re: What caliber did they use to shoot the gorilla?

To hijack a bit -
My cousin in the mountains of BC carries a 44 pistol for bears when he is back country trekking. When they are back country snowmobiling he has a pump shotgun on his sled (home defense model w/ buckshot in chamber than slugs after that), that is his preferred firearm but too heavy to carry when trekking. Bears aren’t too much of an issue in the winter when they are sledding (they are hibernating), between avalanches, bears, cougars etc there are lots of things out there that can kill you. I know when I have worked in the arctic or out west the “wildlife monitor” aka the guy w/ the gun is my new BFF

Probably 06 earhole shot.

I can't believe any of you would doubt data that's available on the internet.

But for you doubters, add this info -- I've been married to a silverback gorilla for several decades. (She's a bit larger than the average female -- close to 530 pounds. But she put on much of that weight before the sex change operation.)

But back to the pertinent stuff. She is particularly hard headed, so her skull thickness may be atypical. Based on the CT scans that were done when we were trying to figure out just how many emotional disorders she was suffering from, her skull thickness was determined to be almost exactly 12" (which equals one yard in Mississippi).

So 9" for the average gorilla is certainly believable (to me).

p.s. We're working on teaching her to walk without dragging her knuckles. It really scares the neighbors.

50 cal

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a gorilla skull is 9" thick.

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I find that believable, depending on how one's defining/measuring skull thickness. I suspect whoever made the original quote is measuring the total depth of the skull from front to back (adding the totals of the thickness of front part of skull bone, brain cavity and thickness of rear part of the skull bone), not the thickness of a single area of one side of the skull bone.

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a 44 pistol for bears when he is back country trekking.

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most people can't shoot a sidearm effectively enough to defend themselves in an attack.

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But for you doubters, add this info -- I've been married to a silverback gorilla for several decades. (She's a bit larger than the average female -- close to 530 pounds. But she put on much of that weight before the sex change operation.)

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