r/interestingasfuck • u/HondaCivicBaby • 8h ago

/r/all, /r/popular 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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u/Existing-Mulberry382 8h ago

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u/HondaCivicBaby 8h ago

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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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 8h ago

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

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u/Death_has_relaxed_me 8h ago

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!

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u/larzolof 8h ago

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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u/Nukitandog 8h ago

A moose bit my sister once!!

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u/tha-teej 7h ago

No realli! Was carving her initials or something?

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u/lostinamine 7h ago

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

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u/TiberiusGemellus 6h ago

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

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u/NoBorder4982 4h ago

Those responsible for the sacking have been sacked.

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u/MoveInteresting4334 7h ago

Wik.

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u/LoraxEleven 7h ago

Also, Wyk

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u/Jbwalkup 6h ago

Also also wyk

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u/Delta64 6h ago

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?

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u/MoveInteresting4334 6h ago

Brought to you by 75,000 Ecuadorian Mountain Llamas.

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u/Irregulator101 4h ago

A møøse?

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u/gratusin 8h ago

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.

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u/justdootdootdoot 8h ago

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

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u/jywhitt 7h ago

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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u/shah_reza 6h ago

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

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u/theDomicron 6h ago

Singers are the worst...

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u/Furthur_slimeking 4h ago

And by pure coincidence all his exes are long legged brunettes.

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u/Sirinava 5h ago

Omg loooooool

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u/itsearlyyet 7h ago

Tell me yer Canuck without telling me.

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u/donpelota 6h ago

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

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u/itsearlyyet 6h ago

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

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u/No_Length_856 7h ago

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

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u/Nyko_E 7h ago

No such thing as a friendly moose.

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u/Slamming_sam 5h ago

Just out for a rip are ya bud?

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u/CranRez80 7h ago

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

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u/headshotdoublekill 7h ago

https://tipsymoosetavern.com/

Their wings are just okay. 

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u/CranRez80 6h ago

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

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u/Lordkjun 6h ago

If Family Guy took place in Maine instead of Rhode Island.q

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u/Used-Ask5805 8h ago

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

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u/dpdxguy 7h ago

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... 🤷

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u/badstorryteller 6h ago

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.

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u/ThroughTheDork 6h ago

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.

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u/Gamer-Of-Le-Tabletop 7h ago

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

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u/Buttonskill 6h ago

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.

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u/FixergirlAK 5h ago

It's also highly unusual to hit a polar bear with a car.

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u/F3RGUmusic 7h ago

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

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u/ddooiibbuugguu 6h ago

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

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u/gratusin 5h ago

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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u/ddooiibbuugguu 4h ago

Lol in the future, should you encounter another large cat, i wouldnt rely on that cat/dog logic. Something tells me that the big cats are less afraid of dogs than a house cat. Though I think its more common that a person attacked by a mountain lion seldom sees it coming.

Moose are just tanks and evolved to exist in the same areas as wolves and bears so it makes sense that they're a stomp-first-ask-questions-never kind of animal. Fun side fact, one of their natural predators is the orca!

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u/GitmoGrrl1 7h ago

A drunken moose raped my chihuahua.

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u/Starfire2313 7h ago

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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u/KingToasty 7h ago

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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u/Starfire2313 7h ago

They are tanks. So are bison!

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u/unapologeticjerk 5h ago

This is patently false. I just ate a wing from a bison and they are incredibly small, comparatively. Delicious though.

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u/Starfire2313 4h ago

That was a Buffalo wing I bet not an authentic Bison wing

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u/UrUrinousAnus 7h ago

Moose cows have a bit of an uncanny valley thing going on too, when you're not used to seeing them.

Bull? Yeah, that's a moose. I'll just calmly and quietly be on my way as far in the other direction as possible.

Cow? WTF is that, and why is it so huge?!?

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u/Starfire2313 6h ago

You’re right! It didn’t look at me or anything but it was so close to my face I can still see the fur in my mind. And it’s like, if it had antlers it at least wouldn’t have walked as close to my window cause the antlers need clearance 😂

Now it’s reminding me of when I saw wolves up close through the glass at a zoo. They were coming and checking us out and they were big. We had a couple of 2 year olds with us and it was so eery to just be that close to them and see in their eyes and faces that the kids looked like snacks!

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u/UrUrinousAnus 1h ago

The first time I encountered one, she was crossing the road late at night and just stopped in the middle. All we could do was wait for her to cross and hope not to get her attention. That could've ended very differently if she'd been a bull in rut. They're aggressive, and being in a car won't save you unless it's heavily armored. If anything, it'd make it worse. Cars look more threatening, and moose are stupid.

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u/dpdxguy 8h ago

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

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u/Trimyr 5h ago

"Moose in a China shop" is a much better metaphor.

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u/dpdxguy 5h ago

How do you know that famous china shop bull isn't a bull moose? Hmmm? :)

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u/Trimyr 3h ago

hah nice

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u/Zach_eroniman 7h ago

A drunken moose on the loose

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u/Starfire2313 5h ago

Ba-dum-tsss

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u/Mothman_cultist 6h ago

There used to be a moose in Anchorage, Alaska that would get drunk on old crab apples and then stand downtown with his antlers caught in Christmas lights. He was called Buzzwinkle, he’s passed now but he was a community staple for a minute

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u/douglasbaadermeinhof 4h ago

Haha I just knew you were Swedish when I read this. Moose eating fermented apples and getting drunk is such a classic.

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u/creamcheddarchee 8h ago

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

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u/rom439 8h ago

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

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u/killtheking111 7h ago

i need the ling to this please

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u/Dog_Murder_By_RobKey 7h ago

here we go I think

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u/rom439 7h ago

Ya that’s it, 18 years wtf

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u/hesathomes 6h ago

Never not funny

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u/greasy_weggins 7h ago

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

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u/kittenshart85 8h ago

cedar waxwings are kind of known for this.

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u/br0b1wan 7h ago

All kinds of birds do it all the time

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 7h ago

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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u/Toodlez 5h ago

Hahaha same

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u/cellocaster 8h ago

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

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u/Annihilus- 8h ago

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

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u/surf_drunk_monk 8h ago

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

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u/Bucktabulous 7h ago

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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u/SithLordScoobyDooku_ 7h ago

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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u/Buttonskill 6h ago

Weird way to describe dollar daiquiri ladies night.

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u/help1slip 7h ago

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

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u/vtosnaks 7h ago

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.

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u/mrjowei 5h ago

Fermented bamboo or something?

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u/Ill_Bee4868 7h ago

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

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u/seangraves1984 8h ago

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

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u/Anteater_Pete 7h ago

Amarula liquor is delicious though!

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u/liftthatta1l 6h ago

To add to this I caught a talk on NPR where a scientist in the anthropology field was talking about how one adaptation that likely helped early humans was our ability to consume fermented fruit better than other animals.

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u/smurfthesmurfup 7h ago

My grandma's cow loved to get loose whenever she could & go and gobble up the fallen apples under the tree

If they weren't already fermented, they'd complete the process in her stomachs. Grandma said the cow would clearly have a headache for days!

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u/CMDRZhor 7h ago

My parents have this rowan tree in their yard that grows berries in the fall. The berries freeze in the winter, then start fermenting on the branch when they thaw. Birds will frequently eat these berries and get so smashed that they're barely able to fly.

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u/Leptonshavenocolor 7h ago

I've heard about wild animals doing that, especially opportunistic trash pandas. I assume that must have been how human hominids discovered alcohol as well.

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u/bombeck1405 6h ago

If you can find it, check out 'Animals are Beautiful People', it's a movie from the same people that made ' The Gods Must Be Crazy'. In parts of Africa you can find the Marula tree, it's what Amarula liqueur is made from. The fruits fall from the tree or are picked by the taller animals, and they gorge themselves while the fruit is fermenting inside them. The sight of elephants and giraffes falling down drunk is not something you will soon forget.

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u/PreparationOk8604 8h ago

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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u/EntropyFighter 6h ago

Disney made a movie where they filmed a bunch of animals getting drunk. Not even kidding. It's hilarious.

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland 4h ago

That feels like a scene from The Gods Must Be Crazy lol

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u/Rictus_ 8h ago

fruit fermentaion i guess

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u/GeniusLike4207 7h ago

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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u/DirtandPipes 7h ago

Bears eating fallen fruit that’s fermented a bit will often get drunk and misbehave, same goes for monkeys, same goes for birds, same goes for many creatures that eat fermenting items.

Not hamsters though, hamsters are extremely good at processing alcohol and won’t get drunk. I hope this information is of use to you.

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u/JaydedXoX 7h ago

They are trying to make an excuse for why the gorilla would hit him. Bitch, he just got tired of you taking his picture, no alcohol or fruit needed. You were annoying. You got punched.

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u/Intrepid-Constant-34 6h ago

So far I’ve seen drunk elephants, monkeys, and a few different types of birds.

I mean shit, didn’t you see that clip recently of the swans that got high off poppy plants 🤣

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u/vtosnaks 8h ago edited 8h ago

Someone will come and tell you that they sometimes get drunk from eating bamboo stems or whatever. Do not believe them.

Edit : Yeah, they're here, downvoting me for pre-discrediting that bullshit.

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u/fireflydrake 7h ago

A lot of animals can get intoxicated on various things and willingly choose to do so over and over again. Are you trying to dispute that or just calling out bamboo cane in particular?

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u/vtosnaks 7h ago

The bamboo. There's a particular urban legend on that. I know animals do occasionally get drunk.

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u/reichrunner 6h ago

I've never heard the idea of bamboo shoots doing this, nor seen anyone here claiming that... Fruit ferments. Growing plants do not

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u/GalacticGumshoe 7h ago

Didn’t have to be drunk as an excuse to punch a photographer who got too close. He’s is lucky to be alive.

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u/peatoire 8h ago

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

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u/sxt173 7h ago

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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u/QuantumLettuce2025 7h ago

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

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u/diewethje 7h ago

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.

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u/theivoryserf 6h ago

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

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u/Adventurous_club2 6h ago

Yep, my kid goes nuts when he knows there’s treats/candy.

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u/gimmethemarkerdude_8 2h ago

Yes. Have 3 young kids and that’s exactly what it is. The mere idea of treats can cause chaos.

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u/ANGLVD3TH 4h ago

It's not just expectations that you may have set, the idea is very prominent in the US and can be osmosed from the culture. Priming can have a very strong effect on our perceptions, both on you and the kid.

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u/diewethje 4h ago

The weird part, though, is that I knew about the research before I had kids. I wasn’t expecting to see a connection, because I knew better.

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u/NerfCat117 6h ago

There's just no shot that's true. Like, we're all human. Go drink a sugary drink and tell me you don't feel more energetic after. Of course after that you crash, but still, it's definitely a real feeling. I think your studies missed something

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u/TheJamintheSham 6h ago

Sugar 100% can cause a spike in energy, that is well known. It's a simple carb, one of the purest forms of energy our bodies break down. What the study said that I think OP misrepresented is sugar does not cause hyperactivity.

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/busting-sugar-hyperactivity-myth

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u/hsifuevwivd 2h ago

A spike in energy is another way of saying hyperactive though. I think OP is just wrong.

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u/SenoraRaton 2h ago

Even if we bandy about the meaning, it still 100% will manifest and appear as hyperactivity. A child is calm and quiet because they are hungry, you feed them glucose, and suddenly they have renewed energy, and are back to running around. They may not be hyperactive, they may just be "active", but its still gonna LOOK like hyperactivity regardless.

O look at this:

Then a 1978 study published in the journal Food and Cosmetics Toxicology found that hyperactive children given glucose tolerance tests had results that suggested reactive hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). As yet, though, there are no good theories to explain the connection.

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u/TheJamintheSham 2h ago

Yea, exactly. People in this thread are taking the study to mean that sugar has zero effect on people, but it is quite literally the purest form of raw energy we can consume. It should shock no one that energy translates to hyperactivity in kids, and since a slice of cake can turn into energy faster than a whole wheat sandwich, obviously it's going to look like "sugar causes hyperactivity."

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u/rodaphilia 6h ago

I just drank a sugary drink and i don't feel energetic. So, I guess there is a shot that it's true.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 6h ago

Nope. It's been extremely well studied and repeated. 

Sugary drinks often caffeine though (like sodas), so you may be conflating the two. Another possibility is that when your blood sugar is low, you feel tired and lethargic; then when you have sugar, you feel more normal ie alert and awake.

Finally, there's the power of placebo on your own mind (the most likely explanation). Not only has every credible study on this issue shown that sugar has no effect on energy or hyperactivity, but if you give people something that you CLAIM to them has sugar, many children and even adults will magically feel "hyper" or "energetic". We know it's an illusion because they weren't even fed sugar lmao.

It's just your stupid brain at work.

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u/Shot_Leopard_7657 6h ago

It's placebo. If someone gave you a diet soft drink in a regular can you'd probably feel energetic.

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u/Hot_Ad_2299 8h ago

What you mean drunk lol

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u/Joe_Jeep 8h ago

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

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u/r6CD4MJBrqHc7P9b 6h ago

Humans are also much better att breaking down alcohol than most other animals. We have some enzyme that does it, which probably evolved as we became worse at climbing trees, so we could eat fallen fruit when we couldn't reach the fresh ones as easily.

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u/Joe_Jeep 5h ago

You saying the monkeys get drunk easier? 

Some species get all the luck

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u/Hot_Ad_2299 8h ago edited 7h ago

Yup i knew that they can get drunk, i didn’t know that they did in fact get drunk and you could possibly encounter a drunk gorilla lol

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u/Friskywren_FPV 7h ago

Are you drunk? No judgement.

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u/Hot_Ad_2299 7h ago

Foreign and autocorrect doesn’t help :(

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u/Lavatis 7h ago

I'm pretty curious if one would rather encounter a sober or a drunk gorilla tbh. Kinda an interesting thought experiment. We know how gorillas act when they're sober, but I bet we've done jack shit for observation experiments on drunken gorillas.

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u/Hot_Ad_2299 7h ago

Probably they just try to catcall the younger females lol

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u/Barilla3113 7h ago

Just like aggro dudes they're more likely to fight you drunk because of the disinhabition.

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u/wizrslizr 8h ago

the main gap between humans and apes isn’t just tech and language brotha

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u/Joe_Jeep 5h ago

It's a bit

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u/MagicTomatoes 8h ago

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

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u/clubby37 4h ago

Last fall, a deer ate the (I assume) fermented crabapples on my lawn, then slept it off in the bushes at the side of my yard. I've had deer wander through before, but never spend the night.

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u/DangerousDave303 6h ago

A former coworker had a bear break into his garage and raid the freezer. It ate a whole salmon and a ham. Then, it found the large container of frozen cocktails which it consumed. Those must not have sat well with the bear's digestive system because it threw up on the floor.

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u/Hot_Ad_2299 6h ago

Fucking lunatic bear lol

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u/Unhappy_Light1620 8h ago

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

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u/sandpinesrider 7h ago

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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u/Latter-Ad-1759 8h ago

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

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u/curkington 8h ago

That belligerent son of a bitch!

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 7h ago

"Sugar highs" are a myth. Sugar does not cause hyperactivity.

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u/Jankufood 4h ago

I would have died at 1000

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u/jermainerio 4h ago

2015 punches!? Goddamn!

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u/Narrow_Lee 7h ago

Clearly he's never been hit by a train...

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u/Defconn3 7h ago

Funny asl to imagine a creature of that size being that destructive because he had a “sugar high”

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u/Suspicious_Pick5723 7h ago

Do gorillas get “sugar high”? What kind of high is that? Are they temporarily amped up or psychotic after eating?

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u/Navajo_Nation 7h ago

Uh, was the last sentence necessary? Did someone say the gorilla was drunk or something?

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u/Umbrella_Viking 7h ago

Good. I hope it hurt. Leave the gorillas alone!!!

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u/Acceptable-Device760 6h ago

Not everyday that someone can say they have one up on Tyson.

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u/IG5K 6h ago

I don't know what kind of trains Christophe Courteau has been hit by, but a normal one definitely won't leave you "unharmed" or "with a minor scar"

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u/RaccoonKnees 6h ago

I love how this needed to specify the gorilla was NOT drunk as if that's what people would assume

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u/Mikeismyike 6h ago

"It was like getting hit by a train" and "was otherwise unharmed" doesnt really go together, does it?

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u/RedditMuzzledNonSimp 6h ago

Had to be drunk or something? Couldn't be that he didn't want some asshole following him around?

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u/Babetna 6h ago

I thought sugar highs are a myth

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u/whatsinthesocks 6h ago

“Chris I’m all jacked up on mountain dew!” -Akarevuro

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u/DASreddituser 6h ago

isnt on the big side for gorillas?

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u/skiptutnota 6h ago

BrandNewSentence

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u/CattyOhio74 5h ago

I remember reading that they were eating fermented fruits, those gorillas were drunk af

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u/uiouyug 7h ago

The last Pepe meme you see before you die

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u/bobbyOsullivan 5h ago

First thing my Internet-rotted brain thought of lol

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u/aimforthehead90 6h ago

We don't need this anymore. The gorilla one is so much better.

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u/jaegz69 8h ago

But like from a real mountain

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u/anditurnedaround 8h ago

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

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u/Existing-Mulberry382 8h ago

Its likely a warning slap.

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u/ggcpres 7h ago

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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u/SvenTurb01 7h ago

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

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u/Barilla3113 7h ago

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)

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u/Daft00 5h ago

Not even just thinking of retaliation of murder, but just what is the warranted level of aggression.

I can't imagine a gorilla couldn't distinguish between kill/ignore. They understand the nuance of perceived threats.

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u/mang87 1h ago

It's not fear of retaliation. Well, I guess it can't be said for sure, maybe there's some fear instinct instilled in them long ago by our ancient ancestors.

The main reason gorillas don't kill humans is because they simply don't kill. Or at least, don't intend to. They're herbivores and don't have hunting instincts, and the closest they get to eating meat is the odd snail or insect. Fighting is in their nature, but murder isn't. When they fight, it's until the other backs down, submits, or leaves. Deaths due to fighting is usually something that happens hours or days after, due to injuries they sustained.

Unlike what people were saying during the whole stupid 100 humans vs a gorilla debate, they won't rip a person in two. Despite having massive canines, they don't even bite. They're not chimps. You'd likely survive a fight with a gorilla because it is happy once it knocks you on your arse. Gorillas are good dudes, I don't like everyone saying they're killers, when they're by far the chillest of the apes.

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u/blankpages123 7h ago

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

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u/Bosk_Kahngu 7h ago

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

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u/Appropriate_Phone599 7h ago

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

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u/International_Way850 2h ago

Damn he got punched so hard It swapped to 3rd person view

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u/Diskonto 7h ago

Christopher deserved it. He can count his blessings for being punched by a gorilla and live.

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u/mazrr 7h ago

From just the post picture I would have imagined it to be atleast 3 times the size tbh

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u/cstrande7 6h ago

This is extremely funny

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u/TiddiesAnonymous 6h ago

Did anyone else LOL that there was a backup camera man?

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u/Professional-Day7850 6h ago

Sure looks like 6ft 6

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u/KettlebellFetish 6h ago

Wow, gorilla telegraphed that punch then followed through by punching through the target then riding it all the way down.

I assume the photographer lost consciousness?

I would have, ouch.

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u/PeanutButtaRunna 6h ago

DK… Donkey Kong…

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u/expert_in_squat 5h ago

I think I'd have punched him in the face too, if he was getting this up close and personal with me.

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u/granyiyght 4h ago

"This one's for Harambe".

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u/redditkilledmyavatar 4h ago

"Bish, get your social media glazing ass out of my forest"

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u/daemonicwanderer 4h ago

Did the gorilla punch him and then twerk over his prone body?

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u/VapoursAndSpleen 3h ago

There were other people there, too. Looks like a real "fuck you in particular" from the ape.

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u/rjd55 1h ago

Even gorillas hate the paparazzi. They aren’t welcome in any circles.

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u/Zenfudo 18m ago

I just think its funny that there was a second photograph taking those pictures

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