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Originally Posted by jammies
Bear would win easy - for one thing, gorillas generally are herbivores and don't fight much, for another, polar bears are much much bigger as has been pointed out.
Now, say you replaced your gorilla with a rhino - now you're talking a more even match up! On the plus side, a rhino weighs a ton or more, so the bear is at a bit of a disadvantage there, and the rhino does have a very thick hide. The bear still has claws, and is much more agile as well, so it'd be one mother of a fight.
I wonder if the Romans - who used to fight animals against each other in the colloseum as well as humans vs humans and humans vs animals - ever fought a brown/black bear against a rhino? (interlude while I google) Hmm, nothing definitive, but this guy thinks waaaaaaaayyyyyy too much about who would win a lion-tiger fight: http://indrajit.wordpress.com/category/lion-vs-tiger/ |
Whaaaaat? Gorillas fight all the time. That's the way the silverback becomes the silverback is by beating his rivals into the dust.
Also primates are pretty much 100% solid muscle. The average chimpanzee, even though weighing much less than the average human, is about 4-5 times stronger.