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Message: [QUOTE="superjohn, post: 5271496, member: 1522"] I got a gorilla guy (sounds funny to say) and I asked him the question. My friend is the gorilla and chimpanzee guy at the Lincoln Park zoo in Chicago and he lived alone with gorillas in Mbeli Bai in the Republic of Congo for 1 year. He knows people who have been bitten and or lost hands to gorillas but that's mostly been when trying to habituate them because gorillas are conflict averse. Elephants were his bigger concern when he was in Mbeli Bai. He was in some iffy situations with gorillas in the wild but only actually felt death was a real possibility once or twice when running from elephants. The girl who took over for him was trampled and killed by an elephant a month after taking the position. Here she is... [URL unfurl="true"]http://janatrustfund.org/index_en.html[/URL] His answer to the 100 men vs 1 Silverback question- "Gorillas tend not to want to fight unless they are defending their females/kids, but going with the hypothetical, 100 relatively athletic men relentlessly working together should win even against a prime aged Silverback, though there would be many human casualties. If the guys all do their own thing and/or panic or run when seeing what's happening the gorilla's odds go up. If they stay and continue they should win. 100 is a lot of people." [/QUOTE]