When it comes to silverback gorillas, our first impression is "muscle man." Living in the African rainforest, the silverback gorilla is the largest primate, usually likes to play in groups, and its main food is also plants. But male silver-backed gorillas show signs of hunting, and they prey on some small animals. Silverback gorillas look very strong at first glance, so some people have preconceived notions that silverback is very strong and that it is not a problem to kill a cow with bare hands.
It is precisely because the appearance of the silverback gorilla is very strong, so many people think that the tiger is not its opponent, in fact, the silverback is very weak, it is the leopard's predator. Silverback gorillas have great arm strength, but they are very afraid of pain, in the face of the leopard's sharp teeth and claws, orangutans generally choose to escape, then it is easy to expose shortcomings in the process of escape, and leopards are also very good at seizing this opportunity to attack.
An adult silver-backed gorilla is between 120 kilograms in size, the equivalent of a Sumatran tiger. Among wild animals, tigers are the most powerful in the same size, and no animal is its opponent. The 120-kilogram silver-backed gorilla is relatively large, but it is equal to the smallest tiger, so those who say that the silver-backed gorilla can win the Battle of the Siberian tiger are incorrect. In fact, it can't even win the leopard.
Leopards are between 50-100 kg in size, and because they are cats, their predation skills are similar to tigers, and leopards are agile, good at running and climbing trees, and have an advantage in dealing with silverbacks. So on the African continent, the natural enemy of silverback gorillas is leopards, and silverback gorilla pups killed by leopards account for more than half of the number of orangutans that die abnormally.
The silver-backed gorilla looks like a muscular body with limited attack power in the world. Some tools will be used, but the IQ has not yet reached the point where they can use tools such as wooden sticks as combat equipment, so those who think that the gorilla can pick up the trunks and stones around them to smash the tiger's head are relatively naïve, the IQ of the orangutan is the IQ of two or three-year-old children, and the people who can use tools to fight are 5 or 6 years old!
In summary, the strength of the silverback gorilla is indeed overestimated, and the average weight of the silverback cannot win any kind of tiger, and its natural enemy is only the leopard. But a larger individual can deal with a leopard, do you agree?