Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "Casual Geographic" channel.

  1. Years ago, I saw a video of some very stoned teenagers hanging out at a zoo window to a gorilla enclosure. They were laughing and knocking on the glass at the gorilla who was a few feet away. He kept looking over and then looking away, and apparently he decided to pull a prank, because he CHARGED the glass and thumped against it. The kids shrieked and then laughed, but the great thing was what the gorilla did afterward. He ran off a ways, sat down with his back to the kids, and I swear he started laughing. His shoulders shook up and down, and he made grin/barking motions with his mouth. That was absolutely a gorilla saying to himself, "HA, I showed them! Dam stoners!" One of the funniest things I've ever seen; unfortunately, I've never been able to find the video again, though I've been trying ever since.
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  2. There's a great video on here of a gorilla family walking through a nature resort, down the trail that people use. They walk around, the dad is looking at the road, seemingly thinking, "Eh, I could make a better road, this laid out sloppy," while the mother shepherds her kids through. They then sit down and hang out, right next to a guy with a camera who is crouching by the trail. He's ecstatic, trying not to move so they'll feel safe. The kids start climbing on him, and the mom gently pulls them away when they get too rough. "Be careful, honey, they're delicate. You don't to hurt the humans, do you?" They eventually get up and leave, it's amazing. I keep thinking they had been out in the bush and the kids started begging, "Can we go see the humans, Pop? PLEEEEEASE??" You can see the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H7zcqjplc
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  3. It's heartening to know gorillas go NOM NOM NOM
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  4. Yes, it's upsetting, but it's absolutely standard practice in the sciences. If there's ANY way for a male colleague to rip off a female scientist's work, he'll do it. It's been done for centuries and is STILL going on.
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  5.  @ScaryMonstersSuperCreeps69  Still no reason to throw them out. Just eat 'em a little bit at a time!
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  6. Fun fact: If you sit in the meerkats' terrirtory long enough, a scout will climb to the top of your head to look around.
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  7. Acid didn't have much to do with that. Think of all the "talking ape" horrors that have been perpetrated, including poor Koko. Spent her entire life in a trailer to satisfy some ninny's delusion that she was actually talking. One of the saddest things I've ever heard of.
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  8. Yep. Not much out there a dolphin wouldn't try to roger, given the chance. Including by force - dolphins have been recorded committing gang rape.
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  9. @anonymousperson8259 You're welcome! I love seeing how similar we all are.
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  10.  Seeing Star  Flagged for commercial spam. Knock it off.
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  11. Polar bears are the original Mongos - if you shoot them, you'll just make them mad.
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  12. You sure Waffles didn't get popular because of that ultra-cool neckware?
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  13. We gotta remember that labels are a human thing. Animals just do what they do.
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  14. The onion domes on the Kremlin are covered in gold leaf, and every couple of years it has to be fixed because all the ravens using the domes as ski slopes keep scraping the gold off. Seriously.
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  15. Hey, at least it starts eating at the head. The Tasmanian Devil starts at the other end. RUDE.
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  16. It's hilarious the pretzels scientists will twist themselves into in order to avoid admitting that animals do anything for the same reasons humans do. ETA: Now I want to find a ceramic artist willing to make me a puffer fish pipe.
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  17. In the 60's film, Animals Are Beautiful People, there was awesome footage of an annual blowout held in the Kalahari Desert each year when the fruit from a certain kind of tree falls to the ground and rots. This results in fermentation, and apparently the animals in the area wait all year for the drunken bash that ensues. It's very amusing.
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  18. @thesnowfox7262 You're welcome! It's one of my favorites.
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  19. "Why?" Because F'CK ORCAS, that's why.
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  20. So Baloo was a sloth bear? OMG I JUST GOT THE JOKE. 😂 It's hard to look badly on these guys for merking babies when we do that kind of thing, too. (Yeah, I'm using the collective "we", so whoever's getting ready to spew, you're fine. I myself have not eaten any underaged creature knowingly since I was 9 and saw that goddamn photo of the veal calf. I draw the line at children, thanks. That thing gave me nightmares for years.) It's kind of funny how hands-off we can get about dealing with animals like the baboon, considering that if the shoe were on the other foot, the baboons would have no problem at all with getting rid of as many of us as necessary to put things right. We really have to stop thinking of ourselves as somehow not the same as other animals. It causes no end of problems.
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  21. And yet dolphins will pass a pufferfish around like a spliff.
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  22. Kangaroos have one very dangerous land predator they have to deal with - humans. Humans make pies out of them, you know. (For real; you can find the recipe here on YT.)
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