As I said earlier, I don’t think this is a close battle at all. Looking at the size difference alone, a grizzly is often at least twice as heavy and can be three times as heavy as a gorilla. That is a very large difference. That is a 70 lb person fighting a 150-210 lb person, or a 150 lb person fighting a 300-450 lb person.
The gorilla has very little in the way of defense. It doesn’t have extremely thick skin so the bear’s claws and bite will easily rip into the flesh. Its bones are thick but not thick enough to withstand the onslaught of the bear.
Many people talk about how strong gorillas are, and they are very strong – compared to humans. Gorillas can snap down small trees and there is a video of one breaking glass in a zoo or dragging a person along easily. I agree that gorillas are strong. Exactly how strong is quite difficult to measure and strength is always task specific. But they are not strong compared to grizzly bears. Grizzly bears also routinely push over trees, roll over giant stones and move other heavy objects. There are videos of them flipping heavy trash bins. One researcher noted a grizzly flipped over a 700 lb bin many times with ease. Grizzlies have very thick hides, when a large Kodiak bear died it was noted that it had a layer of fat 7 inches thick.
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The gorilla only has one attack on a grizzly: a bite. Gorillas do have a fearsome bite and I have no doubt the bite would do some damage, but it would have to kill the grizzly almost immediately. Punching a grizzly, even from a gorilla, would do minimal damage. The neck is too thick to choke or snap. With smaller adversaries a gorilla could pick them up, smash them around, and even rip off a limb with its strength. I don’t see anyway it could do any of those things to a grizzly.
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The grizzly could bite while it was getting bitten and it could swipe with its massive claws. Look at the size of the claws, those are essentially daggers that could easily rend the flesh of the gorilla. The gorilla would have a hard time reaching the neck of the grizzly, seeing how much shorter it is (6’ vs 9 or 10’). And I believe a grizzly could easily push over the gorilla if they went chest to chest, given its much greater size.
Let’s use a few other examples that might highlight this outcome more clearly.
Who would win, a leopard vs a grizzly bear? I think most people would agree that a grizzly destroys a leopard. Leopards actually live with gorillas and regularly fight them. They don’t always win, sometimes the leopard wins, sometimes the gorilla wins, sometimes they are found dead next to each other. That is a relatively even match and a leopard is 150 lbs or so. Most people agree that a Grizzly beats any big cat, and a tiger is far tougher than a leopard.
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I asked hunters if they had a 9-mm pistol and a grizzly bear was charging them, would they feel confident they could kill it? Most said no, the gun would damage but not kill the bear and it would just anger it. Many said the gun would not even be able to penetrate the skull of the grizzly. If a 9-mm can’t stop a bear, a punch from a gorilla won’t either.
I think most people would agree if you had a 9-mm pistol and a gorilla was charging, you would have a much greater chance of killing the gorilla, again because it doesn’t have any significant defense. It still may not be strong enough to stop a gorilla, but the general point is you need a much stronger gun to kill a grizzly than you do a gorilla.
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