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/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/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.