What I mean is, say you’re thrown into a cage with a primate. Which one is most likely or able to take you out, assuming you have no weapons?
King Kong? 
I’d just slip on a blonde wing and look winsome!
I think I recall from my Anthropology class that baboons are extremely vicious.
But they’re not as huge as gorillas so…eh. Still, I wouldn’t want to hang out with a baboon.
I wouldn’t want to be locked in a cage with any irate primate, other than some of the smaller prosimians. Even little cute monkeys can do a horrific amount of damage in a very short time.
Any one of the great apes - gorilla, orang, or chimp - if properly motivated, could demolish an average human in pretty short order. Gorillas by nature are more placid, and would probably be less likely to attack unless provoked, but simply by virtue of the size difference would be the most dangerous if they were really intent on killing you. Male orangs are larger than chimps and have a longer reach, so they would probably be the next most dangerous. Although slightly smaller than humans, chimps are much stronger, and could probably win any encounter. Even an enraged bonobo would be a serious threat.
When gorillas fight for dominance do they actually injure each other or is it all chest pounding bluff?
I’d say the chance of successfully fending off an orang, a chimp or as gorilla are all sufficiently low that it might as well be the same. Unless you’ve got super-seekret ninja moves, you’re going to die if any of the above get annoyed.
Chimps are the most likely to eat you ( on rare occasions they’ll eat each other ) and probably the most likely to kill over territorial issues. So they get my vote, just on the aggression scale.
- Tamerlane
Chimps will eat human babies.
Woman.
Not if you present buttocks! 
(But you have to be willing to follow through . . .)
We lemurs can be pretty deadly. You wouldn’t want to meet up with an enraged golden bamboo lemur in a dark alley.
I’ve been on the wrong end of a baboon. After it ripped a kitchen cupboard door off on its hinges just opening it looking for a snack, we decided that we did not want to tangle with it, and called the experts. The fangs on those things are scary! Plus they are quite pushy, unlike the gorillas I’ve seen on telly. They get my vote.
And the other end is the “right” end? :dubious:
Personally, I don’t think a baboon has a right end.
The claws on those things are absolutely horrifying.
I can’t imagine what the ancient giant lemurs were like in a fight.
Just in case anyone doubts me, check out these images:
http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Hapalemur_aureus/more_still_images.html
Makes shivers run down your spine, doesn’t it? If those teeth can gnaw through a bamboo stem, think what they’d do to your liver.
I’m sure one Mr. St. James Davis has some opinions on this.
They have two males and two females together at the Little Rock Zoo.
One of htem bit off part of the other guy’s ear, but it’s mostly Looking Ugly and Running Away.
…and we share how much of our genetic material with these viscious little bastards? 98%?