"While at the Zoo, Robert John and I discussed the age old question: Tiger or Gorilla? Do you take speed and deception over brute strength and plausible thumbs? What about sheer determination? After all, tigers are just celebrated cats, and we all know how lame cats are. Gorilla’s are like people, except 3-7 times sweeter, so I’d have to say that I’d be rooting for the Gorilla, on behalf of humanity. Furthermore, how do you level the playing field so that neither have a home-court advantage? It would seem like almost everything would suit the tiger in this case. A big open space might cater to the speed of the the tiger, but a space with many obstacles or places to hide would play into its strengths as well. With this final consideration in mind, and after sizing up both animals in great detail at the Zoo, we rule in favor of TIGER. It’s just got way too many ways of beating you, much like the 2004 Patriots. Let’s move Tiger on in the bracket to the finals where it will face the winner of polar bear v. african fire ants (I’m thinking power in numbers will prevail there, but tune in next week to find out)."

— Project Blue Book