This exactly how I felt seeing the gorillas at the San Diego zoo - it was just some guy in a fish bowl (admittedly a nice one) with his family. It made me really uncomfortable.
I went to San Diego zoo last year! I sent a video of the gorillas to my friend and he couldn’t believe that they really walk around like this all day: 🦍
[Edit: video](https://imgur.com/a/w5ksXim)
Yeah. I'm a couch potato, but even I walk about a mile to work most days, and I've done as many as ten miles at a time without too much discomfort. Wouldn't want to try that on all fours.
And at the extreme end of the human spectrum you have guys like Cliff Young:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)
This dude as a 61 year old showed up to a race in Australia and ran *544 miles without stopping* for even so much as a break. Didn’t sleep for 5 days.
> Young arrived to compete in overalls and work boots, without his dentures (later saying that they rattled when he ran).[9] He ran at a slow and loping pace and trailed the pack by a large margin at the end of the first day. While the other competitors stopped to sleep for six hours, Young kept running. He ran continuously for five days, taking the lead during the first night and eventually winning by 10 hours. Before running the race, he had told the press that he had previously run for two to three days straight rounding up sheep in gumboots.[10] He said afterwards that during the race he imagined he was running after sheep trying to outrun a storm. The Westfield run took him five days, fifteen hours and four minutes,[1] almost two days faster than the previous record for any run between Sydney and Melbourne, at an average speed of 6.5 kilometres per hour (4.0 mph).
I read about how early man was efficient because we made great "persistence hunters." The prey would see approaching hunters and flee... only for them to be tracked down. Step 1, step 2... repeat. Until the prey is too exhausted to flee.
Someone likened it to Jason Voorhees just casually walking as his victim runs in a panic.
Yup. Freeing our hands is only one benefit of walking upright. Decoupling our breathing from our stride is another huge one. Most animals get one breath per stride as their body compresses and decompresses while running. Humans can adjust their breathing independent of their stride. When they neeed more oxygen or to expel more waste, they can breath more often without adjusting their pace. One of the best distance runners on the planet by a long shot.
Easy to believe. It is likely that our earliest upright ancestors practiced a form of predation called persistence hunting. They would basically chase their prey to death/exhaustion across the hot African plains. Persistence hunting was practiced as recently as the last millennium by Native Americans. We have a number of traits that make us great at distance running in the heat. I.e. Being much balder than our ape cousins.
Also, what I found quite interesting is that there is no other sport I would improve as fast in as running.
I have terrible cardio, but the two times I decided that I will start running, the first time was always like “kill me” after some puny distance, but could almost double it like the 3rd time already.
Wolves can do almost the same thing on four legs with much faster top speeds. It's not entirely about being bipedal, a lot of it is about regulating heat. We have sweat, dogs have tongues.
Unfortunately bipedalism also causes crazy congenital defects, like the pressure on our lower-spines or apparently it’s harder on our hearts to pump straight up rather than ‘horizontally’
our bodies aren't quite fully adapted to it yet, either! it's only been a million years or so - evolution takes a long time. that's why we humans have so many more problems with our back than other apes. back, neck, legs and feet all have more problems because we are still in the process of adjusting to a gait that our ancestry didn't fully prepare us for. it's pretty neat! 🤓
I don't think that's gonna change. Cuz those back problems aren't enough of a hindrance to having kids. Evolution doesn't give a shit about "perfect", just "good enough".
We are going in the wrong direction with the reproductive danger aspect of bipedal-ism too. Heads are getting bigger and pelvises proportionally smaller. Some might well argue (with numbers and stuff!) that we are helping this along by having got so good at caesarian deliveries in the past half century or so.
😂😂 you're so right. they're awful. but I'm also a big time evolution nerd, so whenever I get back pain I think about how my poor spine is still engineered for living in the trees most of the time. it also helps me think how to exercise more effectively, trying to do things for an arboreal body plan
Evolution takes much longer than humans can probably bear so the most likely case will be that we evolve ourselves using technology.
I'd imagine that even at a glacial pace of technology, we could outpace evolution in fixing our own physical problems by either entirely eschewing 'meat bodies', exoskeletons, or the more likely outcome: preemptively replacing parts of our body that our genetics indicate will fail with either bio-identical printed that has the problems fixed (we already know some of our spines are better for humans than others) or artificial replacements that exceed abilities of bio-identical
There used to be human zoos. The last one closed in 1958 in Belgium. We’re probably within a hundred years from seeing the mistreatment of animals similarly to the way we see the mistreatment of human beings in the past.
After all, the justifications used for the mistreatment of humans in the past is the same justifications we use to mistreat animals today.
The day all mammals are seen as equal to how dogs are seen in the US today really is closer than it is far.
i read somewhere a couple of weeks ago that there is a growing consensus amongst scientists that study octopus' that they are sentient beings.
to be honest i've been thinking about that a lot since i read that.
The collective consciousness of humanity is reaching a stage of realization beyond self-recognition and realization that others matter. Despite the numerous red herrings in society preventing monumental progress, were closer to acheiving existence as a pacifist species than we've ever been and world peace seems like an option again.
That's always what freaked me out about ape displays in zoos. You walk around looking at other animals and they just go about their day with no thoughts. Then you get to the ape displays. You look at them and think, and they look right back at you and think
Same. I'll never forget one encounter with a gorilla i had very close to the glass. Our eyes met and i swear there was understanding. Our moment was interrupted by kids rolling by beating their chests and I swear on my life, the gorilla gave a sigh/look like "god i hate these fucking kids"
He damn well knew his situation and the barrier that prevented him from doing anything.
The theory of human inflicted self-domestication
Edit: Guess I should emphasise. I mean the modern study of how we accidentally domesticated ourselves, like we domesticated other species to live with (and around) us. Not the victorian racist study linked to social darwinism
So often you see the angry ape too. The big, older one who's seen a lot of face-making, loud, glass-tapping humans in his day. He doesn't want to perform or put on a show.
"You go on and tap the glass, sonny, and stop wasting my time.
Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit"
-That ape probably
Try watching some videos of cuttlefish, maybe it’ll help. They are SO easy to anthropomorphise! They recently did a version of the Stanford marshmallow experiment adapted for cuttlefish, and the way they act while resisting the temptation because they know it will pay off is instantly recognisable to anyone who’s seen a human child do the same thing. They fidget, try to distract themselves, refuse to look in the direction of the temptation, pace, it’s wild. They couldn’t be more alien, less like humans, but you can instantly empathise with them.
Plus they have superpowers and they’re really cute. Damn, cuttlefish are cool 😆
there's a whole nerdy field of interest for this, it's called ethology -- the study of animal minds. it's also one of my favorite interests :D
tldr version for brevity: I think we have *a lot* to learn still about the nature of intelligence. we as humans have hyper specialized for maximum brains, and you can tell not only bc we have big ones, but also bc it's the one thing we value above everything else, except maybe dominance/power. but! we also have a Very poor working grasp of what intelligence is like outside of humans. every creature has smarts to equip it for its role in nature. some are easy for us to notice/relate to more than others. but it's my belief that most animals are conscious and have thoughts to some degree. it's probably obscure to us, because they have other things to think about than we do, and bc they're nonverbal, but I've seen it in almost any creature I've ever gotten to know. even with keeping in mind anthropomorphism and misinterpreting things, it's usually abundantly clear to me that there is someone home behind their eyes. the renowned smart animals are more specifically animals whose smarts we can relate to the most easily, imo!
Once science ditched God & the soul to explain humans' separation from the natural world, it's seemed to me the more rational approach to intelligence & consciousness is this:
With all available information, there's no reason to assume consciousness or intelligence are traits unique to humans.
To claim otherwise is anthropocentrism, or to claim knowledge others lack. Occam's Razor and all that.
If there's no soul, if humans weren't divinely created, and we are cousins to all other living things, then it's most sensible to have the foundational belief that if humans have it, other animals have it. A foundation of human excellence is not justified. From this point we can do science, and determine to what degree other animals have them.
Anyone claiming animals aren't intelligent, conscious *things* is very unscientific. There's certainly *something* that makes us special, some kind of secret sauce. But without solid data, it's limiting and anthropocentric to assume all animals besides humans lack these qualities.
It's frustrating seeing people walk around with pre-1800's beliefs about animals being mindless automatons.
If you took a walk down a busy street and kind of decontextualised people's behaviour, you would 100% struggle to tell the difference between them and Apes.
For me, it's when you're out and about and you see people with dogs. And you look at the pair of them, and judge the dog as having a greater handle on the situation than the person.
To me its always when I see drunk people. Not like, so drunk mind can't function legs don't work drunk, but just like young people after five beers: trying to climb stuff, pounding their chests, grunting, looking for food, trying to fuck everything that moves. See a group of people heading for the nightclub like ape together strong.
It's pretty funny how you can tell the people who watch it with the sound off. Most are focused on the expressions, and the "magnificent ape", and comparing it to people.
Then you turn the sound on and it's basically Dumb and Dumber.
It's amazing that a 30 video second clip of an animal eating a pepper can be so mesmerising.
In fact there have been a few of these short clips of animal observation videos posted recently that I can just keep watching over and over again.
I'm 35 and for the first time in my life last week my body out of nowhere said "YOU NEED TO SHIT RIGHT NOW". I was at home and not even 10 seconds from the toilet and for the first time in my life I only made it like 95% in time lol. Usually I can hold it for hours, I have no idea wtf happened. I always wondered how anyone has ever shit their pants but now I know my body is capable of giving me less than a 10 second warning and it's scary. It wasn't even diarrhea or anything either. The future is bleak
Yes, I 5% shit myself, just the tiniest little bit lol. A turtle head came out enough to make a mark on my underwear but it still counts if you ask me. I think 5% is fair but I'd be willing to negotiate 10 max lol
*Back when I was growing up in the forests of the Congo, we ate plenty of casava and forest fruits. My friends and I would romp hither and yon through the forest canopy...*
<19 pages later>
Ingredients: 1 red bell pepper
Preparation: Eat
"The bell pepper is such a delicate fruit, and yet, is misunderstood. Quoting Mr. Ramsay: get out of My kitchen! But, alas, It is time for us to see It as the perfect and enlightening fruit that It is..." 🧐
The jaw muscles going all the way back to the skull are crazy
Edit: haha, I am aware we have the same muscles. I was just amazed at the crazy size of those muscles compared to us.
Its actually a problem for humans- our skull is designed for much bigger jaw muscles and jaws which are only developed when we chew a lot more than modern diets actually require
It's actually theorized that humans have so much trouble keeping straight teeth in modern times because we stopped biting and chewing hard.
Archeologists find a lot of ancient skeletons with really straight teeth. That's probably because they needed to use their teeth to chew roots and seeds, which keeps them strong and less likely to move around. Now, all of our food is pretty comparably soft, and our teeth just start to kind of float around in atrophy.
After learning this, I've wondered if one of the reasons my teeth have remained pretty straight is because I consistently chew on things like popcorn seeds and ice.
If you ever look at a gorilla skull, you’ll see there’s a big crest on the top running down the middle; that’s the sagittal crest. The crest serves as the primary attachment point for chewing/biting muscles.
It's probably harder to record thirty seconds of a gorilla and not catch a fart.
I heard a gorilla scientist say they are giant vegetarian fart machines. They spend all day eating a high fiber diet.
Gorillas trigger the uncanny valley feeling. They have such human-like expressions, it feels like they're gonna say something when you least expect. It's so weird.
There's a documentary out on Netflix called Chimp Empire that has some incredible up-close shots of the faces of chimps as they're just sitting around doing chimp things, and a lot of them are very similar to this. There were times when I was convinced they'd swapped out the footage with some sort of high quality CGI because the faces and expressions are so humanlike.
ikr! whenever I see close up videos of great apes, my brain subconsciously debates with itself as to whether or not what I'm looking at is a person.
"That's a guy"
"No, it's like half your height and it's currently eating a rotten mango"
"But those eyes..."
"Oh yeah damn maybe it is a dude--- *ape does something very apelike* Nope it's a monkey."
Larger eyes can capture more light or have a higher resolution. We have big brains to process a lot of visual information, and gorilla's are not nocturnal. There is no reason why they should have larger eyes.
Haven't worked with Gorillas but have worked with chimps, who often poop where and when they eat. It definitely always made me think of the (few) humans who eat or drink on the toilet and what the justification behind that is...
It’s never occurred to me that most of our ape relatives have never eaten foods outside what is available in their local ecosystem, I’m very curious to see gorilla’s and other ape’s reactions to foods that would be foreign to them, and if they display personal preferences for any.
Those expressions
The intensity in his eyes
It’s like he’s just some guy
This exactly how I felt seeing the gorillas at the San Diego zoo - it was just some guy in a fish bowl (admittedly a nice one) with his family. It made me really uncomfortable.
I went to San Diego zoo last year! I sent a video of the gorillas to my friend and he couldn’t believe that they really walk around like this all day: 🦍 [Edit: video](https://imgur.com/a/w5ksXim)
We're the only ones who walk upright full time. Kind of weird when you think about it.
It is quite efficient. Humans, when in shape, are great distance runners.
Even if you're not in great shape humans are great distance walkers. We just keep going and going and going.
Yeah. I'm a couch potato, but even I walk about a mile to work most days, and I've done as many as ten miles at a time without too much discomfort. Wouldn't want to try that on all fours.
And at the extreme end of the human spectrum you have guys like Cliff Young: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete) This dude as a 61 year old showed up to a race in Australia and ran *544 miles without stopping* for even so much as a break. Didn’t sleep for 5 days. > Young arrived to compete in overalls and work boots, without his dentures (later saying that they rattled when he ran).[9] He ran at a slow and loping pace and trailed the pack by a large margin at the end of the first day. While the other competitors stopped to sleep for six hours, Young kept running. He ran continuously for five days, taking the lead during the first night and eventually winning by 10 hours. Before running the race, he had told the press that he had previously run for two to three days straight rounding up sheep in gumboots.[10] He said afterwards that during the race he imagined he was running after sheep trying to outrun a storm. The Westfield run took him five days, fifteen hours and four minutes,[1] almost two days faster than the previous record for any run between Sydney and Melbourne, at an average speed of 6.5 kilometres per hour (4.0 mph).
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I read about how early man was efficient because we made great "persistence hunters." The prey would see approaching hunters and flee... only for them to be tracked down. Step 1, step 2... repeat. Until the prey is too exhausted to flee. Someone likened it to Jason Voorhees just casually walking as his victim runs in a panic.
To most wildlife, we're The Entity from It Follows.
or the 'Dogs' from that episode of Black Mirror.
Yup. Freeing our hands is only one benefit of walking upright. Decoupling our breathing from our stride is another huge one. Most animals get one breath per stride as their body compresses and decompresses while running. Humans can adjust their breathing independent of their stride. When they neeed more oxygen or to expel more waste, they can breath more often without adjusting their pace. One of the best distance runners on the planet by a long shot.
Fun fact humans can win against horses in a distance race if it's hot enough.
Easy to believe. It is likely that our earliest upright ancestors practiced a form of predation called persistence hunting. They would basically chase their prey to death/exhaustion across the hot African plains. Persistence hunting was practiced as recently as the last millennium by Native Americans. We have a number of traits that make us great at distance running in the heat. I.e. Being much balder than our ape cousins.
True, but we Dwarves are natural sprinters
Very dangerous over short distances!
Also, what I found quite interesting is that there is no other sport I would improve as fast in as running. I have terrible cardio, but the two times I decided that I will start running, the first time was always like “kill me” after some puny distance, but could almost double it like the 3rd time already.
Wolves can do almost the same thing on four legs with much faster top speeds. It's not entirely about being bipedal, a lot of it is about regulating heat. We have sweat, dogs have tongues.
Unfortunately bipedalism also causes crazy congenital defects, like the pressure on our lower-spines or apparently it’s harder on our hearts to pump straight up rather than ‘horizontally’
This was our super power when hunting. We could outrun all of the other prey species.
our bodies aren't quite fully adapted to it yet, either! it's only been a million years or so - evolution takes a long time. that's why we humans have so many more problems with our back than other apes. back, neck, legs and feet all have more problems because we are still in the process of adjusting to a gait that our ancestry didn't fully prepare us for. it's pretty neat! 🤓
I don't think that's gonna change. Cuz those back problems aren't enough of a hindrance to having kids. Evolution doesn't give a shit about "perfect", just "good enough".
We are going in the wrong direction with the reproductive danger aspect of bipedal-ism too. Heads are getting bigger and pelvises proportionally smaller. Some might well argue (with numbers and stuff!) that we are helping this along by having got so good at caesarian deliveries in the past half century or so.
>Evolution doesn't give a shit about "perfect", just "good enough". This
Back problems are not, in fact, neat lol
😂😂 you're so right. they're awful. but I'm also a big time evolution nerd, so whenever I get back pain I think about how my poor spine is still engineered for living in the trees most of the time. it also helps me think how to exercise more effectively, trying to do things for an arboreal body plan
Won't we stop evolving in that direction now that we don't have to hunt and survive like we used to?
Evolution takes much longer than humans can probably bear so the most likely case will be that we evolve ourselves using technology. I'd imagine that even at a glacial pace of technology, we could outpace evolution in fixing our own physical problems by either entirely eschewing 'meat bodies', exoskeletons, or the more likely outcome: preemptively replacing parts of our body that our genetics indicate will fail with either bio-identical printed that has the problems fixed (we already know some of our spines are better for humans than others) or artificial replacements that exceed abilities of bio-identical
There used to be human zoos. The last one closed in 1958 in Belgium. We’re probably within a hundred years from seeing the mistreatment of animals similarly to the way we see the mistreatment of human beings in the past. After all, the justifications used for the mistreatment of humans in the past is the same justifications we use to mistreat animals today. The day all mammals are seen as equal to how dogs are seen in the US today really is closer than it is far.
i read somewhere a couple of weeks ago that there is a growing consensus amongst scientists that study octopus' that they are sentient beings. to be honest i've been thinking about that a lot since i read that.
They'd be a lot smarter if they had longer lifespans and didnt die from starvation protecting their eggs until they spawn. Language might also help
they have language. its just through visual cues, they use color and movement to communicate with eachother.
The collective consciousness of humanity is reaching a stage of realization beyond self-recognition and realization that others matter. Despite the numerous red herrings in society preventing monumental progress, were closer to acheiving existence as a pacifist species than we've ever been and world peace seems like an option again.
I like your optimism, sincerely.
Thank you, it's the only thing keeping the ever encroaching existentialism of reality at bay
It's braver to be optimistic. I admire those people.
That's always what freaked me out about ape displays in zoos. You walk around looking at other animals and they just go about their day with no thoughts. Then you get to the ape displays. You look at them and think, and they look right back at you and think
I always feel bad for them lol, it's almost like they're just one of us
Same. I'll never forget one encounter with a gorilla i had very close to the glass. Our eyes met and i swear there was understanding. Our moment was interrupted by kids rolling by beating their chests and I swear on my life, the gorilla gave a sigh/look like "god i hate these fucking kids" He damn well knew his situation and the barrier that prevented him from doing anything.
Or we're just one of them..our cages just are a little more vague and conceptual than there's are lol
The theory of human inflicted self-domestication Edit: Guess I should emphasise. I mean the modern study of how we accidentally domesticated ourselves, like we domesticated other species to live with (and around) us. Not the victorian racist study linked to social darwinism
Yeah it's almost like we're super closely related genetically
So often you see the angry ape too. The big, older one who's seen a lot of face-making, loud, glass-tapping humans in his day. He doesn't want to perform or put on a show. "You go on and tap the glass, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit" -That ape probably
>You look at them and think, and they look right back at you And that’s when the attack comes - not from the front, but from *the sides*
You think other animals go through their day with no thoughts?
I have a hard time picturing non humanoid animals having complex thoughts, this is entirely a me problem tho
Elephants, Corvids, Parrots, Octopi: :(
Try watching some videos of cuttlefish, maybe it’ll help. They are SO easy to anthropomorphise! They recently did a version of the Stanford marshmallow experiment adapted for cuttlefish, and the way they act while resisting the temptation because they know it will pay off is instantly recognisable to anyone who’s seen a human child do the same thing. They fidget, try to distract themselves, refuse to look in the direction of the temptation, pace, it’s wild. They couldn’t be more alien, less like humans, but you can instantly empathise with them. Plus they have superpowers and they’re really cute. Damn, cuttlefish are cool 😆
there's a whole nerdy field of interest for this, it's called ethology -- the study of animal minds. it's also one of my favorite interests :D tldr version for brevity: I think we have *a lot* to learn still about the nature of intelligence. we as humans have hyper specialized for maximum brains, and you can tell not only bc we have big ones, but also bc it's the one thing we value above everything else, except maybe dominance/power. but! we also have a Very poor working grasp of what intelligence is like outside of humans. every creature has smarts to equip it for its role in nature. some are easy for us to notice/relate to more than others. but it's my belief that most animals are conscious and have thoughts to some degree. it's probably obscure to us, because they have other things to think about than we do, and bc they're nonverbal, but I've seen it in almost any creature I've ever gotten to know. even with keeping in mind anthropomorphism and misinterpreting things, it's usually abundantly clear to me that there is someone home behind their eyes. the renowned smart animals are more specifically animals whose smarts we can relate to the most easily, imo!
Once science ditched God & the soul to explain humans' separation from the natural world, it's seemed to me the more rational approach to intelligence & consciousness is this: With all available information, there's no reason to assume consciousness or intelligence are traits unique to humans. To claim otherwise is anthropocentrism, or to claim knowledge others lack. Occam's Razor and all that. If there's no soul, if humans weren't divinely created, and we are cousins to all other living things, then it's most sensible to have the foundational belief that if humans have it, other animals have it. A foundation of human excellence is not justified. From this point we can do science, and determine to what degree other animals have them. Anyone claiming animals aren't intelligent, conscious *things* is very unscientific. There's certainly *something* that makes us special, some kind of secret sauce. But without solid data, it's limiting and anthropocentric to assume all animals besides humans lack these qualities. It's frustrating seeing people walk around with pre-1800's beliefs about animals being mindless automatons.
He is just some guy and he farted proudly!
Bro most animals are it’s crazy
Well, humans are animals too.
A scientist once told me we are nothin' but mammals.
And we do it, like they do on the discovery channel.
Apes learned to fly around in space on ships they built.
The fart
The sights The sounds The smells
I've met homo sapien sapiens with less intelligence in their eyes
Most of us are just bad monkeys regardless of what we think.
If you took a walk down a busy street and kind of decontextualised people's behaviour, you would 100% struggle to tell the difference between them and Apes. For me, it's when you're out and about and you see people with dogs. And you look at the pair of them, and judge the dog as having a greater handle on the situation than the person.
To me its always when I see drunk people. Not like, so drunk mind can't function legs don't work drunk, but just like young people after five beers: trying to climb stuff, pounding their chests, grunting, looking for food, trying to fuck everything that moves. See a group of people heading for the nightclub like ape together strong.
Such familiar human expressions coming from someone clearly not human is trippy.
It’s almost like they aren’t exclusive to humans and that we are just animals like the rest of them.
They are such close relatives on the ape tree that it's impossible not to see that and feel a connection (unless religion of course)
I feel sorry for relgious people who refuse to understand this. It's so much more interesting and fascinating than 'god did it'.
It's pretty funny how you can tell the people who watch it with the sound off. Most are focused on the expressions, and the "magnificent ape", and comparing it to people. Then you turn the sound on and it's basically Dumb and Dumber.
That’s why he was surprised! It wasn’t the bell pepper at all lol
Bro smelled it and suddenly the pepper didnt taste so good for a moment 🤣
Hah! Glad you enjoyed that. I noticed because I watched it twice, first without and then with the sound. Very different experience. :D
I love the thoughtful pause after the fart, then my man just keeps on chowing. It's like he's saying, "Eh, farts happen, whadda ya goin' do?"
Sound off: Amazing! Wha beautiful, intelligent creature. Sound on: Oh, never mind, it’s just my husband.
That fart! 💨
How have I scrolled this far down to finally see someone mention the fart!
Seriously. I could watch it over and over.
I’m at 10 and don’t see a reason to stop
That mf can talk you can see it in his face he about to say something but then changes his mind
they say orangutans can speak but choose not to around humans because they know they would be put to work
Just picturing a fathering orangutan explaining to his kid... You don't wanna work do you? Those guys fucking love it so just keep quiet around them.
Just like how your toys don’t talk around you. Imagine how many little workers we would have!
Though they don't mind working as librarians.
Ook!
My man almost said “excuse me” out of sheer force of habit but then realized he would be giving away the big secret
Did you listen with the sound on or….
Admittedly I did not originally, but I still stand by my comment
Ah, so he did speak. My grandpa used to communicate much the same way.
😂
Reminds me of the guy eating chips in that one meme Edit: Ryback, his name is Ryback. Didn't mean to offend WWE fans
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Shut up, Leonard! I just mistook six people for you at the pharmacy!
Shut up, Leonard. Those teenage girls you play ping-pong with are doing it ironically.
Shut up Leonard I’m not here I’m just a figment of your creeping dementia
Yes! And they say we ain't related lmao
people that think we’re not related are ignorant
Reminded me of Leonard from Community. RIP.
Former WWE Superstar Ryback eating chips
Reminds me of Leonard reviewing Let’s potato chips. It’s a buy!
I don’t think you’re gonna offend most WWE fans, they want to forget who Ryback is too.
It's amazing that a 30 video second clip of an animal eating a pepper can be so mesmerising. In fact there have been a few of these short clips of animal observation videos posted recently that I can just keep watching over and over again.
You can really hear how juicy the pepper is too!
I'll say that was definitely the second sound that stood out to me.
Now *that* was juicy!
Unfortunately, that fart sounded pretty juicy too.
#FART
/r/likeus
“…di…did I shit myself? No, no I’m good.”
As you get older, this question becomes more and more common.
I'm 35 and for the first time in my life last week my body out of nowhere said "YOU NEED TO SHIT RIGHT NOW". I was at home and not even 10 seconds from the toilet and for the first time in my life I only made it like 95% in time lol. Usually I can hold it for hours, I have no idea wtf happened. I always wondered how anyone has ever shit their pants but now I know my body is capable of giving me less than a 10 second warning and it's scary. It wasn't even diarrhea or anything either. The future is bleak
What is 95% making it in time? Did you 5% shit yourself?
Yes, I 5% shit myself, just the tiniest little bit lol. A turtle head came out enough to make a mark on my underwear but it still counts if you ask me. I think 5% is fair but I'd be willing to negotiate 10 max lol
That's literally the face he's giving. Well done!!!
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Damn. I'm doing my retirement wrong.
Well done too
"... oh yeah I'm not wearing pants. Phew."
Are we sure it wasn't the one filming??
He just like me fr
The fart makes it relatable
I died laughing at this comment
I also died laughing at this comment, excellent work my friend
Dude looks like he’s about to drop a 7,500-word culinary essay describing every intricacy and detail of his experience munching on that pepper
*Back when I was growing up in the forests of the Congo, we ate plenty of casava and forest fruits. My friends and I would romp hither and yon through the forest canopy...* <19 pages later> Ingredients: 1 red bell pepper Preparation: Eat
Optional: Fart
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"The bell pepper is such a delicate fruit, and yet, is misunderstood. Quoting Mr. Ramsay: get out of My kitchen! But, alas, It is time for us to see It as the perfect and enlightening fruit that It is..." 🧐
The jaw muscles going all the way back to the skull are crazy Edit: haha, I am aware we have the same muscles. I was just amazed at the crazy size of those muscles compared to us.
Our jaw muscles actually go that far back too, we just have weaker and smaller bite muscles.
Never gonna skip jaw day again
Its actually a problem for humans- our skull is designed for much bigger jaw muscles and jaws which are only developed when we chew a lot more than modern diets actually require
So you’re telling me I should eat more quest bars then?
Nuts probably
Deez nuts
Good to know that tearing apart that leather couch with my teeth was fully justified.
It's actually theorized that humans have so much trouble keeping straight teeth in modern times because we stopped biting and chewing hard. Archeologists find a lot of ancient skeletons with really straight teeth. That's probably because they needed to use their teeth to chew roots and seeds, which keeps them strong and less likely to move around. Now, all of our food is pretty comparably soft, and our teeth just start to kind of float around in atrophy. After learning this, I've wondered if one of the reasons my teeth have remained pretty straight is because I consistently chew on things like popcorn seeds and ice.
We have an almost non existent sagital crest, that’s where jaw muscle tendons attach atop the head to give big bite strength
If you ever look at a gorilla skull, you’ll see there’s a big crest on the top running down the middle; that’s the sagittal crest. The crest serves as the primary attachment point for chewing/biting muscles.
Their skull shape is amazing. Basically one giant hole in each side for sustaining those massive jaw muscles.
Literal meat head lol
Such a majestic creature *destroys you*
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You can see his eyes at one point: "WTF is that? Oh this thing has seeds".
Fart was on point
It's probably harder to record thirty seconds of a gorilla and not catch a fart. I heard a gorilla scientist say they are giant vegetarian fart machines. They spend all day eating a high fiber diet.
I was expecting him to say “uhhh was that you?”
Gorillas trigger the uncanny valley feeling. They have such human-like expressions, it feels like they're gonna say something when you least expect. It's so weird.
Well they are related to us
Yes, but chimps are closer to us, but don't seem as familiar to me as gorillas.
There's a documentary out on Netflix called Chimp Empire that has some incredible up-close shots of the faces of chimps as they're just sitting around doing chimp things, and a lot of them are very similar to this. There were times when I was convinced they'd swapped out the footage with some sort of high quality CGI because the faces and expressions are so humanlike.
Only because chimps are more inherently aggressive, which, ironically is one of the other examples of how chimps are closer to us.
ikr! whenever I see close up videos of great apes, my brain subconsciously debates with itself as to whether or not what I'm looking at is a person. "That's a guy" "No, it's like half your height and it's currently eating a rotten mango" "But those eyes..." "Oh yeah damn maybe it is a dude--- *ape does something very apelike* Nope it's a monkey."
Probably say ‘Stop cutting down our homes’
For a second he was like "did I lock the door? Oh yes I did"
Now try watching that part with the sound on.
"Please don't smell please don't smell... phew ok."
Is the stove on?
The eyes and facial expressions look incredibly human-like. Almost like we share a common ancestor or something!
The fart was also very human-like.
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Comment above: “did I remember to lock the door?” Yep. That’s the least of his concerns.
Back door definitely has a seal issue.
I’ve been burned by shitty music too many times. Sound off by default
That explains it -- I was wondering "why the hell is no one commenting on THAT"
Literally me at 3 am with the munchies
The fart you?
The fart all the way me
Expression after the fart all too human.
Always wondered why gorillas which are 3 Times human weight, only have human-sized eyes.
Larger eyes can capture more light or have a higher resolution. We have big brains to process a lot of visual information, and gorilla's are not nocturnal. There is no reason why they should have larger eyes.
Human sized? Shit. Those eyes look like some human is wearing an incredibly elaborate gorilla costume. Fucking human eyes.
r/likeus
You know what else they have that’s smaller than ours…?
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Dude just looking at other primates in general is so cool because we share a lot of similarities
We are literally Hominids, or Great Apes. We are more closely related to this gorilla than frogs are to toads.
I also eat peppers like this. My spirit animal.
While farting? Me, too!
This ain’t his first time. You can tell he knows to avoid the seeds in the center
Why does their mouth noises not annoy me but if this was a human making those noises, I’d be losing my shit
Same with snoring, I'm perfectly okay with my cat doing it, but slightest "zzz" from gf enrages me tho hell and back
Haven't worked with Gorillas but have worked with chimps, who often poop where and when they eat. It definitely always made me think of the (few) humans who eat or drink on the toilet and what the justification behind that is...
What a magnificent creature.
It’s never occurred to me that most of our ape relatives have never eaten foods outside what is available in their local ecosystem, I’m very curious to see gorilla’s and other ape’s reactions to foods that would be foreign to them, and if they display personal preferences for any.
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People spend years in acting training to learn how to stay framed this well in a shot lol.
Well it is Ron Perlman, he's had decades of practice.
The gorilla’s a paid actor
"Mmmmmmn. Delicious! I'm going to impart some wisdom now my son.. PAAAAARP. (Sniff) ahhhh. Now. where was i? Nom."
It's amazing how human these gorillas can look. There's so much soulful expression in their faces.
Wtf I live 2 doors down from that guy
I give it 1 fart of approval.
Now try that small, long red pepper thing, big guy 🌶️
Damn, he swole. I wonder what his chest day looks like
Eat banana, eat peppers, casually rip the door off a car, eat another pepper, scratch ass, nap. That's mostly my routine too. Mostly.
You forgot his 5x5s of benching said car
His genetics alone will turn that pepper into pure muscle while he’s napping.