You may be scared to find out how many people were killed by gorillas

With Harambe tragic death almost a decade behind us, people fantasize online about whether 100 men could defeat single gorilla in agony.

Although there are no official databases that calculate the number of people killed by gorillas – or another animal – experts suggest that this is the case extremely Rarely for these “gentle giants” to attack people.

Indeed for an intensive search ,, futurism Was unable to find a single reported case of a gorilla that killed a person. Only two cases of Gorilla attacks on humans – both born and grew up in captivity – led waves in the digital age.

The first occurred in 2007, when a male western gorilla called Bokito escaped his housing in a Dutch zoo, kidnapped a woman and injured her. The other was in 2020 when a zooeper in Madrid was entered by a 29-year-old male gorilla when she entered the animal's housing and had broken a head injury and both arms.

As terrible as these two cases were, it is noteworthy that neither of the two gorilla actually killed their victims-and that both animals were caught.

In 2016, shortly after Harambe was shot in the Cincinnati zoo, when a small child fell into his enclosure, the wildlife biologist Ian Redmond insisted on it The guardian Throughout the time, he had spent gorillas in the wild – from Roughhousing with younger men to accidentally frightening territorial wife – he had never been injured.

“However, these were free -living gorillas. If you don't like your company, you can leave it,” wrote Redmond, who spent three years with the famous primaryologist Dian Fossey. “A caught gorilla does not have this option.”

However, violence has a amazing assymetry. While there are only a few cases of gorilla attacks on humans, even if it is taken into account in the devastation of captivity, people killed gorillas and ruined their habitats so incredibly that they are now considered critically endangered.

Wilderers in particular are so convinced that they pursued bush fine that they not only killed Fossey's popular subject in 1977, but also murdered Fossey even in Rwanda less than a decade later.

Like people like Elon Muschus and Mrbeast Take part in the viral debate. The actual recording on the topic of MAN is very well documented: large groups of men kill Gorilla for centuries and will continue until the enforcement of anti-poaching laws-or have disappeared until all gorillas have disappeared.

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