Ape Strength: Myth vs Reality

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@Shadow:

About #7 and #8: I said that the gorilla is a very strong animal, but I didn't compare it with the bears ! No doubt, IMO, that a big bear are stronger than any gorillas, and even pound for pound a gorilla against an equal-weight bear, the bear would have the edge. Any bear know how to fight and kill efficiently, and, I can be wrong, not the gorillas.

Any silver back gorilla, muscularly speaking is much more stronger than a leopard. But the fact to know that , despite of this, a 60-kilo-leopard is able to kill a 180-kilo-silvar-back gorilla, makes me believe that a gorilla isn't at all a vicious animal when it comes to fight. Whereas the leopard, compared to it, is a "professionnal killer". Thus I'm agree too with @brotherbear when he told that the gorillas would have serious problem if they had to interact with tigers in the same biotop. Surely, they would react as orangutans in Sumatra by staying upto the trees all the time.

We have to discern the muscular strength and the ability to fight, to kill. A big plow horse is perhaps muscularly stronger than a lion or a tiger. But no doubt that a big cat would kill it and not the opposite.


Gorillas are very "gentle" animals... Reply