• Pinecone@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    All these answers about potentially killing the other party just makes the bear answer so logically stupid in every situation. No human could fight a bear but if a woman needed to kill a man it would be a much more believable scenario.

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      7 months ago

      He didnt say forest. He said Forrest, as in Gump. Maybe Forrest gets smaller as he gets old.

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        7 months ago

        We should do the opposite of Noah’s arc where we put 2 of every animal, including humans, in the Houston Astrodome and have them fight to the death until one emerges.

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          7 months ago

          Do we all get prep time. And can animals who are capable of making them get tools, or do we have to make tools ourselves

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    7 months ago

    wolf, considering they don’t fucking exist anymore (in the US at least, also im sure they still do, just not in significant number)

    Also i don’t like gorillas, they can eat shit.

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    7 months ago

    Gorilla? I feel like being super submissive and not making eye contact would probably keep it from tearing off my arms to use as drumsticks? I’m not a gorilla expert though, so anyone who knows more can feel free to tell me. Although I guess with a wolf, you could just climb a tree and be ok, depending on how long you have to stay. Either, I guess. I’m pretty convinced that I’ll die trying to pet a wild animal when the moron part of my brain tells me it’s friend-shaped, anyway, so whatever.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Definitely wolf. If I get trapped with a gorilla and some shots it to save me, humanity get will get so much negative karma on top of what we are still paying from 2016 and I won’t be able to live with the guilt.

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    7 months ago

    Wolf attacks on humans are rare but common enough to have their own Wikipedia page, but there’s no record of wild gorillas killing anyone.

    Which means they’re either super chill, or really fucking sneaky about it.

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      7 months ago

      IIRC gorillas are indeed pretty chill if you respect their territorial instincts, as opposed to, say, a chimp that might try to kill you more or less on a whim

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        for some reason i find it funny how the animals more related to humans are the more ruthlessly violent ones. apparently bonobos are much more violent than chimps, and orangutans are less violent than gorillas

        it makes me wonder how aggressive early australopithecus was compared. apparently they did a lot of cannibalism so probably at least slightly more than non-australopithecus humans. they probably weren’t even close to as aggressive as chimpanzees considering how significantly weaker they were though

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    7 months ago

    Wolf 100%. It’s without its pack and I’d have some chance to fight it off. A gorilla would tear me in half.

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      You’d probably have some chance of becoming part of its pack if you were careful.

      Or it’d just rip your throat out…

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    7 months ago

    Wolf. Not only do I think my chances are better, I’d also feel less bad about trying to fuck up a wolf if I had to

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      7 months ago

      Considering there’s basically no chance of fucking up the gorilla, I don’t think you’d have to worry about the ethics of the situation.

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        I’ll admit “trying” was doing a lot of heavy-lifting in that sentence ;)

    • gmtom@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      I considered making the other side of the bracket, but figrured the posts would get annoying fast.

      Also wolves and bears are cuddly??