Ape Strength: Myth vs Reality

[Shadow]

(12-13-2018, 03:10 AM)brotherbear Wrote: Shadow says: I mean, leopards have killed also silverback gorillas in some occasions, but I don´t still think a second, that a 50-90 kg leopard would be stronger than a gorilla.  
 
Evidently, these incidents are rare. But why? Certainly a leopard has for greater experience and expertise in killing than a vegetarian gorilla. The answer is ( I believe ) the leopard knows that a gorilla is a big and very strong adversary. 

I mentioned that only to explain, that leopard killing a gorilla is not about it, which one is stronger and therefore it has really nothing to do with this topic here. Which is, that how strong is a gorilla? Discussing about what animal can kill a gorilla or not doesn´t give any information about it, that how strong a gorilla is, what comes to brute strength. So I hope, that discussions about predation would be off from this thread and focus would be finding and sharing information about gorilla strength. And if finding something credible, then consideration that do some case justify claims, that gorilla would be something extraordinary among other animals. Or at the same level as other animals same size? Or when comparing maybe pound to pound to what some other animal is able to do if cases are in some way comparable.

It is so easy to go to sidetrack and start to debate/discuss about irrelevant issue :) I think, that we had already discussion about gorillas and leopards in The Great Apes thread and nothing new to add to that discussion. And if is, there is a good place to continue that topic :) Reply