Gorilla any day. If the Black Mamba kills you, it is not a pleasant death, 7-15 hours. Gorilla will probably beat/bite me to death as fast as possible to minimise any risk to itself. The Mamba will also be much more unpredictable vs the Gorilla. But I wonder how this situation would be if it was over a week and not 24 hours

Can I have both?

If they are not mad at me I'll just go to the fruit stand with the gorilla and chill.

Black mammas at the mall shopping for pant.

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.

Black mambas for sure. I just keave them alone and fuck off into some corner

Depends, is there a food court?

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

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.

Definitely the gorilla. I'd be raiding the food court with my new pal. FOOD FIGHT!

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!

Yeah, I'd take the snakes anyday. You probably won't even encounter them in the mall. You'll probably notice the gorilla. Also, I'm confident that I could easily find something in a mall to deal with the snakes. I can't think of anything I'd find in a mall that would let me take down a gorilla.

Heck, the mall is probably safer with the snakes in it. They'd eat the rats, which can carry dangerous diseases.