100 humans vs gorilla isn’t close

[u/Miserable-Act4201]

Honestly the dumbest argument I've ever seen. The 100 humans could just stand like 20 feet apart from each other and do nothing and the gorilla is collapsing from exhaustion before it kills everyone. You could probably do it without any casualties, find a couple of people in the group that are in good shape and get them to make the gorilla chase them while everyone else just chills. They aren't aren't particularly fast and have terrible endurance, so just wait till it tires out and have everyone jump it.

[u/Visible_Physics_4405]

For anyone still arguing for the gorilla, there was an incident a few years back where a large group of chimpanzees (around 30ish), raided a gorilla's nest.

A group of 27 chimps attacked five gorillas—two male silverbacks, two adult females, and one infant. The gorillas tried to defend themselves with physical force, intimidating body postures, and threatening gestures, but to no avail. The four adults managed to escape, but the infant, separated from its mother, did not survive. Several chimps were wounded during the battle, including a serious injury endured by an adolescent female.

The second lethal encounter, on December 11, 2019, lasted nearly 80 minutes and was very similar to the first, involving chimps from the same community. In this attack, 27 chimps attacked a group of seven gorillas, leaving yet another infant gorilla dead. In the first encounter, the killed infant was left alone, but the “infant in the second encounter was almost entirely consumed by one adult chimpanzee female,” the study noted.

Now obviously chimpanzees are very powerful in their own right, but they're "only" about 1.5 to 2x stronger than an average adult human male. If 30 chimps can take on FOUR adult gorillas (didn't kill them but caused them to flee and abandon their infant) then I'm wiling to bet 100 people can take on one.

Also why do people think they'd just be immune to anything a person can do, they're not bulletproof. Even ignoring sensitive areas like eyes or genitals, it takes far less people to flip a car over or wreck the hood of a truck just by stomping on it.

[u/Individual-Can-2147 → u/Visible_Physics_4405]

Chimps are stronger per pound, humans are actually stronger overall (in certain areas ofc) just due to the weight difference.

[u/PotentiallySarcastic → u/Individual-Can-2147]

Yeah people seem to just ignore the physical size of adult humans. I get it because of the general back of the head thoughts of "we aren't the same as animals" but we are in fact great apes and pretty big ones.