But not the reason you think.

  • Naja Kaouthia
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    1657 months ago

    Pictured: The moment everything went off the fucking rails. (2016, colorized)

    • @rtxn
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      Bon Jovi David Bowie and Harambe were the cosmic glue that kept the universe’s shit together. Nothing’s been normal since their deaths.

    • NakamuraEmi_bias
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      After the following years, I’ve quietly taken the whole “this is when we diverged into the darkest timeline” schtick an iota more seriously. It’s been a strange 8 years.

    • @HootinNHollerin
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      I just died crying laughing at the combo of post and top comment

  • @[email protected]
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    Do gorillas kill babies of other animals, monkeys or humans?

    I just dont really believe that Harambe would have done anything to that baby.

    • Karyoplasma
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      It’s a wild animal caged for display. As in: may act erratically.

    • @Ballistic_86
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      In this particular situation, Harambe was causing harm to the child, more of a curiosity but with a very strong and less dexterous creature. I don’t think a wild animal should be held accountable for being themselves. So his death is still bullshit.

      There is another example of a child falling into a gorilla enclosure and a female gorilla protected the child from the other gorillas until the zoo staff arrived.

      Most males in the animal kingdom are, at best, indifferent to children of other males/species. At worst, they actively kill babies from other males.

    • Phoenixz
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      They may or may not. I’ve seen a documentary once about a Jaguar that killed a gazelle (I believe) that just had its calf born. The mother was dead and being eaten, the calf had nowhere to go and just stayed with the Jaguar who then sort of accepted the calf and let it live. They became this super weird parent - offspring pairing that, of course, didn’t work. The calf needed feeding, there were obviously no gazelles near, and if I recall correctly it either died soon from malnutrition, or after a few days the Jaguar just killed it anyway. The narrator speculated that the Jaguar might have lost its offspring shortly before and still had that motherly instinct.

      Moral of the story is. Animals are driven by instinct and hormones, don’t trust they will not shred you.

    • @Sorgan71
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      He would have killed it but I believe a gorilla is worth more than a kid. even 5

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      There was another incident of a gorilla protecting a child that had fallen into the habitat from other gorillas. So, I think it depends on the gorilla.

  • @paddirn
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    137 months ago

    Harambe, Blessed be thy name.

  • @Pencilnoob
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    67 months ago

    Oh man this good me laughing way too hard, well done

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    After the kid is removed

    sigh unzips