In 1963, a hungry leopard pair, a sleeping silverback gorilla launched a surprise attack, first biting the neck of the male silverback gorilla, and then engaged in a fierce battle with the awakened female gorilla, the battle was extremely fierce, but the leopard still used its sharp teeth and claws to open a large bloody hole in the gorilla's abdomen.
However, just when the leopard was preparing to celebrate the victory, an accident occurred, it did not expect that the gorilla, who was already dying, would actually make a fatal blow before dying, a punch directly broke the skull of the leopard, and the leopard was killed on the spot, so that "two apes and one leopard" died together and went to Huangquan together.
Since modern scientific expeditions, zoologists have never found that gorillas kill leopards, but have repeatedly found leopards hunting gorillas, and the zoology is summarized as follows:
In 1961, in western Uganda, a panther killed a silverback gorilla at night.
In 1988, in the Central African Republic, a leopard hunted down a large silver-backed gorilla; the gorilla once stood on both feet and beat his chest and used a branch to fight, at one point also puncturing the leopard's skin; the gorilla ran several kilometers away, rolled down the hillside at one point, and finally escaped the leopard's pursuit.
In the 1990s, a weak silver-backed gorilla in the Republic of the Congo was suspected of being killed by a leopard.
In 1999, in Central Africa, a gorilla was wounded, and scratches on its back suggested that it was most likely done by a leopard.
The above examples are enough to show that gorillas are on the defensive in front of leopards and rely on their weight advantage to protect themselves.
Gorillas are vegetarians and do not actively attack leopards, so they can always hide and dodge, but they are also passive defenses. Leopards, on the other hand, are opportunistic predators who try to catch everything they can eat.
As vegetarian gorillas are much worse in hardware than big cats, not to mention the sharp teeth and claws of leopards, even if they are far less agile than the latter. The only advantage is the ability to stand upright on two feet, free hands, and the ability to use tools simply, as in the second example above, where a gorilla punctures a leopard with a stick. However, the leopard could not be defeated by using a stick, so the silverback finally chose to escape, and luckily escaped the disaster.
As close relatives, gorillas, like us humans, have weak night vision. Leopards are big cats with strong night vision, and once it's night, it's the big cats that dominate everything. The first example mentioned above is that the leopard kills the silverback at night; and the second example is that the gorilla escapes during the day, and if it is at night, I am afraid that it will be more sinister. If you think about it, it's very difficult for us to deal with a cat at night.
About the silverback gorilla
Silverback gorillas are the largest primates on Earth, weighing more than 240 pounds as adults, standing upright at 1.75 meters high, especially with an arm span of a staggering 2.75 meters, which is simply a super strong man. Silver-backed gorillas have black hair, but their backs become silver-gray as adults, so they are called silverbacks. The weapons are: teeth, wit, speed, and occasionally attack with tools. Arm strength is 20 times greater than that of humans when it explodes.
Personality: Gregarious, led by a leader, polygamous. Especially in the courtship period, the combat effectiveness that broke out was very strong, very clever, would not be sent to death, and knew how to give in, escape, and yield. The silverback gorilla punches more than 180kg, so if it is hit by a silverback gorilla, the consequences will be unimaginable. Once hit, if there is no death, it is estimated that it will become paralyzed, which is very frightening. This can be seen from the side that the silverback gorilla is very strong, and many animals are not its opponents at all, so the silverback gorilla is rarely attacked by other animals. Gorillas are four to nine times more powerful than humans.
The average height of the eastern silverback gorilla is about 1.8 meters, and the average weight is about 180 kilograms. The same eastern gorillas are also social animals, and the composition and habits of food are also very close to those of western gorillas. However, don't look at the silverback gorilla eating "grass", but it has a strong muscle. This gives the silverback gorilla 4 times more strength than a strong man. Speaking of which, many articles on gorilla science say that the bone density of gorillas is 4-5 times that of humans. This statement is obviously exaggerated, because in fact, the bone density of primates is very close, and the only difference is the muscle strength, which determines the strength of different primates.
Who is stronger, the Siberian tiger or the silverback gorilla?
The two species simply do not have the opportunity to meet freely in the wild, so only some advantages and disadvantages can be compared. First of all, the silverback gorilla is easy to weigh the Siberian tiger, which is inferior in mutual confrontation, and secondly, the fighting skills, tigers as top predators Their hunting skills and fighting experience are naturally not to be underestimated, which is their ability to eat.
But silverback gorillas as "vegetarians", they do not rely on fighting to get food to fill their stomachs, often circulating on the Internet such a sentence, do not take your hobby to challenge others to eat, put here is just right. Even if the silverback gorillas are more defensive against each other, the will to attack is not high, and the tiger will only look for ways to defeat the opponent.
Silverback gorillas are generally males, very aggressive, and dangerous relative to humans. Like other animals, it has a strong sense of territory and is very aggressive towards people or animals that appear in their territory.
For humans, silverback gorillas weigh more than twice as much as adults and can reach more than 2 meters when standing. And its power is much greater than that of humans, and a period of very strong people are incomparable.
Silverback gorillas can really punch a tiger with one punch, don't believe it, silverback gorillas weigh about 120 kilograms, is the largest primate in the world, and the weight of a female lion or Sumatran tiger is comparable, but the silverback gorilla arm strength is amazing, a full blow can reach more than a ton of explosive force, can lift a weight 20 times larger than normal humans. If the tiger suffered the silver back punch head-on, the backbone of the spine kept falling and I lost. So in the face of such a strong silverback gorilla, if you meet a brown bear in the wild, both sides have no way to retreat, and you must fight with all your might, who do you think will win?
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But for large cats, the silverback gorilla is still almost the same, and the flexibility and predatoriness are much different. Silverback gorillas are herbivores, while large cats are carnivores. So it's not comparable to a tiger. From this point of view, no matter what kind of orangutan, survival under the law of the jungle will never be as good as that of tigers and wolves! This truth applies to all things in the world, whether it is kingdoms or nations, people and people, and all higher or lower animals! When the world is full of tigers and wolves, a good person does not have the nature of tigers and wolves. Then, no matter how much power he has, he will eventually die under the crazy bite of the tiger and wolf because he is not good at exerting his own power, which is a great sadness!