INSPIRED BY THAT OTHER THREAD ABOUT MOOSES..
HERES WHAT I FOUND ONLINE:
In weight, the male lion and silverback gorilla would be about the same. Male lions are between 150 and 250 KG, male gorilla’s between 160 and 250 KG. So neither of them has a real weight advantage. They also have a similar body length.
The main advantage for the gorilla is it’s arm length and it’s bite. However, his arms are blunt weapons and as his jaws are short, his bite is reasonably small but can do a lot of damage. Unfortunately, male gorilla’s are a bit too heavy to climb fast.
The male lion has a few more advantages. It has claws and a powerful jaw that can do severe cutting damage while it’s bite is large and his teeth will go deep. It’s manes are often considered to be protection of his neck and throat so those would be a bit difficult to attack.
Both animals are formidable combatants and they would have about equal chance considering the above data. So we will have to take the environment into consideration. And lions generally live on the open savannah while gorilla’s live in forested areas. So basically they hardly ever meet.
It has been proven though that leopards, the smaller cousins of lions, have eaten gorilla meat as traces of gorilla DNA have been found in leopard scat. So chances are that leopards actually hunt gorilla’s. Experiments have also proven that gorilla’s generally fear leopards and that silverback males will attack them, if they get to close to their family. (Source: Gorilla Predators)
So if a leopard is able to at least eat gorilla’s then lions should be able to do the same. They just don’t as they don’t share the same territories. Still, if it ever gets to such a moment, in a natural environment, I think the lion will be most likely the winner if he’s persistent enough. Otherwise, he’d just goes looking for an easier meal and it’s a stalemate.
In a natural environment the lion would track the silverback gorilla and wait until nightfall. It’s night vision will be extremely useful so if the gorilla can’t hide in some tree, it will not have a well-defended position. And then it’s just becomes a matter of exhaustion as the lion will try to attack the gorilla from behind and use teeth and claws to do as much damage as possible before moving back to a short distance. As the lion is faster than the gorilla, it will just exhaust the big ape until it falls down from exhaustion and blood loss. And the darkness will get the gorilla extremely scared and active while the big cat just looks and waits for a next chance.
With a bit of luck, the gorilla can deliver a bite or punch back which would force the lion to move to a greater distance or even to retreat. But that requires some luck.
But in a natural environment at dark, the lion has the best chance!
In a closed arena during daylight, neither the lion or the gorilla would have the upper hand. The gorilla can calm down as he can see the movements of the lion and thus hit more accurately. But he is too slow to charge at the lion. The lion can pace around the gorilla but will be unable to attack without the long arms of the gorilla delivering a damaging punch first. So the lion will stay at a distance and it becomes a very boring fight as they would just keep their distance.
Basically, a closed arena during daylight will result in a stalemate.
IM GOIN WIT THE KING OF THE JUNGLE OFF TOP
HERES WHAT I FOUND ONLINE:
In weight, the male lion and silverback gorilla would be about the same. Male lions are between 150 and 250 KG, male gorilla’s between 160 and 250 KG. So neither of them has a real weight advantage. They also have a similar body length.
The main advantage for the gorilla is it’s arm length and it’s bite. However, his arms are blunt weapons and as his jaws are short, his bite is reasonably small but can do a lot of damage. Unfortunately, male gorilla’s are a bit too heavy to climb fast.
The male lion has a few more advantages. It has claws and a powerful jaw that can do severe cutting damage while it’s bite is large and his teeth will go deep. It’s manes are often considered to be protection of his neck and throat so those would be a bit difficult to attack.
Both animals are formidable combatants and they would have about equal chance considering the above data. So we will have to take the environment into consideration. And lions generally live on the open savannah while gorilla’s live in forested areas. So basically they hardly ever meet.
It has been proven though that leopards, the smaller cousins of lions, have eaten gorilla meat as traces of gorilla DNA have been found in leopard scat. So chances are that leopards actually hunt gorilla’s. Experiments have also proven that gorilla’s generally fear leopards and that silverback males will attack them, if they get to close to their family. (Source: Gorilla Predators)
So if a leopard is able to at least eat gorilla’s then lions should be able to do the same. They just don’t as they don’t share the same territories. Still, if it ever gets to such a moment, in a natural environment, I think the lion will be most likely the winner if he’s persistent enough. Otherwise, he’d just goes looking for an easier meal and it’s a stalemate.
In a natural environment the lion would track the silverback gorilla and wait until nightfall. It’s night vision will be extremely useful so if the gorilla can’t hide in some tree, it will not have a well-defended position. And then it’s just becomes a matter of exhaustion as the lion will try to attack the gorilla from behind and use teeth and claws to do as much damage as possible before moving back to a short distance. As the lion is faster than the gorilla, it will just exhaust the big ape until it falls down from exhaustion and blood loss. And the darkness will get the gorilla extremely scared and active while the big cat just looks and waits for a next chance.
With a bit of luck, the gorilla can deliver a bite or punch back which would force the lion to move to a greater distance or even to retreat. But that requires some luck.
But in a natural environment at dark, the lion has the best chance!
In a closed arena during daylight, neither the lion or the gorilla would have the upper hand. The gorilla can calm down as he can see the movements of the lion and thus hit more accurately. But he is too slow to charge at the lion. The lion can pace around the gorilla but will be unable to attack without the long arms of the gorilla delivering a damaging punch first. So the lion will stay at a distance and it becomes a very boring fight as they would just keep their distance.
Basically, a closed arena during daylight will result in a stalemate.
IM GOIN WIT THE KING OF THE JUNGLE OFF TOP
