Death fight: African Male Lion Vs Silverback Gorilla

Madmick said:
Great post by Ahman. And yeah, Ahman, I was mixing up Cape Buffalo and Water Buffalo, there. Dat mass.

No, I believe lions' favorite method for killing its vertebrate prey is to latch onto the back of the neck, and to crush the spinal column at its closest attachment to the brain. This is known as the "kill bite", and their mouths are plenty large enough to at least attempt it on a gorilla- I figure.

The 30-ft rule?
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well i just did a quick Google search and the responses look like this

All cats kill by suffocation when hunting large prey. They clamp their jaws around the prey's throat, pressing its windpipe closed so that it cannot draw breath and suffocates. Occasionally, lions will clamp their jaws around the prey's mouth and nose instead of the throat, and suffocate it in what is often called a 'kiss of death' - they are most often seen using this technique with buffalo. No cats kill by slashing open their prey's stomach, but when hunting small prey - say, a lion hunting a hare - they will often simply seize the prey and bite down, crushing the life out of the small animal. Here's an image of a tiger killing its prey:
 
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Gorilla does what it wants to do....
 
Gorilla would literally rip the lion apart limb from limb. Gorillas bench 22 plates bro.
 
Silverback Gorilla = more Ford F250
Male African Lion = more Ford Raptor.
 
Does the gorilla have any weapons? A hatchet maybe?
 
The gorilla seems in a perfect position to avoid the lion's strengths. Gorilla's stand upright and have very strong upper bodies, making a throat bite unlikely. The lion would have to drag the gorilla down, but I don't think it can. I may be completely off base there.

The problem of how the gorilla kills the lion is troubling as well. I've read people say that the gorilla can break the lion's spine, but I doubt it would attack the spine intentionally. Also, lions are agile and could avoid the gorilla's slow, lumbering strikes.

This fight seems like a draw, but if I have to choose, I'll go with the lion. Eventually, I think the lion wears the gorilla down by biting the legs and jumping on it's back. The gorilla might just fall off balance and the lion can get on top and start chewing on his throat. From there it's just a matter of time until the gorilla bleeds out or asphyxiates.
 
sverre054 said:
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Gorilla does what it wants to do....
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Pretty much just shows how non aggressive gorillas are. Never seen a video of a gorilla actually harming another animal. Not sure I've ever heard of a gorilla in a zoo mauling a person either. Plenty of stories and videos of chimps being savages though.
 
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Madmick said:
You're revulsion is the appropriate response, but, well, they do. I just had to delete a thread with a video just like that due to animal cruelty.
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That video looked like it was filmed in nature
 
Tigerknee said:
well i just did a quick Google search and the responses look like this

All cats kill by suffocation when hunting large prey. They clamp their jaws around the prey's throat, pressing its windpipe closed so that it cannot draw breath and suffocates. Occasionally, lions will clamp their jaws around the prey's mouth and nose instead of the throat, and suffocate it in what is often called a 'kiss of death' - they are most often seen using this technique with buffalo. No cats kill by slashing open their prey's stomach, but when hunting small prey - say, a lion hunting a hare - they will often simply seize the prey and bite down, crushing the life out of the small animal. Here's an image of a tiger killing its prey:
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Well, it can be either. I think the cats who are more likely to deliver the kill bite I described are cats like leopards that will sometimes drop on their prey from above, but I've seen them all do it on nature channels, and somewhere in there I learned the term "kill bite". This is from a dedicated carry site:
The conical shape of the teeth in modern cats reinforces them against the risk of breakage during the deep, forceful kill bite.* Most cats*kill large prey by a suffocating bite at the throat or sometimes they kill by biting the skull or into the nape of the neck which dislocates the cervical vertebrae and pierces the spinal cord.* The clouded leopards of Asia have proportionately the longest canines of any felid.* It may represent the emergence of saber-toothed form among modern cats.* This species is so little known, that it is yet to be discovered how it kills.
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Lions have ample equipment to kill a silverback.
 
Wouldn't even be competition. The Lion would pounce and be latched to its neck with ease.

Tigers>>>Lions
 
Make it happen Dana!

Let's be honest here, if you stumbled across an underground ppv of this matchup, who is buying it? + 1 for me.
 
smellmyfarts said:
There is an underground video of an Orangutan killing a male Bengal tiger out there. If an Orangutan can kill a Tiger, than a silver back could kill a lion IMO. Lions aren't even the toughest of the big cats, as it's been documented that leopards will kill lions.
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Is this more deep web nonsense? I have yet to see any of these mythical animal fight videos.
 
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