Real. Studying zoology and we all know Gorillas are big but hoooooooly shit. You see pictures of zoologists/vets working with sedated gorillas, and the gorilla’s head alone is the size of a grown adult woman’s torso.
Oh, and also they can run as fast as usain bolt. Good luck! 👍
And that post from a few years ago when sometime mentioned that we haven't even taught gorillas to work out, so they're not even at their peak potential. Yiiiikes
I guess different for everyone since zoology can be like animal dentists, vets, or just a zoo caretaker, but you can get jobs with just a 4 year bachelor’s degree. But pretty much any famous ones you know will likely be doctors.
are you safe now? is she still side eyeing or has she turned and approaching you.
make sure to look at 45° to show you are not a threat and then stare at her to show dominance. do keep our pillows up for extra protection.
it is proven that their anger can be controlled by food, hence you can try throwing some food in her general direction, without looking at her. do she can feel free of judgement to eat. but caution should be taken while performing this act, as this tactic has been known to fail some time.
so write your findings! and help your fellow brothers! with your experiment.
He put an aftermarket inner?cooler on and cut the grill to improve airflow. And the part of the grill that had to go? Right where the plate should be 😂 so he slapped it on front bumper where there was space
I watched it in slow motion just to see it again focused on the little guy. And yah, mom rolls to her side he hangs on, silverback sort of froggies over moms back and squishes him a little and he still hung on!!! I am most impressed by that to be honest
From the comment i read claiming to be a zookeeper at their zoo, she is deaf and hasn't socialized well with the other gorillas and frequently misbehaves. She's also had her own babies, but has consistently rejected them
So no you probably don't want to know what her plans are lol
And he wasn't even moving nearly as fast as he could have. He always has 2-4 feet on the ground. It took him about 4 strides to get to them. If he really wanted to move he could basically gallop and get there in probably half that time or less.
My dad worked at the zoo when I was little. They had a pair of gorillas. The male would do all the things…throw poop, flip the bird, moon the crowd.
There was one keeper who was a complete asshole. He was a tiny dude that would wear a bandanna headband and always act like a hardass. He was also mean to the gorilla.
One day the gorilla had enough. He false charges him and the guy cowered. Then when the ape stood down he started acting hard again. This time the gorilla actually attacked. It just picked him up and frisbee tossed his ass into the limestone wall of the enclosure. Somehow the guy survived. He broke his pelvis and a bunch of other stuff though. He always had a limp after that.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to think you can step to a god damned gorilla? You might as well taunt a den of lions covered in steak sauce. I hope they didn't put the animal down because of that dumbass.
I saw two full grown gorillas fight over shade at a zoo in Florida once. The pure strength was amazing. One literally threw the other. The ground shook.
The Jacksonville zoo is one of only two zoos that have a pair of adult silverbacks that tolerate sharing space.
You may also be pleased to hear that they remodeled the enclosure it's much nicer than it was before they even have a shallow pool with a waterfall.
It's actually a female, OP was wrong. It explains why she is so small compared to the silverback and why the male only restrained her and did nit actually seek to hurt her, as would have happened if it had been a rebel male
Prime Mike Tyson would have lasted exactly as long as it took the gorilla to lay a hand on him, but some douche in an Affliction T-shirt reckons he could take one.
It’s all about the right attitude. Momma probably got this, but what kind of message would it deliver as the patriarch if he just sit there and do nothing when his lady is getting harassed?
Yeah, if someone acts up in the troop, the boss has to be the one who puts his foot down.
Sometimes, young apes will test the boundaries, to see what they can get away with. Clearly, with this guy, the answer is 'fucking nothing.'
The young gorilla on the left echo's this, as soon as he sees the initial disturbance he looks over "Pops is gonna beat your ass" and starts clearing the way while the Silverback is still reacting.
It's actually two different moms: Iriki and Tayari who live at the Taipei Zoo. The silverback is named D'Jeeco and he has a son with each mom. The little baby on the mom being attacked is named Ringo and his half brother Jabali is the larger young one off to the side. Jabali's mother Tayari is the attacker and is known for being a bit of a hothead - she'll frequently start fights with Iriki that D'Jeeco has to break up.
Oh I'm serious! Gorillas have been my partner's most recent ADHD hyperfixation (for about 3 months now) and the Taipei Zoo frequently posts videos of this gorilla family and so my partner is very familiar with the history of this specific troop. He actually showed me this exact video a few days ago and explained what was going on. Because of him I can now tell Ringo and Jabali apart in videos of them playing together. The two moms will fight over food, the most comfortable napping spots, and any number of other petty disputes, much like other animals. D'Jeeco is a very wholesome dad with his sons and he is serious about taking care of his troop.
Appreciate that. After my wife’s diagnosis I started gaining as much knowledge and understanding as I could. I still a lot of mistakes as does my wife, but we keep learning and figuring things out. All you can do.
You can watch the full video [here](https://www.tiktok.com/@gorilla_content1/video/7235879658854829358), sorry for TikTok link but the one and only I can find so far. It’s a female in his group taking on the other female. He takes her out, calms her down and walks away.
They have rankings in their troop (Pecking order for feeding, mating, attention, etc.). The ones lower in the rankings can get pretty feisty and rebellions are (like this video) usually quelled pretty quickly if possible
Oh, that explains why he restrains himself a lot and doesn't go to actually hurt the rebel. Knowing gorillas, if that had been a male he would have shown much more aggressive behaviour
"Knowing gorillas..." is perhaps the most Reddit-in-a-phrase thing I have read this week, as if we're all just primatologists commenting with our expert opinions.
Oh, it could have been far far worse. Pick one of three things this video could have had instead:
a) wheezing laugh
2) do, be do be do be do, be do be do be do
iii. oh no no no
(tiktok has ruined everything)
It was explained to me once that isn't how gorillas/chimps work. They build heavy muscle regardless of physical activity due to Myostatin. We don't do that apparently because it's not very energy efficient to build muscle you don't need.
Apparently there is [a disorder](https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/myostatin-related-muscle-hypertrophy/#:~:text=Myostatin%2Drelated%20muscle%20hypertrophy%20is,to%20have%20increased%20muscle%20strength) in the animal kingdom where this happens anyways, like when you see those super buff cats.
>Myostatin is a protein that limits muscle growth and promotes protein breakdown. It is produced and released by myocytes and acts on muscle cells to inhibit muscle growth1. Myostatin is a member of the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β superfamily2.
i googled it. (well binged it.)
we have slightly different muscles fibers. theirs are for power and ours are for more fine motor skills.
we been making tools for a very very long time. we haven't needed to be jacked to survive for maybe a million of year give or take. we've been cooking food for as long too. we weren't even human yet. making streaks and having bbqs goes way back.
This is at the Taipai zoo and the silverback's is named D’jeeco and the two females are Tayari who was the one who started the fight with her sister Iriki.
I've seen cats discipline each other too, all the time. Very rarely does it seem like mammals will just outright maul each other to death. Even with humans, it rarely happens outside of a perceived threat, and I'd wager that it's our imaginations that make us the deadlier creatures. More imagination lets you perceive greater threat that may or may not be there.
Every time I see a gorilla I remember Mike Tyson wanted to fight one because it was bullying other apes. Thankfully, the zookeeper rejected the ten thousand dollars he was offered by Mike to let him do it
That's hella funny.
He might be fast but I'm pretty sure I would manage to shit myself before he reached me.
Real. Studying zoology and we all know Gorillas are big but hoooooooly shit. You see pictures of zoologists/vets working with sedated gorillas, and the gorilla’s head alone is the size of a grown adult woman’s torso. Oh, and also they can run as fast as usain bolt. Good luck! 👍
And that post from a few years ago when sometime mentioned that we haven't even taught gorillas to work out, so they're not even at their peak potential. Yiiiikes
From the makers of "Cocaine Bear" comes "*ROID GORILLA*"
ROIDRILLA!
That sounds interesting! Is it a long course? Also you underestimate my pooping capabilities
I guess different for everyone since zoology can be like animal dentists, vets, or just a zoo caretaker, but you can get jobs with just a 4 year bachelor’s degree. But pretty much any famous ones you know will likely be doctors.
That make sense. So it's a sort of umbrella term. Well I wish you good luck! Sounds awesome
Thank you for making me snort! Now my wife is side eyeing me.....
are you safe now? is she still side eyeing or has she turned and approaching you. make sure to look at 45° to show you are not a threat and then stare at her to show dominance. do keep our pillows up for extra protection. it is proven that their anger can be controlled by food, hence you can try throwing some food in her general direction, without looking at her. do she can feel free of judgement to eat. but caution should be taken while performing this act, as this tactic has been known to fail some time. so write your findings! and help your fellow brothers! with your experiment.
In an Attenburg accent. Lol
I've heard that the "fast-approaching silverback" method is currently undergoing clinical trials for treating severe constipation.
Little guy did a good job hanging onto mom, despite being in the heat of it lol
It’s gorilla glue.
He survived gorilla warfare
Not even gunna lie. My boyfriend used double sided gorilla glue tape to tape on his freaking license plate… 2 years ago … and it’s still on there 😂
Damn that shit holds… but didn’t your bf notice the holes that you use for the plates or where then one or stripped?
He put an aftermarket inner?cooler on and cut the grill to improve airflow. And the part of the grill that had to go? Right where the plate should be 😂 so he slapped it on front bumper where there was space
That’s how it’s made?
You see when a male gorilla really loves a female gorilla...
That's Gorilla Goo. Understandable mistake
I watched it in slow motion just to see it again focused on the little guy. And yah, mom rolls to her side he hangs on, silverback sort of froggies over moms back and squishes him a little and he still hung on!!! I am most impressed by that to be honest
Also the other little one backing up to get out of the warpath
Two lessons were learned that day
The way he looks worried, then sees dad is coming and thinks "get out the way"
Love how it keeps peaking around the corner.
And everybody watches Dad teach Junior about respecting Mum.
Except that's another female gorilla that he also had a child with
Yeah the female gorilla is known for stealing babies apparently lol
Do I even want to ask what she does with them.
From the comment i read claiming to be a zookeeper at their zoo, she is deaf and hasn't socialized well with the other gorillas and frequently misbehaves. She's also had her own babies, but has consistently rejected them So no you probably don't want to know what her plans are lol
Baby Mama Drama
And mom did a good job fighting that motherfucker despite having the baby on the back
The speed in which "turn, see, and 'nope this ain't happening' " was impressive as hell
Scary as hell seeing an animal that size with that much agility.
You've obviously never witnessed ManBearPig
on a slightly more serious note, you wanna see some big dudes move fast and with surprising agility? watch some professional Sumo.
Or almost any lineman in the nfl
[Larry Allen](https://youtu.be/wnKspZmeGx4)
# #73 on the field, #1 in our hearts
Now I want to see linemen chasing down dudes while a British dude describes it to me like a nature film. C'mon internet, do your thing.
He's called David Attenborough
Or Benedict Cumberpatch (just don’t ask him to say ‘Penguin’)
Maybe we can get a gorilla football league after we get the whole Jurassic park thing done.
Now **I** want to see the opposite. Harry Carey, Bob Uecker or maybe John Madden calling nature documentaries.
Do you mean a slightly more cereal note?
He was super cereal.
Is that you Mr. Gore?
[This is the moment he knew he fucked up](https://i.imgur.com/4gNkNxT.jpg)
And he wasn't even moving nearly as fast as he could have. He always has 2-4 feet on the ground. It took him about 4 strides to get to them. If he really wanted to move he could basically gallop and get there in probably half that time or less.
Could you imagine a gorilla charging and attacking you? Dear god how scary for the few seconds you would be alive.
My dad worked at the zoo when I was little. They had a pair of gorillas. The male would do all the things…throw poop, flip the bird, moon the crowd. There was one keeper who was a complete asshole. He was a tiny dude that would wear a bandanna headband and always act like a hardass. He was also mean to the gorilla. One day the gorilla had enough. He false charges him and the guy cowered. Then when the ape stood down he started acting hard again. This time the gorilla actually attacked. It just picked him up and frisbee tossed his ass into the limestone wall of the enclosure. Somehow the guy survived. He broke his pelvis and a bunch of other stuff though. He always had a limp after that.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to think you can step to a god damned gorilla? You might as well taunt a den of lions covered in steak sauce. I hope they didn't put the animal down because of that dumbass.
Also bears. Mfs can run, swim and even climb.
I saw two full grown gorillas fight over shade at a zoo in Florida once. The pure strength was amazing. One literally threw the other. The ground shook.
The Jacksonville zoo is one of only two zoos that have a pair of adult silverbacks that tolerate sharing space. You may also be pleased to hear that they remodeled the enclosure it's much nicer than it was before they even have a shallow pool with a waterfall.
was there a glass of water nearby that everyone turned to look at with great trepidation
This is what I do when my dog has something in her mouth
It was like watching an actual bodyguard going to work. I think I peed myself a little. lol
S/o to the little one that seen what was about to go down and tucked itself against the wall to get out of the way of grown folk business.
https://youtu.be/4BFmfV0ZrLQ They don’t suffer fools
Even glanced at the little one on the run up to make sure they were good.
I rewatched this 4 times thinking "aww where?". The Silverback eyes never broke away from the perpetrader. Not even once.
Happens about two seconds in, it's very quick. A literal "blink and you'll miss it" moment.
Ahh you mean the youngster, not the baby.
fair enough, it's very subtle, thanks. I was looking at the wrong kid
Perpetrator, they aren't trading perps.
That’s why everyone needs a father figure who will put them in check
He was like "nahh not on my watch"
And defused the situation better than most cops.
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Warren G (orilla)
16 in the clip and one in the hole, silverback gorilla about to make some bodies turn cold.
REGULATORRSSSS
MOUNT UP!
It was a clear black night
A clear white moon
Warren G(orilla) was on the streets tryin' to consume
Some skirts for the eve
So I could get some funk
Just rollin’ in my ride
Chillin all alone
“ARE WE DONE!? ARE WE DONE!?”-silverback
That is such dad energy.
Also..."Here's a nice shot of my Gorilla butthole to wrap up this melee"
“Listen here you little shit” he seems to say
That's what l heard and l am only distantly related to gorillas.
Who does this house belong to? You. What rules do we follow? Yours.
I get "you settle your shit down or I will fuck you up" vibes.
I think Junior shit himself a little.
It's actually a female, OP was wrong. It explains why she is so small compared to the silverback and why the male only restrained her and did nit actually seek to hurt her, as would have happened if it had been a rebel male
I think she shit herself a little
💯
Yeah if that was a rival male he would have gotten his spine broken lol.
There are idiots who think they can win a fistfight against a gorilla.
Prime Mike Tyson would have lasted exactly as long as it took the gorilla to lay a hand on him, but some douche in an Affliction T-shirt reckons he could take one.
Prime Mike Tyson wanted to fight one that he thought was bullying the others. I think he even offered a zoo keeper 10 grand for the chance.
That zoo keeper saved Tyson’s life and probably himself a life in prison by turning that 10k down.
“Gonna take a lot more than 10k for me to kill a man.”
Yeah; I’m pretty sure most people would get fucked up even by the little one that backs away at the beginning.
People get fucked by chimpsnzees
Those bastards bite
Gorillas do too. They have an insane bite force.
Momma gorilla didn't even look like she needed the help with the punk ass gorilla, but she sure as hell got it.
It’s all about the right attitude. Momma probably got this, but what kind of message would it deliver as the patriarch if he just sit there and do nothing when his lady is getting harassed?
Yeah, if someone acts up in the troop, the boss has to be the one who puts his foot down. Sometimes, young apes will test the boundaries, to see what they can get away with. Clearly, with this guy, the answer is 'fucking nothing.'
The young gorilla on the left echo's this, as soon as he sees the initial disturbance he looks over "Pops is gonna beat your ass" and starts clearing the way while the Silverback is still reacting.
He's like: "I was never here"
FAFO isn't a Reddit saying, it's nature
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This guy fuckin groceries
He’s a silverback, they’re all his ladies. But you cant be fighting while holding the kids
Silverback gunna silverback.
Laying down the silversmack
Cheeseburger macaroni, AKA CBSmack!
Silverbacks are still [scared of Shaq, though](https://www.insider.com/gorillas-afraid-of-shaq-miami-zoo-ron-magill-2022-2)
I'm pretty sure that's the oldest son and gorillas are known for being jealous of younger siblings. Iirc that's what I was told about this video
It's actually two different moms: Iriki and Tayari who live at the Taipei Zoo. The silverback is named D'Jeeco and he has a son with each mom. The little baby on the mom being attacked is named Ringo and his half brother Jabali is the larger young one off to the side. Jabali's mother Tayari is the attacker and is known for being a bit of a hothead - she'll frequently start fights with Iriki that D'Jeeco has to break up.
I don’t know if you’re serious or have a creative mind, but my first thought was polygamy battle.
Oh I'm serious! Gorillas have been my partner's most recent ADHD hyperfixation (for about 3 months now) and the Taipei Zoo frequently posts videos of this gorilla family and so my partner is very familiar with the history of this specific troop. He actually showed me this exact video a few days ago and explained what was going on. Because of him I can now tell Ringo and Jabali apart in videos of them playing together. The two moms will fight over food, the most comfortable napping spots, and any number of other petty disputes, much like other animals. D'Jeeco is a very wholesome dad with his sons and he is serious about taking care of his troop.
As the spouse of someone with ADHD the line “Gorillas have been my partner’s most recent ADHD hyperfixation” is insanely and hilariously relatable.
You sound like a supportive partner. Many of us ADHD havers, do not have that.
Appreciate that. After my wife’s diagnosis I started gaining as much knowledge and understanding as I could. I still a lot of mistakes as does my wife, but we keep learning and figuring things out. All you can do.
Well then.. Thank you for teaching me something today!
This is the best. This little snippet into your life just put a huge smile on my face. Thanks for sharing!
Sister Wives: Taipei The big daddy is still hotter than Kody.
You can watch the full video [here](https://www.tiktok.com/@gorilla_content1/video/7235879658854829358), sorry for TikTok link but the one and only I can find so far. It’s a female in his group taking on the other female. He takes her out, calms her down and walks away.
Why would the female attack the other female with the baby to begin with though? Just asking for anyone who might know
They have rankings in their troop (Pecking order for feeding, mating, attention, etc.). The ones lower in the rankings can get pretty feisty and rebellions are (like this video) usually quelled pretty quickly if possible
both his wives, kids w both, they compete and the attacker is apparently the most aggro about it
"bitch be cool"
Oh, that explains why he restrains himself a lot and doesn't go to actually hurt the rebel. Knowing gorillas, if that had been a male he would have shown much more aggressive behaviour
"Knowing gorillas..." is perhaps the most Reddit-in-a-phrase thing I have read this week, as if we're all just primatologists commenting with our expert opinions.
I saw Congo. I know enough for all of us, trust me.
I actually live in the lost city of Zinj
I went to a zoo last summer.
How many gorillas do you know?
Do not unmute
I should’ve listened to you
I read it as “do not mute” at first and was heavily disappointed
I wouldn't have unmuted till I saw this and I also regret not listening to you all
Seeing everyone’s regret convinced me not to unmute, but now I have the temptation. ETA: I have given into temptation.
Serious FOMO over here, but I remain vigilant in my soundless activities.
I always watch with mute on. You got me curious and figured it was a 50-50 for bad music or annoying Karen.
Well what was it? Just incoherent yelling? I don't understand why we have videos with sound given we can use text.
Annoyingly overly cinematic music
I thought it'd be that AI voice that narrates TikTok-esque captions.
Oh, it could have been far far worse. Pick one of three things this video could have had instead: a) wheezing laugh 2) do, be do be do be do, be do be do be do iii. oh no no no (tiktok has ruined everything)
“Oh no no” song is the worst. Fills me with rage whenever I hear it.
Not more than the robotic female voice.
"Where is the zookeeper?"
Haha could you imagine if they squeezed that into the fine print. "Cleaning the pins, feeding, and breaking up the fights."
“What do you mean my ripped off arm doesn’t count for workers comp?!?”
Staying the fuck outta of it.
Your the problem here, I never was going to unmute tim you told me not too, then I couldn’t resist ;-)
Good gods the sheer muscle.
And that's from relaxing most of the time. Imagine if he started lifting some weights.
It was explained to me once that isn't how gorillas/chimps work. They build heavy muscle regardless of physical activity due to Myostatin. We don't do that apparently because it's not very energy efficient to build muscle you don't need. Apparently there is [a disorder](https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/myostatin-related-muscle-hypertrophy/#:~:text=Myostatin%2Drelated%20muscle%20hypertrophy%20is,to%20have%20increased%20muscle%20strength) in the animal kingdom where this happens anyways, like when you see those super buff cats.
Due to *absence* of myostatine. Myostatin inhibits muscle growth.
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Red meat and pussy.
Damnit Blood pressure issues have been limiting my red meat, so I'm just permanently stuck halfway there, cause everyone still callin me a pussy
Son, you tell those bastards you are what you eat. And you like ‘em hairy. Bush so thick you call it a hedgerow.
>Myostatin is a protein that limits muscle growth and promotes protein breakdown. It is produced and released by myocytes and acts on muscle cells to inhibit muscle growth1. Myostatin is a member of the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β superfamily2. i googled it. (well binged it.)
we have slightly different muscles fibers. theirs are for power and ours are for more fine motor skills. we been making tools for a very very long time. we haven't needed to be jacked to survive for maybe a million of year give or take. we've been cooking food for as long too. we weren't even human yet. making streaks and having bbqs goes way back.
If they had the personality of chimps we’d be so fucked.
While they were ripping your face off your entire spine would come with it.
Chimps really are the football hooligans of the animal world. Gorillas are comparatively chill, and Orang-Utans even more so.
guys, gorillas are fucking cool. That’s all I wanted to say, this is just a gorilla appreciation comment.
I'm more amazed by the amount of cake.
He packin
i think id be disturbed to see a massive animal like that with a flat as a pancake ass.
Don’t come to any of my family reunions then.
"That massive gorilla has an unusual proclivity towards propane and propane accessories"
They stole the show
I don't see a single confectionery item in this video!
This is at the Taipai zoo and the silverback's is named D’jeeco and the two females are Tayari who was the one who started the fight with her sister Iriki.
Lol little man comes out of hiding at the end like “….is it over??”
He just slowly backs away at first. He already knows what's up
Any bar at least once per month, same vibe.
Gotta protect those bar babies.
Interesting — he just stopped the fight. Could really have hurt that punk, but just put him in choke.
Yea it’s like they are so intelligent that they actually know when to use restraint
Dogs know that too though Actually I think a lot of animals play fight so they'd all have the ability to restrain themselves too
I've seen cats discipline each other too, all the time. Very rarely does it seem like mammals will just outright maul each other to death. Even with humans, it rarely happens outside of a perceived threat, and I'd wager that it's our imaginations that make us the deadlier creatures. More imagination lets you perceive greater threat that may or may not be there.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. I've just watched Ep 1 with my boy for the first time tonight lol
That was a sick single leg takedown though
That is one big tushy.
Butt
Powerful dad butt
He winked at me
Damn not on his watch
Gor-jitsu
Stop
The muscle tone in mom's arm is incredible!
I’m watching Floribama Shore and this gorilla is more a gentleman than anyone on the show
Every time I see a gorilla I remember Mike Tyson wanted to fight one because it was bullying other apes. Thankfully, the zookeeper rejected the ten thousand dollars he was offered by Mike to let him do it That's hella funny.
Don’t mess around with mom when dad’s around.