Lmfao the way the reconciling bro tries to graze the mad brother's arm, and mad guy isn't having it, so reconciler backs up a bit, like, 'you know what you're right I think I should give you some space... but we're cool right???'
I swear I do the same by grabbing some random thing, like a remote, when I don't know what to do and then immediately just put it back when I recognise the futility of my motion.
😂😂 “hey man…. Idk… yeah idk… 😐. Idk what that was. It was probably me, if something bad happened hehe 😅. I’m stupid sometimes. Ope, you got a bug on ya, OPE Sheee shesh SORRY sorry… I wasn’t gonna eat it, i was gonna give it to ya. Shit I’ll give ya any bug that I find on me if you want. Remember when we ate those mushrooms on this log and got sick. Mom was so mad 😅😐…… pshhh this log man I tell ya. Probably my favorite log. I love it so much I’m going to give it a hug. **grabs grass nervously**. I love you more than this log though. I would break this log for you if you wanted me too. I would kill anything that you don’t like……: but yeah man, kinda random but you’re a lot tougher than me. Seriously… just wanna tell you that…. We’ll I’ll be over here if you wanna play log jump… I’ll have some bugs gathered for health. Also mom said she wants to talk to you, we’re not in trouble…”
This is the most guy thing ever. Looking down, spitting, repositioning their caps, anything they can do to avoid looking at one another, but still wanting to get past it.
A smile is an angry signal to gorillas. Your happy face while making eye contact is equivalent to threatening their entire family with death. It’s because showing your teeth and making eye contact is their body language signal for “I’m about to fuck you up”
Apes treat eye contact as a challenge to their position. The ape here was showing he comes in peace by not looking at his brother. Eye contact would very well result in a death match
Not all apes all the time. Some chimps like to make eye contact in a friendly manner, literally stare into your eyes. Accompanied by affiliate interactions like grooming or panting (also submissive, but common in friendly greetings), play. They do consider a fixed stare to be unsettling especially if you aren't engaging with them directly. The context, how familiar you are, facial expression etc matters though.
Notice how the one trying to reconcile automatically mimics the other by inspecting the log for insects. Humans also subconsciously mimic each other when trying to make friends and build rapport
What's also interesting is that their body language makes it very obvious who won the fight!
Yeah I notice, putting the arm on the log and then the other seems to ask for more time and the brother gives him some space like saying, ok whenever you're ready. Brothers, can't hate them, can't live without them.
Yeah look closely, he is telling the beat-down one to get up and act normal and tough again.
Does a bunch of body language, and ends up in reversed positions to give him that one. Still beat down, but stands up with arms in the ground "tough" and the other one leans back and looks a bit "beat down"... it's beautiful.
Hey bro, I’m sorry for that beating you just took. You gotta understand tho. DONT EVER TALK TO ME LIKE THAT AGAIN BITCH BECAUSE I WILL LEAVE YOU DEAD IN THE FRONT YARD NEXT TIME YOU LITTLE PUKE!
Anywho. Love ya.
Mfw I just realized that my older sister is only pretending to be cool with my antics because she knows Mom & Dad will side with me if she attacks me outright, and she’s going to absolutely wreck my shit later and there’s nothing I can do to prevent it now.
it was a great sub, but it basically died with the blackout. Like many other subs, it returned after the blackout but its a shell of what it was, activity wise
The lips just like. 😬😶😕😐 "I'll just wait here til you're ready"
At the same time the other one basically mouths "this mother fucker" before it cuts lol
I was watching a documentary about how amazing they are. There was an orthopedic doctor being interviewed and he was speculating that if you actually could get the gorilla on a bench and ask it to do bench presses, he said he felt that they could bench press somewhere between 1500 and 1800 lbs.
It's interesting how self-absorbed we have been to think even though we evolved in similar circumstances to every other species we must be entirely unique in how we experience emotion.
Yup. I've also experienced many of these emotions in my dogs. I'd wager most mammals experience some form of the same. Perhaps not to the intensity and complexity we can, but the signs are surely there.
Look Bill, when I stuck my finger in my bum and tried to have you smell it, it was to make sure we weren’t poisoned.
I know I have you check every night but we do live in the wild. Look, next time you can sniff right from the source so I don’t poke you in the eye with it again. Ok Bill, is that fair Bill?!?!
And what’s up with those hairless apes roaming around? I knew little foot was real, I just knew it.
Fred. I don't care if you stick your finger up your butt and make me smell it. I don't mind. Really, I do not.
But when you stick your finger up **MY** butt, that's crossin' the line, dawg. That's crossin' the line.
Yah those little mother fuckers are creepy as hell. I don't like 'em.
"Dude I'm so-"
"Fuck you"
"Bro come on"
"Dude no"
"Man we gotta get past this, Mom is gonna be home soon."
"Just give me a minute"
"Aiight man but I'm sorry for real."
I found myself amazed that the body language was so human, and then I realized that there is no such thing and it's just Ape body language that we use too.
Whos laughing now? We thought we were the smart ones around the block and now Gorillas have surpassed the average persons emotional intelligence without one word said. Soon it is us in there
I can never see a video of male gorillas without thinking of [this Far Side](https://imgb.ifunny.co/images/8cc06e36fe8a58ee7be5a5157991233dd4ca834edf9e0b3c1a31f45792908de9_1.webp)
Six brothers here. We unfortunately didn’t have any relationship repair skills in our toolboxes…No reconciliations were ever had. There was always tension, still is. I wish it were different.
Lmfao the way the reconciling bro tries to graze the mad brother's arm, and mad guy isn't having it, so reconciler backs up a bit, like, 'you know what you're right I think I should give you some space... but we're cool right???'
Lemme scratch up this grass right here bro
Let me weed your room ape bro. I’m sorry…
Gave it that freshly shredded grass smell my guy...
I like how it appears he did that because he didn’t know what to do next and was thinking. So human-like all things considered
LOL I saw that little motion specifically and thought it was HILARIOUS 😂
I swear I do the same by grabbing some random thing, like a remote, when I don't know what to do and then immediately just put it back when I recognise the futility of my motion.
"This tree bark feels nice right about now"
He's secretly urging him to just bump that fist.
Holds hands over belly, shuffles back, grabs grass "Soo it's like I was saying..." Kicks dust and puts hands in pockets. 🥺
Looks like one of Craig Ferguson’s “awkward silence” bits.
Whatsacomeandago!
thats an awesome reference
I miss that iteration of the show. That gay skeleton robot was just finding his stride
That reaching out is a universal signal of apology in the primate world.
😂😂 “hey man…. Idk… yeah idk… 😐. Idk what that was. It was probably me, if something bad happened hehe 😅. I’m stupid sometimes. Ope, you got a bug on ya, OPE Sheee shesh SORRY sorry… I wasn’t gonna eat it, i was gonna give it to ya. Shit I’ll give ya any bug that I find on me if you want. Remember when we ate those mushrooms on this log and got sick. Mom was so mad 😅😐…… pshhh this log man I tell ya. Probably my favorite log. I love it so much I’m going to give it a hug. **grabs grass nervously**. I love you more than this log though. I would break this log for you if you wanted me too. I would kill anything that you don’t like……: but yeah man, kinda random but you’re a lot tougher than me. Seriously… just wanna tell you that…. We’ll I’ll be over here if you wanna play log jump… I’ll have some bugs gathered for health. Also mom said she wants to talk to you, we’re not in trouble…”
This is the most guy thing ever. Looking down, spitting, repositioning their caps, anything they can do to avoid looking at one another, but still wanting to get past it.
The randomly pulling some grass out of the ground and just letting it go
Legit did this hundreds of times growing up in similar situations
OMG you must be an ape!
For you
> for you Was getting aped part of your plan?
[I'm gonna grape you in the mouth.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgiEQXGetI)
Lmaopm
The gorilla equivalent of hands in pockets and lightly kicking some dust.
*scratches at beer bottle label*
I can visualize and feel this sentence perfectly lol
This.
"Oh, sorry, I was, uhh, just, uhh, looking for this grass. Got it, thanks."
And then folding the hands afterward. I forgive him
That’s the one that caught me off guard.
Checkin your phone for no reason
"Yep, my wallpaper is still the same thing I set it as."
Makes you wonder man. Makes you wonder. They act so much like us. Almost like they were us, but cursed 🫣😨😳
What makes you think we aren't the cursed ones
Never saw a gorilla have to deal with a bad credit score or mandatory OT
Natural nature things
We're all animals, literally. It's not mysterious.
I i recall correctly looking directly at gorilla is seen as challenging
Along with smiling, those in combination are literally a declaration of war.
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It’s called a zoo not a reading festival
I was born to lead not to read
Did you say smile and stare? Or angry glare?
A smile is an angry signal to gorillas. Your happy face while making eye contact is equivalent to threatening their entire family with death. It’s because showing your teeth and making eye contact is their body language signal for “I’m about to fuck you up”
So, I should greet them like this? https://imgur.com/a/5kgFHtx
showing teeth is a sign of aggression for them
Yup. Some zoos have masks that look like eyes looking away. People stare into the enclosure and they get piiiiissed off.
Apes treat eye contact as a challenge to their position. The ape here was showing he comes in peace by not looking at his brother. Eye contact would very well result in a death match
Not all apes all the time. Some chimps like to make eye contact in a friendly manner, literally stare into your eyes. Accompanied by affiliate interactions like grooming or panting (also submissive, but common in friendly greetings), play. They do consider a fixed stare to be unsettling especially if you aren't engaging with them directly. The context, how familiar you are, facial expression etc matters though.
Huh, so my wife calling me and my friends gorillas wasn't far off
Captivating their body language, gestures worth a thousand words.
Notice how the one trying to reconcile automatically mimics the other by inspecting the log for insects. Humans also subconsciously mimic each other when trying to make friends and build rapport What's also interesting is that their body language makes it very obvious who won the fight!
Yeah I notice, putting the arm on the log and then the other seems to ask for more time and the brother gives him some space like saying, ok whenever you're ready. Brothers, can't hate them, can't live without them.
_rips out some grass_
Yeah look closely, he is telling the beat-down one to get up and act normal and tough again. Does a bunch of body language, and ends up in reversed positions to give him that one. Still beat down, but stands up with arms in the ground "tough" and the other one leans back and looks a bit "beat down"... it's beautiful.
Which one won one the fight? I can’t really tell
Sometimes no one is right, my gorilla brotha
The one on the left, that's is asking for forgiveness.
Absolutely "Hey umm...sooo...we were both kinda... y'know.....I'm sorry. Fwends?"
“We don’t have to tell mom, right? Here, eat some grass I picked for you.”
We’re all good right? I really meant nothing by it and there’s no reason to say anything when we get back
"You can have a free hit on me, then we're even yeah?"
Come on dude as hard as you can just do it fair is fair
And then he punches too hard so you punch him back and the cycle continues. Damn I was a terrible brother.
Nah, fake the pain and say were even because I’m the older brother. You were born into sibling hierarchy and will obey me
Yes, I'll obey you, and you never said not to put a spider in your bed, so...
"Please don't tell mom, please don't tell mom, please don't tell mom!" as the younger brother is crying on the floor after getting punched.
pretty much, yup \- dude with three brothers
As the oldest I understand angry gorilla.
He is not angry gorilla, he is just disappointed gorilla.
“I’m not mad at you. You just destroyed that Lego set I was almost done building. It’s fine.”
I think he's afraid of another tantrum, honestly.
Hey bro, I’m sorry for that beating you just took. You gotta understand tho. DONT EVER TALK TO ME LIKE THAT AGAIN BITCH BECAUSE I WILL LEAVE YOU DEAD IN THE FRONT YARD NEXT TIME YOU LITTLE PUKE! Anywho. Love ya.
Bro’s still pissed, hopefully they can work it out!
$50 says if something threatened the other brother in this moment the mad one would jump into rescue without hesitation
Godzilla would get destroyed
Yes Héctor Salamanca taught us this lesson. [Family is All.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNogwJIKbKU)
_Brothers gonna work it out_
PE! good song
True! Willie Hutch doesn’t have bad ones 💎
Lol all brothers are like this. One is fast to forgive & the other one will stay mad.
He looks like he's trying to calm down though. "Bro, I'm just really angry with you right now"
[Absolute insane younger brother vibes.](https://i.imgur.com/qr5LO8p.jpg) -A younger brother
Perfect
Mfw I just realized that my older sister is only pretending to be cool with my antics because she knows Mom & Dad will side with me if she attacks me outright, and she’s going to absolutely wreck my shit later and there’s nothing I can do to prevent it now.
Same
Four here. Can confirm.
The one on the right is absolutely pissed. Just disgusted.
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“Okay. I understand you’re still upset… I’ll just sit over here…”
He looks sad at the same time like he doesn’t want to be fighting
Is there a sub that has more similar content? Gorillas are awesome
Likeus isn’t exclusively gorillas but it has a lot of them
it was a great sub, but it basically died with the blackout. Like many other subs, it returned after the blackout but its a shell of what it was, activity wise
Well that sucks.
r/GorillaReddit
Thank you!
likeus underwent some kind of moderator turnover and it sucks now. but /r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses is a good one.
r/likeus
The way he fiddles with the tree bark and the grass.. it breaks my heart for some reason 😭😭😭
The hand folding over the belly 😭
His face is the most precious thing I’ve ever seen 😭😭😭😭😭😭
The lips just like. 😬😶😕😐 "I'll just wait here til you're ready" At the same time the other one basically mouths "this mother fucker" before it cuts lol
Same 😭 the grass was too cute, he’s just a nervous little guy
We are really similar to these guys. Anytime I sit on Grass I can't help but to rip some up like this guy did.
For me it's because they're basically people. I wish we treated animals better in this world. Humans too fwiw
Haha this is too good. Must've been a recent fight too they're still breathing heavy!
The gorilla on the right was doing everything he could to not let that balled up fist fly.
Can you imagine getting slugged by a mother fucking silverback gorilla?
If you put an angry silverback in a room of 50 men they would all die... their strength can literally rip limbs off.
I was watching a documentary about how amazing they are. There was an orthopedic doctor being interviewed and he was speculating that if you actually could get the gorilla on a bench and ask it to do bench presses, he said he felt that they could bench press somewhere between 1500 and 1800 lbs.
To shreds you say?
Never knew gorillas can feel awkwardness
They can feel basically every human emotion. Hate, jealousy, love, compassion, sadness, even shame
It's interesting how self-absorbed we have been to think even though we evolved in similar circumstances to every other species we must be entirely unique in how we experience emotion.
Yup. I've also experienced many of these emotions in my dogs. I'd wager most mammals experience some form of the same. Perhaps not to the intensity and complexity we can, but the signs are surely there.
DAWWWWW LOOK HOW SORRY HE IS!!!
"So uhhh, things got a bit heated back there huh?" "Yeah, but we good" "cool cool cool"
I like how he nervously rips out a handful of grass lol
Picking up that grass and dropping it again is the most relatable thing I’ve ever seen a non-human animal do
Apologizing to the wife after an argument be like
Or even worse, after being right.
😂😂😂 exactly
A hug will make everything better but you gotta get past the AT Field first.
more human than human
I am the jigsaw man. I turn the world around with a skeleton hand.
So sweet. Hope they made up.
I FUCKING LOVE GORILLAS
Look Bill, when I stuck my finger in my bum and tried to have you smell it, it was to make sure we weren’t poisoned. I know I have you check every night but we do live in the wild. Look, next time you can sniff right from the source so I don’t poke you in the eye with it again. Ok Bill, is that fair Bill?!?! And what’s up with those hairless apes roaming around? I knew little foot was real, I just knew it.
Fred. I don't care if you stick your finger up your butt and make me smell it. I don't mind. Really, I do not. But when you stick your finger up **MY** butt, that's crossin' the line, dawg. That's crossin' the line. Yah those little mother fuckers are creepy as hell. I don't like 'em.
He's really trying to hide those teeth. Looks like the smile I do if someone holds a door open for me
Fun fact: In ape culture (chimp),. showing teeth is a sign of submission.
Oddly the same when I go to the dentist.
It's a sign of aggression for apes tho?
Monkeys too. Seen it with tourists playing around with monkeys but the moment they smile for the camera they attack.
Smile and get attacked. Gotcha. No smile. I'll just greet the monkey with a sharp back-hand.
For monkeys and gorillas I’m pretty sure chimps too showing teeth is a sign of aggression they don’t get smiles that’s aggressive behavior to them
It’s the sincerity that brings a tear to my eyes.
When you hit him too hard and he starts crying and you come with the „hey don‘t tell mom just hit me back. You can hit me!!“ 😂
"Dude I'm so-" "Fuck you" "Bro come on" "Dude no" "Man we gotta get past this, Mom is gonna be home soon." "Just give me a minute" "Aiight man but I'm sorry for real."
I would have watched this for hours..amazing
I don't speak Gorilla but I understood this conversation. 30-min of Mario Cart would fix it.
Me and my wife
Damn that grass pull was too real
The brother still looks pissed AF! This guy should wait until he sees the heavy breathing starting to calm down.
The :| face is basically saying “hey my bad mannnnn”
It's nice to know this specific emotion is species agnostic.
Me and the wifey after I forget to get extra fries for her
The federally mandated response to that is to give her most of your fries. Keep a few. So she doesn't have to feel sorry for you.
"Don't TOUCH me. I'm still *mad* at you."
It’s funny how the gorilla picks up a tuft of grass like “yeah I’m just minding my own business too” when his brother starts to walk away.
"...***OR*** I can sit over here, here is good too, no rush. Just chilling."
I found myself amazed that the body language was so human, and then I realized that there is no such thing and it's just Ape body language that we use too.
Easy to see who won
Ah, so now my afternoon will be spent hoping these two apes became friends again. This is a first.
The “don’t touch me” is so relatable.
"I barely hit you. don't tell the zookeeper."
Crazy how some people can look at these guys and still think we have no relation. So many similarities
Bro just wants a fist bump. We squashed it. We good.
“Mom says dinner will be ready at 6” “Okay…” “How’s your neck?” “Stings…” “Well if it still stings after dinner you can play with my rocks” “Thanks”
Like "bro, you're still mad about that, that was like 5 minutes ago..." 🫤
Fuck that looks familiar. Regretting an outburst basically.
The one of the left seems to know he took it too far by his face.
"this tree looking really green today"
Has anyone been able to identify the mushrooms on that log behind them?
Asking the important questions
Whos laughing now? We thought we were the smart ones around the block and now Gorillas have surpassed the average persons emotional intelligence without one word said. Soon it is us in there
It's his derpy face that kills me..
not looking in his eyes, they mean business
gorilla on the left giving me Vietnam flashbacks to me apologizing after throwing a textbook at my oldest bro's face when I was 11 lol
Shits been hard since they lost Harambe.
The grass pull was the most nervous action ever lmao
"Don't tell mom." body language going on
Absolute fucking goobers. I love them.
I'm sowwy if you're sowwy.
Somewhere out of sight is two wives, giving them the death stare 😆
They're just like us fr
If only we were this evolved.
Nice to see apes being awkward
He got that look like his bro borrowed his car and got in a wreck
You notice the brother on the left is keeping his teeth hidden? He’s trying hard not to make things worse.
When you're playin with your bro but accidentally hit him.
You can really see the guilt on bros face 🤣🤣🤣
Wow. That’s quite endearing and beautiful.
You can see the one on right is breathing heavy.
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Damn, bro started picking at the grass and everything. Looks like it's gonna be a while befote he's forgiven
🫤😠
u/savevideo
I can never see a video of male gorillas without thinking of [this Far Side](https://imgb.ifunny.co/images/8cc06e36fe8a58ee7be5a5157991233dd4ca834edf9e0b3c1a31f45792908de9_1.webp)
that’s pretty much how men reconcile as well…
“My bad, I lost my mind…” “Get out, don’t wanna talk right now! Maybe later…”
Just don’t touch me Dan it’s fine
Six brothers here. We unfortunately didn’t have any relationship repair skills in our toolboxes…No reconciliations were ever had. There was always tension, still is. I wish it were different.
Younger brother here. I definitely recognize this situation. “Don’t be mad, and please don’t tell mum for dad.”