How many chimps would it take to kill a fully-grown silverback gorilla? - Going apeshit

[zero-who]

Fight takes place in your bog standard zoo exhibit at high noon. There's some branches and rocks and shit strewn about, and it's mostly flat with some small rises and dips in the terrain here and there. The walls are made of reinforced plexiglass, so the chimps can't climb up it and the gorilla can't smash it to escape.
Assume the chimpanzees will not back down until either the gorilla is dead, or they are dead. The same goes for the gorilla.
Also assume that the zookeepers will not intervene.

 

[Meiwaku]

5, should be enough to distract and mob the Gorilla. Chimpanzees are small but deceptively strong and smarter than Gorillas. I think they could kite a Gorilla easily because focusing your attacks even if you're stronger is hard.

Excellent question sir.

 

[AMHOLIO]

I think it depends on if a chimp can MacGyver a tool fast enough. If it can, one. If not, one to distract the gorilla and one to deliver a killing blow.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

I think it depends on if a chimp can MacGyver a tool fast enough. If it can, one. If not, one to distract the gorilla and one to deliver a killing blow.

whatever tool a chimp can make won't be able to fully destroy a gorilla. also put this in the category of things Notch could have answered for us if he wasn't just sitting on his fat ass wasting away his billions.

 

[AMHOLIO]

whatever tool a chimp can make won't be able to fully destroy a gorilla. also put this in the category of things Notch could have answered for us if he wasn't just sitting on his fat ass wasting away his billions.

What if it makes a choking hazard and miraculously gets it into a gorilla's throat? That's truthfully the only way I can think of.

 

[Shig O'nella]

4.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

1 chimp chomp on the gorilla cock and that fights over

 

[speedweed]

It would take at least five chimps to take the gorilla down, though it'd be a pyrrhic victory.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

i'd say three of them if they're highly motivated. chimps have the seed of evil within them where great apes like the silverback aren't driven by hate.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Let's unleash Leslie Jones into Wal Mart in Chicago on Black Friday and find out.

 

[Beheadmeandsee]

I would say about 4-5 adult chimpanzees to 1 adult gorilla. Chimpanzees are notably more violent than gorillas are and have been known to hunt and kill other primates. Gorillas are around 3 times the size of a chimpanzee, so that would account for the need for multiple chimps.
In 2019 researchers in Africa witnessed a group of chimps attack a group of Five gorillas. I have seen variations in how many chimps were reported to have attacked but 27 seems to be the main number; at the end of the attack the only fatality for the gorillas was an infant. So 27 chimps only got away with an infant out of five. Four of which was made up of three females and one male.