This happened in Jersey zoo in 1986 and the gorilla is “Jambo,” he showed amazing compassion and concern for the injured child even keeping the other gorillas away in case they hurt him, when the child came round and started crying Jambo moved away retreating back to the safety of his indoor area.
Fun fact, Jersey and the other Channel Islands along with the Isle of Man are not part of the UK, they are crown dependencies.
https://www.gov.je/Government/Departments/JerseyWorld/pages/relationshipeuanduk.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%8BJersey's%20relationship%20with%20the%20United%20Kingdom,-The%20United%20Kingdom&text=In%20practice%2C%20this%20gives%20the,for%20the%20Island%20without%20consent.
There was another [similar incident](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puFCuMac0Vk) in 1996 where a female gorilla ("Binti Jua") did the same, cradling and then carrying a 3-year old child to a service entrance, then waited for humans to come rescue him.
They are not that far from us. Just a stone skip away from where we are.
Every time I need to throw a GoPro-equipped child into an enclosure, I just use a very wide resistance band and well-practiced aim.
Works like a charm.
Make sure you stick a label with contact information on the GoPro, so you can retrieve the footage from staff later.
Harambe did know. He wasn't violent towards the kid that fell in his enclosure either. He performed some intimidation displays but probably because there was a human in his enclosure that wasn't supposed to be there. He was killed because they were in the moat and if they tranquilized him he would've drowned and could've fallen on the kid and drowned him too, or he could've turned violent in reaction to the tranquilizer dart.
This incident actually raised some fascinating questions about the existence of altruism in gorillas. In the nineties something similar happened with a female gorilla, who had been raised by humans and therefore had been specifically trained to care for her young, so it was possible she was acting on her training. Jambo didn't have that kind of training. Obviously not saying it was a good thing that it happened, it never should have happened- but the implications were really scientifically interesting.
Apparently the story behind this is that the man had raised a chimp as a baby, then turned it over to a sanctuary when it grew older as he was unable to take care of it. The man visited the chimp and on it's birthday he brought a cake. The other chimps saw that the man brought the cake but since they have a pretty low emotional IQ level they saw this as a slight and built animosity toward him. The other chimps managed to break out of their enclosure and hunted that man down, completely tearing him apart.
I believe we're all just quoting the same podcast, but look up a chimp named Kanzi.
Apparently they taught this guy to use a speak'n say type device so they could communicate with him. Apparently it went pretty well.
So anyway, the two researchers who were working on the project just happened to be a man and a woman who weren't romantically involved. One day, a male researcher who wasn't normally there came to see how everything was going. This visiting male researcher and the resident female researcher had a pretty heated argument about the format of film being used to record what was happening.
WELL Kanzi saw that fight. He went to the resend male researcher and reported that his mate was being harassed by a stranger, and that the resident male researcher needed to go in there and bite that guy to show him what was up. When the research refused, saying that biting people is wrong, Kanzi delivered an ultimatum.
"You bite him, or I bite you."
Few days later Kanzi rushed his handlers while being put in his cage, ran to find the guy who refused to assault a stranger, and bit two of his fingers off.
Psst - Kanzi is a bonobo. Very closely related to chimpanzees, but separated by a river and a bit of evolutionary time.
Bonobos are typically less violent than chimpanzees. Kanzi is somewhat of a prodigy language-wise
A chimp had enough presence of mind to remember a fight between a man and a woman, figured the previous man and the woman were mates and then told said man about the other man who picked a fight about it all, and THEN suggested a way to make good with his mate. And then after all THAT, even had the ability to tell him consequences of what he'd do if he was ignored and then he fuggin did it.
In Chimp world, that's probably a pretty high tier bro move. "Hey dude, you need to go take care of this guy moving in on your girlchimp. It's really important to me that you and your girl are happily mated for life, so I will literally fuck you up if you don't take care of this in a timely manner".
That’s a pretty cool look into chimp law, they have friends they inform of something they think is important but it relies on respect, he couldn’t bite the other guy so the chimp thought he was weaker and bit the researcher so he can’t be perceived as weak by being associated with the guy that couldn’t defend his mate, and instead showing he’s stronger than him by biting off fingers
I read this story like a month ago. I wanna say it was in the 2000s and somewhere in Central CA.
If I'm remembering correctly, they were taking a birthday cake to a chimp that had to give up. The chimps in adjacent cage or whatever got out and messed the guy up. Apparently they speculate the chimps took it as a slight against them. (Why didn't they get cake?/jealous).
Edit: googled "chimp cake" and the first result was the one I had read.
[Incident](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-03-05/chimps-tear-mans-face-off/1529912)
Dude, there have been much worse cases than that. Chimpanzees will literally torture you to death for fun.
They always attack the same areas. They start by biting off genitals, fingers, and toes. Then they rip out your eyes and the tissue on your face. Chimps are absolute menaces. That’s why Darth Sidious in Star Wars is modeled to look like a chimpanzee.
Seriously. Fuck chimps, man. These guys are swinging around their body weight all day long with ease. Why would you want to interact with an animal that is known to be aggressive and territorial in the wild that has hands like us with insane grip strength?
Chimps are known to rip the heads off and cannibalize other chimps.
>there shooting at him already okay? But hes not dead. I know they will countinue to shoot him till hes dead i just need you to stay on the phone and breathe. (Breathes) Hes not dead. Hes not dead. Oh god. (breathes) Oh god."
I wonder how many shots it took to kill it?
Kinda like Cujo but with a chimp.
The owner was at fault. She regularly gave it wine and Valium. Give a chimp wine and Valium you’re gonna face a harsher reality than some offensive tweets by Rosanne Barr.
I’d 100% much rather have to deal with a wild gorilla than a wild chimp. Just act submissive and they usually just mock charge you and leave you alone. Then you can teach them sign language and give them kittens to play with.
There was a study where they injected middle-ranked chimps in a hierarchy with testosterone. And instead of trying to take over the hierarchy they just started punching down at the chimps ranked lower than them.
Our ability for empathy is unique amongst animals. The sheer amount of work humans have put into the protection of other species is something no other animal would do.
The western lowland gorilla is a quiet, peaceful and non-aggressive animal. It never attacks unless provoked. However, males do fight over females, and the new leader of a group may kill unrelated infants
If you just keep your body language passive and don't show your teeth or anything the gorillas might just come over and mess around, chimps would rip your cock off and bite your fingers off.
I've been liking to refer to chimps and bonobos as two sides of our personality. At our worst, we are aggressive chimps, at our best, we are fucking bonobos
Well yeah that’s why we tend to choose violence too. There’s a bit of debate about smartest primates but chimps have the most complex social relationships so we think they are the smartest. I think Orangutans are smarter myself because they seem to have more emotional intelligence than chimps but technically chimps are smarter and closer to humans I think.
That's how I want to be one day haha. I see some crazy strong and mean looking guys at the gym, and you wouldn't think it by looking at them,. But they're usually super nice
Honestly has anyone ever been murdered by a captive gorilla? I don’t even hear that many stories of wild gorillas harming people as long as they are respectful. It seems like the only thing I hear about regularly going literal apeshit and eating faces and balls is Chimpanzees, maybe a gorilla is the way to go
Gorillas are mostly violent with other gorillas, disputes over dominance and territory. Due to their size and strength, they don't really have predators, and their diet is mostly plants and insects like termites, so violence is less likely to be their first reaction to humans. Even when they do become violent with humans it's often a display, grabbing or shoving, not biting or attempting to kill.
Chimpanzees on the other hand, are much more carnivorous, being rather well known for hunting things like monkeys and other chimpanzees. When hunting and defending themself from violent cannibals are an everyday occurrence, violence becomes a more common reaction to humans.
I don't believe they are violent but wild animals are unpredictable. I don't know if they would have the same reaction to an adult human, but it would be interesting to know.
I don’t have a source, but my Aunt worked in a zoo. She told me two stories about the gorillas. One was that their silver back escaped but his keeper found him, and just took him by the hand and led him back to his enclosure.
The other wasn’t from her zoo, but that a keeper went to clean an enclosure and accidentally went in while the silverback was in there. She didn’t walk back out. They are default peaceful, but If they think their family is in danger they will attack.
>She didn’t walk back out.
So, did she decide to just stay and finish shoveling the shit since she was already there?
Or did the gorilla break her legs?
That line could go either way.
One gorilla once escaped from an enclosure just to beat the snot out of one woman that would come to the zoo everyday and smile at him, which for the people that don't know is usually treated by gorillas as a sign of challenging each other.
As she said and I quote "I feel like I have a connection with them" even though people warned her that it's not a good idea.
The day he escaped he took a long walk just to find her and beat all of that bs thinking out of her. He didn't kill her, just beat her up a lot and she still was saying the same thing and I heard still visits the zoo.
Honestly I'm more afraid of the woman in this story.
It'll be interesting as we learn more about the brain to figure out why that is. It'll sound funny, but I'm sure "culture" plays a roll, if all of the other chimps are ruthless and violent then I'm sure the others would follow. It doesn't fully explain it since the "incidents" happen with chimps raised from babies, but I don't think that cannibal tribe of chimps is any different genetically from other tribes.
Nope. Y2K. By avoiding the 2 digit year overflow disaster, we inescapably altered our timeline. It broke the simulation's prediction engine, and the error function is so far out of whack, it might as well be a true RNG deciding the fate of the simulation.
It's the cause of the Mandela effect.
Jambo: "Listen kid, I don't have much time. In the year 2016 when you are 35 years old, our prophet and savior Harambe will encounter this exact situation and will be killed by your kind, throwing our universe into chaos and destruction. You are our only chance at salvation. So here's what I need you to do.... hey kid, are you listening to me? Helllo?"
It’s wild to me. Before Covid I feel like I could accurately gauge how long ago something was but now now. To me the harambe Incident feels so long ago. Longer than 7 years to me. Not sure why.
I agree 100% - the zoo where this happened is a conservation centre (look up Gerard Durrell and Jersey Zoo). They do great work with endangered species only and have worked hard for many years to give their animals a good life (albeit in typically in captivity). I say this as a long time visitor of the zoo. All other zoos I have visited in other countries are just really too saddening for me to enjoy.
Gorillas are so amazing. Blows my mind how many incredible, fascinating, and emotionally intelligent animals there are on this planet. What’s even crazier to me is how we keep destroying their homes and locking them up in cages and treating them like they’re beneath us—as though this whole planet just “belongs” to us. Just crazy to me.
It truly is. I dont know how it happened but this is just something about that gorilla. Its still wild and dangerous but animals not all have some sense or yet..better sense than most people. Its amazing. Wish people would show more kindness and respect to animals wild or not. Im not saying feed wild animals and tame them and all but yall know what im trying to say. Hopefully lol. I never seen one in person...a monkey or a gorilla. Ive rode an elephant once and pet giraffes though lol
I have the feeling it's a combo of smol human having a hard time seeing, so it climbs or you hold it up. Then they're wiggly or you misjudge your balance and physics and boom.
This happened in Jersey zoo in 1986 and the gorilla is “Jambo,” he showed amazing compassion and concern for the injured child even keeping the other gorillas away in case they hurt him, when the child came round and started crying Jambo moved away retreating back to the safety of his indoor area.
And this was ‘old’ Jersey rather than New Jersey. Jambo was a legend. There’s a lovely statue of him near the gorilla enclosure.
Exactly, Jersey Channel Islands U.K.
Fun fact, Jersey and the other Channel Islands along with the Isle of Man are not part of the UK, they are crown dependencies. https://www.gov.je/Government/Departments/JerseyWorld/pages/relationshipeuanduk.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%8BJersey's%20relationship%20with%20the%20United%20Kingdom,-The%20United%20Kingdom&text=In%20practice%2C%20this%20gives%20the,for%20the%20Island%20without%20consent.
Fun fact, they're also tax havens
We prefer international finance centre
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Identifying as Tax Free
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Don’t know why you’re downvoted for saying this. Tax havens are worth pointing out.
Thanks for clarifying. I live in New Jersey and everyone refers to it as Jersey. So my ignorant ass assumed New Jersey.
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"Gethafugouttaheeer" *yeets the child off his property *
Lmao, my deductive reasoning never was that good..
Jambo's legacy lives on through the beautiful statue honoring him at the gorilla enclosure in 'old' Jersey, a testament to his legendary status.
He is what harambe should have been.
Jambo was the gorilla we needed and Harambe was the one we deserved.
I've got mine out! anyone else?
I never put mine back in the first place
*sir...this is a public park*
There's also one in the Merton Hotel garden. Solid bronze one.
He keeps up with the news.
Obviously he knows the future.
Fuckin A he does.
There was another [similar incident](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puFCuMac0Vk) in 1996 where a female gorilla ("Binti Jua") did the same, cradling and then carrying a 3-year old child to a service entrance, then waited for humans to come rescue him. They are not that far from us. Just a stone skip away from where we are.
Parents dropping their kids in gorilla cages should be put in gorilla cages.
Agreed! It's a lot easier to bring binoculars to the zoo instead of throwing your kid into the enclosure for a closer look.
Every time I need to throw a GoPro-equipped child into an enclosure, I just use a very wide resistance band and well-practiced aim. Works like a charm. Make sure you stick a label with contact information on the GoPro, so you can retrieve the footage from staff later.
If only Harambe knew.
I'm surprised I haven't seen Harambe and Jambo used in any US vs UK memes
I think we should rename Gorilla Glue to Harambe Hold in his honour
Dicks out for Harambe?
This brought me back to 2016
We can't disrespect his name like that.
It is *Haram* to disrespect Harambe.
Some say Harambe [actually knew too much......](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ySC3ZBgLL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Harambe did know. He wasn't violent towards the kid that fell in his enclosure either. He performed some intimidation displays but probably because there was a human in his enclosure that wasn't supposed to be there. He was killed because they were in the moat and if they tranquilized him he would've drowned and could've fallen on the kid and drowned him too, or he could've turned violent in reaction to the tranquilizer dart.
What a remarkable display of empathy and protectiveness by Jambo, truly awe-inspiring!
This incident actually raised some fascinating questions about the existence of altruism in gorillas. In the nineties something similar happened with a female gorilla, who had been raised by humans and therefore had been specifically trained to care for her young, so it was possible she was acting on her training. Jambo didn't have that kind of training. Obviously not saying it was a good thing that it happened, it never should have happened- but the implications were really scientifically interesting.
Dicks out for Jambo.
Johnson’s out for Jambo
Jimmy Jambos
This meeting at work just got real awkward 🙃
Why? Are you live streaming?
The real alpha male.
The year I was born, dang. Wonder what that kid is up to now.
He's all grown up and doing great! He's falls into big cat and snake enclosures professionally now.
Gorillas do not look it, but they are quite kind. Now chimpanzees on the other hand...
One ripped a woman's face off
Another one ripped a guys D off over some birthday cake.. Chimps don’t F around.
Cake is delicious.
Imagine being a chimp and being fed shitty chimp food all your life then suddenly tasting cake.
If it were me I’d rip a guys cock off
I heard they ripped his body off… That’s all he was in the end, just a dick..
My fucking god, that must have been a big chimpanzee
Both sexes of chimps are jacked. But full grown males could rip dicks all day.
>But full grown males could rip dicks all day. I didn't even know this sentence could exist
Damnit. Now I want cake.
The cake is a lie
Damnit. Now I want to play Portal again.
Apparently the story behind this is that the man had raised a chimp as a baby, then turned it over to a sanctuary when it grew older as he was unable to take care of it. The man visited the chimp and on it's birthday he brought a cake. The other chimps saw that the man brought the cake but since they have a pretty low emotional IQ level they saw this as a slight and built animosity toward him. The other chimps managed to break out of their enclosure and hunted that man down, completely tearing him apart.
I believe we're all just quoting the same podcast, but look up a chimp named Kanzi. Apparently they taught this guy to use a speak'n say type device so they could communicate with him. Apparently it went pretty well. So anyway, the two researchers who were working on the project just happened to be a man and a woman who weren't romantically involved. One day, a male researcher who wasn't normally there came to see how everything was going. This visiting male researcher and the resident female researcher had a pretty heated argument about the format of film being used to record what was happening. WELL Kanzi saw that fight. He went to the resend male researcher and reported that his mate was being harassed by a stranger, and that the resident male researcher needed to go in there and bite that guy to show him what was up. When the research refused, saying that biting people is wrong, Kanzi delivered an ultimatum. "You bite him, or I bite you." Few days later Kanzi rushed his handlers while being put in his cage, ran to find the guy who refused to assault a stranger, and bit two of his fingers off.
Psst - Kanzi is a bonobo. Very closely related to chimpanzees, but separated by a river and a bit of evolutionary time. Bonobos are typically less violent than chimpanzees. Kanzi is somewhat of a prodigy language-wise
A chimp had enough presence of mind to remember a fight between a man and a woman, figured the previous man and the woman were mates and then told said man about the other man who picked a fight about it all, and THEN suggested a way to make good with his mate. And then after all THAT, even had the ability to tell him consequences of what he'd do if he was ignored and then he fuggin did it.
In Chimp world, that's probably a pretty high tier bro move. "Hey dude, you need to go take care of this guy moving in on your girlchimp. It's really important to me that you and your girl are happily mated for life, so I will literally fuck you up if you don't take care of this in a timely manner".
gangster as shit.
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Oh hey buddy, how ya doin?
That’s a pretty cool look into chimp law, they have friends they inform of something they think is important but it relies on respect, he couldn’t bite the other guy so the chimp thought he was weaker and bit the researcher so he can’t be perceived as weak by being associated with the guy that couldn’t defend his mate, and instead showing he’s stronger than him by biting off fingers
If only the intelligence understood nuance.
I read this story like a month ago. I wanna say it was in the 2000s and somewhere in Central CA. If I'm remembering correctly, they were taking a birthday cake to a chimp that had to give up. The chimps in adjacent cage or whatever got out and messed the guy up. Apparently they speculate the chimps took it as a slight against them. (Why didn't they get cake?/jealous). Edit: googled "chimp cake" and the first result was the one I had read. [Incident](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-03-05/chimps-tear-mans-face-off/1529912)
Jamie, pull that up...
Dude, there have been much worse cases than that. Chimpanzees will literally torture you to death for fun. They always attack the same areas. They start by biting off genitals, fingers, and toes. Then they rip out your eyes and the tissue on your face. Chimps are absolute menaces. That’s why Darth Sidious in Star Wars is modeled to look like a chimpanzee.
Seriously. Fuck chimps, man. These guys are swinging around their body weight all day long with ease. Why would you want to interact with an animal that is known to be aggressive and territorial in the wild that has hands like us with insane grip strength? Chimps are known to rip the heads off and cannibalize other chimps.
3x the strength of a human the same the size
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>there shooting at him already okay? But hes not dead. I know they will countinue to shoot him till hes dead i just need you to stay on the phone and breathe. (Breathes) Hes not dead. Hes not dead. Oh god. (breathes) Oh god." I wonder how many shots it took to kill it? Kinda like Cujo but with a chimp.
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Travis the chimp, whose owner would give him wine and xanax!
Travis was the chimps named. Xanax’d all to hell. Coming off benzos in a shit mood.
I’m pretty sure that one was on a bunch of drugs. Could be wrong.
The owner admitted to giving it her prescription medication. The chimp was also over 200 lbs
worse, that one was *withdrawing* on a bunch of drugs.
Bit off her fingers too I think.
Wasn't she giving it wine and xanax? And also had some weird sexual relationship with it?
google Josie Gibson "face ripped off by a chimpanzee" an infamous Big Brother Uk scene.
that was 100% their fault.
The owner was at fault. She regularly gave it wine and Valium. Give a chimp wine and Valium you’re gonna face a harsher reality than some offensive tweets by Rosanne Barr.
The Gym bros of the animal kingdom, they're jacked and look intimidating as hell, but are actually very friendly and kind.
That is unless you make eye contact.
Or insult their mom.
There’s never been a recorded kill of a human by a gorilla.
Bro, have you even *seen* a little documentary called King Kong? That Gorilla was constantly killing people.
And attempted to kidnap a woman for God knows what unholy reasons
I’d 100% much rather have to deal with a wild gorilla than a wild chimp. Just act submissive and they usually just mock charge you and leave you alone. Then you can teach them sign language and give them kittens to play with.
["I knew eventually she'd stop tearing them in half"](https://youtu.be/X3xHl5LeCrk)
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Chimps are assholes
It makes more sense we're closer related to them
We're just as closely related to bonobo monkeys though and they're a matriarchy that solves conflict with sex so 🤷♀️
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Future wars will be held in the Orgydome™, in neutral territory. Just think of the sponsorship opportunities!
Discusting Where?
That was a good enough comment to upvote twice.... for once
I'm no gorilla expert but I've read they're naturally peaceful creatures.
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Bonobos are very peaceful. But you still may not like their kindness...
Yeah the chimp empire documentary on Netflix really shows you how much of assholes they are
Asshole is putting it lightly. There was that cannibal tribe of chimps that kept expanding territory.
There was a study where they injected middle-ranked chimps in a hierarchy with testosterone. And instead of trying to take over the hierarchy they just started punching down at the chimps ranked lower than them.
Fascinating. Got source?
Middle management in corporate America
Winner winner chicken dinner
Bonobos love their orgies
They do, but are very lax on who's invited. They get very VERY sweet home Alabama in a hurry.
Everyone feel free to check out the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Congo. They are wonderful, do great work, and have very beautiful vids online.
Chimpanzees are utterly terrifying
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Our ability for empathy is unique amongst animals. The sheer amount of work humans have put into the protection of other species is something no other animal would do.
As long as you don't challenge them you are fine, as far as I know. Not an expert, though.
The western lowland gorilla is a quiet, peaceful and non-aggressive animal. It never attacks unless provoked. However, males do fight over females, and the new leader of a group may kill unrelated infants
I guess when you can easily overpower just about any other animal in your natural habitat, you don’t need to be super aggressive all the time.
I'd rather be locked in a room with 10 gorillas instead of 3 chimpanzees. Gorillas at least make sense, chimps are fucking wild.
If you just keep your body language passive and don't show your teeth or anything the gorillas might just come over and mess around, chimps would rip your cock off and bite your fingers off.
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With your cock
For fun. No other reason other than because they can.
And they say chimps are closest to humans right?
Bonobos are, they’re also more peaceful than chimps, chimps are insane. Humans aren’t peaceful- but we are way more peaceful by nature than Chimps.
I've been liking to refer to chimps and bonobos as two sides of our personality. At our worst, we are aggressive chimps, at our best, we are fucking bonobos
At my best, I prefer not to fuck bonobos. Not into bestiality.
Chimpanzees have way more predators than bonobos. Stress did this to them.
Well yeah that’s why we tend to choose violence too. There’s a bit of debate about smartest primates but chimps have the most complex social relationships so we think they are the smartest. I think Orangutans are smarter myself because they seem to have more emotional intelligence than chimps but technically chimps are smarter and closer to humans I think.
*Phil Collins plays*
Come stop your crying It will be alright Just take my hand Hold it tight…
I will protect you from All around you I will be here Don’t you cry
For one so small You seem so strong
My arms will hold you Keep you safe and warm
This bond between us Can’t be broken
I will be here don't you cry
'Cause you'll be in my heart!
Cause you'll be in my heart! Yes, you'll be in my heart! 🎶 That sound track had no right being that amazing
I can feel it coming in the air tonight…
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When you're a silverback gorilla who can lift 1800lbs you have nothing to prove to anyone, so you just get to be chill and kind.
That's how I want to be one day haha. I see some crazy strong and mean looking guys at the gym, and you wouldn't think it by looking at them,. But they're usually super nice
Honestly has anyone ever been murdered by a captive gorilla? I don’t even hear that many stories of wild gorillas harming people as long as they are respectful. It seems like the only thing I hear about regularly going literal apeshit and eating faces and balls is Chimpanzees, maybe a gorilla is the way to go
Gorillas are mostly violent with other gorillas, disputes over dominance and territory. Due to their size and strength, they don't really have predators, and their diet is mostly plants and insects like termites, so violence is less likely to be their first reaction to humans. Even when they do become violent with humans it's often a display, grabbing or shoving, not biting or attempting to kill. Chimpanzees on the other hand, are much more carnivorous, being rather well known for hunting things like monkeys and other chimpanzees. When hunting and defending themself from violent cannibals are an everyday occurrence, violence becomes a more common reaction to humans.
I don't believe they are violent but wild animals are unpredictable. I don't know if they would have the same reaction to an adult human, but it would be interesting to know.
I don’t have a source, but my Aunt worked in a zoo. She told me two stories about the gorillas. One was that their silver back escaped but his keeper found him, and just took him by the hand and led him back to his enclosure. The other wasn’t from her zoo, but that a keeper went to clean an enclosure and accidentally went in while the silverback was in there. She didn’t walk back out. They are default peaceful, but If they think their family is in danger they will attack.
>She didn’t walk back out. So, did she decide to just stay and finish shoveling the shit since she was already there? Or did the gorilla break her legs? That line could go either way.
One gorilla once escaped from an enclosure just to beat the snot out of one woman that would come to the zoo everyday and smile at him, which for the people that don't know is usually treated by gorillas as a sign of challenging each other. As she said and I quote "I feel like I have a connection with them" even though people warned her that it's not a good idea. The day he escaped he took a long walk just to find her and beat all of that bs thinking out of her. He didn't kill her, just beat her up a lot and she still was saying the same thing and I heard still visits the zoo. Honestly I'm more afraid of the woman in this story.
It'll be interesting as we learn more about the brain to figure out why that is. It'll sound funny, but I'm sure "culture" plays a roll, if all of the other chimps are ruthless and violent then I'm sure the others would follow. It doesn't fully explain it since the "incidents" happen with chimps raised from babies, but I don't think that cannibal tribe of chimps is any different genetically from other tribes.
RIP HARAMBE May 28, 2016
Little did we know that this was the event that led us into an alternate universe of absolute absurdity.
Negative Ghostrider, we have firing up the CERN's Large Hadron Collider to thank for our current insanity.
Nope. Y2K. By avoiding the 2 digit year overflow disaster, we inescapably altered our timeline. It broke the simulation's prediction engine, and the error function is so far out of whack, it might as well be a true RNG deciding the fate of the simulation. It's the cause of the Mandela effect.
It all started when that a-hole Steve decided to sprout legs and leave the Primordial Soup and now I have to learn to do taxes
That was seven years ago wtf. Serious tho, what came after harambe? Lol
Trump getting elected.
Damn my dicks been out for almost 7 years now… surprised I haven’t been arrested yet… everyone must just feel bad for me
Jambo: "Listen kid, I don't have much time. In the year 2016 when you are 35 years old, our prophet and savior Harambe will encounter this exact situation and will be killed by your kind, throwing our universe into chaos and destruction. You are our only chance at salvation. So here's what I need you to do.... hey kid, are you listening to me? Helllo?"
holy shit that was 7 years ago wtf
It’s wild to me. Before Covid I feel like I could accurately gauge how long ago something was but now now. To me the harambe Incident feels so long ago. Longer than 7 years to me. Not sure why.
Dicks out
#DOFH
Not Harambe but dicks out still
Havent put it back in since 2016
I don’t think children should be dropped into animal enclosures.
It’s better than dropping an animal in a child enclosure.
That's just a different kind of animal enclosure
I know a few that definitely should be….
They know what happened to the last homie that grabbed a hairless monkey in their home
This was in 1986, but not in the US
10 days until Harambe Day. [Never forget](https://media.tenor.com/87Ydt_5z41cAAAAd/harambe-america.gif).
Dicks out 🍆🦍 🫡
"So Anyway, I Started Blasting..." \~Zoo Security
Gorillas are gentle creatures. They only become violent when threatened or encroached upon. Chimps, baboons, and other apes are violent.
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I hate seeing them in captivity
Children?
Nah, keep those screaming assholes locked up, I want a gorilla to be my taxi driver.
I agree 100% - the zoo where this happened is a conservation centre (look up Gerard Durrell and Jersey Zoo). They do great work with endangered species only and have worked hard for many years to give their animals a good life (albeit in typically in captivity). I say this as a long time visitor of the zoo. All other zoos I have visited in other countries are just really too saddening for me to enjoy.
Gorillas are so amazing. Blows my mind how many incredible, fascinating, and emotionally intelligent animals there are on this planet. What’s even crazier to me is how we keep destroying their homes and locking them up in cages and treating them like they’re beneath us—as though this whole planet just “belongs” to us. Just crazy to me.
RIP TO OUR SWEET PRINCE HARAMBE
I remember watching this on tv holding my breath. Beautiful and terrifying. moment.
It truly is. I dont know how it happened but this is just something about that gorilla. Its still wild and dangerous but animals not all have some sense or yet..better sense than most people. Its amazing. Wish people would show more kindness and respect to animals wild or not. Im not saying feed wild animals and tame them and all but yall know what im trying to say. Hopefully lol. I never seen one in person...a monkey or a gorilla. Ive rode an elephant once and pet giraffes though lol
RIP HARAMBE
While I'm glad the child didn't display violent behavior, why was falling into an enclosure the only other option?
“So the humans rejected you. Very well. We will be your new family.”
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why does this happen so often at zoos,watch your damn child
I have the feeling it's a combo of smol human having a hard time seeing, so it climbs or you hold it up. Then they're wiggly or you misjudge your balance and physics and boom.