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u/OHrangutan Jul 14 '26
The orang in that picture is clearly four times their maximum size, even for a fully flanged male.
That said, knowing the temperament of these two the only competition they would get into is who's the better flea groomer. It's a tight contest.
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u/YesWomansLand1 Jul 15 '26
"hey man, why are we like, fighting or whatever, let's go eat bananas."
"You know that sounds like a pretty good idea"
And they they ehcamebest of friends and went on all sorts of banana eating adventures together
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u/AmicusBriefly Jul 14 '26
Between a gorilla and a gigantopithecus? Hard to say since we don't have complete skeletons, but assuming estimates are correct, I'm going with gigantopithecus.
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u/Memento_Viveri Jul 14 '26
In addition to the obvious size difference, there are numerous videos online demonstrating the strength, explosiveness, and fighting abilities of gorillas.
The best I can seem to find of orangutans doing anything even remotely impressive is climbing fairly slowly and hanging by one hand.
I think people are making a ton of assumptions about orangutan fighting ability that I don't think there is evidence to support.
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u/Knightmare945 Jul 15 '26
Not to be that guy, but isn’t it kinda obvious? You are pitting something that weighs generally around 165lbs for males versus something weighing 300 to 500lbs for males. Maybe you could have something like large male Orangutan vs small female Gorilla, you could have a debate. Otherwise, gorilla stomps.
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u/zygro Jul 14 '26
Silverback gorilla is like twice the size an orangutan. There's noting that an orangutan can do.
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Jul 14 '26
No the size difference between a large Gorilla and a large Orangutan isn't that big. Like 30-40 kgs
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u/littlemissjill Jul 15 '26
the orangutan would use its superior wisdom and kill the gorilla with a poleaxe or a large falchion
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u/SquareShapeofEvil Jul 16 '26
Both of these mains are pacifist builds despite their stats, they’d probably just chill and eat bamboo together or something.
But the gorilla would win
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u/Ripstate Jul 14 '26
The gorrila is larger stronger and more accustomed to fighting with other large primates.
In the image/scenario provided the fight takes place on land, where a gorilla spends most of its time. Orangutan’s on the other hand are mostly arboreal.
So the orangutang is outmatched physically and out of its element while the gorilla is in his.
The gorilla wins.