A man at the USA zoo has proved gorillas aren’t that different from human beings. It’s just too bad Jelani doesn’t seem to have been taught sign language – otherwise, maybe he’d be able to help choose the perfect filter and caption.

The man holds his phone up against the window and scrolls through photographs while the huge ape watches attentively. He nodded, then looked expectantly at the boy for the next photo.

The man and the gorilla appear to bond as they gaze into the phone, before both recline into a corner to relax as they continue to look through images.

“I stumbled upon the boy sharing pictures with Jelani touring the zoo with my one-year-old daughter”, the video maker said. The gorilla “sat down next to the kid and motioned for him to change pictures”, Ross writes.

The video was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday and it has already been viewed over 500,000 times.