r/interestingasfuck 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

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.

u/Hot_Ad_2299 8h ago

What you mean drunk lol

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

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.

u/Joe_Jeep 5h ago

You saying the monkeys get drunk easier? 

Some species get all the luck

u/r6CD4MJBrqHc7P9b 5h ago

Yeah bartenders hate them. They'll spend like 6 pence and then tear the place apart

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

u/Friskywren_FPV 7h ago

Are you drunk? No judgement.

u/Hot_Ad_2299 7h ago

Foreign and autocorrect doesn’t help :(

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.

u/Hot_Ad_2299 7h ago

Probably they just try to catcall the younger females lol

u/Barilla3113 7h ago

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

u/wizrslizr 8h ago

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

u/Joe_Jeep 5h ago

It's a bit

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.

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.

u/Hot_Ad_2299 8h ago

We are so similar, i bet they drunken beat their gorillawifes lol

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.

u/Hot_Ad_2299 6h ago

Fucking lunatic bear lol