Silverback Gorilla Exercises Dominance But Slips And Embarrasses Himself

A hilarious footage has emerged of an over-confident male gorilla exercising dominance in his zoo enclosure. However, his heroic act was tainted with an epic slip up. Who would have known that even a silverback gorilla can slip up? He slipped so much that he did the splits! Adorable!Show more

Imagine going to the ZOO to visit all those exotic animals, only to have a 375 pound male gorilla lunge at you in his enclosure! In this clip, we see a massive silverback male showing visitors and other gorillas in his enclosure that he is the alpha!

Glass or not, watching a gorilla charge at you only to pound on its chests, is definitely a scary experience! In this video, we are fazed by what the huge mammal is trying to achieve, but eventually, karma takes things in her own hands.

This is typical behavior, it is just what male gorillas do. They just exude that dominance and they want to show that any way they can, while making a lot of noise and fuss about it. The pounding of chests and the angry charging, makes gorillas seem pretty scary to be around!

In this compilation of several footages, we see a male silverback gorilla exercising dominance in a zoo enclosure. In the first footage we see a male gorilla pounding his chests, showing the others who’s in charge. Next, he charges straight down the grass with such incredible force, but slips in the process. What an embarrassment for such alpha male, we’re sure! Next time, we hope he learns how to hold his horses, and exercise his dominance elsewhere!

We have seen male gorillas in action many times and we know their dominant behavior. If you haven’t stumbled upon harsh gorilla dominance, make sure you stick around for a moment to witness the action as a self-confident male beats his chests for attention. It's all for recognition!

The hierarchical organization is typical for many species of gorilla; the only question is what this hierarchy is like. We can say that hierarchically structured teams of gorillas can be of fundamentally dissimilar. First, these are structures with egalitarian dominance. This means that the team has a leader and subordinates. But subordinates have enough freedom of choice, freedom of action in relations with each other and even in relations with the leader. Secondly, it is a rigid despotic structure, like you can clearly see in the video on the top of the page, under which a linear vertical is built, and each higher rank dictates all of its requirements to the lower one. And the inferiors are deprived of the right to vote.

Each type of gorilla has its own structure of the collective. Of course, within each species at the population level, there are variations, but, in principle, each structure has a constant structure. The social structures in gorillas are sufficiently well defined and outlined, the rules of behavior are defined within the limits of these structures by species-specific opportunities.

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