prolly is a mind altering experience though
Posted on 02/07/2022 7:34:19 AM PST by yesthatjallen
When we were kids visiting the zoo in the early 1970s, a chimpanzee named "Eddie" flung his poo at my sister.
Among many four legged critters standing up on hind legs (makes you appear bigger) is an act of aggression — “Come on, let’s do this!”
Look at any silver back. If they get up on two legs they are not seven feet tall. Bulky as a rhino, yeah. But, not tall.
So, if they see a 7’ tall dark ........ “thinggee” (they might not recognize as human — how many are that bleeding tall?) coming towards them, of course they freak.
Well, the elephants (okay, just one particular elephant) at the San Diego Zoo way back in 1982 liked to fling big piles of poo at the tourists.
” every time I go to the gorilla section, they look at me like, ‘Hey man, where your fur at?’”
Let a white guy say that to Shaq. LOL
I double checked. He completed BA in 2000 in general science, MBA degree in 2005, and started on PhD. No honorary degree would be enough to please Momma. He earned her approval.
One winner with one loser.
He’s black....pretty dark and huge
And both are hominidae ....he and the gorilla
I’m sure when George Bush or Obama go by the chimp cage it’s a similar reaction
Some folks look like wild animals ....
Folks get uncomfortable when some blacks are said to resemble apes
Some whites resemble huskie dogs in the face
Shack is good to make light of it
For some reason, Germans in Germany are fixated on the larger primates when they visit the zoo. This phenomenon has been noted since the 1920s and is still seen today. For many Germans, going to the zoo amounts to a mutual watching contest interrupted only by the laminate.
This being said, one has to wonder what would happen if Mr. O’Neal showed up to this mutual admiration society meeting. Gorillas staring at him on one side, Germans staring at him on the other.
In the mid-60s, visitors to the Portland Zoo were allowed to feed the animals. I recall seeing some guy try to hand a piece of food directly to one of the gibbons, whereupon the ape stripped the guy’s wristwatch from him and took off into the enclosure. It was pretty funny.
My husband and I saw Shaq in Toronto YEARS ago. The US Dream team was staying at the 4 Seasons hotel. My husband is 6’5”.
We saw Shaq outside the hotel, I wish I had a picture of my very tall husband standing in front of Shaq looking up at him to say hello. he was dwarfed.
Shaq was with a tiny little girl one night and literally took up the back seat of a Lincoln Town car.
Shaq is enormous, but was as friendly as he could be.
It’s the height and mass.
In my experience, most animals (except birds) don’t really notice skin color. Vision isn’t their main way of perceiving.
Gorillas everywhere agree, Shaq is king of the humans.
I’m 6’2” and about 200lbs. I was at a function where Shaq made a brief appearance and I got within about ten feet of him. It was like being six years-old and standing next to a full grown man. He is freaking huge.
Shaq, who is 7 feet 1, 325 pounds, then called the animal expert Ron Magill, the communications director for Zoo Miami. Magill is also a bit of a “zookeeper to the stars” and a celebrity in his own right.
That could be read to mean “7 foot 1,325 pounds.” Lol.
This was a while ago, but there were time the refs called fouls on Shaq just because he was Shaq.
His house is awesome. He took a reporter through jt once. And he has special fun vehicles made specifically for him. The interview was pretty cool- might been 60,minutes, or,the rich and famous, or something like that- it’s the fella that interviews megastars all the time.. I guess he does a lot,with youth too, trying to keep them put of trouble.
prolly is a mind altering experience though
That is an amazing photo, not just because Shaq is so huge, but because Simone Biles is basically a dwarf. Wow.
Every time I see that gif it brightens my day!
Who is she?
What happens in a human crowd when some 7 foot tall guy who weighs around 400 pounds enters the room? He’s getting the same attention from those gorillas that he gets from humans. Shaq is noticeable, and gorillas are close enough to us to notice the same things.
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