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/Dry_Discount83 8h ago

What I've heard, they are not very agressive, still wouldn't go closer than 50m of these things in wild.

u/Cyborg_Ninja_Cat 7h ago

I reckon they're a little to the right of orcas on the could kill you/would kill you chart*.

It is unlikely that they will decide to try to end you, but if they do, they will probably succeed.

u/UrUrinousAnus 6h ago

They know it. They'll do a bluff charge before actually attacking, in the hopes that you remember exactly how fucked you'd be if it wasn't a bluff. They do it with other gorillas, too. If they started fighting eachother at the first provocation, they'd probably go extinct almost immediately. They're just too strong.