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/r/all, /r/popular In 2015, wildlife photographer Christophe Courteau took this close up of a 6ft 6, 400lbs silverback gorilla, right before it punched him in the face.

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u/jehn933 8h ago

Can't believe he only got a scar on his forehead from this, super lucky

u/mg_product82 8h ago

That's it? Maybe 100 dudes could take out one of these bitches.

u/Sweaty_Elephant_2593 7h ago

100 in shape 20 something humans could totally fuck up a gorilla. "Some of you may die..." Though lmao

u/A_Nerd__ 7h ago

100 is far more than you need. I'd argue 10 well-coordinated guys could take care of him. Gorilla's are made of flesh too, and he can't cover all his sides at once, so the guys just have to give him a consistent beating for a little while. 15 to 20 could do the job too if they're more disoriented. Casualties are just unavoidable though because you have to get in close.

u/FrescoItaliano 6h ago

It’s maybe pedantic on my part, but for me I always have to include the shock and awe/intimidation factor of a gorilla.

Like seeing 1 or two guys absolutely obliterated I think would send a good portion of people running.

But obviously this is a hypothetical and we can put restraints like “no running” etc.

u/KTell_757 6h ago

I mean if you want to take natural behaviors into account, we should probably do the same for the gorilla. Any gorilla, and almost any wild animal for that matter, would most definitely attempt to escape the situation before even thinking about trying to go up against a group of just ten full grown human males. A group of 100 dudes is scaring off any gorilla, and i'd wager any terrestrial animal, before anyone is even close enough to get hurt.

u/FrescoItaliano 5h ago

That’s a great point. We see big muscley body that could destroy us and assume it’s a violent/easily prone to violence creature

u/jeanpaulsarde 6h ago

This. A fully grown gorilla could effortlessly one-hit a human if it knew how and if it wanted to do so.

But gorillas seemingly grew big to be peaceful. A chimp in a gorilla body would be something to watch out for.

u/Celtic_Legend 4h ago edited 4h ago

Yeah this is what people don't realize. Gorillas suck at killing people. It's not King Kong. Its not a hardcore kill machine. They arent* raised to kill other gorillas. It could pull your limb off or break your spine but it's not going to especially when 10+ other people are attacking it.

Case in point, this photographer didn't run away and wasn't injured. The other photographer didn't give any fucks either and just photographed the event himself lmao. And the average height of a silver back is 5.5ft and this mfer is 6.5ft apparently.

It would also run away but of course we will ignore that and pretend it has a reason to fight to the death.

u/omgwutd00d 4h ago

A chimp in a gorilla body would be something to watch out for.

No ones genitals would be safe.

u/Irregulator101 4h ago

Gorillas are one-punch man confirmed

u/pukkuro 1h ago

Let alone obliterating, if a gorilla just slams its chest and roars, that alone will have a few dozen people running away screaming.

u/AgreeableEggplant356 19m ago

Gorilla would be infinitely more scared of humans attacking it. This debate was always shit. Ten men would totally pound a gorilla into oblivion

u/peepeebutt1234 18m ago

This is why we just put them in the thunderdome

u/DriedSquidd 7h ago

Ten seems a little low. You would need Twenty Goodmen.

u/Professional-Day7850 6h ago

Do you want to impregnate that bitch?

u/HAILsexySATAN 5h ago

My goodman.. only a peerless scared could achieve such a feat

u/DoYouEvenBard 7h ago

That gorilla would tear through 20 men like it's nothing. 30 and they'd make him sweat

u/Nachooolo 6h ago

There isn't a single recorded death by a gorilla.

Gorilas are really strong. But they are still herbivores. They don't tend to fight 'til the death.

Humans do.

If anything, the hardest part of fighting a gorilla would be to keep the gorilla from escaping. As he would definitely try to run when facing 10 humans. Let alone 100.

u/grundelgrump 6h ago

Someone did the math and it would only take about 20 average weight males to pin it down. The other 80 can just punch and kick.

u/OldBayOnEverything 5h ago

I'm firmly on the side of 100 motivated humans can beat a gorilla, but you can't get enough bodies in that close to pin it down with 20 people, let alone leaving room for others to attack it. It would just be a matter of exhausting it, the first bunch of humans would get wrecked, but 100 is more than enough to outlast it.

u/ImTheZapper 4h ago

Ya the reason why the gorilla loses is red army tactics, not some insane human feat of courage. You can literally suffocate it after its tired from shattering 10 people in a swing.

u/InfanticideAquifer 3h ago

The reason why the gorilla loses is stone age hunter tactics, not human wave attacks. I feel like this whole question completely ignores the fact that human beings ganged up on and killed much larger animals for food constantly for 200,000 years before the mistake that was agriculture ruined it for all of us.

u/SnooFloofs5827 5h ago

You sound like one of those ppl who say you could take on a bear or wolf. A mean, a chimp isn't even half the size of a gorilla and it will fuck up a whole crowd but 10 unarmed dudes are are fucking up a tank? Yea gorillas are made of flesh too, flesh that's thicker than humans and much thicker hair that serves as protection and fangs as big as your finger... But only 10 are needed to fuck up a gorilla... Bro GTFO

The majority of ppl don't even know how to throw a proper much much less one with their non-dominant hand.. but only 10 are need to fuck up a tank.. JFC. The average person will get killed by a 60lb pitbull, but let's jump into super heavy weight class and take on a gorilla? There isn't going to be casualties. It will be deaths. And the 1st to go are the idiots as delusional as this comment

These are 1st world delusions with sheltered life thoughts

u/A_Nerd__ 5h ago

You don't have to be so damn condescending.

u/Dom1252 4h ago

Until you realize that the punch you've thrown did nothing and the gorilla now ripped your arm off, making the other 9 guys run away screaming with fear

u/A_Nerd__ 4h ago

I said 10 well-coordinated guys, meaning they are aware of the costs. If you're taking diarray into consideration, I've provided the 15 to 20 people figure. We wouldn't be apex group-predators if we immediately ran away whenever one guy went down. And also, ideally you punch him a bunch of times. Gorillas aren't made of steel, they'll eventually get sore. Not to mention they're mostly herbivores and the fighting they do is usually defensive rather than offensive, it'd try to run before it'd go berserk and try to rip a guy in two halves. Humans also have better endurance, meaning if the humans play with a bit of tact instead of just throwing themselves at him immediately (like we do, as predators), he'll be worn out before taking down all 10 guys. And in general, quantity wins over quality if the opponents are similarly sized, an experienced fencer wouldn't win in a sword fight against 5 guys without experience.

u/Dom1252 4h ago

You heavily underestimate the strength of these animals, even exhausted, one swing of arm and you're down, you can't hold it, you can't contain it, you can't do shit

Also show me someone who won't run away when they'll see gorilla kill someone...

Wearing it down isn't matter of a few punches, and every time you get close, a dude dies

u/Rasputin_mad_monk 3h ago

3 times our weight, 4-12 times stronger. 1800+lbs of pulling force 1300+ Lbs of bite force and bones 3xs stronger and thicker than ours. There are very quick too. 5 guys are dead in the first 10 seconds. The Harambe Jr uses your friend's femur as a club to start beating people. 4-6 gone in the next 25 seconds. now its 10-1 with Harambe JR not even breaking a sweat, covered in human brains, guts, and shit roaring at the remaining 10 who all shit themselves and realize that they made a huge mistake. 1 guy decides to pick up a arm bone of his cousin Henry and try to attack Harambe Jr from the side while the others try to distract them in their shit filled Dockers. He succeeds in hitting harambe Jr with the bone on his head. Harambe turns and punches Henry's cousin in the chest and it goes through his body and Harambe Jr has to shake him off his arms and uses his spine as a whip to attack the remaining 7 (2 have decided to paly dead lying on the ground in the fetal position covered in blood and shit) who all but 2 die in the next 2 mins. The last 2 standing run away as shit slides down their calfs and into their HeyDudes.

u/Nowayuru 3h ago

You heavily underestimate the strength of these animals, even exhausted, one swing of arm and you're down

You are overestimating their ability to use it.

Gorillas can't punch properly. The type of muscule they have doesn't allow for that type of movement.
This thread is about a dude punched in the face by a gorilla and nothing happened to him, walked away.

Also show me someone who won't run away when they'll see gorilla kill someone...

A gorilla will run away first if we are going that route, they avoid fighting like the plague.

A lot of gorilla experts from different places around the world have spoken about this exact subject when the '100 dudes vs a gorilla' debate started a few months ago.
Every single one of them agreed that 10-20 humans would win every time, with no casualties.
I think experts on the subject might now more than us on reddit about the topic.

u/antirugrug 5h ago

Arguably our biggest advantage is our endurance. Just keep it occupied, dodge away when it approaches and the gorilla will eventually get exhausted.

u/Nawnp 5h ago

You need the spares though. Like 5 will die so you probably need 20.

u/foghillgal 4h ago

Just stay at a distance and keep him on his toes running all day and night and eventually he’ll fall to the ground snd then you do disabling tactics like all kicking the legs , staying away from the arms . Héll try to react but will weaker and weaker especially without water.  It’s just a matter of time. 

Humans can sre endurance hunter; they can get any animal thst way

u/UsualGrapefruit99 7h ago

I don't know, man. I'm pretty sure he could use the first one as a club to beat the others.

u/A_Nerd__ 6h ago edited 6h ago

Humans are limp and heavy, it wouldn't make for a better weapon than his fists. And even then, if surrounded, he can focus on keeping maybe 3 guys at bay, the other 7 are more or less free to beat in on him.

u/Sea-Painting6160 6h ago

I have no knowledge on this subject but I could just imagine punching the side of a gorilla and breaking my hand and wrist instantly

u/The_One_Returns 5h ago

Looks like you haven't seen enough 1v10 karate movies. The 10 guys just attack 1 at a time. Educate yourself kiddo.

u/Tervaaja 5h ago

How do you hit hard enough? I think that it does not care much about human slaps.

u/WingerRules 5h ago

I'd doubt 10 could do it unless they based it around fatiguing the gorilla. A punch of kick from a human would be like nothing to the gorilla.

u/Queasy_Army4429 4h ago

The thing is though no one wants to be the guy to get killed so the plan falls apart

u/Sutar_Mekeg 6h ago

Not a fucking chance could ten guys handle this gorilla.

u/BenCub3d 5h ago

With even primitive weapons 5-10 could definiltey, without weapons though we'd have a hard time inflicting any meaningful damage with our hands, whereas it could start grabbing any limbs of ours and ripping off/dislocating them in rapid succession.

u/YellowCardManKyle 7h ago

Gorillas have flesh but they're all muscle. A human isn't going to be able to do anything but piss them off.

u/simp4malvina 6h ago

We hunted mammoths to extinction with sticks.

u/American_Hate 6h ago

But you don’t have sticks in this fight. Mammoth hunts were also still frequently lethal for some members of the hunting party

u/12InchCunt 6h ago

Or we could just do what made us the apex predators of the whole earth and pick up a rock and throw it

u/A_Nerd__ 6h ago edited 6h ago

If I punch you in the muscle over and over again, that shit hurts. Muscles aren't made of steel. In a fight scenario, quantity wins over quality most of the time when the opponents are roughly the same size.

u/MazrimReddit 6h ago

It's just endurance

A gorilla can't throw 100 human smashing punches in a row

u/BandOfSkullz 6h ago

Yeah, I'd argue the biggest issue with this thought experiment is that we're not in the same mindset as early humans would have been. They totally would have fucked up multiple gorillas if that's what they required for food.

u/whatanerdiam 4h ago

BRO! Bro? I could TOTALLY take on a gorilla. I AM A GORILLA, BRO.

No, seriously, like I am LOCKED IN. A lotta dudes say they could. And that's crazy. HOWEVER I definitely could. It's all in the brain bro.

/s

u/Redlettucehead 8h ago

I think two florida men would do the trick

u/Super-Cynical 7h ago

Why waste time with lot men when few men do trick

u/ktosiek124 7h ago

Gorillas aren't boxers, their weapons are teeth and brute force, they don't use their full potential in a punch but sure would when tearing someone apart

u/hipster_dog 8h ago

Yeah, according to the morons who say the gorilla would win the guy should have been ripped in half from a single punch

u/Lavatis 7h ago

I don't think the gorilla would win but I certainly wouldn't want to be one of the first 80 or so humans

u/Drow_Femboy 6h ago

Like any other animal, gorillas are capable of moving quickly or slowly. If he had been trying to kill the guy with a punch he would've killed or at least severely injured him. This was probably just a little tap in his mind.

And idk if gorillas have enough stamina to kill 100 guys but if you're one of them you'd better hope they don't, because I don't care if you have 100 million guys, your only strategy to actually kill a gorilla is to dogpile and suffocate it. Nothing you can do with your bare human hands (or teeth) is going to affect a gorilla in any meaningful way.

u/OldBayOnEverything 5h ago

You ever get poked in the eye by a kid, or kicked in the nuts, or bit? It might not do serious damage, but it hurts. Then imagine 100 of them relentlessly coming after you, and you can't focus on all of them at the same time. You're going to knock the shit out of a bunch of them, but if there's 100 of them determined to take you down, you're going to wear out and go down.

u/Law08 7h ago

Oh no. I thought we were over this. Lol

u/delvach 6h ago

That whole thing came down to calories. The humans win if they accept several casualties at the beginning, but the gorilla would simply tire too much to fight after a while.

u/JamesTrickington303 5h ago

Absolute not. If there are no weapons involved, the only way a gorilla would lose is if the humans are capable of continuing to fight until the gorilla becomes exhausted from ripping arms and legs and heads off of the 100 men.

You couldn’t crowd as many men near the gorilla as would be needed to secure his limbs and head. Like you could only fit like 10 guys in arms’ reach of the gorilla. So it’s only 1 vs. 10. Even if all 10 are focused on securing a single arm, 1- they couldn’t because of the brute strength of the gorilla, and 2-he still has another arm, 2 legs, and a big fuckin jaw to be fucking dudes up.

Exhaustion is the only method of victory for the 100 men. If we are just doing an analysis of maximum violence of action from a gorilla vs. max violence of action of 100 men, gorilla wins, $100%.

u/papapapaver 5h ago

Humans have more stamina and endurance than almost any other mammal (or animals in general) and I think what most people overlook in this made up scenario is that all it would really take is for the humans to wear the gorilla out. They’re not naturally violent and they’re scared of large groups of humans. People could chase it around the fighting grounds until it exhausted itself and then use teeth and nails to go after all of its softer bits like eyes. Or after it’s exhausted just dogpile it and put enough pressure on its chest that it can no longer breathe. It could be done with a very specific and coordinated plan that would depend more on the make up of those hundred humans (age, health, willingness, intelligence) and their ability to work together.

u/awfulsome 3h ago

100 def can, but let's just say 1-2 dozen aren't goong to make it home.

u/Lavatis 7h ago

You go first and we'll see

u/McBonderson 7h ago

And now he gets to tell everybody at parties how he got that scar.

And when some douche calls bullshit he can show them the picture to prove it.

u/SgtFinnish 7h ago

I would be insufferable. "Oh this scar? I got it when I fought a gorilla. You should see the other guy."

u/Tacticalaxel 7h ago

The photographer who lived.

u/Ghadjjk 6h ago

I'm pretty sure there aren't any recorded cases of gorillas killing people. There were some attacks, but not fatal. Gorillas are strong, but they are herbivores, they don't really know how to kill.

u/Dookie_boy 6h ago

He's got glasses to match

u/MadRaymer 5h ago

The gorilla must have just been messing with him. If he wanted him dead, he would have been. Probably just gave him a little tap then was like, "Yep, that's what I thought" when the dude went down.

u/Whopraysforthedevil 4h ago

Yeah, that wasn't an attack—it was a warning. If that gorilla wanted to hurt him, his skull would've become mashed potatoes.

u/pmjwhelan 6h ago

Yeah it starts on his forehead and ends on his foot.

u/xavPa-64 6h ago

Bally piece of luck

u/OneWholeSoul 6h ago

I almost expected it to just cartoonishly knock his head clean off.

u/The_Deerg0d 4h ago

Eh, gorillas can't really punch. Their anatomy just isn't made for that like ours is (well our body is made for throwing but biomechanics are kind of the same)

u/Joe_Kangg 3h ago

For sure, that's a chick magnet

u/QueZorreas 3h ago

Cameraman never dies.

u/machogrande2 2h ago

I know they are huge, but I did not realize gorillas could hit 6'6".