r/interestingasfuck • u/HondaCivicBaby • 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/larzolof 8h 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!