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Gorilla wasn’t happy with getting his picture taken, so he flipped the photographer the bird

THIS gorilla looks kind enough, but when a photographer tried to snap his photo he wasn’t happy and responded in the best possible way.

Is this the world’s rudest gorilla?
Is this the world’s rudest gorilla?

WE’VE all been there before, eating a nice meal, enjoying a little peace and quiet when all of a sudden our moment of Zen is punctured by a noisy intruder.

That’s exactly what happened to a gorilla who was intruded upon by a photographer at the Bristol Zoo in Bristol, England. But instead of keeping his cool, this gorilla did what we’ve all wanted to do, he flipped the bird at the annoying intruder.

The gorilla in question was minding his own business, chewing on some grass, when he noticed approaching shutterbug Bob Pritchard.

Spotting Pritchard’s lense, the gorilla stared straight at the photog, put on his best annoyed face, and extended his middle finger.

“He really does look a bit cheesed off,” Pritchard told Caters News of the moment captured in his pictures.

“As I spotted him he was just playing with some grass.”

“Gorillas have fantastic hearing so when I started clicking he must have heard me.”

“When I saw the pictures, I just thought, ‘You little devil.’”

“I quite regularly photograph the animals at Bristol, but I’ve never seen anything like this.

“Gorillas are really good at expressing their feelings.”

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