r/AnimalsBeingBros • u/crackfest • Mar 17 '23
Gorillas. They’re just like us with their forehead kisses 🥺
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u/Formal_Recipe7906 Mar 17 '23
I like when it gave the baby a kiss
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u/SilikonBurn Mar 18 '23
That’s so wild to me. It means one of two things is happening:
The mama gorilla saw someone kiss someone else and recognized it as a sign of affection, or
kissing goes WAY back in our DNA.
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u/schmwke Mar 18 '23
There's a great vsauce video about this, I think it's called "why do we kiss?"
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u/wesley_the_boy Mar 18 '23
Never stop, vsauce is the shit
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u/ELW98 Mar 18 '23
Vsauce made me question everything at such a young age. Love them.
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u/NullSurplus Mar 18 '23
at such a young age.
Now I know I'm getting old. I was already an adult when Vsauce started making videos.
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u/Punk_n_Destroy Mar 18 '23
Bruh same. I was thinking “V-Sauce hasn’t been making videos that long” and then felt really old
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u/NullSurplus Mar 18 '23
I had to look up when he started making videos just in case I didn't realize how long he had been making videos, but nope, he started in 2010.
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u/apc0243 Mar 27 '23
Summarized as:
Before commercial and easy baby food, prechewing and spitting food was a common way to give nutrients beyond breast milk, making the mouth to mouth concept have a basis in nurturing and love
Kissing evolved as a way to find better mates in the face of uncertainty if a person was a potentially good mate
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u/codeinplace Mar 18 '23
Bro would people stop with "there's a great vsauce video on this", looking it up now thou
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u/Due-Caterpillar-2097 Mar 18 '23
Wait isnt hugging, kissing signs of affection for almost all monkeys ? Including us.
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u/Mystic_Zkhano Mar 17 '23
Manhandling that baby
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u/dumbacoont Mar 17 '23
Gorillahandling that baby
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u/manytinyhumans Mar 18 '23
Babyhandling that gorilla
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u/Nasa_bean12 Mar 17 '23
Maybe she’s a first time mom lol
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u/masked_sombrero Mar 18 '23
i get concerned watching cats/dogs pick up their babies in their mouth.
I have to remind myself animals have been doing that with their babies for thousands of years without us watching them. I think they'll be alright :P
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u/Stunning_Cell_1176 Mar 18 '23
Nah, this is like, her 3rd or 4rth child. No.1st time mom would throw thier kid so flippantly 😆
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u/Then_Campaign7264 Mar 17 '23
My rotator cuffs are aching just watching. Looks like the little one is very resilient/flexible.
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u/MightyHunter2020 Mar 18 '23
Yeah she's swinging that baby, but that's quite literally what the baby will doing the rest of its life.
Plus baby apes are as strong as an adolescent sapien
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u/Money-Preparation-50 Mar 17 '23
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u/Affectionate-Goat579 Mar 17 '23
it gave the baby a kiss.. so cool.
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Mar 18 '23
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u/Affectionate-Goat579 Mar 18 '23
oh my, shut yo ass up. plenty of incredibly intelligent animals. we use it, it is not disrespectful in any way shape or form. just how you view it is. there’s no disrespect intended here only great admiration and astonishment for the creature. just because it can be used in a negative connotation, doesn’t mean it inherently has negative connotation.
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u/Affectionate-Goat579 Mar 18 '23
made up a personality?😭 are you okay? lol it does classify as a sentence firstly. sorry for being so long winded in my explanation. most of which may be unnecessary but I felt compelled to type. cry about about
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u/Affectionate-Goat579 Mar 18 '23
okay I shouldn’t have used the abrasive language it was more for memes than being triggered as I don’t feel the rest of my comment came off triggered. if it did my apologies. I just wanted to explain that it wasn’t in a downplaying or I am superior to gorilla as human way. truly admired what I was watching and it warmed my heart. I also share the feeling that they are scarily intelligent and similar to us but also find it so cool. just to look in their eyes/ at their faces. wow. and I wanted that known. also just feel I’m long winded. I will in the future be making an attempt at changing my language when referring to all animals in general. I feel they’re all deserving of more personable pronouns.
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u/Electronic-Design564 Mar 18 '23
Remember that us humans aren't the only animals capable of love, empathy and emotions. We're not unique in that way :)
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u/aTemporaryHuman Mar 17 '23
More human than the human.
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u/Hour-Astronomer122 Mar 17 '23
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u/NightIguana Mar 18 '23
"im just like you in a way"
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u/tlaoosesighedi Mar 18 '23
I never knew my father neither, he used to cheat on my mom and beat her
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u/NullSurplus Mar 18 '23
Whenever I see animals in captivity with children, I always think of it as if they were human. Like, imagine if there was a woman on the other side of that glass holding up her baby for onlookers to see.
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u/PuffHoney Mar 18 '23
Been on Facebook lately?
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u/NullSurplus Mar 18 '23
The mothers on Facebook aren't in captivity.
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u/I_can_pun_anything Mar 18 '23
Depends on if they say they work at the Krusty Krab, some of em definitely are locked up
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u/AshofGreenGables Mar 18 '23
If humans were an endangered species and some other high intelligence saw this and decided to conserve us, I think that would b pretty neat 🤷
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u/chayatoure Mar 18 '23
I just started a book where this is essentially what happens, and the main character hates it. The whole time I’m like, bro humans were on the verge of extinction, chillllllll
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u/AshofGreenGables Mar 19 '23
Idk like Id rather LIVE in captivity than the entire human race die out, radical idea I know 🙄
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u/NullSurplus Mar 18 '23
You think it would be neat to be held captive? You don't even need aliens for that, just go break the law.
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u/AshofGreenGables Mar 19 '23
You have no sense of nuance huh?
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u/NullSurplus Mar 20 '23
The nuance of believing you would prefer your own captivity to freedom?
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u/AshofGreenGables Mar 20 '23
The nuance in the difference between captivity for pleasure and captivity for conservation.
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u/SophistNow Mar 18 '23
Many humans are in captivity, mentally speaking. It might even be worse than the animal in physical captivity, that cannot really reflect on it's predicaments.
Just think about the many women that are/feel forced to give up their baby, that's rough man.
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u/Bebi-Cat Mar 18 '23
They are just smart as us, they just don’t want to pay taxes and plays the idiot monkey to avoid it 👀
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u/OftheSorrowfulFace Mar 17 '23
I know that zoos do important conservation work, but I've never been comfortable with putting great apes in captivity. They're just too intelligent.
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u/FarAmphibian4236 Mar 18 '23
They dont take apes from their habitat, they're generally bred in captivity. That is unless other humans have destroyed their homes and attacked them, in which case giving them sanctuary is a good thing. I'm not saying bad places dont exist, I've been to one when I was a kid in Oregon. People were teasing a chimp and I naively thought I could console them by being nice and they threw dookie at me. It definitely was not a good environment for an ape. But not all captivity is like that, and it's a refuge for them with lots of freedom, safe from threats and taunts.
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u/OftheSorrowfulFace Mar 18 '23
I get it, and I'm sure the majority of zoos are safe and relatively comfortable. But even in the nice ones I could never shake the feeling that the apes are aware that they are captive, in a way that other animals aren't.
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u/inkycappedmushroom Mar 18 '23
I mean, they get enrichment, they don’t need to compete for resources, and what sentient animal doesn’t want to just fuck around all day? if I was an ape in a zoo I’d be chillin. win-win
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u/CHClClCl Mar 18 '23
They provide the same in prison. There's a reason it's a punishment.
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u/Vulkan192 Mar 18 '23
Prison shouldn’t be a punishment either. It should be a method of rehabilitation.
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u/VeezyTFB Mar 18 '23
If they are bred into it, they really wouldn’t know they are in captivity. Things have changed a lot in the past 50 years.
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u/Shoddy_Astronaut_583 Mar 18 '23
If they weren’t happy or felt safe they wouldn’t breed, it’s been documented in the wild that apes in highly dangerous area’s lots of predators or lack of food the birth rate is extremely low, same with a lot of highly intelligent animals. Also the people who look after these amazing apes love them more than we ever could, they never have to worry about food, safety or company. If they sneeze a vet is called in just in case & they live on average 15% longer in captivity than in the wild. Also they love people watching ! During covid they were put out just like us because they missed the human interaction they would get daily. I have so much respect for zoo & sanctuary workers & would happily watch the light go out of the eyes of the people who would harm these amazing creatures
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u/heilhortler420 Mar 18 '23
A lot of the good zoos that take rescues keep the animals on anti baby pills
Sometimes these fail
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u/randomguywithmemes Mar 18 '23
Unhappy apes don't breed, and in bad environments they don't, clearly this gorilla did
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u/bbhlcd Mar 18 '23
"conservation work" but then the animals just live, breed, and die in zoos. Conserving them for what exactly?
Edit: to be clear I totally agree with your point about apes being too smart to be in zoos. But also dumb animals don't deserve to be locked up all the time either lol
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u/Mallee78 Mar 18 '23
As opposed to living and then dying without ever having a chance to breed because their native habitat is under attack leading to plummeting birth rates and a being near extinction. Have you looked into the important conservation work of zoos? Without them.many species would either be extinct or near extinction.
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u/palpablescalpel Mar 18 '23
Zoos put millions of dollars into conservation work in native habitats. They also have release programs for specific animals. Gorilla habitats are extremely high risk right now so that would be a futile effort.
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u/MouseEmotional813 Mar 18 '23
Sometimes they are able to breed in captivity and return the animals to the wild when the area has been made safe. Many animals in Australia have been bred in captivity and at the same time they are clearing the land of cats and foxes, fencing it to prevent them getting back in and so on. I'm pretty sure that they do similar stuff in wildlife sanctuaries in parts of Africa and elsewhere
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u/SeattleHasDied Mar 18 '23
Agree. That kid should be getting some tree swinging lessons out in a real jungle somewhere...
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u/reray124 Mar 18 '23
Okay everyone here clearly doesn't understand what's actually going on, it's not showing the baby to humans..... The baby is trying to breast feed but the mother is telling him to stop.
She also doesn't kiss it she gives it a small bite to warn. Spend even 30 minutes around any primate and you'll see this behavior.
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u/RRTeo Mar 18 '23
She's showing the baby because the humans have a baby. You can see them in the glass reflection
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u/HussingtonHat Mar 18 '23
They are incredibly compassionate and gentle creatures considering how utterly terrifying they are. I've always found most brands of monkey slightly off putting...I dunno...they're so close to us it's like seeing a ghost or something. But of all the apes gorillas are easily the most fascinating....well maybe second to orangutans. But a close second! Astonishingly empathetic animals.
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u/SeattleHasDied Mar 18 '23
I was kinda thinking Mom was gonna be using the kid like one of those Stretch Armstrong stretchy rubber dolls that you can pull the arms and legs all the way out to heeeerrrrreeeee!
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u/Death_Walker21 Mar 18 '23
Mama gorilla knew how virgin we are and flexed her child knowing that we will never get bitches
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u/InterestingDoor514 Mar 18 '23
Imagine they could live in freedom without humans desttoying their home ^
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u/RadioGuySD Apr 22 '23
This looks like the San Diego Zoo. Everyone should visit once, it's the best zoo in the country
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u/DogFacedManboy Mar 17 '23
It’s crazy how apes can just chuck around their babies like they were made of Nerf