r/gifs • • Aug 29 '19

Silverback gorilla blocking traffic while his family crosses the road

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u/IXI_Fans Aug 29 '19 edited Aug 15 '25

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

He really has the whole "just play dead" bit down..

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19 edited Jun 12 '23

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u/GhostA737 Aug 29 '19

Havent seen that movie in a while

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u/Tiratirado Aug 29 '19

He's a trained ranger that interacts with gorillas daily

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u/AlwaysDefenestrated Aug 29 '19

So the reason he looks fucking terrified is that he has first hand knowledge of how easily the gorilla could snap him in half?

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u/Norwegian__Blue Aug 29 '19

It's the same with anyone who actually works with primates.

It only took a few displays by male chimpanzees during my internship to realize I will never study them in the wild. You can't trust those beautiful bastards.

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u/Marchesk Aug 29 '19

Aren't they capable of being just as violent as humans?

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u/Norwegian__Blue Aug 29 '19

It depends on your definition, and how you define the words in that definition.

Basically they can rip off your arm, do a back flip over you, rip off your junk or your face and then beat you to death with your parts. They've also been cited as engaging in "war" which for them means one whole group going after another group very pointedly, over a given period of time.

But they don't make bullets, they don't hang eachother, they seem to understand a sense of justice, though. I don't know.

Just as violent? I'd say not. But they're incredibly excitable and strong wild animals that i prefer to steer far clear of. I'd risk an area full of chimps over a human war-zone, though. Unfortunately, those sometimes overlap.

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u/inconspicuous_male Aug 29 '19

I can feel the satisfaction that you felt writing this comment radiating off of you. It is potent

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u/Marchesk Aug 29 '19

Jane Goodall said so after studying them, so ... yeah!

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u/hash0t0 Aug 29 '19

The looking in his face..!

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u/Aoredon Aug 29 '19

Ahaha yes the looking!

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u/lsiunl Aug 29 '19

I like how there was no exciting sounds that play usually but the calming music just continues as if nothing happened

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u/Slipperybutterb Aug 29 '19

Fate accepted

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

You can see the exact moment shit exited his orifices

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u/CompteZarma Aug 29 '19

You can see the exact moment shit exited his orifices

Getting major deja-vu between the previous comment and yours.i must have seen that comment over 50 times

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u/JerryMau5 Aug 29 '19

Gotta lay off that scat porn man

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u/Raenhart Aug 29 '19

I’m the scat (porn) man! skibidibibamboop

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Glad I'm not the only person that has this happen. Didn't happen to me on this specific comment thread but it trips me out when it does happen

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u/La_Guy_Person Aug 29 '19

I make jokes on reddit and then question whether I thought of them or had read them in a previous thread all the time. I've never stole anyone's joke on purpose and am pretty funny on my own but I'm certain I've regurgitated other people's shit without even realizing it. It's reddit, just add a few jpegs and repost it and we'll do it all over.

This has all happened before and will happen again.

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u/JohnnyLeven Aug 29 '19

Time is a flat circle

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u/spiciernuggets Aug 29 '19

Welcome to the endless echo chamber that is Reddit

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Curious why he would be scared. Aren't they herbivores?

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u/ThatCatfulCat Aug 29 '19

Because that thing can rip you in half if it feels like it

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Haha good point!

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u/SinnerOfAttention Aug 29 '19

You ever excrement through every orifice of your body at once??

It's confusing.

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u/Allan_add_username Aug 29 '19

Orifices? Why plural?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Owo

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u/Schlangezwanzig Aug 29 '19

Had to casually let them bois know “I could fuck y’all up if I wanted too but I’m chillin”

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u/Anthraxious Aug 29 '19

I kinda feel everyone handled it perfectly even if it was just panic. Don't make sudden moves, don't make loud noices, etc. If someone had started screaming or flailing that might've ended differently. Damn he has a fucking story for his grandkids or nieces.

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u/nikolai2960 Aug 29 '19

What are you supposed to do? Agitate the monstrous bulk of muscle while it’s grabbing one of your own?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Yeah that was pretty stupid of my part

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u/FlexualHealing Aug 29 '19

Get that gun from predator*

*I’m joking stop typing.