Gorilla

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roughly 100,000 chimps, 20,000 bonobos, 650 mountain gorillas, 120,000 lowland gorillas, 7,000 Sumatran Orangutans, 30,000 Bornean Orangutans and 6.8 billion humans
Bonobos love sex much more than we do. They have sex instead of saying "hi"

Our reproductive rate isn’t all that different to other apes.

There are other factors at work:-
+ our ability to adapt to different environments so that we inhabit virtually all land-based habitats
+ lower infant mortality and increased reproductive lifespan
+ as a dominant species we are destroying the habitats of the other apes so as they decline we increase

Based on DNA comparisons, it has been calculated that around 60,000 years ago the human race numbered only about 40,000 individuals living in a small area of Africa – not so very different from the other apes.

Lowland Gorillas at the Bronx Zoo

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I was watching National Geographic and they were showing lions. They talked about all these instincts they have. Then they showed a program on Lowland Gorillas. They talked about all the instincts gorillas have. I was wondering, outside of flight/flight, do humans even have instincts? Do we even have things that are born deep in the bone or has technology really taken our natural urges away, so we act out violently as a release of those urges? Ok I’m done, only insightful answers please?

Absolutely. Human or not, we are still considered animal.
1. The female instinct to protect their young from threats.
One family friend was ready to shoot someone who was drunk and tried coming into her house, thinking it was his ex’s house. He kept saying ‘let me in, let me in’, and the baby was sleeping in the same room. She went and grabbed a gun and pointed it straight at him and said ‘leave’. he got the message.

2. Believe it or not, a subconscious female desire to be with the alpha male, the breadwinner, the strongest male.

3. Of course, fight/flight

I guess another word for other instincts is ‘intuition’.

Lowland Gorillas at the Bronx Zoo

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I was watching National Geographic and they were showing lions. They talked about all these instincts they have. Then they showed a program on Lowland Gorillas. They talked about all the instincts gorillas have. I was wondering, outside of flight/flight, do humans even have instincts? Do we even have things that are born deep in the bone or has technology really taken our natural urges away, so we act out violently as a release of those urges? Ok I’m done, only insightful answers please?

Human beings have all those natural instincts that there can be, those fierce inborn instincts that are described as naturally necessary for perhaps a rudimentary survival; but human beings may spend most of their life trying to curb those instincts, to confine them within frames of some culture, with rituals imposed by superstructures contrived within a community or nation and with their religious practices.

Human beings, like all other ferocious expressions of life, are made in struggle and for struggle, in terror (fear) and in horror (nasty foes, competitors, fights, wars).

Humans have their natural instincts modified (curbed) by civilization and by culture; civilization tries to promote and love the instincts of empathy and of good harmonious interaction in certain ways among people and within nature while a culture will try to select, to prune off, to make you more "quadrangular" and or to perhaps package you in body and in soul.

Technology at worse may try and mechanically modify your own instincts thus wanting you to behave in the way of a predictable robot, and technology with its ever more advanced tools or machineries consciously or unconsciously will try and train your senses to the ways of terror and of horror, an example of this may be whatever we are entertained with through tv-channels of pistolero or machine-gun scenes, or other nasty aspects of human life as for instance whenever we shall see scenes where sly rambo people are trying and smashing the face of their opponents, etc.

Gorillas can be seen as more primitively nasty in that they more wildly will exercise their instinct of finding food, of fighting for mating for spreading the genes of the strongest male, of chasing away or subduing any opponents and of trying and avoiding to end up their life within the fauces of monstrous lions, or of avoiding getting shot dead by nasty human safari foes.

We human beings do have natural instincts that are sought modified through some refined styles of behaviour, thus we have rules about our instincts, like in the styles of playing cards, where we may try and satisfy our own instincts in some authorized or allowed way, like when we shall mate in order to get children and spread our genes, where we may be required to formally get married, perhaps blessed by a priest, before we legitimately can exercise and satisfy our own natural sexual instinct.

The same we might say about the instinct of calming down our hunger and of finding a shelter or any protection; we do not just take food, we do not steal food; we may be allowed the access to some food; we do not just peacefully occupy a shelter; we may have been working for somebody or for some firm in order to earn money, in order to earn "legal rights" for the access to food and to shelter for our children and for ourselves.

This was what I could immediately tell about some of our own natural instincts, some of the primary ones. Have some nice thoughts and great laughs about your own instincts during these feastly days of imminent year’s end.

I was watching National Geographic and they were showing lions. They talked about all these instincts they have. Then they showed a program on Lowland Gorillas. They talked about all the instincts gorillas have. I was wondering, outside of flight/flight, do humans even have instincts? Do we even have things that are born deep in the bone or has technology really taken our natural urges away, so we act out violently as a release of those urges? Ok I’m done, only insightful answers please?

The instinct to procreate, for one. The instinct to protect and nurture ones own children. To find shelter from the elements. There are more, but I think these are the ones less open to debate.

Just a short video of these giant primates doing what they do best: hanging out & enjoying a snack.

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…..you have an "attitude"?

yea i will use my anger to destroy them but if they gave me food and computer then sure i will be happy in this prison

a silverback munches leaves while two young gorillas play in the background

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