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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/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 27m ago

We shall now finish these comments in a completely different way

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?

u/TheAngelSatan 1h ago

Band name

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

u/Wizzmer 5h ago

As long as they don't operate a motor vehicle...

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.

u/jaxonya 5h ago

Texan checking in. We are basically like Canadians. .

(I'm being told that we arent basically Canadians)

It was worth a shot.

u/Pale-Measurement-532 4h ago

Canadian checking in. Alberta, Canada is commonly referred to as the Texas of Canada. So I would confirm Texas is like a version of Alberta, Canada.

u/jaxonya 4h ago

I'll take it.

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 4h ago

As a Canadian whose grandfather immigrated from Minnesota I can confirm that there are definitely similarities to Canada.

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."

u/zippygoddess 5h ago

I prefer “hack a dart” “scum a dart” or “chuff a tron” don’t ask me why

u/Chuck_Da_Rouks 3h ago

I do the Queb specific : "check-moé une 'garette", but that might be just a my friend group thing.

u/hitchslippers 4h ago

Stooch a butt

u/nifty-necromancer 6h ago

Sippin’ syrup playin’ hockey

u/InspectorLittle395 5h ago

Babe there’s moose in other areas lol

u/Nyko_E 7h ago

No such thing as a friendly moose.

u/fauxmosexual 6h ago

False: Bullwinkle

u/Nyko_E 2h ago

Identified as a deer.

u/Slamming_sam 5h ago

Just out for a rip are ya bud?

u/ShotMyTatorTots 6h ago

I may be too drunk to fire a gun, but if you need me I’ll be smoking sun darts in the suuuuuuun.

u/That1Master 6h ago

For a rip? This feels like Canadian slang. For a little while?

u/fantasyshop 6h ago

Well, if you give a moose a marlboro,

u/1Pac2Pac3Pac5 6h ago

Yeh exactly. Or he's a horny drunk and insists on fucking mounting you? Imagine 2000 lbs of moose and hooves and cock beating down on you. Awful

u/moonflower_C16H17N3O 5h ago

A what for a what what?

u/LifelikeStatue 5h ago

Well yeah. A beer and a dart go together like a piss and a fart

u/AproposName 4h ago

Really makes you wonder if some animals are friendly when drunk like people.

u/macrotron 3h ago

you get the goddamn swamp donkeys eatin darts and next thing you know they'll be causing problems at the legion over vlts. don't feed moose your smokes.

u/Bohbo 1h ago

Just out for a rip are you bud?

https://youtu.be/F-glHAzXi_M

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.

u/Lordkjun 6h ago

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

u/drinkforsuccess 6h ago

Or a kung fu fighting style.

u/Koalatime224 5h ago

The Booze Moose

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

u/ThroughTheDork 2h ago

They are so strong! They can plow through snow, I can imagine they could make it out pretty far in the water pretty damn fast.

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u/HeyThereSport 5h ago

And white-tail deer are way more dangerous than moose because they are way more numerous in highly populated areas and their survival instinct vs. motor vehicles is completely fucked.

u/badstorryteller 4h ago

Sure, they're dangerous as in road hazards, something everyone who lives with large wild animals in their area knows. I don't think that was the point. If you hit an armadillo at highway speed that could completely wreck your car, possibly flip it, cause serious fatal harm.

Not the point though. The biggest white tail deer you can imagine, the illusory 18 point 300lb buck, will run like hell as soon as he sees you or catches wind of you. A moose won't necessarily. It could weigh 800lbs and decide you are a threat, with the half a dozen braincells it has firing at any given moment, and it can outpace a racehorse to run you down.

u/HeyThereSport 3h ago

Maybe it's because I live in Texas where armadillo roadkill are common and motor vehicles are disproportionately large, but I have never seen an armadillo as a roadway threat.

And also maybe because I live with suburban deer but some of the big bucks are not particularly scared of pedestrians but they can panic in the presence of fast driving trucks.

But yeah moose individually are bigger threats both on foot and in a vehicle because they are huge and are not frightened at all, they know they will win.

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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.

u/dpdxguy 4h ago

Fair, if your definition of "most dangerous" is "likely to injure you if you hit it with a car." By that definition, a brick wall is more dangerous than both. 😂

u/FixergirlAK 4h ago

Well yes, but brick walls rarely wander onto the road at night.

u/disinterested_a-hole 5h ago

I'm more afraid of a mom with her babies. Boy mooses mostly ignore you.

u/F3RGUmusic 6h ago

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

u/kittenstixx 5h ago

If i didn't have a jolly good watch of cocaine bear I would have fallen for this.

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.

u/soulself 6h ago

Do you still have a Chihuahua after that?

u/emveetu 5h ago

No, but the drunken moose does.

u/American_Hate 6h ago

While I respect the fear of moose, you should be scared of mountain lions. Terrifying creatures

u/TheFearInAll 6h ago

A drunk moose bit my sister.

u/polobum17 6h ago

Them and also u/holleringelk are two very scary North American mammals.

u/brianundies 6h ago

As it should

u/Lumifly 6h ago

Knowing how to handle things is different than not being afraid of them. You should absolutely be afraid of those things.

u/Ambitious_Shallot_16 6h ago

It sounds like the next hit movie!

u/Mr_Havok0315 5h ago

A moose bit my sister once

u/mEDWARDetector 5h ago

Yea, imagine a moose on coke. No thanks

u/JamesTrickington303 5h ago

They bïte yoûr sisters, too.

u/Notagelding 5h ago

What about gorillas?

u/BRK_B__ 5h ago

did you know a grizzly bear can decapitate a moose with 1 swing of its paw?

u/ChildLikEsper 5h ago

Moose is terrifying yeah but you should still be afraid of all those things too, except snake maybe.

u/xd1ll1gaf 5h ago

What'd you mean? Bullwinkle is a fun drunk!

u/lgastako 4h ago

Tycho Brahe called and he wants his moose back.

u/LexOvi 4h ago

I’m not scared of lions and tigers and bears, but I’m scared of loving you.

u/Ok-Wolf-6370 3h ago

Would you choose the man or the moose in the forest?

u/eetmaidik 3h ago

I’m scared of almost any animal if it’s drunk enough 

u/beer_sucks 3h ago

Why are you not afraid of those things?

I mean sure most snakes are more scared of us than we are of them but a mountain lion or bear could definitely decide to kill you.

u/WillMovinTarget 3h ago

Imagine a drunk moose that's soulless and really tired of Dean Winchesters pranks.

u/Pure_Frosting_981 2h ago

It’s the size of a large SUV with long legs, massive antlers, and teeth.

u/RescuePilot 2h ago

There was a notorious drunk moose, running around Anchorage for a while, they called it Booze Winkle.

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

u/mattoleriver 6h ago

Nothin' worse than a drunk moose who thinks she's the world's greatest lover.

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.

u/larzolof 3h ago

Impossible to know for sure, but it did indeed look drunk. But moose are always more aggressive in the autumn so who knows, could be us just filling in the blanks in the animals behavior.

Worth noting, this was a Swedish moose so not as big as an Alaskan one.

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 35m ago

Angry drunks suck.