This simian slide put King Kong’s entrance in the 1933 flick to shame.
After effortlessly sliding into the frame like a boss, a silverback gorilla made South Carolina Zoo-goers scream. This clip was created by TikTok and has 64 million views.
Tina Flick is the guest photographer. The video begins with gorillas playing in an enclosure at Riverbanks Zoo, Columbia.
Then, it’s on like Donkey Kong: a giant silverback bursts into the enclosure from the back room and slides right up to the glass so it’s face-to-face with the observers, who can be heard laughing nervously.
“That scared the heck out of me,” Flick exclaims in the background.
The “396-pound beast,” allegedly named Cenzoo, then wheels around so its behemoth hairy booty is oriented toward the camera, before sauntering into the gorilla door from whence it came.
It was obvious that viewers agreed that Cenzoo, 26, knew how to make an impression.
“And THAT’S how to make an entrance,” exclaimed one awestruck viewer, while another wrote, “WHY’D HE BACK IT UP ON YOU IM CRYINGGG.”
“He’s smiling too, he’s done this before,” speculated one armchair gorilla expert. Others labelled the move the “smoothest” thing ever with some comparing it to the “electric slide” while others believed he was aping Michael Jackson’s moonwalk.
One even suggested she pair the clip with the “Tokyo Drift” soundtrack, which Flick obliged in a video with 2.4 million views.
Cenzoo was transferred to Riverbanks from the Birmingham Zoo, which described the alpha male on its site as a beast that enjoys “his food,” with favorites including “fresh fruits and vegetables, leafy greens, fresh cut tree branches and alfalfa hay.”
“Like most adult gorillas, Cenzoo spends a good amount of time resting but he also enjoys other activities such as observing the activities of the train behind the Primate Building, using tools, and engaging in training sessions with his zookeepers,” they wrote.
In September, a frisky Gorilla performed oral sex on its partner before a group of shocked guests at the Bronx Zoo.
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