The Great Apes

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(10-14-2018, 12:21 AM)brotherbear Wrote: As for breaking the large stalk of bamboo, no, the great ape held it as he had watched the man do, in both hands, and easily snapped it in half.  A gorilla is much stronger than any man of equal height. But just how strong is left unknown. 
I find that people are in two classes when talking about the gorilla. On the one side are those who grew up with the B-movie monster gorilla and the other side who sees ONLY the tender-hearted vegetarian who would be completely helpless in a fight. 
I stand in the middle here. I believe that after a million years or so, the leopard has learned that a bull gorilla is no joke. On the other hand, if someone were to release tigers into the African Congo, the gorilla would have a serious problem.

Have you ever seen gorilla do it? As far as I know gorillas bite it first and then snap when it is weakened. I have never seen in any video where gorilla just snaps bamboo with bare hands. Also I haven´t read anyone to see it, but I have read, that they do it biting it first, not just snapping it. I simply don´t know if they are able to do it, but I haven´t seen any researcher to verify such thing to happen or seen anyone telling actually seen that.

Many times people tend to exaggerate when they are talking about animals they like. I also think, that stronger tahn humans, but I don´t think, that stronger than some other animal same size. At least I have never seen any indication for some "superstrength". And since you mentioned leopards, it is no secret, that gorillas are afraid of leopards, but that is not about strength, a different story totally of course. "Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution" for instance is a good book, if you are interested about that subject. My point is not to say, that gorillas wouldn´t be strong, I just haven´t seen any actual proof about something so extraordinary as some people tend to believe. I am interested too if there is some information. But of course I understand, that it is far more important for researchers to focus conservation of them, not to waste time to basically nonsense, when thinking about gorilla situation. Reply