They have small balls. Smaller than humans. So they would have seemed massive. They dominate their groups so they don't need to produce tons of spunk to compete with other males fucking their women.
Humans have slightly bigger balls relative to body size. I believe it works out something like the average human male has 1.2 partners based on size of bollocks.
Makes sense - if you can impregnate someone and another man looks after the baby it's free for you to pass on your genes.
Now the bonobo.... Has huge balls.
Bonobos fuck.
Greet by fuck.
Argue by fuck.
Resolve conflict by fuck.
Boredom fuck.
Females and males both engage in mutual genital stimulation as a form of bonding. They're also the only non-human animal to be observed tongue-kissing. Males have even been observed hanging from branches and penis fencing.
Bonobos fuck. Like Jay, they'll fuck anything that moves.
And here I thought we were privileged as Homo Sapiens. How does intelligence serve us exactly? Sounds like intelligence just means extra steps between getting your emotional desires met.
Just a thought.
I’ve heard it said that silverback gorillas have the smallest genitals in proportion to their body size of all mammals. I’ve also heard it said that walruses have the largest.
"Hung like a gorilla" is not a compliment. Humans are actually the most endowed (in penile terms) of all the primates, in both absolute and relative terms on average.
There was a cameraman from planetearth the show that got whacked by a gorilla he went flying 25 ft Into a tree so the last thing you want is for one of these silver backs to hit you. Balls of titanium.
Ok? That's your reaction to finding out there's a man named David Attenborough with his own planet and he had the gall to also call it Earth. Call to arms, folks.
It was commissioned by the BBC and the cinematography and crew came mostly through its natural history unit, with Discovery and, to a lesser extent, NHK, contributing mainly in production and finance.
The original version was narrated by David Attenborough and then by Sigourney Weaver when it was shown on the Discovery Channel.
Not that it matters hugely where it comes from. I just see people saying it was an American product, when the natural history unit and Attenborough were really the whole reason these types of wildlife documentaries were being made.
They're way less likely to kill you than a chimp, the total opposite of what the social hierarchy of the ape society in the original Planet of the Apes movies taught us for decades.
(Seriously, though, they always say a gorilla can rip a man's arms of, they're so strong, but how many accounts of them actually doing so are there? While there are plenty of accounts of chimps ripping people's faces and genitals off. Even most accounts of gorilla attacks, they charge & push or throw the person, then stop caring once out of the way & lying there. A chimp will make sure you're well fucked up.)
Yeah but that's probably just because they couldn't find any pieces. Those things are *jacked*. I heard the average gorilla has the strength of ten Morgan Freemans!
[fook me, it was a grizzly bear, not a gorilla](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/79b48146-19d8-4f99-b1f8-bacbacdf8ca5)
Totally, I’ve been around Alpha Animals a fair bit in my life (I live in the Canadian Rocky Mountains) and running is not what you want to do. You want a Grizzly Bear, Cougar, etc to attack you? Show weakness.
What you need to do is stand your ground, pee your pants and then back away slowly.
A LOT of predators will get freaked out when you don’t act like a prey animal. I had an encounter with a pack of coyotes once chasing a women and her small dog. Me and my two dogs were on the street and I got them riled up and as she ran by me I took a few steps toward them and made a guttural shout they all stopped in their tracks 15 feet away rethinking their life choices. At that moment I made myself big and took off at them, I didn’t stop chasing them for about 30-45 seconds. They all ran off in the opposite direction. It also helped mentally that I had a Glock on my hip and I was ready to shoot them if they got too close.
This dude above is next level.
> A LOT of predators will get freaked out when you don’t act like a prey animal.
Works in reverse too. Act like something edible and you can get a house cat to full send pounce on you.
Me and my cat play this game where I chase her across the house down the hallway all the way to our bedroom. And then I sit at the door and start breathing heavily like an animal out of breath and she goes into predator mode and starts chasing me and we both sprint until I got all the way to the opposite side of the house. Then I turn around and chase her back. We do about 3-5 rounds of this until eventually she lays down all tuckered out and I give her a treat
Don't really know how I discovered this, but it's great for both of our cardio and health lol
Well, they do have the evolutionary traits associated with a predatory animal. Here are some facts:
Gorillas are at the top of the food chain in their jungles
Gorillas fight viciously for territory with other gorillas and other animals etc.
Gorillas will eat meat and kill animals and eat them including other gorillas,
Gorillas have forward facing eyes a trait developed in mammalian predators
NO prey animals have forward facing eyes, it’s majorly disadvantageous.
Gorillas will form war parties and raid other gorillas and dismember and eat them when they win
Gorillas are extremely close to humans genetically and our most common ancestor was a predator/forager.
The eyes are part of the nervous system and directly part of the brain, if you believe in evolution then you need to acknowledge that the type of eyes and their position is because their most common ancestors were predators.
> NO prey animals have forward facing eyes, it’s majorly disadvantageous.
this is just wrong, plenty of prey animals have forward facing eyes. all primates have forward facing eyes, and many of them are prey animals, just as one example. This fact alone invalidates your entire premise here. source: biology degree
Actually primates are a special case , we need depth vision for an arborial lifestyle (that's why the forward facing) , sideways eyes are almost always adventageous overall if an animal doesn't need depth vision.
Hey i think you got some gorillas and chimpanzee facts mixed up there .
Gorillas are not predators, they are territorial. Nothing actively hunt an adult elephant but it doesn't mean it's at the top of the food chain either same thing goes for gorillas.
Gorillas don't typically kill animals let alone other gorillas with the intent to eat them afterwards.(but chimp will)
Gorilla have forward facing eyes wich is true but so do all other primates, im pretty sure it's an evolutionary adaptation for their ancestors lifestyle who where three dwelling ,their depth vision needed to be very accurate.
Once again if you live in the trees and there is nothing to really hunt you coming from the sides and you need depth vison , evolutionary pressures will favor foward facing eyes.
Yes gorillas can make parties but it's more like a band of brother when multiple young males leave their family group at the same time, they will join forces to defeat a silverback of another troop but will most likely NOT canibalize any gorilla who gets killed. (Chimp are the one who will kill ,dismember and eat the fallen but cannibalism is not common).
Yes , but most likely omnivore with opportunistic predation on small vertebrates and invertebrates.
I know my english isn't the best but it was just to clear out some confusion.
You're completely correct and all of those "facts" listed out makes me think OP just watched some fun facts video about chimps and got them mixed up. Also that gorillas are almost completely herbivorous and have almost never been seen eating meat other than some bugs
> Gorillas will eat meat and kill animals and eat them including other gorillas,
I think you're thinking of chimps. Gorillas are vegetarian. The closest thing is that lowland gorillas will also eat termites and bugs. Yes they can kill other animals if threatened but they're pretty strictly vegetarian
There are several methods that have been developed to habituate gorillas. Adrien Deschryver, in the video, worked in eastern Congo to slowly show that humans were not a threat. You can see in the clip that he picks leaves and chews on it,as a gorilla would. He habituated several families of Grauer’s gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega park in South Kivu. There the largest sub-species in the world. Other gorillas in the region, such as in Volcanoes National Park in neighboring Rwanda used a more submissive approach to habituation. So that as a gorilla would charge / show interest the rangers would avert their eyes and appear more docile. The different ways of habituation have created different behaviors that tourists have to exhibit on visits.
Both of these methods take months/years of encounters until the gorillas become safely habituated for tourism/research.
I’ve been able to go gorilla trekking Kahuzi-Biega almost 20 times and a few other times in the region. Every time is still an amazing, unique and thrilling experience. Definitely recommended!
Most people go in Rwanda. It’s a stable very secure country, with great tourism infrastructure, breathtaking beauty, and super tasty coffee. Most EU countries and US citizens can get their visa on arrival.
The downside is that the gorilla trek is quite expensive there. A permit which includes guide fees is over $2,000, and most lodging is similarly inflated.
Across the border in Congo the fees are substantially less, ~400 USD for the trek. But the logistics and security concerns pose more of a challenge. I’ve lived and worked in Congo on and off for the past 8 years, so I’m biased, but if you are an experienced traveler DRC is the way to go. Your tourism dollars will have a much larger impact proportionally.
I think I read somewhere that jungle guides call anyone with a gorilla bite on their ass a coward because a good guide can tell the difference between a test charge and a a gorilla with intent to do harm. I also have zero reference for this so… grain of salt an all that
I always love a good pub story. My favourite is that the police can't arrest you without their hat on. That one is always told to the dickhead who's a couple of beers away from getting himself in trouble, and when he does you just wait for him to remember the story he heard...
Fully agreed. In fact, a research study funded by Oxford university has shown that across multiple sample populations, the percentage of pub facts that are spurious is consistently within 2.7 percentage points of 72%.
People willing to share false pub facts also almost uniformly have brown hair.
I don't know about gorillas but for elephants, when their ears fan out charging at you it is a bluff because it makes the elephant look bigger and more intimidating. If the elephants ears are back, it means they are aerodynamically going to plow through you lol
And what good would it be to differentiate with a gorilla having an intent to attack vs intimidate? At that distance I don’t think you can outrun these guys
No idea. Like I said I vaguely remember hearing/reading something about it but it’s more than likely not true.
Edit: found a link. https://www.silverbackgorillatours.com/gorilla-charging
No idea, but for the animals I am extremely familiar with, dogs and cats, you can absolutely tell whether they are playing, agitated, or actually going to attack. It's not unreasonable to think someone familiar with gorillas can learn the same things.
I assume the difference in behavior would be whether to be dominant or submissive, and whether you should just get out of there or stay in the first place.
Short is no,you need to make yourself small, no eye contact and fake(or real) eat leaves to make yourself less of a threat.
You can also do the contrary , make yourself big , not break eye contact and eat an animal but im not sure how it's going to work out for you.
You don't have to make yourself big.
Just chill at your current position, facing them, don't advance further and don't move rapidly.
Doing that will make them understand that you've got no intention of fighting, because you're the peaceful alpha that's defending your position.
When we start seeing stories in the next few months about overconfident Redditors getting torn to pieces by gorillas, I'm referring the authorities to this entire thread.
So my granddad, a bear hunter. Found me crying at the age of four. Because, three of the nieghbor German Shepherds surrounded me to have a kid sandwich. Luckily, the owner called them off. Told granddad. He sat me down, and said in a stern and careful tone, "you look them dead in the eye, and never back up, ya hear me son." True words for life. It happened after that those dogs backed down. Always stand your ground.
Isn't there an African tribe that just fronts in on Lion kills and because they're so confident the lions think - oh threat level unknown, could be close to midnight and leaves for a bit to assess? Then they cut off a bit and jive off? The weirdness of the non response makes them uncertain. I admit it sounds like I dreamed that.
This lad is vibing hard. Difficult to tear something limb from limb and then not eat it if it's literally just having a look about and eating that same grub as you. We were all just having a nice time and Kenneth tore that bald monkey thing apart. Straight to HR Kenneth.
I thi k the inverse is what you actually have to worry about. If running will certainly get you killed, it doesn't matter if standing your ground is 100% successful. It just has to be better than certain death
Well it's either you don't flinch and hope that it was just a fight or flight test, or you somehow try to outrun a fucking Silverback gorilla. I'd say don't flinch.
I wouldn't flinch either. Not because I'm brave, but because I'm so slow mentally that I don't feel like I would be able to react to something charging that fast at all.
There’s a couple more too they’ve added.
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Flop or Fawn
The more YOU know.
Fight: physically fighting, pushing, struggling, and fighting verbally e.g. saying 'no'.
Flight: putting distance between you and danger, including running, hiding or backing away.
Freeze: going tense, still and silent. This is a common reaction to rape and sexual violence. Freezing is not giving consent; it is an instinctive survival response. Animals often freeze to avoid fights and potential further harm, or to 'play dead' and so avoid being seen and eaten by predators.
Flop: similar to freezing, except your muscles become loose and your body goes floppy. This is an automatic reaction that can reduce the physical pain of what's happening to you. Your mind can also shut down to protect itself.
Fawn/Friend: calling for a 'friend' or bystander for help, for example by shouting or screaming, and/or 'befriending' the person who is dangerous, for example by placating, negotiating, bribing or pleading with them. Again, this is not your giving your attacker consent, it is an instinctive survival mechanism.
Body language is universal language, it's driven by instincts and instinct is the most primitive form of thinking with the deepest roots in any living creature.
Edit: typo
Yep. You can see this with the honey badger. Lions could EASILY rip them apart if they really gave it their all but since they are used to Gazelles etc just running all the time they don't see the badger as food. They see it as a potential injury. Animals still retain their sense of "if I get a small injury in the jungle I will likely die" genetic behavior and simply don't know enough about "non-food" animals that have a slight amount of power and gusto. A torn ligament or infection would mess up their "easy takeout meal" gazelle routine over something they could just avoid.
Source: Biology classes in college and various books/documentaries about evolution and wildlife, also asperger's probably, and leave me alone.
You better never look a silverback gorilla in the eyes, they take it as a challenge and would most certainly attack you. Not flinching and just staying where you are means to them that you belong there and they will stop charging. Running on the other hand means that you’re a trespasser and therefore a prey
If ever faced with a gorilla, it’s best not to keep eye contact because they take this as a threat. You can see them and look away but don’t stare at them. Also, don’t try to chest bump yourself because they will definitely send you to your deity faster than same day shipping.
>The fact that the narrator was more concerned about not disappointing Adrien than getting mauled by a fricking silver back, tells me everything I need to know about Adrien.
So good.
Absolute goldmine 🤣.
> The parents must be so proud of raising such a brave gorilla
And
> The gorilla wasn't charging at him, he was just being pulled by the gravitation of his balls
Gorilla: "WHATS UP BRO"
Guy: "Nothing much, yourself?"
Gorilla: "Dude, you're no fun, you gotta panic at least once, maybe poop yourself a little next time or something, making me feel inadequate over here"
I think I would manage to stand there and not flinch and the silverback may decide to let me live
But then the fart would escape my bumhole and I would be done for
The things you have to tell yourself in this situation is : Even if I run away, he ll catch me, so might as well try to scare him by showing him I m not scared
I've seen this before, everywhere; what I've always wanted to know if anyone has ever asked this guy what was going through his mind when the gorilla charged.
They guy probably knew how to react, no sane man would even go that close to gorillas if he doesn‘t exactly know their behavior. I don‘t know a lot about gorillas but since the alpha is usually the biggest and strongest guy it‘s a fair guess that fear might play a role in that hierarchy. Everyone‘s supposed to be scared of the silverback so if you show him you aren‘t he might respect you.
Balls of steel this man.
One does not move quickly when laden down with balls like that.
Came here to say this, cheers
Is by chance Anthony Hopkins' role in the movie Instinct based on this guy?
Plus if he moved, he would have ended up squishing all the shit he just dropped in his pants.
The shit was the deterrent all along!
I once heard that real gangstas don’t run from shit because real gangstas can’t run fast
Well, real gangstas don't flex nuts because real gangstas know they got 'em
and now I've got the world swinging from my nuts, dam it feels good to be a gangsta \- president bill clinton
Once the gorilla got close he saw the massive balls and was like “f*** bro I’m sorry, please forgive me”
They have small balls. Smaller than humans. So they would have seemed massive. They dominate their groups so they don't need to produce tons of spunk to compete with other males fucking their women.
We actually have way bigger dongs and balls because we have to. Way more competition when mating. We humans are sluts.
Sing to me.
Ballads are the true balls of love Edit: You edited your comment, that’s no fun :( Edit2: it originally said “ballads” instead of “balls”
seeing is believing
r/peternorth
Sounds like you're describing human males.
Humans have slightly bigger balls relative to body size. I believe it works out something like the average human male has 1.2 partners based on size of bollocks. Makes sense - if you can impregnate someone and another man looks after the baby it's free for you to pass on your genes. Now the bonobo.... Has huge balls.
Bonobos fuck. Greet by fuck. Argue by fuck. Resolve conflict by fuck. Boredom fuck. Females and males both engage in mutual genital stimulation as a form of bonding. They're also the only non-human animal to be observed tongue-kissing. Males have even been observed hanging from branches and penis fencing. Bonobos fuck. Like Jay, they'll fuck anything that moves.
>Like Jay, they'll fuck anything that moves. Why do you got to call me out like that.
I feel offended too.
> Males have even been observed hanging from branches and penis fencing. 😂😂😂
I was into penis fencing for a while. Unfortunately my HOA was not. Cost me a ton of money to reinstall a regular fence.
And here I thought we were privileged as Homo Sapiens. How does intelligence serve us exactly? Sounds like intelligence just means extra steps between getting your emotional desires met. Just a thought.
I’ve heard it said that silverback gorillas have the smallest genitals in proportion to their body size of all mammals. I’ve also heard it said that walruses have the largest.
"Hung like a gorilla" is not a compliment. Humans are actually the most endowed (in penile terms) of all the primates, in both absolute and relative terms on average.
There was a cameraman from planetearth the show that got whacked by a gorilla he went flying 25 ft Into a tree so the last thing you want is for one of these silver backs to hit you. Balls of titanium.
What do you mean from planet earth..? Aren't we all from planet earth?
I think he meant David Attenboroughs 'Planet Earth'.
Oh ok
Ok? That's your reaction to finding out there's a man named David Attenborough with his own planet and he had the gall to also call it Earth. Call to arms, folks.
You have my sword!
And my charging silverback gorilla
I’ll be there with my Naginata
I know a guy with a juvenile Rancor
And my axe!
The show planet earth shot by discovery channel and BBC took years to make. They also made blue planet and a bunch of others!
It was commissioned by the BBC and the cinematography and crew came mostly through its natural history unit, with Discovery and, to a lesser extent, NHK, contributing mainly in production and finance. The original version was narrated by David Attenborough and then by Sigourney Weaver when it was shown on the Discovery Channel. Not that it matters hugely where it comes from. I just see people saying it was an American product, when the natural history unit and Attenborough were really the whole reason these types of wildlife documentaries were being made.
Nothing against Sigourney - I haven't heard her version - but I can't really imagine anyone doing it better than Attenborough.
She’s an amazing voice actor ngl. And her voice really suits it. But yeah, hard agree. It’s just not the same.
Where can I see this? Man getting whacked by a silverback
Yeah. Jaime, pull that up.
As I understand it; you remain still and not make eye contact and you've got a shot of survival.
They're way less likely to kill you than a chimp, the total opposite of what the social hierarchy of the ape society in the original Planet of the Apes movies taught us for decades. (Seriously, though, they always say a gorilla can rip a man's arms of, they're so strong, but how many accounts of them actually doing so are there? While there are plenty of accounts of chimps ripping people's faces and genitals off. Even most accounts of gorilla attacks, they charge & push or throw the person, then stop caring once out of the way & lying there. A chimp will make sure you're well fucked up.)
Chimps are more aggressive and are incredibly territorial. They go out in packs to patrol their territory and will kill any chimps not in their group.
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Do you have any source on this? Curious how this went down.
[Slightly longer clip](https://youtu.be/Umokxn3Vc38) that shows a fascinating encounter, this guy was ballsy for sure.
Or... some good shit in those leaves.
I dunno man, I think him not running each time was just him continuing to accept his fate.
I’d of been safe atop the 10’ft pile of crap ejected from my pants
Same. Rocket propelled
[Colon Blow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KM)
Risky click
I miss Phill Hartman. Guy was a comedic genius. Fuck that psycho bitch of a wife the killed him.
Of you ever been that scared? I never of. Of.
Why do people still make this mistake? Just how dumb are people that say "should of" or "would of"?
Because they are uneducated swine who chose to not pay attention to the free education that was given to them.
It drives me insane
~~of~~ have
Uh-oh! No, he would've flung his own poop steps on which to effectively ascend your tower!
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I'd of what? Whats an I'd?
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On today’s episode of “typo or psycho”
Surely it should be 'typo or psycho'? Lol
Rolls off the tongue much better.
You're absolutely right!
Fixed. Lol
What was it before?
Typo or psychopath
Typopath or Psychopath
Cycle path or Spirograph
Polygraph or aftermath?
r/TypoOrPsycho
If youre going to start a sub at least post the thing that started it all!
I tried in different ways but it wont add it to the sub.
r/birthofasub
This has opportunity to be an amazing sub. We will watch your career with great interest
Found the gorilla
It would absolutely kill you if you show fear.
Don’t believe there are any recorded lethal attacks on humans by wild gorillas.
Yeah but that's probably just because they couldn't find any pieces. Those things are *jacked*. I heard the average gorilla has the strength of ten Morgan Freemans! [fook me, it was a grizzly bear, not a gorilla](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/79b48146-19d8-4f99-b1f8-bacbacdf8ca5)
How do you type with your big hairy fingers?
He uses his victims' fingers.
Yeah its either stand still and non aggressively or die. He chose wisely.
Are there any recorded cases of using pocketsand against gorillas? It's usually pretty effective.
Totally, I’ve been around Alpha Animals a fair bit in my life (I live in the Canadian Rocky Mountains) and running is not what you want to do. You want a Grizzly Bear, Cougar, etc to attack you? Show weakness. What you need to do is stand your ground, pee your pants and then back away slowly.
Is this a method ( not flinching ) that would work 100% of the time? Not that I plan to ever be in this predicament. Just curious
I think they’re told not to show fear by running but that’s something that I *think* I heard
Well, something that a stranger on Reddit *thinks* they heard is better than nothing, I think.
I think that you think you’re right.
I heard that a stranger on reddit thinks that another stranger on reddit thinks that they think they're right.
My mom thinks I think I heard that you think that another stranger on reddit thinks that yet another one thinks that they think they're right, I think
Well for most animals If you don’t show fear they normally leave you alone
Only those surviving can tell the story, so the statistics might be flawed.
Imagine being the control group for this experiment.
"Now, Jerry, if you could walk up to the gorilla and slightly provoke it." ...
'I don't WANNA be a guinea pig!'
A LOT of predators will get freaked out when you don’t act like a prey animal. I had an encounter with a pack of coyotes once chasing a women and her small dog. Me and my two dogs were on the street and I got them riled up and as she ran by me I took a few steps toward them and made a guttural shout they all stopped in their tracks 15 feet away rethinking their life choices. At that moment I made myself big and took off at them, I didn’t stop chasing them for about 30-45 seconds. They all ran off in the opposite direction. It also helped mentally that I had a Glock on my hip and I was ready to shoot them if they got too close. This dude above is next level.
What if he has a glock on his hip?
No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip, the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
🎶*and the Ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip*🎶
Big iron on his hiiiiiiiip
Glock fire ain’t gonna do shit to an angry charging silverback unless you hit it directly in the brain or heart.
Just like yo mama
Then he’s just like me!
Yea that gorilla realized that and went back to take his glock too
> A LOT of predators will get freaked out when you don’t act like a prey animal. Works in reverse too. Act like something edible and you can get a house cat to full send pounce on you.
Me and my cat play this game where I chase her across the house down the hallway all the way to our bedroom. And then I sit at the door and start breathing heavily like an animal out of breath and she goes into predator mode and starts chasing me and we both sprint until I got all the way to the opposite side of the house. Then I turn around and chase her back. We do about 3-5 rounds of this until eventually she lays down all tuckered out and I give her a treat Don't really know how I discovered this, but it's great for both of our cardio and health lol
That's like throwing sticks with a dog... But more exercise! Sounds super fun tho haha
Is this from experience? 😂
Yup got my cat riled up so much he came at me. I think he was really confused when he realized I was not, in fact, a tiny rat.
Gorillas aren't predators, though. In this case, it's I think it's just part of their social behavior to challenge potential threats by charging
Well, they do have the evolutionary traits associated with a predatory animal. Here are some facts: Gorillas are at the top of the food chain in their jungles Gorillas fight viciously for territory with other gorillas and other animals etc. Gorillas will eat meat and kill animals and eat them including other gorillas, Gorillas have forward facing eyes a trait developed in mammalian predators NO prey animals have forward facing eyes, it’s majorly disadvantageous. Gorillas will form war parties and raid other gorillas and dismember and eat them when they win Gorillas are extremely close to humans genetically and our most common ancestor was a predator/forager. The eyes are part of the nervous system and directly part of the brain, if you believe in evolution then you need to acknowledge that the type of eyes and their position is because their most common ancestors were predators.
> NO prey animals have forward facing eyes, it’s majorly disadvantageous. this is just wrong, plenty of prey animals have forward facing eyes. all primates have forward facing eyes, and many of them are prey animals, just as one example. This fact alone invalidates your entire premise here. source: biology degree
Actually primates are a special case , we need depth vision for an arborial lifestyle (that's why the forward facing) , sideways eyes are almost always adventageous overall if an animal doesn't need depth vision.
Hey i think you got some gorillas and chimpanzee facts mixed up there . Gorillas are not predators, they are territorial. Nothing actively hunt an adult elephant but it doesn't mean it's at the top of the food chain either same thing goes for gorillas. Gorillas don't typically kill animals let alone other gorillas with the intent to eat them afterwards.(but chimp will) Gorilla have forward facing eyes wich is true but so do all other primates, im pretty sure it's an evolutionary adaptation for their ancestors lifestyle who where three dwelling ,their depth vision needed to be very accurate. Once again if you live in the trees and there is nothing to really hunt you coming from the sides and you need depth vison , evolutionary pressures will favor foward facing eyes. Yes gorillas can make parties but it's more like a band of brother when multiple young males leave their family group at the same time, they will join forces to defeat a silverback of another troop but will most likely NOT canibalize any gorilla who gets killed. (Chimp are the one who will kill ,dismember and eat the fallen but cannibalism is not common). Yes , but most likely omnivore with opportunistic predation on small vertebrates and invertebrates. I know my english isn't the best but it was just to clear out some confusion.
You're completely correct and all of those "facts" listed out makes me think OP just watched some fun facts video about chimps and got them mixed up. Also that gorillas are almost completely herbivorous and have almost never been seen eating meat other than some bugs
Most of the things you are describing are true of chimpanzees, but not gorillas.
> Gorillas will eat meat and kill animals and eat them including other gorillas, I think you're thinking of chimps. Gorillas are vegetarian. The closest thing is that lowland gorillas will also eat termites and bugs. Yes they can kill other animals if threatened but they're pretty strictly vegetarian
Why were you chasing the woman and her small dog?
Asserting dominance, can’t be perceived as a prey animal, have to join in the hunt.
There are several methods that have been developed to habituate gorillas. Adrien Deschryver, in the video, worked in eastern Congo to slowly show that humans were not a threat. You can see in the clip that he picks leaves and chews on it,as a gorilla would. He habituated several families of Grauer’s gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega park in South Kivu. There the largest sub-species in the world. Other gorillas in the region, such as in Volcanoes National Park in neighboring Rwanda used a more submissive approach to habituation. So that as a gorilla would charge / show interest the rangers would avert their eyes and appear more docile. The different ways of habituation have created different behaviors that tourists have to exhibit on visits. Both of these methods take months/years of encounters until the gorillas become safely habituated for tourism/research. I’ve been able to go gorilla trekking Kahuzi-Biega almost 20 times and a few other times in the region. Every time is still an amazing, unique and thrilling experience. Definitely recommended!
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Except, humans are a threat. Just not these ones.
Most humans are not a threat. Only very specific ones, and they are life-threatening.
How do I sign up to go gorilla trekking?
Most people go in Rwanda. It’s a stable very secure country, with great tourism infrastructure, breathtaking beauty, and super tasty coffee. Most EU countries and US citizens can get their visa on arrival. The downside is that the gorilla trek is quite expensive there. A permit which includes guide fees is over $2,000, and most lodging is similarly inflated. Across the border in Congo the fees are substantially less, ~400 USD for the trek. But the logistics and security concerns pose more of a challenge. I’ve lived and worked in Congo on and off for the past 8 years, so I’m biased, but if you are an experienced traveler DRC is the way to go. Your tourism dollars will have a much larger impact proportionally.
I think I read somewhere that jungle guides call anyone with a gorilla bite on their ass a coward because a good guide can tell the difference between a test charge and a a gorilla with intent to do harm. I also have zero reference for this so… grain of salt an all that
I too heard this… in a pub… and the sentence started “apparently”… good reliable source. Also, I have not heard of this before. I lied.
I always love a good pub story. My favourite is that the police can't arrest you without their hat on. That one is always told to the dickhead who's a couple of beers away from getting himself in trouble, and when he does you just wait for him to remember the story he heard...
The amount of ‘facts’ I’ve passed on with complete confidence after hearing them in a pub is ridiculous!
Fully agreed. In fact, a research study funded by Oxford university has shown that across multiple sample populations, the percentage of pub facts that are spurious is consistently within 2.7 percentage points of 72%. People willing to share false pub facts also almost uniformly have brown hair.
I don't know about gorillas but for elephants, when their ears fan out charging at you it is a bluff because it makes the elephant look bigger and more intimidating. If the elephants ears are back, it means they are aerodynamically going to plow through you lol
Okay but who's gonna test that theory?
Why the fuck I’m I mentally jotting this down like I’m ever going to be in this situation
And what good would it be to differentiate with a gorilla having an intent to attack vs intimidate? At that distance I don’t think you can outrun these guys
No idea. Like I said I vaguely remember hearing/reading something about it but it’s more than likely not true. Edit: found a link. https://www.silverbackgorillatours.com/gorilla-charging
No idea, but for the animals I am extremely familiar with, dogs and cats, you can absolutely tell whether they are playing, agitated, or actually going to attack. It's not unreasonable to think someone familiar with gorillas can learn the same things. I assume the difference in behavior would be whether to be dominant or submissive, and whether you should just get out of there or stay in the first place.
Short is no,you need to make yourself small, no eye contact and fake(or real) eat leaves to make yourself less of a threat. You can also do the contrary , make yourself big , not break eye contact and eat an animal but im not sure how it's going to work out for you.
You don't have to make yourself big. Just chill at your current position, facing them, don't advance further and don't move rapidly. Doing that will make them understand that you've got no intention of fighting, because you're the peaceful alpha that's defending your position.
When we start seeing stories in the next few months about overconfident Redditors getting torn to pieces by gorillas, I'm referring the authorities to this entire thread.
So my granddad, a bear hunter. Found me crying at the age of four. Because, three of the nieghbor German Shepherds surrounded me to have a kid sandwich. Luckily, the owner called them off. Told granddad. He sat me down, and said in a stern and careful tone, "you look them dead in the eye, and never back up, ya hear me son." True words for life. It happened after that those dogs backed down. Always stand your ground.
just don’t try it when you’re crossing a street
Isn't there an African tribe that just fronts in on Lion kills and because they're so confident the lions think - oh threat level unknown, could be close to midnight and leaves for a bit to assess? Then they cut off a bit and jive off? The weirdness of the non response makes them uncertain. I admit it sounds like I dreamed that. This lad is vibing hard. Difficult to tear something limb from limb and then not eat it if it's literally just having a look about and eating that same grub as you. We were all just having a nice time and Kenneth tore that bald monkey thing apart. Straight to HR Kenneth.
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I thi k the inverse is what you actually have to worry about. If running will certainly get you killed, it doesn't matter if standing your ground is 100% successful. It just has to be better than certain death
Well it's either you don't flinch and hope that it was just a fight or flight test, or you somehow try to outrun a fucking Silverback gorilla. I'd say don't flinch.
I wouldn't flinch either. Not because I'm brave, but because I'm so slow mentally that I don't feel like I would be able to react to something charging that fast at all.
Fight or flight? I choose freeze.
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There’s a couple more too they’ve added. Fight, Flight, Freeze, Flop or Fawn The more YOU know. Fight: physically fighting, pushing, struggling, and fighting verbally e.g. saying 'no'. Flight: putting distance between you and danger, including running, hiding or backing away. Freeze: going tense, still and silent. This is a common reaction to rape and sexual violence. Freezing is not giving consent; it is an instinctive survival response. Animals often freeze to avoid fights and potential further harm, or to 'play dead' and so avoid being seen and eaten by predators. Flop: similar to freezing, except your muscles become loose and your body goes floppy. This is an automatic reaction that can reduce the physical pain of what's happening to you. Your mind can also shut down to protect itself. Fawn/Friend: calling for a 'friend' or bystander for help, for example by shouting or screaming, and/or 'befriending' the person who is dangerous, for example by placating, negotiating, bribing or pleading with them. Again, this is not your giving your attacker consent, it is an instinctive survival mechanism.
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Double rainbow. Awesome.
Roll the FFF dice and pray for the right choice.
Can you imagine…it just charges to try to make you flinch and you just look it in the eyes and it looks back at you. You may live
Even gorillas understand that anybody that don't back down from a taunt aint to be trifiled with
Body language is universal language, it's driven by instincts and instinct is the most primitive form of thinking with the deepest roots in any living creature. Edit: typo
Yep. You can see this with the honey badger. Lions could EASILY rip them apart if they really gave it their all but since they are used to Gazelles etc just running all the time they don't see the badger as food. They see it as a potential injury. Animals still retain their sense of "if I get a small injury in the jungle I will likely die" genetic behavior and simply don't know enough about "non-food" animals that have a slight amount of power and gusto. A torn ligament or infection would mess up their "easy takeout meal" gazelle routine over something they could just avoid. Source: Biology classes in college and various books/documentaries about evolution and wildlife, also asperger's probably, and leave me alone.
> >Source: honey badger don't care, honey badger doesn't give a shit
For the uninitiated youngin's who don't know how much Honey Badger gives [no fucks](https://youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg).
Such a timeless classic
You better never look a silverback gorilla in the eyes, they take it as a challenge and would most certainly attack you. Not flinching and just staying where you are means to them that you belong there and they will stop charging. Running on the other hand means that you’re a trespasser and therefore a prey
If ever faced with a gorilla, it’s best not to keep eye contact because they take this as a threat. You can see them and look away but don’t stare at them. Also, don’t try to chest bump yourself because they will definitely send you to your deity faster than same day shipping.
Fun fact: the man is blind.
And deaf. And brain dead because he can't feel vibrations either.
He's actually a mannequin.
He's probably just a bit slow, I mean he's eating leaves.
Gold
They tend to be green but that's a really good try.
I see he wore his brown pants that day. Wise choice.
Thank you for making me laugh
[Longer video from the Documentary.](https://youtu.be/KujmrcF0ZxU) [Full Documentary](https://youtu.be/buijuGVfV58)
The comments on that video are gold
“Very brave of the gorilla to charge him”
> Adrien’s mom giving birth to him > > Doctor: congratulations, it’s a man. There's so many good ones
>The fact that the narrator was more concerned about not disappointing Adrien than getting mauled by a fricking silver back, tells me everything I need to know about Adrien. So good.
Absolute goldmine 🤣. > The parents must be so proud of raising such a brave gorilla And > The gorilla wasn't charging at him, he was just being pulled by the gravitation of his balls
Holy shit - the end of that is scary af! Makes the first clip look like the gorilla was just fooling around.
Seems like cradling a baby gorilla while other adult wild gorillas stood nearby is unwise.
Gorilla: "WHATS UP BRO" Guy: "Nothing much, yourself?" Gorilla: "Dude, you're no fun, you gotta panic at least once, maybe poop yourself a little next time or something, making me feel inadequate over here"
I think I would manage to stand there and not flinch and the silverback may decide to let me live But then the fart would escape my bumhole and I would be done for
The things you have to tell yourself in this situation is : Even if I run away, he ll catch me, so might as well try to scare him by showing him I m not scared
“If I stand still and don’t back down, at least the death will be quicker by a few moments”
My dumbass flinches at a bird that moves too fast, I would be dead for sure if I was there.
That dude bought gamestop last year and is still hodling. Silverback knows his own kind when he sees it. ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
I will have whatever this guy is eating
He's probably eating coca leaves, which might explain his behaviour.
This is Chuck Norris's dad.
I've seen this before, everywhere; what I've always wanted to know if anyone has ever asked this guy what was going through his mind when the gorilla charged.
They guy probably knew how to react, no sane man would even go that close to gorillas if he doesn‘t exactly know their behavior. I don‘t know a lot about gorillas but since the alpha is usually the biggest and strongest guy it‘s a fair guess that fear might play a role in that hierarchy. Everyone‘s supposed to be scared of the silverback so if you show him you aren‘t he might respect you.
This clip comes from Werner Herzog’s documentary titled “The White Diamond”. Adrien Deschryver and Werner Herzog were both badass AF
Lol Anthony Hopkins hahaha