Joe Rogan on why the grizzly beats the gorilla and the tiger, and it has nothing to do with size:
The argument starts as a hot take and turns into a case.
Rogan: "Grizzly would kill a gorilla, dude."
First he splits the grizzly in two, because not all of them are the same animal.
Rogan: "There's mountain grizzlies, and then there's coastal brown bears, which are the same species, but they have much more access to protein. They're just eating salmon all day. And moose. Those things are giant."
Rogan: "They're huge. They run 40 miles an hour."
Then he turns to the gorilla, and points at the one feature that should win the argument for it.
Rogan: "Silverbacks have canines that are just for posturing."
Rogan: "Every other thing that has canines as big as a gorilla kills things. They just eat vegetables."
The weapons are real. The experience is not.
Even its nearest relatives hunt, which makes the gap stranger.
Rogan: "Chimps are very carnivorous. They eat a lot of meat. They eat a lot of monkeys."
Rogan: "But really, what they want is monkeys. That's their favorite thing to eat."
Rogan: "I had the director on. And he said, they didn't even show all the chimps eating monkeys."
Someone puts a Siberian tiger in the ring instead. Rogan does not take that either, and the reason is the same reason.
Rogan: "They're designed to fight. A cat is not necessarily designed to fight. They're designed to kill things."
Rogan: "I don't think the big cat is used to fighting."
Killing is an ambush. Fighting is a fight.
Rogan: "Grizzlies fight each other all the time and they fight for like 20 minutes and they tear each other apart and they don't get hurt."
Rogan: "Their skin is so flexible and so thick that they get just bit down on and they're shaking each other and then they just shake it off like nothing happened."
Rogan: "Grizzlies are out there. They're like Tyson in their prime. It's every two weeks."
He has watched it happen, hunting black bears over bait in Alberta.
Rogan: "They'll decide like who gets the bait, or they'll decide that a female is hot and she's ready to have sex, and they'll fight over the female."
Rogan: "I watched these two dudes just go at it, like 30 yards away."
The gorilla is stronger. The tiger is deadlier. The grizzly has done this hundreds of times.