Posted on 03/20/2018 12:59:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"Gorillas will occasionally stand up for a few seconds or walk a couple of steps, but what we see Louis doing is really walking clear across the yard, and that's quite special," said Michael Stern, a curator at the Philadelphia Zoo.
He says Louis walks upright for a number of different reasons.
"In the video, he does have his hands full of tomatoes, which is one of his favorite treats, and I think he just doesn't want to crush them by knuckle-walking, so he stands up and walks. He'll also do it more if the yard is muddy. For whatever reason, he does not like the feel of mud on his hands and he just likes to stand up and walk sometimes," Stern said.
Louis is not alone. A 27-year-old gorilla in England named Ambam made headlines in 2011 for his own human-like strut. Both Louis and Ambam walk upright to more effectively gather food...
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“likes to keep his hands clean”
More than can be said for most male humans.
Liberals will call that gorilla, proof of how evolution works
If he keeps walking upright for his entire life, we’ll be able to research his DNA and discover that he’s evolved into a human, but could not lose his hair and long limbs. His looks? Well, he’s not that different from some people I’ve known.
;)
It won’t be the first living thing to go crazy in a liberal zoo.
No comment,I’m in enough trouble as it is!
Let’s change his name to Felix Unger.
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