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Grizzly Bear |
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74 | 79.57% |
Gorilla |
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18 | 19.35% |
Gaz |
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1 | 1.08% |
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#106 | |
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Also, I don't know how many of you have actual been next to a Gorilla, and a bear, but I have been with 50 feet of both, with no barrier or protection between us (not at the same time, obviously) and I am telling you, the Gorilla is 100 times scarier than the bear.
They could both obviously kill a human, but the bear, who was in the wild, didn't scare me anywhere nearly as bad as the Gorilla. Stupidly, I felt like I could live through the bear encounter if things went south. There was cover, obstacles, weapons, etc. It was during a hunting trip. Actually, it was my very first hunting trip, and my last hunting trip. The Gorilla on the other hand, nearly made me piss myself. That's not hyperbole. I felt like my life could easily end in a split second. It grunted really loudly, and my soul left my body for a moment. I was in a ridiculous situation at the Atlanta Zoo in a work capacity and ended up somewhere I had no business being. So, I don't care about evidence this, evidence that. I know how I felt in both situations, and I know which animal looked like it would win between the two from an up close perspective, and it absolutely wasn't the bear. |
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Well that settles it. Gorilla it is.
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Besides the height, weight and strength advantage the grizz has something Magilla doesn't. Murder mittens.
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If a gorilla is trying to protect his troop, he's going to be very motivated. But the grizzly, not seeing gorillas as normal prey, will probably just try to look elsewhere for a meal. And the bear is never going to see the gorilla as a rival male competing for mates. So you kind of have to confine them to a cage or something. In that case I think the bear has an advantage, because the gorilla's nimbleness is negated. Otherwise there's really no realistic scenario where they both want to fight each other. |
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Im trying to find the article with no luck but I once read about how they used to set up fighting pits in California in the 1800s during the gold rush. It originally started with bears vs bulls until they started upping the ante (since the bears almost always won).
They had an account of a male African lion they brought to fight a Grizzly. The stupid, brave lion charged straight for the bear and got his skull crushed in one swipe lol And that’s a male lion. I’m sure a tiger would suffer a similar fate. All of these animals are in a class above a gorilla. |
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Thumbs bitches. Thumbs.
Let's see a bear pull this off... medulla oblongata? (and opposable thumbs) |
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Can't take a vegetarian silverback seriously. They just sit around all day eating plants (communists).
But this ****ing thing is evil and would murder and eat a grizzly. There's an inbred population of chimps in the congo with a footprint larger than a gorilla and they're known to use stone tools. They have no fear of humans (too remote) and the locals claim they hunt lions. Bear wouldn't stand a chance. |
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Only counter I have for that is that tigers are notorious ambush hunters. There’s likely very little chance the bear even saw the tiger coming. EDIT: Just saw your link. Makes more sense. Quote:
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Hands aren't coming off, so if the gorilla goes for the jaw, it might have a chance. Claws are a big issue. |
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You see those videos? That bear had a gash in its side the size of a dinner plate - gave no ****s. In the other video, the other bear had an entire mouth-full of his neck and he was still spinning around and slashing. I recently read a book called Icebound about William Berents and what ultimately became his final expedition. These guys essentially say "if you see one, don't run because it will catch you and don't shoot it because you'll just make it mad..." They started traveling in large groups so that 5 of them could shoot them. A committed bear just isn't going to back off. Tear it's jaw clean the hell off if you want - all you've done is open your rib cage to those claws pretty much splitting you in two.
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