At first, I thought this would be a dude in a gorilla suit, but it turns out its real dancing gorilla. Shows you how coordinated these great apes really are.

that's nature for ya.. always something up its sleeve...graceful!

Awesome, (s)he utilizes conservation of angular momentum to increase the angular velocity by pulling the limbs close to its body. With grace, too!

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This means figure-skaters are like gorillas!

Or does it?

I have a new role model.

I think anyone who watches this has one word come to mind: Awesome.

S/he's having so much fun!

they could be, really good figure skaters...

It's like it's just in our DNA to shake your groove thang.

Rough translation:

"Inside the cage is 23 year-old King, a lowland gorilla. He's not wearing any skates. However, when the zookeeper wets down the floor, something amazing happens. The gorilla begins to spin on the slippery wet floor! King is very happy for the water and skates when it comes. No one has taught him this behavior. No matter how many times he spins, he never seems to get tired of it. And he has such splendid form. Eventually when he spins too much he gets dizzy and falls over!"

Thanks for the translation! I'm always so curious what those narrators are saying with their constant talking.

Amazing what you'll do for entertainment when you're trapped for the rest of your life in a 600 sq ft cage. Can't upvote in good conscience considering the "habitat". Sorry.

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Though it's in a zoo I still say this qualifies as *nature.

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Amazing what you'll do for entertainment when you're trapped for the rest of your life in a 600 sq ft cage. Can't upvote in good conscience considering the "habitat". Sorry.


Save the sappy sentimental environmentalism for pet stores and puppy mills. Gorillas in captivity are given more range than they need in the wild. Do some research and you'll find that once a male gorilla locates a group of females (who only migrate in rare cases), that's that, they're all pretty well settled. You see the little doors in the background? Those are to let him out into his range. Btw, zookeepers NEED to give gorillas this range, or else they would die. Also, this is a silverback who never would have developed into such without the requisite female harem and range I have described above.

Honestly, moral outrage should come from a place of higher knowledge, not ignorance.