THEY'RE NOT so different from us: wild gorillas have been photographed getting drunk and rowdy after overindulging on alcoholic sap from fresh bamboo shoots.
British wildlife photographer Andy Rouse took the photos of the mountain gorillas, the same endangered species that featured in the Hollywood hit film Gorillas In The Mist, in the central African nation of Rwanda, UK tabloid the Daily Mail reports.
'It was not exactly Gorillas In The Mist, more like gorillas who were pissed," Rouse told the paper.
The pictures show a gorilla swigging bamboo sap and then looking alternately aggressive and befuddled. The next day, he appeared ruefully hung over, with his head held in his hands.
"The boss of the group, a huge silverback called Kwitonda, and some of the younger males were completely out of it," Rouse told the Daily Mail. "Some were running round cackling to each other, others were going mad swinging through the trees, some were just lying on the ground in an inebriated state.
"When I went back the next day, it was all very quiet, as if they were nursing gorilla-sized hangovers."
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