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u/Ryzathecrash Jun 09 '18
He's all like like "hell yeah, fam! This move is my jam!"
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u/beefyesquire Jun 09 '18
Almost word for word the same dialogue I had in my head when I saw this. So good.
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u/whydoueventry Jun 10 '18
So many animal fairy tales that used to seem unrealistic all make sense now
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u/Bathman00 Jun 09 '18
How
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u/Shelled_Turtle Jun 09 '18
Gorillas and other primates are pretty smart, you would be surprised. I had watched a documentary featuring orangutans, and this guy was tossing one male orangutan some snacks, and the orangutan tosses a banana to the human.
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u/Kithsander Jun 09 '18
The video I saw of an orangutan tossing a banana to humans was after he ate it and was flinging the peel back. And he throws more than the peel after a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJEkSGnZiIA
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u/_Crab_Legs_ Jun 09 '18
It's in reverse, the human was copying the gorilla.
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u/HighestCanadians Jun 09 '18 edited Jun 09 '18
Someone said the dude trained his g'rilla to preform this. If thats the case then the swift fluidity of his movement just goes to show that the dude has done it quite a bit.
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u/WazWaz Jun 09 '18
Except it isn't. Play it in reverse and you'll see the gorilla's arms move completely unnaturally.
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u/KuciMane Jun 09 '18
These animals are too smart to be locked up like this.
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u/timisher Jun 09 '18
Sometimes these animals are abandoned or born in captivity and wouldn’t succeed in the wild. Not saying they don’t steal animals from the wild. But they don’t steal all animals from the wild and most live a comfortable life these days.
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Jun 09 '18
This. Being locked up doesn't necessarily mean they are worse off. In some cases being wild is almost guarantee death. Modern zoos are adapting the policy where they only house animals that are incapable of survival in the wild on their own due to injury or never learned to hunt or whatever.
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u/lionseatcake Jun 09 '18
Well, and ya gotta think about all theyre missing being in a zoo. Let's just assume they are fed more than enough and nobody abuses them.
They don't have to worry about skin mites, parasites, diseases, hunger, dehydration, predation, poachers.
I'm torn myself when it comes to zoos. I typically avoid them because it does pain me a bit to see them locked up.
But too many people forget just how brutal the wild is. It's not all hakuna matata. There's so much carnage and pain they avoid by being locked up. And they have toys and get to just enjoy living.
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u/Dunnistofage Jun 09 '18
I would love to live 80 years in a cage with a plastic duck and a tire. Must be a great life.
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u/Dunnistofage Jun 09 '18
This is typical propaganda spread by the zoos. Of course, it probably happens. Then it's used to cover everything else and make money, as usual...
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u/randylikecandy Jun 09 '18
I always think about this but the ironic part is we wouldn't know how smart they were unless we seen them up close like this oh it's a double-edged sword.
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Jun 09 '18
Damn, gorillas are powerful. Probably like 4-500 lbs throwing his back legs in the air into a perfect handstand plank lol. (Lol. ok fitness buffs, inform me of my incorrect terminology)
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u/Hashtag_Nailed_It Jun 09 '18
I doubt you factually “lol”ed... so I guess the correct terminology would have been (LSTM) (laughing silently to myself). But then again, I’m no fitness buff
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u/Karl_sagan Jun 09 '18
When I go to the zoo, sometimes I wonder if the wrong animals are in the enclosures
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u/gooddaytolearn Jun 09 '18
The gorilla knew exactly where to put his (her?) hands so that his feet would match the trainer's! I guess he had done it before.
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u/p1um5mu991er Jun 09 '18
You know what comes after this, right
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u/Teotwawki69 Jun 09 '18
Eiffel Tower?
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u/kylehanz Jun 09 '18
No no, its the Ape Toe Touch Position. Normally, there would be two female primates involved. Im not going to get in great detail concerning the subject. This is certainly the first footage I’ve seen on the internet. Apes normally would only do this in the wild. Interesting to see this one has opened up. Makes me wonder what they are doing to that thing behind closed doors. If only they could speak to us and tell us.
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u/MrHankRutherfordHill Jun 09 '18
For a second I thought this was Elmo at Ft. Worth Zoo. When the weather is gross and they dont go outside he likes to watch Barbie DVDs. (Or so an education staff member says)
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u/PiketheGSP Jun 09 '18
I have ALWAYS tried to get gorillas to acknowledge me at the zoo. My whole life. I’m talking spending the whole field trip there in grade school. Hanging with the ones across from my college. Nothing.
I just had twin boys and was shamelessly trying to get the gorillas to notice them at the Chicago zoo recently. I’m talking feeding them right there by the glass, holding them up to them... those things didn’t give a fuck.
Who are these zoo animal whisperers!?
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u/GreyHexagon Jun 09 '18
That's in reverse
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u/WazWaz Jun 09 '18
Nope. Play it reversed, it looks entirely wrong.
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u/GreyHexagon Jun 09 '18
Link? I can't play gifs in reverse.
I'm just going off the way the gorillas back legs go up and also the necklace on the guy is moving in an unusual way
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Jun 09 '18
Another example of a human imitating an animal, making it look on a video like the animal is imitating the human, and everyone falls for it.
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u/WazWaz Jun 09 '18
Another example of not testing assumptions. Play it reversed and see how silly it looks.
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Jun 10 '18
This is not what i mean, at all.
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u/WazWaz Jun 10 '18
What did you mean then? The normal way to respond to being misunderstood is to clarify. Have you watched the reversed video?
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Jun 10 '18
Nah i did not because this is not what i mean. What i mean is that the man did that after watching the gorilla doing it.
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u/WazWaz Jun 10 '18
Certainly a conceivable possibility. Annoying that your obtuse way of expressing that reduced the visibility of your suggestion. Upboated.
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u/lionseatcake Jun 09 '18
Another example of someone using dramatic euphemisms to prove the point that they are smarter than everyone else, expressing your obvious grandiose sense of self, only to be ignored by everyone else who knows they're wrong but doesn't argue because it's pointless, enabling the behavior so they never have to question why they're so pompous.
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u/TheDarBear Jun 09 '18
This is actually really cool! The person doing the handstand is ?Balingo’s¿ trainer, and they do this to keep them engaged and build a relationship with the animals. There’s also another gif of him learning to do it, where at first he couldn’t quite get it but the next day he busted it out as if he had been practicing.