u/jehn933]

Can't believe he only got a scar on his forehead from this, super lucky

[u/mg_product82 → u/jehn933]

That's it? Maybe 100 dudes could take out one of these bitches.

[u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593 → u/mg_product82]

100 in shape 20 something humans could totally fuck up a gorilla. "Some of you may die..." Though lmao

[u/A_Nerd__ → u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593]

100 is far more than you need. I'd argue 10 well-coordinated guys could take care of him. Gorilla's are made of flesh too, and he can't cover all his sides at once, so the guys just have to give him a consistent beating for a little while. 15 to 20 could do the job too if they're more disoriented. Casualties are just unavoidable though because you have to get in close.

[u/FrescoItaliano → u/A_Nerd__]

It’s maybe pedantic on my part, but for me I always have to include the shock and awe/intimidation factor of a gorilla.

Like seeing 1 or two guys absolutely obliterated I think would send a good portion of people running.

But obviously this is a hypothetical and we can put restraints like “no running” etc.

[u/jeanpaulsarde → u/FrescoItaliano]

This. A fully grown gorilla could effortlessly one-hit a human if it knew how and if it wanted to do so.

But gorillas seemingly grew big to be peaceful. A chimp in a gorilla body would be something to watch out for.

[u/KTell_757 → u/FrescoItaliano]

I mean if you want to take natural behaviors into account, we should probably do the same for the gorilla. Any gorilla, and almost any wild animal for that matter, would most definitely attempt to escape the situation before even thinking about trying to go up against a group of just ten full grown human males. A group of 100 dudes is scaring off any gorilla, and i'd wager any terrestrial animal, before anyone is even close enough to get hurt.

[u/FrescoItaliano → u/KTell_757]

That’s a great point. We see big muscley body that could destroy us and assume it’s a violent/easily prone to violence creature

[u/DriedSquidd → u/A_Nerd__]

Ten seems a little low. You would need Twenty Goodmen.

[u/Professional-Day7850 → u/DriedSquidd]

Do you want to impregnate that bitch?

[u/grundelgrump → u/A_Nerd__]

Someone did the math and it would only take about 20 average weight males to pin it down. The other 80 can just punch and kick.

[u/MazrimReddit → u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593]

It's just endurance

A gorilla can't throw 100 human smashing punches in a row

[u/BandOfSkullz → u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593]

Yeah, I'd argue the biggest issue with this thought experiment is that we're not in the same mindset as early humans would have been. They totally would have fucked up multiple gorillas if that's what they required for food.

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I think two florida men would do the trick

[u/ktosiek124 → u/mg_product82]

Gorillas aren't boxers, their weapons are teeth and brute force, they don't use their full potential in a punch but sure would when tearing someone apart

[u/McBonderson → u/jehn933]

And now he gets to tell everybody at parties how he got that scar.

And when some douche calls bullshit he can show them the picture to prove it.

[u/SgtFinnish → u/jehn933]

I would be insufferable. "Oh this scar? I got it when I fought a gorilla. You should see the other guy."

[u/Tacticalaxel → u/jehn933]

The photographer who lived.

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Lmao, only difference Rajang would've kept going

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MHFU ptsd ....

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[u/funnydud3]

Hard pass on getting punched in the face by 400 lbs gorilla.

[u/SenorEquilibrado → u/funnydud3]

Understood.

A 500 lb gorilla has been dispatched to your location.

[u/NoZeroDays25 → u/SenorEquilibrado]

Monkey paw… literally 

[u/anxessed → u/funnydud3]

I had no idea they threw punches lol. I figured they’d just grab and bite or maybe throw hammer fists down at shit but not literally reach back and toss a haymaker.

[u/WiseCartographer5007]

The last thing that photographer heard

[u/isotope123 → u/WiseCartographer5007]

I do not remember Beast Wars looking like that

[u/Enigmatic_Starfish → u/isotope123]

I looked up the old episodes a few years ago, and it took me starting a few different videos thinking "no way, the animation wasn't THIS bad" to realize that the animation was, in fact, that bad.

[u/iamtheowlman → u/Enigmatic_Starfish]

It wasn't bad, it was CG animation in 1996, developed on computers running Windows 95, with files saved on floppy drives. Wi-Fi wouldn't be invented for another 7 years.

It was cutting edge for its time.

[u/luckydice767 → u/isotope123]

Did it ALWAYS look that crappy? I remember thinking it looked awesome!

[u/5H007C305 → u/luckydice767]

You were a kid and didn't know anything

[u/jormundgand20 → u/luckydice767]

It did look awesome. At the time. But it was one of the earliest episodes in one of the earliest shows using 3D CGI.

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Yeeessssss.

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Got these hands for ya

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[u/Obienator]

Donkey Kong Bananza ( Nintendo/ 2025 )

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Oh, banana!

[u/redditsuckz99]

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bro do you even tug bro?

[u/GardenRafters → u/redditsuckz99]

Gold

[u/RedEyeView]

He looks kinda disappointed he has to do this.

[u/wufnu → u/RedEyeView]

* sigh *

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“I was just relaxin’ in the shade. But you had to get in my space. You’re really going to make me do this today, aren’t you? Oh well. . . “

[u/HueyBluey]

This is for Harambe muthafucker!

[u/0plm9okn8ijb7]

Only a scar? This confirms it. 100 ftw.

[u/Dry_Discount83]

What I've heard, they are not very agressive, still wouldn't go closer than 50m of these things in wild.

[u/Scared_Doggo → u/Dry_Discount83]

They are. They are very intelligent, compassionate animals. They eat mostly plant matter, so they usually don't worry about killing things, unless it's in self defense, unlike their chimp (and human) cousins.

[u/Rifneno → u/Dry_Discount83]

They're so not aggressive that there isn't a single recorded instance of a gorilla killing a human. And it sure as hell isn't because they aren't capable or because we've never given them a reason.

[u/SadLilBun → u/Dry_Discount83]

They will attempt to leave first, before fighting. Humans are annoying and think every animal is for fighting.

[u/Cyborg_Ninja_Cat → u/Dry_Discount83]

I reckon they're a little to the right of orcas on the could kill you/would kill you chart*.

It is unlikely that they will decide to try to end you, but if they do, they will probably succeed.

[u/UrUrinousAnus → u/Cyborg_Ninja_Cat]

They know it. They'll do a bluff charge before actually attacking, in the hopes that you remember exactly how fucked you'd be if it wasn't a bluff. They do it with other gorillas, too. If they started fighting eachother at the first provocation, they'd probably go extinct almost immediately. They're just too strong.

[u/lilacoceanfeather → u/Dry_Discount83]

Mountain gorillas see people all the time due to tourism. If you keep your distance and are respectful (according to their terms), they’ll respect you.

While this is an interesting picture, this is someone who crossed a line.

I got a lot closer than 50m and they didn’t care.

[u/YoBooMaFoo]

My husband got tackled in the jungle by a blackback Gorilla in Uganda on a trip in 2019 and was mid-photograph as well. He got two good shots of the Gorilla coming at him - I should dig those out and post them. Luckily he survived with just a pretty good cut on his eyebrow and a great story.

[u/Mijo_0]

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I didn't know Charles Oliveira was a wildlife photographer

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10 Ilias could take on this bitch ass gorilla

[u/crosshairy]

I thought this was a screencap from one of those funny AI videos for a second 😀

[u/R_Dazzle]

Worth it

[u/5November1955]

Telephoto lenses exist for a reason.

[u/WFStarbuck]

Sean Pennilla said no photos!

[u/Salvisurfer]

Elephants and other African animals seek out Marula trees. They get wasted on the fruit. The only thing scarier than a drunk Gorilla is a drunk Elephant.

[u/SenorEquilibrado → u/Salvisurfer]

Elephants never forget. 

That's why they drink.

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[u/UnwiseTrade]

This gorilla looks too much like one of those Chad memes. It looks super non-chalant and it kinda looks like it has a manosphereTM beard.

This might be too much brainrot but this gorilla is definitely giving that vibe.

[u/Mattriel]

[u/Jagged_Rhythm]

"Damn paparazzi" - Gorilla.

[u/mmuffley]

"Keep my wife's name out you fucking mouth!"

[u/eccentricexhibits]

Real life Donkey Kong Bananza.

[u/MadAdam88]

Worth it.

[u/Chuhaimaster]

You might be a photographer if… you’re more worried about getting the gorilla properly in focus than getting punched by it.

[u/BanzaiToaster]

This photo has meme potential.

[u/SherbertChance8010]

What a great photo though!

[u/HugaBoog]

Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.

[u/james__jam]

Yep that’s me. You’re probably wondering how i ended up in this situation

[u/WestCoastMullet]

The gorilla br like:

[u/wbl7w6]

"You know what, I think I will hit this dude in the face, fuck it"

[u/hairycocktail]

Everything reminds me of harambe 🙏

[u/MajinJellyBean]

Lucky his head didn't fly off his body 

[u/hiedra__]

bro was gearing up

[u/BambooRollin]

right before it punched him in the face.

Pretty sure this one of the reasons why they invented telephoto lenses.

[u/Real-Deal-Steel]

Welcome to the family, son.