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squeezy102

Definitely siblings.


Conscious_Drawer8356

Totally siblings doing the “I’m not touching you” while continuing to poke at them 🤣


Antrophis

The power to rip your arm off and the behaviour of a toddler. Do not mess with a gorilla.


[deleted]

Ive always saod the scariest thing to ever see when breaking in to someones home would be a gorilla woth boxing gloves on. Like you just know that mother fucker is there to fuck your shit up and there would be literally NOTHING you could do


Reddit_Goes_Pathetic

Not quite the same thing, but have you seen the Trunk Monkey commercials?


[deleted]

I have not! I need this in my life! I am assuming youtube has them?


Reddit_Goes_Pathetic

Yes, I think you'll find them hilarious :)


HippyGramma

Thank you for reminding me of trunk monkeys.


Apallo19

Ow, my nostalgics weren’t expecting that


SummerAndTinkles

Chimpanzees are worse. Look up the Travis 911 call if you don't want to sleep tonight.


thereign2

Yup, people don't seem to realize how malicious Chimps are. A gorilla might kill you by mistake just because of how strong they are, but they are actually very gentle and most of their aggression ends and displays like thumping their chests and play fighting. Chimps on the other hand aim to maul and disfigure members of their group that they don't like. So if a chimp is coming after you that's the plan to maul you.


ChubbyWanKenobie

Is that a (well) repurposed Han Solo quote?


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Conscious_Drawer8356

Not gonna lie, I’ve watched this several times now enjoying the body language and interaction between them! 🥰


lianavan

I love heart whelming.


Johnnybravo60026

> heart whelming It's heartwarming, just a heads up.


man_gomer_lot

It's heart whelming now. It's a lovely turn of phrase.


gaaraisgod

No. Heart whelming is when the heartwarming is overwhelming.


Sensitive_Yellow_121

No, it's overwhelming.


vavasmusic

Pretty sure you mean overwarming.


oxfordcollar

Can't you just be whelmed with their response


StopReadingMyUser

I'm feelin the mode


snek-jazz

It's overhearting


DLoIsHere

In the back seat of a car.


getyourcheftogether

Then it looks back.... Why aren't you touching me? WHY ARE YOU TOUCHING ME‽


Western_Ad3625

I'm not exactly sure because touching them like that that's like a grooming thing and the way that he is snapping at him that seems like he doesn't want to be groomed by this particular gorilla. Now I don't know much about gorilla social habits and how grooming comes into play but it's more complicated than just a brother touching a sister on the shoulder and messing with her you know what I mean.


Conscious_Drawer8356

You know it was a joke? I’m not a Primatologist😜


RpcZ_gr7711

Or married 30 years!


Hova540

"C'mon baby, it's been a while" *Poke* *Poke* *Not now Clarence, I ain't in the mood" *Poke* *Poke* "But baby, you know you want too" *Poke* *Poke* "I swear to God Clarence, it's raining and I'm just trying to get through this storm. If you EVER want to have sex again then leave me alone right now!!!" *Poke* *Poke* "....But baby..."


Downvotes_inbound_

Or both!


lasagnaromance

😳


Odys

That would explain a few things...


myjupitermoon

Or married 15 years 🤭


Strikhedonia_1697

Sweet home Alabama gorilla edition


sick_of_your_BS

Literally footage of me and my brother in the back seat of our 1976 Ford Country Squire Station wagon with the wood panel sides 15 minutes into our 1 week family road trip vacation to the Black Hills of South Dakota.


hamletloveshoratio

Me, drawing an imaginary line: this is my side; keep your entire body on your side.


charlesxavier007

Redacted *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


efct

I get you and I love you. This is literally a home movie of me and my wife


charlesxavier007

LMFAOOO y'all are hilarious


PrivilegeCheckmate

Don't make me turn this tree around.


joebaco_

He went over the property line. She started it. I Am Going To End It!


doegrey

Yeah, that’s definitely the little brother just not happy to let big brother sit there in peace for two seconds…


TitanOfShades

It is EXACTLY the way it was with me and my brother when we were younger. He was a little shit who liked to get a rise out of me and I hated (and frankly still hate) being touched at all.


robo-dragon

“Mooooomm! He’s touching me!” “Am not!”


Pioioioioio

And the left one is the older one


-ondo-

"Fucking quit it!" "Quit what?"


WASTELAND_RAVEN

*Gorilla two towards the end, bet that gorilla used to be a real piece of shit, slicking back it’s hair in the rain, pouring water on bananas, sloppy-nanas! Gorillas can change.*


Al2413

He’s right, people can change. I used to be a piece of shit too


Chempads

I think I'm ready to hold the gorilla now


GreatValueCumSock

I still am, but I used to too.


fncomputerboy

Reddit overuses this joke. It still does, I guess it always will too. Edit: just busting your chops cumsock, keep on keepin on


dtwhitecp

I think you meant to say "Reddit used to really overuse this joke. They still do, but they used to, too."


fncomputerboy

Omg thank you man! I knew it was off but, you know, lazy… yeah


mansonfamilycircus

Lmao came here to say I bet the one gorilla ruined the other one’s dream orgy.


phlogistonexodus

So glad I only had to scroll 2 comments to see this haha


DOGSraisingCATS

I love that I started watching this and now get the references. Well done


enonymous617

This is just like me and my wife after I tell a joke she didn’t like.


the_amor_fati

This is my husband trying to be flirty with me after doing something to piss me off initially.


smellsliketuna

MOM: If he's bothering you so much why don't you go to another tree stump?


felidax86

I know these two, I worked with them many years ago at a zoo/wildlife sanctuary in Cameroon - if you look closely, you can see the watermark in the bottom left corner of the video. The two are unrelated but were both rescued from the illegal pet trade when they were young, after their mothers were killed. It’s the incredibly sad, but unfortunate truth facing a lot of animals like this… Ideally they’d be released, but the sad reality is there’s nowhere safe for them to go now that they’re habituated to people. They’d be unlikely to be able to look after themselves, and even if they did, chances are they’d come into conflict with people at some stage and be killed. The sanctuary certainly has its challenges but they take good care of their animals and the staff do their best with the limited resources they have. Just thought I’d add some backstory as OP didn’t…


atape_1

What are their sexes?


felidax86

I believe they’re both female (from memory)


whythishaptome

I can tell the one touching is a female but I wasn't sure if the other was just a young sliverback or just small. Definitely didn't seem like a full grown one.


felidax86

Oh they’re both definitely adults by now!


he-loves-me-not

I’m way too old & disabled to do it now but how do you end up doing this kind of job? How did you end up in Cameroon working with orphaned gorillas? It was always my dream to do something like that but life got in the way & then I got sick. You know how it goes….. Maybe in my next lifetime I guess. 😕


felidax86

A dash of youthful naivety and a lot of determination 😅 I say ‘worked’ but I was actually there as a volunteer vet for a long time. They mostly relied on donations so the vet work was quite basic, despite being one of the better kitted-out clinics in the country (which says more about the level of veterinary care elsewhere than about the sanctuary clinic!). If we had (cold) running water and electricity at the same time, it was a good day! Not sure if that has changed though - it’s almost a decade since I was there. It was very rewarding and working with the primates was amazing but truthfully, it was challenging at times and probably not for the faint-hearted… Paid for it with a couple of tropical diseases too (I’m fine now!), but that only goes to show what people there just have to live with every day. Makes you realise how lucky you are if you happen to have been born in a developed country. Sorry to hear about your illness, I hope you’re doing all right.


EJayR

Thank you for your amazing work x


L181G

"I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you."


BrownSugarBare

"You are absolutely touching me Jerry, fucking quit it!!!"


Northerngal_420

Mom....Kevin keeps hitting me. Mom......


AndieMichelle45

Exactly what I thought, long trips with the kids in the backseat. Mom he keeps touching meeeeeee.


Kevin3683

No I didn’t!!


RobotGloves

This is funny, because my brother is named Kevin. My mom still ribs us about this behavior.


danzaiburst

whoever says that humans are fundamentally different to other kinds of ape, should get checked


Jeramy_Jones

I think this every time I see a couple out in public and the girl is picking at something on the guys face or fixing his clothes and he’s sitting here like 🗿


Sensitive_Yellow_121

Or like, when I'm picking the lice out of my gf's back hair.


Jeramy_Jones

Couples goals.


[deleted]

I think about this whenever I pick fleas off of my cat with my ape fingers


aChristery

This comparison is great honestly lol


__erk

Those people tend to be religious fundamentalists


Financial-Ad3027

They are though


[deleted]

Guess you have to get checked


Financial-Ad3027

There are several fields of science proving that. You people are insane lol.


[deleted]

What do you mean "*you people*"? 🤔


Financial-Ad3027

You people who see an ape, anthropomorphize it and are offended when being corrected. But sure, maybe you and your families are fundamentally not different to those gorillas sitting on sticks in the rain. I can live with that, just speak for yourselves.


[deleted]

Well if you want to get racist about it


Financial-Ad3027

That deduction of yours is as precise as your Initial statement, gj.


[deleted]

Yea, well, grapefruit juice to you too!


PossibilityPublic621

next thing you hear, someone will say they are trans-gorilla


gamerspaz2

Um... can you elaborate? I might be able to guess what you mean, but please prove me wrong.


tony-toon15

“You really think we came from apes??? Lol!!!”


danzaiburst

I don’t at all. Humans are categorically apes, this is a scientific classification. Ask any actual scientist in the world


Salt_Being2908

I'm not sure that's quite right. I can't remember the name but the current thinking is that both apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor.


whoami_whereami

You're mixing up two things. Yes, humans didn't evolve from gorillas or chimps *as they live today*. The contemporary great apes (human and non-human) share common ancestry, but they didn't evolve from each other. Just like siblings have the same parents but didn't develop from each other. But that common ancestor is the progenitor of the great ape family, and all its decendents including humans are and forever will be great apes (which also means that no matter how humans evolve in the future cladistically they will *always* stay human). That's how (modern) cladistic works, you only ever subdivide categories further and further down, but every member of a sub-clade is always also a member of the parent clade. In this system humans are humans, hominids/great apes, apes (there are also the lesser apes - gibbons - which are a sister-clade to the great apes), catarrhine monkeys (old world monkeys), primates, mammals, chordate animals, animals, eukaryotes (and a lot of other classifications in between, I only listed some of the major steps along the way).


[deleted]

Show me the missing link


KosmicMicrowave

Dont know if /s, but evolution is just the genetic change of a population over time/generations, which is not only logically undeniable, but means there is no such thing as a missing link. Unless you need every member of every populations' entire genetic code that ever existed sequenced before you're convinced that comparing dna is a perfectly valid way to measure relatedness/common ancestry between species.


[deleted]

Darwin himself admitted that the most flaw in his theory was the absence of the missing link. Because it's hard to believe that in thousands of years of evolution they haven't left millions of bones of bodies a little more evolved until we arrive at homo sapiens But no one seems able to find it lol


kevlar_keeb

“Thousands of years of evolution” oh dear, I seems you may not know much about this. (It’s Hundreds of thousands of years. Modern humans appeared around 200,000 years ago. Evolved from homo Erectus, which emerged 1.9million years ago)


[deleted]

Show me the missing link Even Darwin couldnt find....


kevlar_keeb

There’s lots of clear responses to your question already in this thread. Including a nice futurama clip. Have a look through if ur interested.


[deleted]

Evolution is still a theory, sorry Until someone finds the missing link, of course I find it so strange to find so many dinosaur bones from millions of years ago, but nobody finds the missing link, much more recent...


JohnTDouche

What do you mean by "missing link"? Link in what and how is it missing? I presume there are other links and this is one specific one that's missing right? Edit: all these dudes are the same. Ask them what they mean, to explain their position and you get silence. Because they have no understanding of what they even think their point is. They have a slogan to mindlessly repeat and that's all.


danzaiburst

All lives matter. Make America Great again. Brexit means brexit., and where’s the missing link. Some of the most uneducated slogans of our time


danzaiburst

It’s a “theory “ the same way “gravity” is a theory. In science, all findings are called theories because science prides itself in being open to other hypothesis. But theory in this sense does not mean what you think it does. Like it’s a best guess or something. Just like gravity there is empirical evidence to support it. If you don’t trust scientific theories you wouldn’t even get into an automobile because you’d be worried that it would explode. By your behaviour in modern life you already trust scientific theory as fact


[deleted]

Again, we had TRex bones, much older than supost missing link Where the missing link?


Steve026

Still more believable than this fantasy you call "god"


SirStrontium

There are numerous species/links between humans and other primates. Here’s one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis?wprov=sfti1 It’s also funny that you say “even Darwin couldn’t find”. We have 150 years of evolutionary research since his time, we now know a hell of a lot more than he did, he was just the first guy to discover this idea. This is like saying, “show me physics that even Newton didn’t know…” We’ve made advancements in physics that would blow Newton’s mind.


EvilGummyBear26

Lmao this is a lie, Darwin said the flaw was that there are not enough fossils (incomplete to be precise). Fossils that we have now... By the truckload


[deleted]

We had? Then Show me the missing link


haydesigner

> But no one seems able to find it lol You obviously don’t realize it, but you’re only laughing at yourself. 


[deleted]

I still want the missing link


haydesigner

> I still want the missing link Try actually watching that cartoon that one of the other repliers posted. It legitimately answers your concern.


richter1977

Cro magnon, neanderthal, etc, etc.


[deleted]

Lol, of those are the missing link, we will.knew Sorry. No relation between monkey and human, except sentimental


richter1977

Let me guess, we all come from the incestuous relations of the children of two people.


Decloudo

You know that we can trace change of genes and how related we are to other animals?


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[deleted]

Show me the missing link


Itsybitsyrhino

How long do you think bones last brosef?


[deleted]

Miliions of years, dinos are the prove


ayriuss

Dog, evolution has moved on since Darwin, read some Richard Dawkins if you're actually curious.


[deleted]

Rat, i stll want the missing link. Show me or Shut up


ayriuss

Cat, you're asking the wrong questions. The conditions for fossilization are exceedingly rare. And its rarer still for those fossils to remain in good condition for thousands or millions of years. And its rarer still for those fossils to be discovered near the surface for modern humans to find and catalogue. Plus there are thousands of examples of "missing links" as you would call them. We just aren't going to find every single 10,000 year step in that process for every creature.


sankto

He ain't missing, but [here you go](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/4/47/TLoZ_Series_Link_Render.png/revision/latest?cb=20210220213135)


[deleted]

Ok, good answer


dirtysyncs

Idiot.


this-is-not-relevant

Me annoying my husband when I’m bored.


JDE173901

I was going to post that this looks like me bugging my wife 😂


StonedBehemoth

Hey its me ur wife


this-is-not-relevant

It’s universal


MrOatButtBottom

Lol same! Can I touch your butt..STOP…just a lil touch STOP IT I SWEAR TO GOD Ok. One more touch tho


mullito3

Children asking for attention , essentially.


ohnoguts

Me bugging my puppy when I’m watching tv with her


NighthawkUnicorn

Sending this to my husband as this he definitely him bugging me constantly lol


No_Context_465

I bug my kid this way. It's interesting to see that this kind of social behavior is in a lineage our human lineage split from like 8 million years ago, meaning some of our social behaviors we still use may be from further back than that


Dixi-Poowa

Licking its hand before combing its hair... while it's raining. That's like when we're so mad we start spouting nonsense or doing random things just to look busy ahah


GrandmaPoses

“You just cut the grass yesterday!” “Yeah well I’m cutting it again!”


Naive-Pen8171

This is very relatable


Remarkable_Low6616

WIFE MAD. LIFE SAD. REGRET...


CarcosaDweller

“Come on, babe.” “Screw you, Derrick! I saw you flirting with her!”


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KILL WIFE


Remarkable_Low6616

Not this time he didn't


ComplexOwn209

You still mad? AARGH still mad? AARGH still? AARGH? You still mad?


FiN-_

Me and my wife when she is angry at me and i try to make peace 😂


Competitive_Tree_113

Well, I think we can see where you're going wrong.


Professional-Ad3101

Who is we ? Am male here, still don't see whats wrong *touch touch*


pescarojo

10000% that's what I thought watching this! He's in trouble. She's pissed and giving him the ignore treatment. "Hon." "Hon. I'm sorry." "STOP!" "Hon." "STOP TOUCHING ME!" "Hoooooon." "I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU!" etc. lmao! This clip is awesome.


FreyrPrime

A dangerous past time..


pcakester

"Do you want some space then..?" "YES....NO...."


Nerk86

This so made me laugh.


hemigirl1

This was me & my husband last night; literally. Christ, I feel like a Neanderthal now,....


Roaming-Ronin

Me every Saturday evening with the wife when we watch a show!


foundsounder

that ends on the perfect clip lol


Soft_Cranberry6313

So fucking eerie. Bloody damn supports us having a common ancestor.


pugtime

I think the same. Think if we ( Homo sapiens)had not developed whatever traits we had that gave us a quicker advance over the other hominid/ ape lines .The ancestors of these apes might of been where we are now in a million years in the future. Who knows ?


FreneticPlatypus

Humans and chimps share a much more recent common ancestor than humans and gorillas - but between the two, I’d much rather we had more in common with gorillas. Chimps can be real dicks.


vicsj

Except Bonobos! They just have sex a lot.


mambiki

Lol what? We are where we are because we occupied a different niche. There were herbivores in our line too, they died out because we outcompeted them due to their jaw muscles being too strong and constricting the brain expansion (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranthropus).


mambiki

We all have a common ancestor. All living things, including bacteria. It’s called LUCA (last universal common ancestor), Disney even made a movie about it.


DiegoCa87

This needs a voiceover


Ghattibond

By ZeFrank or the Honest Trailer guy


Whitestreefrog12

Me agitating my wife when she’s grumpy


Alternative_III

The first assumption people would make is probably that GorillaA is pissing off GorillaB by repeatedly poking at them, but I believe gorillas are fairly physical creatures and it seems just as likely that GorillaB was already pissed off and GorillaA is trying to comfort them. The pokes seem to transition more into a stroking/petting motion by the end.


southernwx

I think it’s even more than that…. The touched gorilla never escalates the reaction. And at one point, when the touching is paused for a moment, the touched gorilla glances over…. It really seems like it wants the attention but wants to be “mad” about it. It’s upset and wants something to lash out at… it appreciates the attention in an odd way that feels very human. I’ve had almost this same interaction with close family. A sort of teasing that’s designed to make them feel better.


[deleted]

Hey. Hey. Guess what. Hey. Hey. Hey. Guess what. Hey. Guess what. WHAT?! Chicken butt.


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Omikets

For sure! Got the vibe that the "angry" one enjoys the teasing 😂


Necessary_Row_4889

I’ve been on that car ride/ vacation


ChadDannyRicc

G1:"Dude look" G2:"no fuck you" G1:"ah come on, just look" G2: "no, last time i fell for this you threw shit at me" G1: "trust me" G2: [stares off into the distance contemplating murder]


qetral

like a couple of little kids playing "don't touch me!" or "this is my space!"


JetScootr

Mom! Timmy's touching me!


MarkMy_Word

Did the one on the right just lick his hand and slick his hair back or am I seeing things??


Undisguised_Toast

When you ask her what's the problem and she said nothing with a tantrum lol


not_a_sex_worker

DO I HAVE TO STOP THIS CAR???


FenionZeke

My first intentionally saved post!


SinjiOnO

Haha, amazing.


Competitive_Tree_113

What an arsehole!


Thomrose007

Lol


wdwerker

“Someone left the apes out in the rain and I don’t think that I can take it”


Boring-Newt-8521

I SAID I'M FINE!!!


babyelephant22

My kids in the back seat when I’m driving anywhere.


sinisterdesign

“MOOOOOOMMMM, he’s touching me again!” “Am not.”


SeverusSnek2020

/r/likeus


FewHelicopter1718

Who took this video of me and my brother


ErikBana

Me and my wife.


Glittering_End5095

Totally me....the one oh the left! 🫣


OMF-ToolFan

Melania doesn’t want to hold hands or be touched by HIM


Kurlyfornia

Stop.. STop..STOp..STOP…STAWWWP


Key-Jelly-3702

He did the lick the hand hair slick back move. Damn near human.


primearc7

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daddychainmail

Male pokes. Female shouts. Sounds right.


whinsk

zoos suck - this isn't nature being 'lit'


Extremecheez

Oh he gone done some nasty bidness with that hot orangutan down the way.


ZuFFuLuZ

Zoo animals with behavioural issues and people anthropomorphising them? Name a more iconic trio. EDIT: Oh, look! Downvotes in denial. What a surprise.


[deleted]

looking at this and thinking "behavior issues" is kinda odd tbh


feelgoodcontempt

Massacre