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Shaquille O’Neal Reveals Gorillas Freak Out When He Comes Near, Miami Zoo Executive Confirms Story

Standing at 7’1″, while weighing in at around 330 pounds, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal can certainly look intimidating to others.

But apparently this does not only apply to humans, as Shaq recently revealed during his ‘The Big Podcast with Shaq’. The four-time champion explained that gorillas at every zoo he goes to freak out when he shows up, with things even going so far, that they want to fight him.

 “True story. I’ve been to every zoo in the world, and every time I go to the gorilla section, they look at me like, ‘hey man, where your fur at?’ For real. For real. That’s how they look at me. They also look at me like, ‘What am I doing in here and you out there?’ And they always go crazy when they see me…

…Every zoo in the world they go crazy. They try to break out the damn thing and try to fight me.”

To confirm this crazy story, O’Neal even called the director of Zoo Miami, Ron Magill, who then confirmed.

“The gorillas gets intimated, and he looks at Shaq and thinks that Shaq is going to take away his girls, and he gets tight-lipped and tries to stand up and make himself look as big as possible. But at the end of the day, it backs off. He knows who’s boss.”