Primatologist Michael Stern Gorilla hasn’t wandered around to fight 100 people… as ridiculous as the unicorn v pterodactyl!!!
May 3, 2025 3:10pm PDT
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The top primatologists are trying to bring some reason to the argument between 100 men and one gorilla… Explaining the main reasons why such a fight doesn’t fall and claiming this depicts these beautiful creatures in bad light.
We spoke with Michael Stern, former primate curator at the Philadelphia Zoo. In Uganda, he has many years of experience studying gorillas in both prisoners and wild. And the reason this argument is stupid is that it shows the gorilla looking around and stripping away with the umumbumber oumumburenced.
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Stern says this is equivalent to asking if a unicorn can defeat a dinosaur, or if a shark with a laser beam can blow up a submarine!
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The gorilla realizes it’s in a bad place and runs through the line of perhaps the nearest men… knocks aside one or two while trying to run it – there’s no war for the planet of the Apes here. Sorry, Chris Pontius – it looks like you’re wrong about this.
Michael explains that the reason people are obsessed with this debate is because of the enormous speed and strength of the gorillas. And he admits that they are very strong creatures…but they are titans that are gentler than fierce soldiers, and this story is all really damaging to their rep.
Michael says he doesn’t look farther than chimpanzees because of primates that may actually cause some damage to a group of men… some of them have attacked humans in the past.
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Michael also says that the new Nature Foundation – the organization he is part of is trying to stop deforestation in Africa through a variety of new technologies – in case people want to help primates rather than actually discuss their fighting insights. Listen to and check their website for more information.
So it sounds like 100 people will win this brawl…but purely due to confiscation – “Because poor gorillas are just trying to live their lives!
