• caoimhinr@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Biologist Dirk Draulans commented on this topic and his conclusion was that the first 10 to 20 people would be cannon fodder who’d get their limbs ripped off, but after two minutes the gorilla would tire and be overpowered. Similar to running it’s humans their endurance that wins over explosiveness.

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      If we allow for skilled fighters, I bet only a handful would even suffer serious injury before the gorilla was either tired out or choked to the floor. Gorillas aren’t that much bigger than a healthy male unless you’re only pulling from Indonesia or something ridiculous like that. 300-500lbs vs 180-200lbs. All the doubters are clearly imagining a 2000lb killing machine… (hell someone else was comparing them to mammoths!)