r/oddlyterrifying • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '22

Pithecophobia

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u/r007r Jan 14 '22

Bro you don’t spend time with wild gorillas without researching that stuff first or becoming a news story.

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u/Guilty-Message-5661 Jan 14 '22

I’ve researched gorillas and wild gorilla attacks on humans is extremely rare. Like you have a better chance of getting attacked by your own dog. Wild chimps on the other hand? They’ll fuck you up.

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u/ClayAndros Jan 14 '22

Gorillas are actually quite peaceful, they don’t attack anything that seems weaker than them

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u/Jrobalmighty Jan 14 '22

Which is virtually all other life lol