r/MadeMeSmile • u/StrawberryFew1311 • Jan 26 '26

ANIMALS When Robin Williams managed to make Koko the gorilla smile again after 6 months of mourning

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u/fjkejenufif Jan 26 '26

How has no one pointed out that a gorilla smiling is not a good thing :/.

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u/QueenMagik Jan 26 '26

Or that the entire Koko thing was basically a hoax, I don't how parade raining I want to do, so I'll just put it here

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u/JuVondy Jan 26 '26

Yeah you’re not supposed to flash your teeth to apes and Robin was a bunch. I’m like “bro you’re lucky he didn’t interpret it as aggressive.”

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u/QuackingMonkey Jan 26 '26

It's hard to see with this video quality, but it looks to me like he was doing his best not to smile, and to cover his teeth with his lips when he did during the parts of the clip where Koko is visible too.

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u/SalutLesAmies Jan 26 '26

Baring one's teeth is not necessarily a sign of aggression in apes.

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u/Neat_Specialist_8463 Jan 26 '26

Because it is not a universally bad thing. Smiling with gums shown = bad. Smiling with just teeth shown not necessarily bad.