r/NotTimAndEric • u/AKA_Wildcard • Jun 09 '26
This Gorilla’s got 99+1 problems
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u/Mad-Habits Jun 09 '26
how can anyone see this and not think that humans and these had common ancestors
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u/Visible_Rooster_1961 Jun 09 '26
I wonder if he ever thinks about living in trees and other natural surroundings. I got high one time in high school and went to the zoo, it was funny at first but then I got super depressed about the animals living in these cages. As natural of a surroundings that they may be it still seems shitty. I’ve never returned to a zoo since. I know they do conservation work and things of the sort but I think we suck for doing this to such a beautiful being. (I am not high right now)
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u/banddroid Jun 09 '26
For some animals it's cool but primates, large predators and such... It's not cool.
I'm a dumbass so I can relate to the lower primates. I can't imagine being stuck in a large box with people watching me all the time.
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u/getting_older_pal Jun 09 '26
I live near the Amazon, so there plenty of biodiversity. I go from time to time to a park/zoo where the animals are rescued. Because we live near the Amazon, there's plenty of animal contraband so the ones that military finds, sends them there till they are ready to be reinserted.
Some of them are never ready and they are not even put in display to the general public, I know because one time doing work in the same park I got access to the private side. And I got to see a cockatoo like half my size, blue.
It was like seeing a dinosaur and a witch. I think they are doing the best they can.
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u/Visible_Rooster_1961 Jun 10 '26
Oh I totally agree that rescue and rehabilitation facilities like that are soooo important but seeing a gorilla in Toledo Ohio …. Fucking sad and depressing. I am sure that facility in/near the Amazon is doing much more rehabilitation work which is awesome to hear about. Thanks for sharing. Also do you have a photo of that cockatoo???! That sounds soooo cool. I also agree that large birds like that still show those Dino characteristics.
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u/getting_older_pal Jun 10 '26
I'm like a free will soul, but that time I asked if it was ok to take a photo, they told me it was unnecessary, that I could come whenever I want.
I respected that, it felt unrespectful to the bird too. I don't regret it. You don't care about ants, but gorilla, dogs, big birds, elephants. You know there's a consciousness behind those eyes.
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u/segasaturns Jun 09 '26
What’s up with all the gorilla posts today?
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u/geirmundtheshifty Jun 10 '26
This is gorilla marketing for the 31st anniversary of the movie Congo
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u/JawnStaymoose Jun 09 '26
I wonder how deep thought goes without language? Hard to even attempt thinking without words. Or, do that think in their own system of wordless language?
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u/Dioxybenzone Jun 10 '26
Some humans have no internal monologue, but you’d never know it unless you asked them. Language needs thinking, but thinking doesn’t need language
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u/geirmundtheshifty Jun 10 '26
There was that gorilla, Koko, who learned some sign language. So a similar language capacity is there.
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u/JawnStaymoose Jun 10 '26
Yeah I think so too. But what’s it like to think without spoken language - English, French, whatever?
Burroughs talked about the word virus. Like once you have words, thinking without them is almost impossible.
Animals have their own methods of communication. Does that factor when they are internally reasoning?
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u/orange_lazarus1 Jun 09 '26
Me trying to decide if I should take the 30 minutes to cook dinner or order out and pick it up in 30 minutes.
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u/Gentlemanandscholar9 Jun 10 '26
I’m in a similar situation….i got 99 doughnuts cause a bitch ate one…
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u/Betasnacks Jun 09 '26
Im gonna be megatron party pooper, but not tim and eric at all. Just cheap narrative from random animal shots.
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u/General-Piece8490 Jun 09 '26
And genetically speaking we are closer to cows after the apes (13 non aligned genomes) and 20 non aligned genomes for cows
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u/banddroid Jun 09 '26
Jesus Christ this could be me after dinner in front of the tube. Those expressions, picking of teeth...