A gorilla would reach the fight with more physical strength, much stronger jaw muscles and thick skin that is difficult to penetrate, said Tara Stoinski, president and executive director and scientific director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, to Forbes, and added that even if the men win, probably not everyone would come out alive.
Adult male gorillas, known as silver back, can weigh more than 400 pounds, and Stoinski said it is estimated that they are between four and 10 times stronger than humans.
“It’s just a matter of numbers,” Stoinski said, adding that the human capacity to elaborate strategies, coordinating and performing multiple tasks would give an advantage that the gorilla could not overcome if it was surrounded at all angles.
Stoinski said that gorillas are usually calm and known as “Gentile giants”, citing their family -oriented nature, but they would defend themselves to defend their family if they are cornered, stating that their “size and strength are for a reason.”
Stacy Rosenbaum, an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he teaches about the behavior of primates, told Forbes that an additional problem that the gorilla can face is that “it will certainly get tired, and probably quite fast”, because the gorillas “are not resistance athletes” as are humans.
Rosenbaum cited a viral simulation that a user published in X that shows humans approaching the gorilla in waves of a few at a time, stating that the gorilla could easily dominate a few humans at the same time, which would give him an “opportunity to fight”, although he can wear out.
Who else has intervened in the viral question?
The presenter of ESPN, Stephen A. Smith, discussed the question on his program on Tuesday, suggesting that 100 men could win if everyone was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The ESPN presenter, Pat Mcafee, headed a panel that discussed the viral question in his program on Monday. “I go with the 100 guys if they are from Chicago,” said former NBA player Quentin Richardson, suggesting that 25 men could hold each of the gorilla extremities. Mrbeast, the star youtuber who headed the forbes list of the creators with the highest income of 2024, joked in an X post that wants 100 volunteers to try the hypothetical fight. Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, apparently offered as a volunteer in an answer: “Of course, what is the worst that could happen?” The Peta’s rights organization left a critical response to Mrbeast: “100 men against a gorilla? Maybe try 100 reasons to leave animals out of content …”
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Who believes the users of the social networks that would win?
Both the gorilla and the army of men have found support on social networks. Tiktok @flossybaby user published to her 4.5 million followers who believes men would win because the gorilla is “severely surpassed in number” and suggested that all men would have to ambush the gorilla at the same time, although he acknowledged that “there will be at least 10 of you who will die.” Another user obtained more than 570,000 I like in a video in which he states that he believes that men would win as long as they are “dedicated” and “willing to die for the cause.” Joe Bartolozzi, a Tiktok user with almost 25 million followers hesitated that an army of 100 men could dominate the gorilla, stating that the gorilla could easily knock out human rivals, while humans would not have an easy way to eliminate the gorilla. An X user obtained 250,000 like by stating that those who put on the side of the 100 men should “be serious”, publishing photos of the muscular height of a gorilla and its huge and sharp teeth.
How was the question of the 100 men viral against the gorillas?
Although the question went viral this week, users of social networks have wondered since 2022 if 100 men could defeat a gorilla, according to Know Your Meme, a website that tracks the development of Internet memes. The Tiktok @yuri5kpt2 user asked his followers in a publication in February 2022 who would win, stating that he was debating the question with his friends. More Tiktok users began publishing the question last week, which helped cause their resurgence. The question also went viral in X, largely because a user raised the hypothetical confrontation in a publication, which now has more than 283 million visits, which caused many users to respond and quote their thoughts.
Stoinski told Forbes that historically gorillas “have not gone well against people,” stating that it is not exactly the same question, but humans have represented a threat to their existence through the destruction of habitat and poaching. The gorillas are in critical danger of extinction, said Stoinski, and the mountain gorilla species only has about 1,000 gorillas in nature. “That is the most important conversation to have,” Stoinski said. “What can we do to really help gorillas, instead of thinking about whether we would win in a battle against them?
This article was originally published in Forbes Us.
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