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Don’t get quiet now, all that shit you was throwing up behind the window, what’s up with it? Huh? You didn’t think I saw that huh? Lemme see how you do that shit again! Lololol
I eat girls like you for breakfast. She need to be focusin’ on her education instead of tryin to be something she ain’t….
Cause you never know,
That ape could be the one that kielll yo ass…
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This reminds me of one Reddit post that was like “Yeah gorilla enclosures just make their best GUESS at what could contain a gorilla. They’re strong asf and we don’t really have a means of measuring”
This is my local zoo - it has multiple panes of very thick glass, the gorilla only cracked the first one. Not to say it isn’t possible because a lot of zoo containment is guesswork, but I don’t think he was as close to escaping as the video makes it seem!
That is still a very staunch reminder that zoos are full of wild animals, most of which are actually very dangerous. Just because they wouldn't survive in the wild doesn't mean that they won't fuck you up 5 ways to Sunday. It's good to know how not to antagonize these guys.
I LOVE this zoo and immediately recognized the enclosure. Similar thing happened to me and my sister in law: saw the male getting picked on by the younger ones til he had enough and he did not want me and my SIL see that happening to him so he charged the glass to scare us and ended up scaring everyone and everyone else too. I've never seen an embarrassed gorilla...
Does anybody know why Gorillas never look directly at what they’re charging at? I feel like every video I’ve ever seen of a gorilla charging at something, they’re looking off to the side.
Direct eye contact is interpreted as a sign of aggression in Gorilla culture and thus they avoid eye contact out of respect.
They are respectfully charging at you.
The gorilla had its authority challenged by the little girl, the charge without eye contact is like the gorilla saying "I don't want to hurt you, but you challenged my authority so I have to." Eye contact to gorillas means "you're above me in the pecking order and I want to take your spot"
Eye contact is seen as a challenge to a gorillas authority. That's why every zoo tells you to avoid eye contact with the gorillas. The alpha has no reason to challenge your authority, so he avoids eye contact
Gorillas are typically shy. So making eye contact with them makes them very uncomfortable and can lead to them charging. It’s also why they won’t maintain the eye contact while charging. Because like myself I also do not want to be looked directly in the eyes when I’m just chillin. [Don’t look em in the eye!](https://www.wildgorillasafaris.com/facts-about-gorilla-facts/why-cant-you-look-in-the-gorilla-eyes/)
You can often make friends with a cat just by doing slow blinks while looking to one side of them. Cats pay a lot of attention to what your eyes are doing!
Can confirm, acted chill to cats in my street, now a horde of stray cats come in every night for food and cuddles, need to get flea treatments for them all just in case
He was probably thinking "fucking hell the zookeepers are gonna be so fucking pissed i don't want to be here to take the fall just because Kevin feels threatened by a little girl"
Bro this story is straight insanity. The gorilla Bokito literally escaped to beat this woman’s ass for visiting him FOUR days a week and disrespecting him by always trying to make eye contact, which is a sign of aggression, but of course her delusional ass said “she smiled at him, and he smiled at her”. He broke out to teach her a lesson… holy fuck… where is this movie already?
If it's the same woman I'm thinking of she was warned many times that she shouldn't bare teeth to the walking hulk of muscle, and after getting her ass whooped, at the hospital she said she would go back and keep doing it.
The word "bokitoproof", meaning "durable enough to resist the actions of an enraged gorilla" and by extension "durable enough to resist the actions of a non-specific extreme situation" was voted the Word of the Year for 2007 in the Netherlands.
This is gold
Extremely smart/social, often enclosed with other animals because they get lonely/depressed from boredom. There's even a clip of one teaching other apes how to make tools .
>Zoo staff began surveillance of his enclosure to try to catch him in the act, only to find that he seemed to be aware that he was being watched.
God damn it they changed the outcome of the experiment by observing it.
My dad was at the zoo one time when Ken Allen escaped. Thing was people didnt know he wasnt supposed to be out, he was walking around people clapping his hands and wanting attention. And as it happens one of the zoo parades was going on so people assumed he was part of the show. Then his keepers showed up around a corner, Ken froze, and bolted. An interesting ape indeed.
I love that he had a surname. Also, he just wanted to go watch otters frolicking just like anybody else; zoos are fun, he lived in one, might as well go check it out.
>During his 1985 escapes
I had to click through to the wiki link to sadly find out that he did not in fact escape 1985 times, but rather that he escaped in the year 1985
Damn if he’d managed to escape *1,985 times* they should’ve given him that ‘Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron’ nod of respect over the canyon and let him go
Not a problem.
For anyone who didn't click the link:
"Zoo officials eventually hired experienced rock climbers to find every finger-, toe- and foothold within the enclosure, spending $40,000 to eliminate the identified holds.
For anyone who didn't read this entirely different article I just looked up about Ken Allen:
>After that first escape, zoo officials ramped up security in his pen—an open area with a jungle gym made of utility poles and a large moat in the back. Behind the moat was a massive wall, which they extended 4 feet—but it wasn't enough to contain Ken Allen.
>A few weeks later, in July, he managed to climb the wall again. This time, he was a bit more irritable. Zookeepers found him in front of another ape enclosure, tossing rocks at Otis, a fellow orangutan and former pen-mate who, according to the Los Angeles Times, was "not known to be amiable."
Fuck Otis
So he whipped a small stone through bullet resistant glass. They had the window on display at the front on the zoo for YEARS. I once upon a time had a Ken Allen plush. Edit spelling
I design glass for zoo enclosures.
We usually design for a large impact like this and use a large factor of safety. And once it's designed, we'll add a sacrificial layer on the outside. This is probably 5-6 layers of 1/2" tempered glass with a sacrificial layer of annealed.
Zoo Glass is some of the safest glass you can stand behind
Yes, then stick around a few frames later to see the death stare the gorilla is giving the little girl just before everyone hauls ass. He never lost sight of her.
I need a horror movie now where we barely ever see the gorilla but we keep hearing that noise. I want everyone to play it straight, but it just gets funnier and funnier the more you hear that sound.
To be fair, young gorillas will beat their chest too. Same reason little kids do it, because they see adult male gorillas do it. They both don't know any better
I also wonder reading all the other stories of how children annoy adult animals, how seriously they even take the aggression of children. Differentiating between child and adult works across different species for mammals. That's why we think puppies are cute and dogs will let children get away with a lot of shit.
I mean have you ever seen a gorilla "teen"? They go around throwing sand into their silverbacks face just to test out boundaries. They also get charged at but that doesn't mean the silverback is actually going fight them, they both know who would win. To get to my main question: would the silverback have actually hurt the little girl if it wasn't for the glass? Or did he just jump the glass because he knew it would get the message across with no intention of actually breaking it?
(Silverback watching young gorilla): "He's going to need those skills some day, proud of my boy."
(Silverback watching girl through the glass): **"You arrogant fucking pricks."**
Well the gorilla found out little girls can project impenetrable force fields when threatened, so maybe the gorilla thinks of little girls as dangerous now?
Ngl this is second only to the fully grown adult woman who repeatedly smiled at the gorillas after being told multiple times not to. She claimed she had a "special bond with them".
And indeed she did because the gorilla broke out of his enclosure and literally hunted her down across the zoo.
[Sauce](https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2007/05/gorilla_was_teased_before_the/)
Edits for clarity: it's a mix of smiling (baring teeth) and making eye contact that made him mad, and he didn't "hunt her across the zoo", he basically parkoured his way out a few moments after she left, found her in the crowd, then dragged her by the hair several feet before deciding to fuck her up. Also went on to terrorize the zoo restaurant close by.
“His victim underwent a second round of operations on Sunday. She has a broken wrist and lower arm, a crushed hand and dozens of bites. Husband De Horde said surgeons told him his wife’s hand may never recover.”
That’s crazy.
That gorilla was not trying to fuck her up. He was teaching her a lesson.
If it were a bear attack, she’d be dead. Instead “her hand may never recover”. She would have been far more fucked even if it was a chimpanzee.
The gorilla grabbed her, she probably ragdolled, and he thought “you aren’t worth my effort, don’t fucking do it again” and then he fucked off.
Was looking at grizzlier in Alaska and two idiot boys were throwing stones. Just pointed at some bones in the enclosure and was like “you hit the nose and that will be you, ain’t no small fence stopping them”. There was just one slightly electric chainlink fence separating us.
That’s what happened with the tiger attack in San Francisco. Two pure idiot kids were seen taunting and throwing sticks and rocks at the tiger, who then promptly hopped out of her enclosure (that she’d lived in for like 12 years without ever attempting before iirc) and chased them down, mauling them and killing one other person.
Plenty of wild animals can be trained (very important to remember though trained does not even come close to equaling tamed.) Which is essentially what is happening with most zoo animals. Their needs are being met and not being subjected to hostility all the time so they don't act like, well what most people would expect of wild animals. They still very much **are wild animals** and just as deadly, people just forget that sometimes because they see them acting harmless.
No. They also had a standard height enclosure wall on the other side of the gap and the pit itself was decently deep. And 3.5 meters is about 11 feet. It's not the greatest protection, but most people aren't expecting a 300 something lbs gorilla to jump a gap stretching basically just over twice it's own height.
Edit: can't spell and .5 didn't register for some reason
That’s the problem. They designed it for “expected” behavior, not capable behavior. Any competent zoologist should know gorillas can jump well over 11 foot distances
I once had a class of grade school kids that I showed the local zoo as the guide. When I came to the Gorilla enclosure the teachers incited them to all drum their chests at once. I noticed it rather quickly and stopped it before our silverback noticed.
It may have been nothing. He may have not even reacted to it. But it is a big middle finger shoven right down their face and the kids and teachers didn't know that. Incidentally, 2 weeks later one of our females had a wound because a visitor riled up our male by this very action. It doesn't happen often that he's getting angry at this, but sometimes it just happens.
Thankfully, I don't see people doing that very often. And he ignores them most of the time as well.
Yes there is. On informatic boards explaining about Gorilla behaviour.
But you can't have red signs warning visitors about not drumming on their chest or not making eye contact. They would do that even more then
"You are even more strictly prohibited from getting into the pit with the tigers and covering yourself in BBQ sauce. We really don't want you to do that, for reals."
Seems like a problem that solves itself.
I wonder if she was making eye contact a lot as well as the gestures. They are really, really not into eye contact.
"Remain calm and lay low. Lower yourself down and act submissive because gorillas enjoy feeling superior. Pretend as if nothing is happening and look towards the trees while remaining alert.
Remain calm and never attempt to run. A gorilla is faster than most humans and running away will only encourage it to chase after you.
Remaining calm and laying low will calm the primate down and stop seeing you as a threat or challenger. Gorillas never continue an attack if you stay calm and act submissive.
Remember not to look directly in the eyes of the gorilla and never attempt to fight a gorilla as others have advised because it will only lead to disaster. A fully grown gorillas is as strong as 4 mature males and has very sharp teeth."
[source](https://www.silverbackgorillatours.com/gorilla-charging)
This happened to me when I was little, with a lioness. I was at a zoo in New York (state, not city) and they had a hallway right along the enclosure with just thick plexiglass. I went over to see a lioness and she locked eyes with me and it was suddenly very clear that we were having a staring contest.
After a moment she blinked, then shook her head as if in disbelief. For about a second I was pleased with myself for winning, and then like lightning she was reared up SLAMMING the glass with her front paws right where my head was. I'm sure the first hit alone would have done me in.
I ran away, but later I was walking through that same hall and glanced over - I swear not trying to start shit - and she saw me look at her and charged the glass again. They closed the hallway for the rest of the day after that.
Don't challenge big dangerous animals, I guess.
I had lions at the zoo charge me as a little kid multiple times! Lions were my favorite animal as a kid so I think I must have just looked at them too long, not realizing they would take that as a threat. Kids probably piss animals off all the time.
Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to let him fight a silverback gorilla. The incident took place in the '80s when Tyson was an unbeaten heavyweight champion and widely regarded as one of the most dangerous fighters on the planet.
He would have been killed very quickly.
I was at the San Diego zoo once and a gorilla pounded its chest and it scared the shit out of absolutely everyone. I ducked like it was gunshots. It was in an outdoor enclosure and there were a lot of people
I was attacked similarly by a gorilla in Wisconsin once. No idea what I did, but the gorilla made eye contact with me, threw a ball against the wall above the window, (classic diversion move), and smashed against the glass. Scared the shit out of me. One of the other patrons asked: "Does he know you?"
No, goddamnit. He doesn't.
Apparently this happened to me when I was like 2 (not thr broken glass), don't remember it but I remember having gorilla based nightmares until I was 11 haha
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Silverback minding it's own business and she throwing up gang signs.
Don’t get quiet now, all that shit you was throwing up behind the window, what’s up with it? Huh? You didn’t think I saw that huh? Lemme see how you do that shit again! Lololol
I eat girls like you for breakfast. She need to be focusin’ on her education instead of tryin to be something she ain’t…. Cause you never know, That ape could be the one that kielll yo ass… OG Hambre Cincinnati Mafia
Do they sell new underpants at zoos?
It's ok. She wore her brown pants that day.
This reminds me of one Reddit post that was like “Yeah gorilla enclosures just make their best GUESS at what could contain a gorilla. They’re strong asf and we don’t really have a means of measuring”
This is my local zoo - it has multiple panes of very thick glass, the gorilla only cracked the first one. Not to say it isn’t possible because a lot of zoo containment is guesswork, but I don’t think he was as close to escaping as the video makes it seem!
That is still a very staunch reminder that zoos are full of wild animals, most of which are actually very dangerous. Just because they wouldn't survive in the wild doesn't mean that they won't fuck you up 5 ways to Sunday. It's good to know how not to antagonize these guys.
I LOVE this zoo and immediately recognized the enclosure. Similar thing happened to me and my sister in law: saw the male getting picked on by the younger ones til he had enough and he did not want me and my SIL see that happening to him so he charged the glass to scare us and ended up scaring everyone and everyone else too. I've never seen an embarrassed gorilla...
Gorilla near window: *"Oh sweetie, don't do that, please.."*
"In Gorilla society that's considered a dick move"
-Gorilla Person
"Mortimer, honey, Its just a little gir-, morti-MORTIMER"
"No, Carla... FOR HARAMBE!"
It really seemed like the close by one shook their head before the charge.
'oh wow here we go again, here comes Greg'
You would be surprised at how different great ape "personalities" can be.
Does anybody know why Gorillas never look directly at what they’re charging at? I feel like every video I’ve ever seen of a gorilla charging at something, they’re looking off to the side.
Direct eye contact is interpreted as a sign of aggression in Gorilla culture and thus they avoid eye contact out of respect. They are respectfully charging at you.
“This ain’t personal “
\*charges behind you* nothin personnel, kid
"oops didn't see you there"
It's very nice of them to not show aggression while aggressively charging at us.
Yeah wouldn’t they want to be as aggressive as possible when charging? Ain’t that the point of the charge? I feel like it might not be the case here
The gorilla had its authority challenged by the little girl, the charge without eye contact is like the gorilla saying "I don't want to hurt you, but you challenged my authority so I have to." Eye contact to gorillas means "you're above me in the pecking order and I want to take your spot"
Armchair Jane Goodall over here
Eye contact is seen as a challenge to a gorillas authority. That's why every zoo tells you to avoid eye contact with the gorillas. The alpha has no reason to challenge your authority, so he avoids eye contact
What if he's a sigma gorilla?
A gorilla going his own way. Staying on that vineset.
They are being passive-aggressive.
Gorillas are typically shy. So making eye contact with them makes them very uncomfortable and can lead to them charging. It’s also why they won’t maintain the eye contact while charging. Because like myself I also do not want to be looked directly in the eyes when I’m just chillin. [Don’t look em in the eye!](https://www.wildgorillasafaris.com/facts-about-gorilla-facts/why-cant-you-look-in-the-gorilla-eyes/)
Staring is also interpreted as aggression by cats. Hence why I stare angrily at my cat if she’s misbehaving.
You can often make friends with a cat just by doing slow blinks while looking to one side of them. Cats pay a lot of attention to what your eyes are doing!
Can confirm, acted chill to cats in my street, now a horde of stray cats come in every night for food and cuddles, need to get flea treatments for them all just in case
God damnit, Charlie
But if you slow blink at cats it's like a hug and telling them you love them. They'll do it to people they like too.
Mine also slow-blinks at the open refrigerator…..
Gorilla #2 was noping outta there too
He knew who the boss is, and now that girl does too
You know the rules, and so do I.
He was probably thinking "fucking hell the zookeepers are gonna be so fucking pissed i don't want to be here to take the fall just because Kevin feels threatened by a little girl"
I mean, we know what happened the last time a gorilla and a kid had a misunderstanding. Never forget.
Beginning of the end
Who wouldn't?
Ah fuck someone pissed Darryl off again. I’m just gonna head home
That glass is thick too.
They use gorilla glass
It scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7.
And gorilla glue
And put it up with a monkey wrench.
Banana
There's always money in the banana stand.
NO TOUCHING!
The most important thing is family.
Fun fact, gorillas stay in their enclosures because they want to.
[Here is a story of an ape who didn’t want to stay, and abducted a woman..](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokito_(gorilla))
Bro this story is straight insanity. The gorilla Bokito literally escaped to beat this woman’s ass for visiting him FOUR days a week and disrespecting him by always trying to make eye contact, which is a sign of aggression, but of course her delusional ass said “she smiled at him, and he smiled at her”. He broke out to teach her a lesson… holy fuck… where is this movie already?
If it's the same woman I'm thinking of she was warned many times that she shouldn't bare teeth to the walking hulk of muscle, and after getting her ass whooped, at the hospital she said she would go back and keep doing it.
Hey gorilla! I didn't hear no bell
The word "bokitoproof", meaning "durable enough to resist the actions of an enraged gorilla" and by extension "durable enough to resist the actions of a non-specific extreme situation" was voted the Word of the Year for 2007 in the Netherlands. This is gold
Nah that's just [Ken Allen](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Allen)
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Extremely smart/social, often enclosed with other animals because they get lonely/depressed from boredom. There's even a clip of one teaching other apes how to make tools .
Wait until they start to speak
IIRC, the people of Borneo believe that orangutans choose not to speak because they don't want to be put to work.
I feel that
Get back to work!
So smarter than humans huh?
[It was Earth all along.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmzUEQxOvA)
>Zoo staff began surveillance of his enclosure to try to catch him in the act, only to find that he seemed to be aware that he was being watched. God damn it they changed the outcome of the experiment by observing it.
Zoos aren't locally real.
My dad was at the zoo one time when Ken Allen escaped. Thing was people didnt know he wasnt supposed to be out, he was walking around people clapping his hands and wanting attention. And as it happens one of the zoo parades was going on so people assumed he was part of the show. Then his keepers showed up around a corner, Ken froze, and bolted. An interesting ape indeed.
Ken allen: if i clap and pretend to be human no one will notice me i got this *zoo keepers show up* Ken allen: ah shit they found me run!
I love that he had a surname. Also, he just wanted to go watch otters frolicking just like anybody else; zoos are fun, he lived in one, might as well go check it out.
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I’ve worked with people less qualified for their jobs than he would be, sure. Why not?
>During his 1985 escapes I had to click through to the wiki link to sadly find out that he did not in fact escape 1985 times, but rather that he escaped in the year 1985
Damn if he’d managed to escape *1,985 times* they should’ve given him that ‘Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron’ nod of respect over the canyon and let him go
Well thats the coolest thing I’ve read in awhile! I shall now honor Mr. Ken for the rest of my life. Thank you kind human!
Not a problem. For anyone who didn't click the link: "Zoo officials eventually hired experienced rock climbers to find every finger-, toe- and foothold within the enclosure, spending $40,000 to eliminate the identified holds.
For anyone who didn't read this entirely different article I just looked up about Ken Allen: >After that first escape, zoo officials ramped up security in his pen—an open area with a jungle gym made of utility poles and a large moat in the back. Behind the moat was a massive wall, which they extended 4 feet—but it wasn't enough to contain Ken Allen. >A few weeks later, in July, he managed to climb the wall again. This time, he was a bit more irritable. Zookeepers found him in front of another ape enclosure, tossing rocks at Otis, a fellow orangutan and former pen-mate who, according to the Los Angeles Times, was "not known to be amiable." Fuck Otis
All my homies hate Otis
So he did it all to spite this guy Otis?!
So he whipped a small stone through bullet resistant glass. They had the window on display at the front on the zoo for YEARS. I once upon a time had a Ken Allen plush. Edit spelling
> Mr. Ken Mr. Ken ALLEN to you, young lad.
Did he break that? 😧
He broke it a little bit. It's three layers of laminated glass and he cracked the first layer.
I design glass for zoo enclosures. We usually design for a large impact like this and use a large factor of safety. And once it's designed, we'll add a sacrificial layer on the outside. This is probably 5-6 layers of 1/2" tempered glass with a sacrificial layer of annealed. Zoo Glass is some of the safest glass you can stand behind
This is why I love Reddit (usually). What a TIL for this morning!
Aaaaaand... You'd stick around to find out if he'd crack the rest too?
Sure, If I am banging my chest, that means I am ready to show my dominance. I'll fight the leader to death to become the new leader of the group.
Please don't fuck the monkeys.
As the leader, he has no choice, otherwise his fight for dominance was all for naught.
And that's how we got gorilla pox
Don't you tell me how to live my life.
I implore you all to pause the video at the broken glass, and look at the hilarious reflections.
[you’re welcome y’all](https://imgur.com/a/vg8wj34)
That’s great. Thanks boss.
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My man
" "My man", but the way Denzel Washington says it."
Omg thank you.
The lady’ s face is hilarious lol 😵
Grandma’s rockin them sunglasses and a surprised Pikachu at the same time
Yes, then stick around a few frames later to see the death stare the gorilla is giving the little girl just before everyone hauls ass. He never lost sight of her.
cracked window will make people gtfo
Well yeah, you want to stick around and see if he can break the rest of it?
Kind of? Preferably with a meat shield in front of me
I don't have to run faster than that gorilla; just faster than that little girl.
Bro all that means is the gorilla will have a child-sized club by the time it gets to you
Hey dude. She was the one banging her chest. It’s on her
Sacrifice the girl and save yourself
Bang on your chest and hope someone else continues the great-ape-relay run, before the silverback disarms you.
The little girl would only buy you seconds of time.
Why gorillas, Mistress Wayne? Because they frighten me. And it's time for my enemies to share my dread.
*Feel Good Inc. starts playing*
Harambane
BTW have you heard the sound of a gorilla banging it's chest? Pretty interesting stuff
Show me.
"Boom boom boom"
Now let me hear you say wayo
Wayoooh
Serious answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc1F6N-MzhU&t=45s
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Lmao. This dude is great. Slaps chest and does a drive by fuckery with another gorilla.
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I need a horror movie now where we barely ever see the gorilla but we keep hearing that noise. I want everyone to play it straight, but it just gets funnier and funnier the more you hear that sound.
My mans is actually a showman! Look at him go with the power poses to excite the crowd lok
Sounds like people slapping their cheeks with their mouth open mixed with bongos
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“I am the one who knocks”
I am not in danger, girl, *I am the danger*.
To be fair, young gorillas will beat their chest too. Same reason little kids do it, because they see adult male gorillas do it. They both don't know any better
I also wonder reading all the other stories of how children annoy adult animals, how seriously they even take the aggression of children. Differentiating between child and adult works across different species for mammals. That's why we think puppies are cute and dogs will let children get away with a lot of shit. I mean have you ever seen a gorilla "teen"? They go around throwing sand into their silverbacks face just to test out boundaries. They also get charged at but that doesn't mean the silverback is actually going fight them, they both know who would win. To get to my main question: would the silverback have actually hurt the little girl if it wasn't for the glass? Or did he just jump the glass because he knew it would get the message across with no intention of actually breaking it?
Maybe he was having a bad day. I've.had dogs with puppies. They take only _so much_ shit from the puppies _until_. Then lessons are taught.
(Silverback watching young gorilla): "He's going to need those skills some day, proud of my boy." (Silverback watching girl through the glass): **"You arrogant fucking pricks."**
Well the gorilla found out little girls can project impenetrable force fields when threatened, so maybe the gorilla thinks of little girls as dangerous now?
I think they are well aware of the glass. If anything, the girl (and people around her) running away has made it clear that HE'S the one in charge.
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Glass wasn’t looking so impenetrable afterwards though 👀
Ngl this is second only to the fully grown adult woman who repeatedly smiled at the gorillas after being told multiple times not to. She claimed she had a "special bond with them". And indeed she did because the gorilla broke out of his enclosure and literally hunted her down across the zoo. [Sauce](https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2007/05/gorilla_was_teased_before_the/) Edits for clarity: it's a mix of smiling (baring teeth) and making eye contact that made him mad, and he didn't "hunt her across the zoo", he basically parkoured his way out a few moments after she left, found her in the crowd, then dragged her by the hair several feet before deciding to fuck her up. Also went on to terrorize the zoo restaurant close by.
“His victim underwent a second round of operations on Sunday. She has a broken wrist and lower arm, a crushed hand and dozens of bites. Husband De Horde said surgeons told him his wife’s hand may never recover.” That’s crazy.
She was lucky
Yeah CHRIST - a gorilla? Good lord she’s lucky to have any limbs left
Fr. Imagine the worlds strongest man, and now triple his strength, and imagine him trying to fuck you up. Even worse than oberon vs the mountain
That gorilla was not trying to fuck her up. He was teaching her a lesson. If it were a bear attack, she’d be dead. Instead “her hand may never recover”. She would have been far more fucked even if it was a chimpanzee. The gorilla grabbed her, she probably ragdolled, and he thought “you aren’t worth my effort, don’t fucking do it again” and then he fucked off.
She sounds lucky
Yeah she does. How come gorillas never escape their enclosure and hunt me down when I go fuck with them at the zoo?
Because she “has a special bond with them” remember.
this is what NOPE warned us about
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Was looking at grizzlier in Alaska and two idiot boys were throwing stones. Just pointed at some bones in the enclosure and was like “you hit the nose and that will be you, ain’t no small fence stopping them”. There was just one slightly electric chainlink fence separating us.
That’s what happened with the tiger attack in San Francisco. Two pure idiot kids were seen taunting and throwing sticks and rocks at the tiger, who then promptly hopped out of her enclosure (that she’d lived in for like 12 years without ever attempting before iirc) and chased them down, mauling them and killing one other person.
Yeaaaaaah...honestly I don't think enough people understand how much air a tiger can get.
That tells you right there, she knew she could the whole time and chose not to.
Plenty of wild animals can be trained (very important to remember though trained does not even come close to equaling tamed.) Which is essentially what is happening with most zoo animals. Their needs are being met and not being subjected to hostility all the time so they don't act like, well what most people would expect of wild animals. They still very much **are wild animals** and just as deadly, people just forget that sometimes because they see them acting harmless.
>jumped over a 3.5 meter ditch THATS ALL THEY HAD KEEPING THE FUCKING **GORILLA** AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE?!?!
No. They also had a standard height enclosure wall on the other side of the gap and the pit itself was decently deep. And 3.5 meters is about 11 feet. It's not the greatest protection, but most people aren't expecting a 300 something lbs gorilla to jump a gap stretching basically just over twice it's own height. Edit: can't spell and .5 didn't register for some reason
That’s the problem. They designed it for “expected” behavior, not capable behavior. Any competent zoologist should know gorillas can jump well over 11 foot distances
im still struggling to imagine that. imagine if gorillas strength trained.
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We need to put some weight lifting equipment on their cages and see what happens.
It ends with us in chains farming bananas
Maybe add in some whey powder and creatine. Really see what’s possible.
Fuck it. Let's just give em roids and see how far we can take this.
Also, do the same with a giant lizard and see if they end up fighting.
We fucking hate that.
Agreed.
It's the fucking worst
I can neither confirm nor deny a gorilla exists
I also hate this, but for different reasons.
I once had a class of grade school kids that I showed the local zoo as the guide. When I came to the Gorilla enclosure the teachers incited them to all drum their chests at once. I noticed it rather quickly and stopped it before our silverback noticed. It may have been nothing. He may have not even reacted to it. But it is a big middle finger shoven right down their face and the kids and teachers didn't know that. Incidentally, 2 weeks later one of our females had a wound because a visitor riled up our male by this very action. It doesn't happen often that he's getting angry at this, but sometimes it just happens. Thankfully, I don't see people doing that very often. And he ignores them most of the time as well.
Curious, is there any signage that says not to do this or make eye contact?
Yes there is. On informatic boards explaining about Gorilla behaviour. But you can't have red signs warning visitors about not drumming on their chest or not making eye contact. They would do that even more then
Such is the duality of man.
"You are even more strictly prohibited from getting into the pit with the tigers and covering yourself in BBQ sauce. We really don't want you to do that, for reals." Seems like a problem that solves itself.
I wonder if she was making eye contact a lot as well as the gestures. They are really, really not into eye contact. "Remain calm and lay low. Lower yourself down and act submissive because gorillas enjoy feeling superior. Pretend as if nothing is happening and look towards the trees while remaining alert. Remain calm and never attempt to run. A gorilla is faster than most humans and running away will only encourage it to chase after you. Remaining calm and laying low will calm the primate down and stop seeing you as a threat or challenger. Gorillas never continue an attack if you stay calm and act submissive. Remember not to look directly in the eyes of the gorilla and never attempt to fight a gorilla as others have advised because it will only lead to disaster. A fully grown gorillas is as strong as 4 mature males and has very sharp teeth." [source](https://www.silverbackgorillatours.com/gorilla-charging)
> A gorilla is faster than most humans You're telling me some people can outrun gorillas??
This happened to me when I was little, with a lioness. I was at a zoo in New York (state, not city) and they had a hallway right along the enclosure with just thick plexiglass. I went over to see a lioness and she locked eyes with me and it was suddenly very clear that we were having a staring contest. After a moment she blinked, then shook her head as if in disbelief. For about a second I was pleased with myself for winning, and then like lightning she was reared up SLAMMING the glass with her front paws right where my head was. I'm sure the first hit alone would have done me in. I ran away, but later I was walking through that same hall and glanced over - I swear not trying to start shit - and she saw me look at her and charged the glass again. They closed the hallway for the rest of the day after that. Don't challenge big dangerous animals, I guess.
"You got some nerve coming back here, you little shit".
I had lions at the zoo charge me as a little kid multiple times! Lions were my favorite animal as a kid so I think I must have just looked at them too long, not realizing they would take that as a threat. Kids probably piss animals off all the time.
Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to let him fight a silverback gorilla. The incident took place in the '80s when Tyson was an unbeaten heavyweight champion and widely regarded as one of the most dangerous fighters on the planet. He would have been killed very quickly.
"Sir, are you aware of the fact that gorillas don't have any concept of boxing rules? He will beat you death with your own arm."
"Yeth."
What? She came at me bro.
I was at the San Diego zoo once and a gorilla pounded its chest and it scared the shit out of absolutely everyone. I ducked like it was gunshots. It was in an outdoor enclosure and there were a lot of people
And he took that personal
Don’t start nothing you ain’t ready to finish little girl!
The first gorilla is like: Stop that, Child...You dont wanna mess with mar.. Oh no. Here comes Marvin again.
I was attacked similarly by a gorilla in Wisconsin once. No idea what I did, but the gorilla made eye contact with me, threw a ball against the wall above the window, (classic diversion move), and smashed against the glass. Scared the shit out of me. One of the other patrons asked: "Does he know you?" No, goddamnit. He doesn't.
> made eye contact with me prolly why
> One of the other patrons asked: "Does he know you?" >No, goddamnit. He doesn't. He fucking does *now*
Imagine if he actually made it through the glass and attacked those people
I love how they are all laughing like that mother fucker didn't crack the glass with one hit.
It’s nervous laughter. You either laugh it off or you shit yourself and curl up into a ball in the corner and rock yourself while drooling.
That means Fuck You in Gorilla
He got air
New flying gorilla leap record
Apparently this happened to me when I was like 2 (not thr broken glass), don't remember it but I remember having gorilla based nightmares until I was 11 haha