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TIL gorillas usually weigh between 300-500 pounds (136-227 kg), with the heaviest gorilla ever recorded massing 589 pounds (267 kg), and the most overweight captive gorilla only ever reached 683 pounds (310 kg). There is no such thing as an “800 pound gorilla,” it never existed.
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there are 800 pound humans though.
So they only know the ones they’ve weighed and gorillas have been around about 7 million years, but sure they claim there has never ever been an 800 pound gorilla in the short time they’ve been weighing them.
Theres an 800 pound gorilla in my room right now!
What about your mom?
And somewhere in the jungles sits an extreme sad 800 pound gorilla. So fat that humans ignore his existence.
Only the Sith use absolutes…
I’m sure that at some point in the timeline of gorillas it was possible that an 800 pound gorilla existed
But where do they sit?
London zoo bought an 800 pound gorilla last week…
who said there was an 800 pound gorilla? I don’t get the reference
Uh… that’s the point of picking the 800 lb. figure… because it’s significantly larger than any gorilla any person has ever seen. Like, it’s obvious in the phrasing of the idiom; it’s not just that it’s a big gorilla, it’s that it’s a third larger than an already large gorilla.
I don’t think you can justifiably say, “it never existed”, you just learned about this today…
Bob’s “Gorilloids” on Delta Eridoni don’t count then aha
Feels bad i almost weigh as much as a gorilla. I’m not even that fat but gorillas are husks of pure muscle.