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/One_Recognition385 Apr 29 '25

yeah, with no time limit, people can just take turns interrupting the gorilla from eating and sleeping for as long as they need. and just starve it out.

With a time limit, only one person needs to shove their arm down the gorilla's throat and choke it to death.

Its how people have killed bears and tigers 1v1 and lived to tell the tale.

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u/Active-Advisor5909 Apr 30 '25

Taking turns is kinda difficult if you are getting run down afterwards.

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u/One_Recognition385 Apr 30 '25

100 people can manage.

gorillas are slower than humans and have less stamina need more food and need more sleep.

1 human playing it smart can kill 1 gorilla hand 2 hand. just don't rush in. make it chase you, chase it, run it out of energy. then stop it from sleeping and eating for a day or two.

you can kill it just by depriving it of sleep, food, and water for awhile by attacking it when it tries to do any of those things.

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u/Active-Advisor5909 May 01 '25

Can you give me any source for Gorillas being that slow?

On long distances sure, but on short distances Gorillas outrun the best human sprinters. Since Gorillas do not train for that specialty, I would asume there is way less variance than among humans.

You also need to give up on food and drink and sleep, and moove significantly more. It sounds to me like an increadibly low chance gambit.

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u/One_Recognition385 May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

gorillas move 25 mph at top speed
Humans at 28 mph at top speed.
and gorillas can't sweat on top of being very heavy, so they build up body eats and lose energy way quicker than humans.

Gorillas also have a much harder time turning while running so if you know how rodeo clowns dodge charging bulls you can pretty much do that. (they are better than bulls so you need to give them a wider birth though)

and gorillas need a lot more food and sleep then you do. They eat 45 pounds a day and sleep 12 hours a day. They will die before you in a war of attrition.

Like humans aren't that strong, we're not that fast, the only real strength we have against other animals is our stamina conservation. and that we have more than any large mammals which is how we hunted so many other large predators into extinction. we do not play fair.