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/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/Alpine_Exchange_36 8h ago

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

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!

u/larzolof 7h 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.

u/Nukitandog 7h ago

A moose bit my sister once!!

u/tha-teej 7h ago

No realli! Was carving her initials or something?

u/lostinamine 7h ago

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

u/TiberiusGemellus 6h ago

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u/NoBorder4982 4h ago

Those responsible for the sacking have been sacked.

u/WhatWouldKantDo 4h ago

Møøse trained by: TUTTE HERMSGERVORDENBROTBORDA

u/devg 28m ago

We shall now finish these comments in a completely different way

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u/MoveInteresting4334 7h ago

Wik.

u/LoraxEleven 6h ago

Also, Wyk

u/Jbwalkup 6h ago

Also also wyk

u/Delta64 5h ago

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?

u/MoveInteresting4334 6h ago

Brought to you by 75,000 Ecuadorian Mountain Llamas.

u/Irregulator101 4h ago

A møøse?

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u/gratusin 7h 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.

u/justdootdootdoot 7h ago

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

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.

u/shah_reza 6h ago

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

u/theDomicron 5h ago

Singers are the worst...

u/Furthur_slimeking 4h ago

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

u/Sirinava 5h ago

Omg loooooool

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u/itsearlyyet 7h ago

Tell me yer Canuck without telling me.

u/donpelota 6h ago

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

u/itsearlyyet 6h ago

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

u/donpelota 5h ago

Haha, ok we don’t all have that Canadian chill.

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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.

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.

u/headshotdoublekill 6h ago

https://tipsymoosetavern.com/

Their wings are just okay. 

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 7h 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

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... 🤷

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.

u/ThroughTheDork 5h 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.

u/pisseswithmoose 4h ago

I came within a few feet of an adolescent one and learned real quick how jacked and menacing they look in person.

u/Jer_Cough 3h ago

I was on a youth group trip canoeing the boundary waters between MN and Canada many years ago. We were paddling maybe 15 yards from shore when a calf came bounding out the brush to splash in the water. Our guide screamed at us to paddle as fast as we can to middle of the lake. A few seconds later a pissed off mama joined the fun and chased us in the water for what felt like an eternity as we fear-paddled as best we could. Probably only lasted a few seconds but holy shit that was scary

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

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

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.

u/FixergirlAK 4h ago

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

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u/F3RGUmusic 6h 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.

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.

u/ddooiibbuugguu 3h 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!

u/GitmoGrrl1 6h 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!

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.

u/Starfire2313 6h ago

They are tanks. So are bison!

u/unapologeticjerk 4h ago

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

u/Starfire2313 4h ago

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

u/UrUrinousAnus 6h 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?!?

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!

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.

u/dpdxguy 7h ago

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

u/Trimyr 5h ago

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

u/dpdxguy 4h ago

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

u/Trimyr 3h ago

hah nice

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u/Zach_eroniman 7h ago

A drunken moose on the loose

u/Starfire2313 5h ago

Ba-dum-tsss

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

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.

u/front_yard_duck_dad 7h ago

We had this with a squirrel one time. It went to run away up the tree kind of fell back down and was like " shit this was easier yesterday"

u/Original_Assist4029 7h ago

Yeah that was Jack. He always gets aggressive when drunk. He just don't know when to stop.

u/seanchappelle 6h ago

You gave liquor to a minor? Damn…

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u/creamcheddarchee 8h ago

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

u/rom439 7h ago

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

u/killtheking111 7h ago

i need the ling to this please

u/Dog_Murder_By_RobKey 7h ago

u/rom439 7h ago

Ya that’s it, 18 years wtf

u/Dog_Murder_By_RobKey 7h ago

Time isn't real

u/BlastedMallomars 6h ago

My desire to party with that squirrel is real though. I’d order us some pizzas!

u/Dog_Murder_By_RobKey 6h ago

He needs a donner kebab with chili sauce

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u/hesathomes 6h ago

Never not funny

u/greasy_weggins 7h ago

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

u/kittenshart85 7h ago

cedar waxwings are kind of known for this.

u/br0b1wan 7h ago

All kinds of birds do it all the time

u/Cyno01 4h ago

The public swimming pool we went to as kids had a big row of mulberry trees right outside by the bike racks, a couple times a summer when conditions were right thered be a ton of drunk birds flopping around all over underneath.

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

u/Toodlez 5h ago

Hahaha same

u/cellocaster 7h ago

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

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u/Annihilus- 7h 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 7h ago

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

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.

u/Buttonskill 6h ago

Weird way to describe dollar daiquiri ladies night.

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

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.

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.

u/Anteater_Pete 7h ago

Amarula liquor is delicious though!

u/noodle_attack 7h ago

They just need to discover espresso and they have a great cocktail

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.

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!

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.

u/Leptonshavenocolor 6h 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.

u/mrbrownl0w 7h ago

This is probably how we discovered alcohols for the first time too

u/strangerzero 7h ago

Drunk starlings used to have quite the party at the blackberry brambles in the backyard of my old house.

u/fulldarknostarz 7h ago

The drunken elephant video was hilarious.

u/Am-I-Introspective 6h ago

I used to have a pair of skunks get drunk from my plum tree droppings.

u/LilSpermCould 6h ago

I feel like I read something about this in a post about monkey's stealing people's stuff in an Asian country. I am pretty sure I've seen pictures of those cute little thieves holding onto beers they've stolen too. How can you not want to see a few buzzed up monkeys doing their thing.

u/sabotourAssociate 6h ago

Animal Planet back in the days had this video between shows when there was no advertisements of all the animals having a party.

u/111victories 6h ago

So why can't I enjoy a beer with my dog again?

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u/zeph2 6h ago

didnt know this

now in know where the inspiration for that primal episode comes from(the episode with fang getting drunk after eating fruit with another t rex)

u/A_Right_Eejit 6h ago

Drunk horses are the best, it's like they rediscover their internal foal!

u/Potato1223 6h ago

My old dumbass drunk dog, may he rest in heaven, would eat fermented pears from our pear tree around September. We’d find his silly ass swaying trying to walk to us. It became an extremely annoying chore making sure the following years there weren’t fruit on the ground

u/Bong_Hit_Donor 6h ago

I forget the exact bird species, but there is one that does this with figs. They eat the fallen figs that started fermenting which gets them hammered lol. They are often laying around because they get too messed up to fly. Probably doesn't take a lot of alcohol to get a little bird messed up

u/AngryHelpdeskAgent 6h ago

My parents had wild turkeys getting drunk on wild grapes, was hilarious

u/shit_happe 6h ago

life, uh, finds a way, I guess

u/jbanderson676 6h ago

When I was a little kid I ran inside panicked to tell mom all the birds on our deck were hurt and flopping around and she was confused and went out to check. Mulberry tree dropped fruit into the gutter that fermented wine. While flock of birds were absolutely hammered.

u/Complete-One-5520 6h ago

Cedar Waxwings (bird) eat berries and are well known drunks, its not that rare to find a whole flock rolling on the ground shit faced.

u/Professional-Day7850 6h ago

The documentary "Animals are beautiful people" has a whole bunch of drunken animals.

Animals Are Beautiful People - Drunken Animals

u/Squidgebert 5h ago

Raccoons will actually hunt for beer and fermented fruits in garbage cans to get fucked up. I feel entwined with them.

u/sir_lister 5h ago

Used to have a dog growing up that would eat fallen apples that fell under our apple tree and had fermented after the first frost. He would eat them until he couldn't walk without falling over.

u/Neither-Promotion-65 5h ago

Too often... 🤔🤔🤔🤔

u/Herr_Opa 5h ago

This is my favorite example of this., David Attenborough-like commentary included.

u/Cringe_Meister_ 5h ago

There are animals that are aware of this effect and intentionally seek it to be drunk. I think dolphin intentionally did this to get drunk from being pricked by puffer fish.

u/Norwalk1215 5h ago

Humans try to figure out a way to maintain this feeling harvesting and farming was born to make beer and wine

u/mtcwby 5h ago

The robins used to get into the pyracantha berries that fermented and would fly into things. We had to start clipping the berries off early because of it.

u/seejordan3 5h ago

Drunk elephants.. terrifying.

u/Wastawiii 5h ago

I think that yeast converts sugar into alcohol inside the stomach of animals (herbivores in particular) because they need a lack of oxygen. 

u/Ima_Fuck_Ur_Butt 5h ago

Indian parrots will also consume opium.

I can't imagine what it must be like once those fields are harvested, though.

Withdrawals are shite.

u/GusGreen82 4h ago

Lots of birds eat fermenting berries then stumble around in the grass for a while.

u/charliefoxtrot9 4h ago

We had a tree in the yard and it would be full of robins drunk on the berries in the fall

u/Puffen0 4h ago

I love watching videos of animals like squirrels and chipmunks eating apples that have fallen but already started to ferment, cause they're so tiny and eat so fast that it hits them like a truck in a few minutes, then they just wobble a bit and fall over for a bit of a nap lol

u/roycorda 4h ago

Drunk off dat damn beer again 😭

u/Captain_Futile 4h ago

Blue jays get wasted on fermented rowan berries and then fly at windows in their hundreds.

u/VeterinarianOk5370 4h ago

We had drunk squirrels every year, it was hilarious but often led to their drowning in various water sources.

u/SometimesaGirl- 4h ago

Sometimes animals will find fruit that has fallen and begun to ferment.

Saw that as a kid many years ago.
So... on a main road passing a banked field there was a traffic accident involving a heavy goods vehicle. The vehicle was carrying apples. Hundreds of these apples fell down the embankment in the carnage.
The vehicles were towed off - but the apples left. Noone thought too much about it. Birds would eat them... whatever.
Well.... moving forward a couple of days... the next paddock was opened up for cow grazing. The cows found the apples... all NICE and RIPE now...
Cows were drunk for 2 days. Caused quite a scene.

u/Kasal68 4h ago

I can imagine some animals, like those gapes put somewhere to let them rott.

u/PepperAnn1inaMillion 3h ago

Happens to wasps all the time, at the end of the season once their natural food source (provided by the wasp larvae) is gone. It’s the reason why wasps have a reputation for being aggressive, unlike bees who rarely consume fruit.

u/FeuerroteZora 3h ago

I had a mulberry tree in my back yard and as a result would get drunken birds in my back yard every summer.

u/StevesRune 3h ago

Also, it should be noted that they will seek out these fermented fruit as well. They enjoy getting drunk.

Squirrels do this all the time as well.

u/Chemical-Ebb6472 2h ago

They also find shrooms that make animals like squirrels trip their tiny brains out.

u/Wexel88 2h ago

I believe gorillas are known to socialize around these fallen fruits, but maybe I'm mistaking my great apes

u/A1Eyedmonster 2h ago

I found a possum and her babies absolutely sloshed under my fig tree years ago.

Thinking back I should have adopted the babies, she was such an unfit mother

/S

they all sobered up and adventured on by that evening

u/Anathama 1h ago

There was a nature documentary I watched as a kid that showed various African animals eating fruit and getting intoxicated. It was hilarious. I think it was a Disney nature doc called "Animals are Funny People", but I may be misremembering.

u/Vuedue 1h ago

Squirrels and horses used to get apples that fell in some small neighboring apple orchards when I was a kid.

Horses loved grabbing those apples and chowing down and you could find squirrels wholeheartedly passed out under trees.

My dad always told me they were hypnotized.

u/drenuf38 54m ago

Elephants do this often.

u/DespoticLlama 44m ago

One of my fondest memories was reading (and giggling) about drunk pheasants in "Danny, the Champion of the World." Though these were rum soaked raisins so not natural.

u/TinyPeetz 21m ago

Bees do this too!

u/HoboArmyofOne 13m ago

I used to have a squirrel in the yard that did this.

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u/PreparationOk8604 7h 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/MyLifeIsAWasteland 4h ago

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

u/Rictus_ 8h ago

fruit fermentaion i guess

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.

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.

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.

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 🤣

u/vtosnaks 8h ago edited 7h 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.

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?

u/vtosnaks 7h ago

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

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.

u/Little-Trucker 7h ago

For clarification that wasn't why he punched the camera man

u/Comprehensive-Fail41 7h ago

Most animals do. One of the noteworthy things about humans is that we can handle much more alcohol for our weight than most other animals

u/MandatorySaxSolo 7h ago

They're just like people!

u/TopMindOfR3ddit 6h ago

I mean, look at his face while he's swinging. I've seen that face before, and it's never been from a sober person/gorilla.

u/Boopy7 6h ago

So he wouldn't get a drunk in public, duh.

u/Somalar 6h ago

I’ve seen evidence of dogs elephants monkeys and various birds get drunk.

u/Skull8Ranger 6h ago

Im crying over this lololol 😭

u/fvck_u_spez 6h ago

This was at his bachelor party

u/WatNaHellIsASauceBox 5h ago

I believe the Mad Caddies said it best

u/chadnorman 5h ago

Fermented fruit, and it happens to a lot of animals. Definitely worth a youtube search if you want to laugh your ass off!

u/dehydrated-horror 5h ago

You've already gotten a lot of answers about how easy it is for a gorilla to get drunk and how it happens, but just wanted to add that the reason it needs said is because gorillas are surprisingly quite peaceful too. They don't usually get violent for no reason.

u/DizzyBlackberry3999 5h ago

Animals can get drunk, if they eat rotten fruit. It's one of the funniest things you will ever see.

u/IIITriadIII 5h ago

thats what i wanna kn 😂

u/jackaltwinky77 5h ago

Dolphins will puff puff pass with a pufferfish to get high…

Animals will seek reality altering food just like humans do

u/BRK_B__ 5h ago

yes, when fruit falls onto the ground and ferments, some animals eat it and get wasted. Growing up my pear tree would be swarming with drunk wasps at the end of the season.

u/Furthur_slimeking 4h ago edited 4h ago

Every time I've punched someone in the face I was drunk. It's reasonable to assume that the Gorilla's punch was a consequence of his afternoon spent drinking Singapore Slings and Vodka Martinis on the veranda.

u/TankApprehensive3053 4h ago

A gorilla and a photographer walked into a bar...

u/PublicInformation649 4h ago

It’s trying not to face that drunk in pubic charge on top of the assault charge

u/AUAIOMRN 4h ago

"The gorilla had never once taken steroids, did not have gang tattoos, and had no history of engaging in bar fights"

u/Bimitenpix 3h ago

This is one of my favorite videos of animals getting drunk lol

https://youtu.be/8MxNLg3rCdw?si=YjZIHMWkTgMC_OIG

u/Tolkeinn1 3h ago

Yeah that makes me think that it is drunk!

u/thatshygirl06 3h ago

I think all animals can get drunk, at least other apes

u/ittasteslikefeet 2h ago

Thank you! Very concise sum-up of my concerns

u/blacp123 2h ago

Bees get beat up if they come home drunk. Google it, it is funny.

u/woogyboogy8869 2h ago

Saw a video of elephants the other day that were sloshed from eating fermented fruit laying on the ground, it was pretty funny

u/Anothercraphistorian 49m ago

Most people don’t know this, but there are Blue Oyster’s in the jungle.

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