Man Hangs Out With Wild Gorillas

Well, by "hangs out" I mean "sits in the most submissive pose possible and hopes the gargantuan silverback momma doesn't decide to use him for a game of fetch." 

I mean holy ... wow. This is unreal. And even cooler is that this is like, this guy's life work, studying these things. And one day they just up and get friendly with him. Way too cool. Video and full story after the jump.

ABC News has the story: 

“Are you kidding me?! I’m a gorilla!”

These were John King’s words at the end of an experience he may never forget. The 680,000 people who have seen the Youtube video may not soon forget it, either.

On Dec. 11, King was in a private safari camp near Bwindi National Park, in Uganda, to see mountain gorillas. Apparently, they wanted to see him, too. He was sitting beside a trail when a family of wild gorillas joined him. Curious about their fellow primate, at least two of the gorillas touched King’s head and neck, smelled him and tasted him on their fingers.

Bwindi is home to roughly half of the world’s population of mountain gorillas (an endangered species) — roughly 350 individuals. Very occasionally young gorillas are curious about humans and may approach. Adult-gorilla-to-human interactions are virtually unheard of among the local rangers.

Visit ABCNews.com for the full story. 

It's probably best that King didn't react the way Ashton Kutcher's Two and a Half Men character does when he meets his long-lost brother–a 400-pound gorilla: