02 November 2007

Enter the Primate

I was at the wild animal park the other day with my girlfriend and her 'rents. We made sure to go see the gorillas, 1) because they are awesome, and 2) because they look like people, and that freaks everyone out a bit...especially persons who are creationists.

Aren't gorillas massive? If you click on the picture, you can see that the forearms on the hairy beast are nearly as big as his thighs; very strong. Grown males are usually 320-500 lbs, and are only 5'5" - 5'9" tall; real meat-wagons.

That got me thinking: If we (humans) didn't have all these weapons, and if gorillas learned to band together (these are big "ifs," I know), would the apes beat us senseless? I don't want to go all Michael Crichton's Congo on you, but I doubt we could handle their brute force.

Then I thought, who could beat a gorilla if they had to fight hand-to-hand combat style? Which of course, led me to this hypothetical question:

Would Bruce Lee win a cagefight against a silverback gorilla?

2 comments:

Nicole said...

YES.

neal said...

I liked this the first time I saw it, when it was called Planet of the Apes (Marky-Mark version).