Silverback. Yeah mambas should be scared and stay away, but one crazy one and you can’t hide anywhere. With the gorilla I just need to stay somewhere closed off, like on top of an elevator car. But also silverbacks understand conciliatory gestures. If you’re submissive they won’t attack you. Literally the opposite of a black bear encounter. Make yourself small, look away, and slowly move away.
Or head to the lingerie store and seduce the gorilla.
Ah, the Bugs Bunny approach… worst case scenario you get flattened and walk away with funny sound effects.
Why waste a nice night away from home eh
If the both animals are angry I feel like you can just loot some food and drinks then lock yourself into a freezer or something (ofc you turn it off first).
I dont know how realistic this is but I kinda expect a gorilla to be able to smash the freezer door but no way a snake is getting in or 5 for that matter
loot some food and drinks then lock yourself into a freezer or something
If its just 24 hours, just get some powerbanks for your phone and something to collect any pee/poo you have to release. Food/water just means more waste to deal with.
I live in the frozen wasteland. If he’s to the REI for some warm gear. Turn off the heat and let the snakes go lethargic.
Then return the clothes the next day.
Gorilla might come at you because fuck you. Mamba is scared shitless of you.
Yeah, just stay out in the open away from places a snake might hide so that you don’t accidentally scare one, and the Mambas should be fine.
Yeah my son has gotten really into snakes. They reallly just want you to leave them alone. Good thing too since they can move at 12 mph
12mph is coincidentally the speed my bowels would empty if I saw a black mamba coming at me at that speed.
Amateur, I can make my bowels empty faster than 12 mph in recreational settings.
There are hidden hallways behind the shops, if you can get back there the gorilla won’t ever find you. Hell go to the elevator or a bathroom and just chill for a day.
Gorillas are some sneaky motherfuckers. That’s the first place they’ll hide waiting for you.
They’re not drop bears!
A gorilla is just five five drop bears in a fucking trench coat and you can’t prove me wrong.
Stop at the CinnaBon first then. Throw a roll and run away.
Decoy roll.
That’s terrible! You just don’t mess with a person’s sweetroll…
They may be, but it’s still terrifying to find out one was sleeping in your bed springs after you found one on your windowsill the night before.
I feel like the same is true of a gorilla though.
All the people who are not choosing to chill with a usually calm intelligent mammal because “snakes will get out of your way” apparently don’t know shit about black mambas:
Skittish and often unpredictable, the black mamba is agile and can move quickly. In the wild, black mambas seldom tolerate humans approaching more closely than about 40 metres (130 ft)
When confronted, it is likely to engage in a threat display
During the threat display, any sudden movement by the intruder may provoke the snake into performing a series of rapid strikes, leading to severe envenomation
Give me a big strong dude intelligent enough to leave you alone after you’re demonstrated that you’re not a threat any day!
Malls have food, I’d be that gorillas personal chef for 24 hours
That was my thought. Me and my new best friend are going to learn to make pretzels! Together!
Turns out the prompt wasn’t for a survival horror but a buddy movie
Couldn’t you just like go in an upstairs bathroom and just lock the door?
The snakes could go down the drain of a toilet in the other restroom, and come out inside your restroom.
I am sick of these mother fucking snakes in the mother fucking bathroom
I’m an tired of these mother fucking mambas in this mother fucking mall
I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES IN THIS MOTHERFUCKING BATHROOM
Maybe, but that would work with the Silverback too 🤷
Regardless, 24 hours locked in a bathroom could be its own kind of hell tbh…
Meh that isn’t too far away from my life most days. Except I don’t have to wash dishes.
At least with the gorilla I’d feel safe sleeping after locking enough doors, can not say the same with the snakes.
From the same Wikipedia article:
The black mamba’s reputation for being ready to attack is exaggerated; it is usually provoked by perceived threats such as the blocking of its movements and ability to retreat.
Despite its reputation as a formidable and highly aggressive species, the black mamba attacks humans only if it is threatened or cornered.
Good thing there’s no corners or enclosed areas in malls
Yup, I’d feel much safer with a gorilla. But I’m stupid enough to try to befriend him with fruits lol
As long as you’re careful about displaying submissive body language and not getting too close, the worst thing that could happen is probably that he gets to snack on fruit and ignores you 🤷
Probably have to REALLY know what you’re doing though lol
Just lock yourself in. Try finding a door that can withstand a gorilla tho.
That’s true. I read gorillas require that you invite them in. Also they’re afraid of crosses and holy water.
Nah, that’s lawyers you’re thinking of. Gorillas are the ones who howl at the moon and have been observed by Warren Zevon casually strolling around all over London.
Try finding a door that can withstand a gorilla tho
The gorilla won’t even care that you’re there as long as you don’t get too close and act too aggressively. It’s definitely not going to hunt you down and break down the door to get to you unless its family is in there too or something like that.
Also, as I pointed out to the other one, being locked in a bathroom for 24 hours is its own kind of hell for some of us.
Besides, one of the snakes might be hiding in that bathroom and you won’t know until it’s too late. Silverback gorillas, on the other hand, are not known for stealth.
Gorilla. No doubt in my mind. It’s a hell of a lot easier to keep track of where one gorilla is compared to 5 black snakes.
One gorilla will probably ignore me as long as I keep my distance. Keeping distance and even putting a wall or 3 between you and the gorilla is trivial in a place as large as a mall.
On the other hand, snakes might mostly ignore me, but since I don’t know where the fuckers are, it’s a lot easier to accidentally startle or threaten one.
My new best friend friend Coco isn’t coming through pipes, air ducts, holes in walls, etc. Big strong boi isn’t hiding in the corner of a closet waiting to bite me as I reach in to grab a snack.
I’d go to the food court, put out a cornucopia of food, make sure the gorilla sees me leave it there for them, bow respectfully and slink away, then spend the rest of the 24 hours clear on the opposite side of the mall.
This all assumes that the gorilla isn’t enraged for any particular reason or starving. But even if so, I think gorilla is the safer answer, just the evasion technique changes.
I don’t think a gorilla would be chill while stuck in a mall
Are the snakes hungry? You can be on an open space, or a strtegically closed one to keep away from the snakes.
I don’t think a gorilla would be chill while stuck in a mall
We don’t know that.
Where’s the myth busters for this?
man i’d rather hang out with a gorilla at the mall than most people, wtf kind of question is that
Me and 24 gorilla pals going to Auntie Annie’s after a movie then looking through GameStop.
Actually yeah, gorilla and have him smash into the GameStop for you… The perfect heist
I’m taking the snakes 100%. Snakes don’t want to bite you, so stay in open spaces and you’re all good.
A gorilla could probably catch me, but 5 black mambas aren’t that fast unless the mall is underwater (average top speed is 12mph on land). It’s a big mall. Maybe they’re all over at Sears while I’m safe at Suncoast.
Does your mall still have a Sears?
Does your mall still have a Sun Coast?
Has anyone actually been inside a mall in the last decade?
Of course. Good place to play Pokemon go during heatwaves.
Yeah, it’s next to the Best buy, Toys R Us and Kmart.
Our mall has a FYE !
I’m pretty sure it’s spelled FYI, FYI 😛
Yeah… Kinda? It’s not the whole department store; it’s just a repair center but it also carries like tires and tools. No clothes or accessories and what not like it used to have.
My first reaction was mamba, and I actually thought that I was going to be in the majority. I don’t know much of black mambas, but most of the snakes I’ve encountered first hand tend to not want to be anywhere near you and will almost always try to avoid biting you. But on further research it seems they are rather territorial. Even so, I do think they’d be more likely to want to hide than stay in open spaces. But that’s a double edged sword, since they’ll probably end up in the most random nooks and crannies then bite your head off (or at least try) if you stumble upon them.
Realistically though, regardless of which one I choose, I’m going to try and stay as far away as possible. If it’s snakes, I’ll probably climb onto a table or something, maybe up on top of some shelves in a grocery store. If it’s a gorilla, I’d probably try to hide somewhere hard to access. On top of a lift or in a walk in fridge as others have suggested seem like good bets. I don’t really trust either to not try and kill me given the right circumstances
Idk, I can definitely find something in the mall that can help me trap/ kill a couple snakes. I can’t say the same thing about a silverback.
Plus, the snakes are just as likely to attack each other than anything, with apes you always gotta worry about them teaming up.
I was gonna say. The gorilla is a 800lb. problem that requires stealth, strength, and fast thinking to deal with. You’d need a smarter plan than “lure him into Banana Republic and close the security gate with him inside.” But you will need a plan.
Also, accidentally make eye contact or show your teeth to that ape and you’re dead; like your shoes came off, dead. Can’t say the same for the snakes.
lure him into Banana Republic
“I wish to lodge a formal complaint about the ludicrously misleading naming of this establishment.”
Signed Buford Francis Gorilla
I think that will work for me. Most stores, I have zero interest in.
But if this snake also love arcades, I’m fucked.
Sure, lots of big animals are gentle. However when something the size of a car decides to gore you or rip your spine in half, there’s nothing you can do about it
It’s not like we’re better at defending ourselves from snakes either
A snake can’t sprint at you at 25 miles an hour and then rip you in half like a phone book as soon as it sees you. Nor would it. A panicked gorilla placed in a strange location like a mall will potentially kill anything in sight.
Just don’t go into corners, it’s 24 hours and only 5 snakes. Go to the Asian imports and get a mall ninja sword if it makes you feel more comfortable. The snakes are going to fuck off anywhere small where they feel protected… just don’t go adventuring and you won’t have any snek issues.
Now if it’s 50 mambas that definitely changes the calculus.
Black mammas at the mall shopping for pant.
I have a pair of those
Black mambas, or pants?
Yeah!
Plural, pants. Actually, since there are 5 of them, that would actually be pantsssss
Sorry I don’t make the rules
oh its mamba time. for sure.
Mambas numbering five…
Ah 1, 2, 3-4-5…
I hope you’re proud of yourself. 🤣
If they are not mad at me I’ll just go to the fruit stand with the gorilla and chill.
There’s always a gorilla in the banana stand.
Is that how that saying goes?
It’s a baboon, Michael, what could it cost? Ten dollars?
Plot twist, neither would be mad at you. They are actually very horny in this situation.
On the one hand, snakes have no external genitals, but on the other hand, that doesn’t mean they can’t violently enter you… Also, they’re cold blooded in more ways than one.
As for the gorilla, they’re a monogamous species, very social, fiercely protective of their loved ones but nowhere near as terrorial as a black mamba and look like they’d be great at cuddling, so I’d say that the choice is clear…
Death by Gorilla snoo-snoo?
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!
Definitely the gorilla. I’d be raiding the food court with my new pal. FOOD FIGHT!
Black mambas for sure. I just keave them alone and fuck off into some corner
