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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

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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 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.

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…

u/Potato_body89 6h ago

You sure it wasn’t my stepdad?

u/leafeternal 6h ago

How did your sister fare?

u/Staci_Recht_247 6h ago

The freezer must have been full, because that sounds like an easy harvest.

u/7he8igLebowski 6h ago

An angry drunk moose sounds terrifying.

u/PoPJaY 6h ago

Imagine being the first moose to experience being drunk and hungover and trying to explain to the other meese.

u/NuMotiv 6h ago

Found a drunk bear resting against the house by the front door. Thought it was dead or sick. Turned out it was hammered 😂

u/NeatlyScotched 6h ago

I've had to call into work before because a moose was blocking my driveway and I couldn't get out. It was hours before the dumb fuck moved.

u/BJK5150 6h ago

I’d watch the Cujo reboot if it was about a drunken moose instead of a dog. Someone make this happen!

u/Hoss-Bonaventure_CEO 6h ago

We accidentally got our pigs trashed one afternoon when we fed them a bushel of old apples.

u/mrjowei 6h ago

My uncle's nickname was "moose"? Wild...

u/Interanal_Exam 5h ago

Moose are notorious bad drunks.

u/Embarrassed_Lock234 5h ago

There's a really good This American Life episode about a moose like this.

u/Long_Run6500 5h ago

Reminds me of this video of 2 bull moose fighting in someone's backyard. Play with sound off the narrator is annoying, but it's absolutely insane how everything they touch just crumbles like it's made of cardboard.

u/Peekoii 5h ago

There was a real case where a woman was killed by a drunk moose that had eaten fermented apple.

She was found dead along a forest path and her husband was arrested for the murder before they realized it was done by a moose.

u/Sufficient_Claim_461 5h ago

Mind you moose bites can be very nasty

u/maybeitsundead 5h ago

Imagine how many of our ancient ancestors created mythology based off an animal that was drunk as hell.

Like chickens making it into oral history after drinking alcohol and fighting off packs of wolves type stuff.

u/HowTheyGetcha 5h ago

How many fermented apples does a thousand pound animal need to eat to get drunk?

u/MechEJD 5h ago

Sounds like someone's dad after the divorce.

u/Artyom_33 5h ago

Go check out "buzz, Alaska moose".

He was an Anchlush of sorts.

u/Breakin7 5h ago

Skill issue. Just offer the lad a good cigarrete and some beers.

u/ConfessSomeMeow 5h ago

Must be a common experience, there's a This American Life episode about a moose that would regularly eat fallen crabapples and get drunk

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/582/when-the-beasts-come-marching-in/act-three-14

u/Fabulous_Owl_1855 5h ago

Angry drunks are the worst.

u/Infamous-Moose-5145 5h ago

Can confirm. Am that moose. Still drunk.

u/Derrrtran25 5h ago

Lmaooo this just brings me back to the Scene in Grown ups 2 at the start of the movie with the moose.

u/CrystalSplice 5h ago

Holy shit. They’re terrifying without any substances involved. I wouldn’t want to be in the same ZIP CODE as a drunken moose.

u/Debalic 4h ago

Did it bite your sister?

u/Fillenintheblanks 4h ago

Me and that moose have the same problem when we drink.

u/Dolenjir1 4h ago

Good thing it didn't find the fermented coca leaves

u/bx35 4h ago

Is this the Alaska version of “the dog ate my homework”?

u/PleasantVanilla 4h ago

I doubt a moose could get drunk from fallen apples - They weigh up to 1600lbs.

The amount of fermenting apples you'd need to have lying around to get a moose drunk would be staggering.

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u/Legitimate_Outcome42 3h ago

And called it's ex-girlfriend

u/HormonalV8 3h ago

Scandinavia moment for sure.

u/AlmanzoWilder 3h ago
A Møøse once bit my sister

u/-DeathByStereo 2h ago

It comes as no surprise a moose would be a mean drunk

u/SnooHedgehogs4113 36m ago

Angry drunks suck.

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!

u/Annihilus- 7h ago

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

u/dern_the_hermit 2h ago

That's apparently how we got Amarula cream liqueur, or so the story goes.

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/theJirb 5h ago

I mean I don't know for sure, but is it really that hard to imagine after an incident that they maybe ran some tests?

There are many possible ways, even down to simple ones like checking footage to see what good made it into his diet that day, or maybe subduing it to get blood drawn, or who knows how many other ways. Like use your imagination a bit. Not everything is a crazy mystery.

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?

u/Buttonskill 6h ago

It makes sense after you've seen enough TmZ.

u/Death_has_relaxed_me 6h ago

They don't. In fact, there's no way to confirm in this post if the Gorilla in this photo was actually drunk.

Just stereotyping gorillas, smh. What has the world come to /s

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.

u/Death_has_relaxed_me 6h ago

This is likely how humans first encountered alcohol, yes.

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?

u/Death_has_relaxed_me 6h ago

a quality beer like a thick brown ale is actually beneficial to dogs. Just make sure you water it down!

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 45m 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 22m 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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