Are you ready to go ape?
Oh Sh**!,
there goes the planet!
Tonight, we're pitting
the biggest and smartest
apes on the planet against each other.
It's a battle of the apes
Our first fighter,
hailing from the continent of Africa,
is the mighty
This contender gets his name
from the gray strip of hair
seen on the backs of older
male gorillas.
He's even taken a leopard or two
in his day.
This gorilla is the oldest
and wisest of his troope.
And in this corner,
coming all the way
from the wilds of Asia,
putting Dr. Zaius to shame,
The orangutan and has
quite the stage presence.
He's covered with red hair
and has extra-long arms.
The fatty tissue is growing
on the sides of his face
are called flanges.
Female orangutans
use them to pick a mate.
But they're not just into him
for his looks.
He's smart, too.
The orangutan uses tools
and creates weapons
beyond using his fists and feet.
Sound familiar?
Yeah.
They're the closest relative to us
humans in the ape world,
sharing 97% of our DNA.
These two don't look
pleased to see each other.
When there's calm, cool
and collected gorilla crosses
paths with the orangutan,
ape-S*** hits the fan.
The gorilla gets aggressive,
attempting to ward off the threat
to his troop.
The orangutan howls at the gorilla.
It's so loud
you'd be able to hear this threat
a mile away.
This is it, folks!
Get ready for -
Weighing in at 200 kg (440 lb),
The gorilla is more than double
the orangutan's 90 kg (200 lb).
But don't discount the orangutan yet
as his arm span is 2.2 m (7 ft) long.
Yeah, that's 30%
bigger than his height.
The gorilla’s arm span is 2.5 m (8 ft),
so it's only 25% longer
than his height.
His lengthy arm span
makes the orangutan a great climber,
but utterly clumsy on the land,
and he can only run up
to 5 km/h (3 mph).
The gorilla uses
his larger forearm muscles,
to catch up to the orangutan
in no time!
He’s a high-speed knucklewalker
with a crawling speed
of a whopping 40 km/h (25 mph)!
With his heavyweight status
and unmatched speed,
the gorilla takes round 1.
The orangutan
may only have the intelligence
of a human child,
but he's got some crafty
ingenuity to help him
in this round of the fight.
The orangutan surprises
the gorilla by grabbing a branch
and swatting his opponents!
His grip strength is four times
stronger than a human's,
so that swat is more of a pounding.
Unlike other apes,
the orangutan can use
his environment to create tools
to help him survive.
He's even made gloves
out of leaves for picking fruits,
like some sort of simian MacGyver.
Round 2 goes to the orangutan!
The gorilla is stronger
than 20 humans combined.
And though
the swatting him with a stick
may catch him off guard,
it's not enough to take him down.
The gorilla may not be smart enough
to fashion a bludgeoning weapon
out of a stick,
But he's smart enough
to find his opponent's weaknesses.
Using his low center of gravity
and thick muscular forearms,
the gorilla knocks over the orangutan.
He's down.
The orangutan clumsily
grasps for any tree branch
to help him up.
The gorilla opens his mouth wide,
showing off his 5 cm (2 in) long fangs,
and bites down hard
on the orangutan.
The gorilla’s jaws clasp
with a bite force
of nearly 9,000 kPa (1,300 PSI)!
The orangutan tries to bite back
with his bite force of almost
7,000 kPA (1000 PSI).
But with the gorilla's unrelenting,
open palmed punches,
the orangutan can't get a lick in,
let alone a bite.
The orangutan is
smart enough to tap out,
he knows he's on the ropes,
but he can't manage
to climb up a tree to save his life!
Looks like brawn
beat out the brains in this fight!
We have a winner.
The champion of the battle,
and the strongest ape on the planet,
the gorilla!
What might happen
if our champion found himself up
against the king of the forest?
Find out
on Gorilla VS Grizzly Bear!
We'll see who wins
on another round of VS.