Do you ever wonder why gorillas are such aggressive animals?
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Yes, I wonder that...they say we come from gorillas, maybe that's the reason so many people are mean and have a fighting instinct....God bless
368677
maybe because they are less agile than that of a smaller animal there by needing only to consume such quantity of food, and also bigger animals has the ability to conserve energy in their body......i guess
397371
why, if humans evolved from apes, are there still apes hanging around?\n\ndoesn't evolution say we should outperform them to survive, and so they die off??
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I collect rhino merchandise, and have always been fascinated with the animal.  I do know they are the only animal on earth who is not scared of fire.  Whether they go out and stamp out fires I do not know.  \n\nI am sure if one is threatened by fire, it will go on the aggressive and attack it, but I don't think they would go running toward one that was far away.  Keep in mind, their sense of eyesight is very poor, and they rely very heavily on their sense of hearing and smell to detect what is around them.
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Yea me to.  I guess because there helpless little creatures and people have a tendency to be mean.  You get to thinking they deserve it.  But cows don't shoot people or cut off their testicals.\nDeer don't shoot people they just try to run away.l\nWoW  I killed him before he could get away.  What! so that makes you a man?  You killed bambi with a high powered riffle and now your a man?  WoW  I'm impressed.  See I didn't say Butt head.  I'm getting better.
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Guerilla with full combat gear would have the advantage over a Grizzly Bear.\nA GORILLA, on the other hand, may not fare so well against either.  Both the Grizzly and Gorilla have massive strength to size ratios, but the Grizzly wins out hands down on the claws and teeth aspect while the Gorilla is mainly an herbivore with no claws and dentition to match.
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At a Zoo near me a few years ago the Gorillas there gave birth to a baby gorilla. I remember seeing on the news for fun the BABY gorilla used to tear car tires apart.\n\nGorilla's strength is unbelievable! It would absolutely tear a human apart no matter who they were.
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Such behavior may seem unreasonable, because a smaller species has more to lose when facing a larger one, in terms of cost/benefit. But in the particular case of breeding birds, they have an added value, namely, the defense of their nests and chicks. Therefore, for them the benefits of attacking a larger predator are greater than the costs. \nThere are some very aggresive and territorial small species, particularly hummingbirds and many tyrannids.\n\nIn the same manner, often the "owner" of a particular territory will win a fight against a larger "outsider". The interpretation is that the smaller but local animal will have greater interest in defending the territory that it already knows and exploits, than the foreign individual who will only give a halfhearted fight.
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I think of the saddest moment in my life...\n\nWe were all out at the zoo one day, I was doing some acting, walking on the railing of the gorilla exhibit. I fell in. Everyone screamed and Tommy jumped in after me, forgetting that he had blueberries in his front pocket. The gorillas just went wild. They jumped all over his body and threw him around like a rag doll to get to those blueberries. One gorilla would throw him to another gorilla who tossed him to another. Everyone panicked and cried out for somebody to help but it was too late. The gorillas beat him to death before the zookeepers could gas them all.
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Yes they certainly do, all these emotions and more. They even love and show their affection very generously. They are very sensitive, and often more sensible than some humans. \nThey nurture their young and grieve when the young are taken away/killed/harmed in any way. They fret for days if their keepers/masters are away, and even if the household pets of other species living with them are taken away/missing
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Some animals do laugh-I've personally seen Shamoo, the killer whale at Sea World float right up to the glass wall of his tank and wait for a bunch of people to get close.  When he had a good crowd, he'd very suddenly jump up and crash down drenching them all.  Then he'd stick his head out of the water and laugh at them-a high pitched "eh-eh-eh" sound-but clearly laughter. I've seen a siverback gorrila at a zoo laugh too-after he scared the hell out of some obnoxious school kids.  I watched both these animals, and they would repeat this behaviour often-telling me that they A) Got some genuine enjoyment out of it and B) Actively set these scenarios up.  So, as with most other forms of behavior, humans do not have a monopoly on laughter.
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Think of it this way (VERY simplified example here):\n\nIn Africa, the jungle borders on the plains. There's a population of ape-like primates that live in the jungle. The population gets too big, so another population branches off after a few thousand years, and lives on the plains. Thep lains are a whole diffeent story compared to the jungle. Different predators, different fod supply, different enviroment. It's very tough out there. Only the apes who have adaptations to living on the plains survive. These keep getting better and better at it, and eventually become humans.\n\nMeanwhile, th apes that stayed in the jungle also face changing conditions, though obviously not as big a change as jungle-grasslands. But, they keep getting better t what they do in more subtle ways (subtle since they don't have as ig a change to deal with). These eventually become modern apes. They look more like the original apes than humans do because they stayed in the ame environment, but eventually even those original apes all died out or became chimps, gorillas, etc.\n\nIt's possible that someday, some chimps might move out onto the plains. Maybe they'll evole some of the same adaptations that humans did, but they wn't BE humans any more than dolphins are sharks (just becasue they evolved in a similar environment and ended up looking sorta like sharks).
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i agree we need to protect these endangered species.more should be done to protect them.instead of the goverment wasting money some should be used to help these animals,i always give money to help.if i had my way i would go to where these gorillas are and help.to your previous question i would save the gorilla hands down,im glad your passion on saving endangered species is important,im totally with you on this
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You should watch a programme on Animal Planet called Monkey business........... The Alpha males of the group rear up on their legs and disply strength by puffing out their chests, beating them and then thumping the ground!!\nSound familiar??\n\nWe all evolved from apes (apparently) it is just that women knew when to stop acting like them!!
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There are a lot of urban myths, this could be one. Still it is possible that a social animal like dolphins may try to help a human in distress. I suspect that they would easily detect our panic with their hearing. I doubt that it is totally instinctive since there is no apparent value to the dolphin. It could be play. Have you seen the footage of killer whales tossing seal cubs around as toys? Unfortunately there are records of dolphin pods fighting each other.
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I agree, you even see this in animal behaviour. Animals like elephants take care of their young and only kill when in danger, or when they feel danger. Elephants normally don't kill humans but because of lots of poachers, they do now. Elephant’s memories are apparently very good. We are of course much more evolved than elephants.
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Even monkeys make war. Its nature.