Grizzlies are twice as big as gorillas. Now if you say a small male grizzly at 500 lbs vs. a big-ass male gorilla at 500 lbs, I'll take the gorilla. [Reply]
Unless you could train the gorilla to use weapons, it probably wouldn't have much of a chance. Gorillas don't hunt for most of their food, they forage. Meanwhile, grizzlies are just straight up murder machines 100% of the time. Being a full time active predator is going to give the grizzly a huge advantage. [Reply]
They're pretty light on their feet. They might be able to bob and weave on the bear. Maybe they'd be smart enough to go for the bear's eyes. That or try to rip its jaw apart.
Again, assuming similar weights. No way a gorilla stands a chance vs. a 1,000 lb grizzly. [Reply]
They're pretty light on their feet. They might be able to bob and weave on the bear. Maybe they'd be smart enough to go for the bear's eyes. That or try to rip its jaw apart.
Again, assuming similar weights. No way a gorilla stands a chance vs. a 1,000 lb grizzly.
They’ll do none of that. They’re 400 pounds of testosterone-driven muscle. Nothing more.
Look at how they fight. They just try to brute force dominate their opponent. Imagine trying that with an 800-pound Grizzly, that also happens to have a mouth full of sharp teeth and five 6-inch claws on each paw. [Reply]
Think about how soft a gorilla’s skin is compared to a Grizzly’s as well. What’s that flesh gonna do when it gets raked by the bear’s claws and teeth? Even if it was a close fight, which it wouldn’t be, the gorilla would bleed out long before the Grizzly. The silverback would look like hamburger meat. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fish:
Unless you could train the gorilla to use weapons, it probably wouldn't have much of a chance. Gorillas don't hunt for most of their food, they forage. Meanwhile, grizzlies are just straight up murder machines 100% of the time. Being a full time active predator is going to give the grizzly a huge advantage.
Actually, don't grizzlies eat a lot of plants? When I did my bear tour in Alaska, they were wandering around eating grass, and I remember that they go crazy for berries.
And in Alaska a lot of their murdering is salmon, which isn't exactly a fair fight.
I wonder what proportion of a bear's diet is large prey.
Hmm, looking at a few links, it appears that it varies by location, but most grizzly-type bears get a majority of their calories from plants. Kodiak bears are a bit of an exception because they hit the salmon sushi bar hard. But I'm sure they're murder machines 24/7 even if they prefer the salad bar sometimes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief:
Grizzly would make quick work of the gorilla, their claws would slice through a gorilla like a hot knife through butter...
I feel like a gorilla could defend itself to a certain extent, but there’s no way a gorilla can kill a grizzly. Hell, grizzly’s have a tough time making marks on other grizzlies when they fight, if that grizzly fight on the movie “Grizzly Man” is any indication.
A grizzly wins this fight. Although I do think it could be up for debate if gorillas weighed just as much as grizzlies… in which they aren’t even close. [Reply]