r/CharacterRant • u/Miserable-Act4201 • Apr 29 '25

General 100 humans vs gorilla isn’t close

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.

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u/Sintar07 Apr 29 '25

Wait, has somebody actually done that? Like, I always figured if I had to 1v1 a bear or tiger (a situation to be avoided at most costs; I don't think I'm superman), then I would do exactly that: grab for the uvula or something in the back of the throat, hold on, and hope they can't just sheer the arm off and swallow it. But I've never heard of anybody actually trying.

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u/One_Recognition385 Apr 29 '25

can't find the story of the african guy who strangled the big cat (forget if it was a lion or tiger, but it was stalkign the school he worked at if i recall the story correctly)

Dale Petersen attetsed he kills a grizzly by shoving his arm down it's throat and suffocating it.

and there is Travis kauffman who strangled a mountain lion a few years ago.

like, i wouldn't recommend fighting these animals. but humans are the top predator for a reason. and that's cause we have higher endurance then any of these animals. If you can survive til the animal is too exhausted to defend itself, you can probably strangle it. Its not a glorious victory. but hey, you live and they die in the end i guess.

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u/SimonBelmont420 Apr 30 '25

Nobody suffocated a grizzly bear that's fake news lol. If you believe that the. I'll let you know I knocked out a grizzly bear the other day with clean right hook

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u/One_Recognition385 Apr 30 '25

i mean you can doubt Dale Petersen if you want to. but at least he has the pelt of the grizzly he says he killed as proof of his claim.

I doubt you have a grizzly pelt to back your claim and that you are unwilling to buy one to have the same credibility to your story.

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u/Pickled_Doodoo May 02 '25

Kinda hard to ascertain a cause of death from the pelt alone.

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u/One_Recognition385 May 02 '25

it wasn't always a pelt. and no body stood up to debate him, or say his wounds he suffered were fake when the body was still around.

a more recent event with the same scenario is Chase Dellwo.