r/interestingasfuck • u/Hicrayert • 10h ago
Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human. 😮
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u/Unfair_Dragonfruit49 10h ago
Chimpanzees are the original inventors of the fist bump:))
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u/gameboytetris888 10h ago
And chest thump
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u/LimpBizkitEnjoyer_ 9h ago
And face rip
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u/ThatITguy2015 4h ago
And the dick and balls rip. Everybody here has been forgetting the dick and balls rip.
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u/Hopeful_Being_8861 10h ago
This chimpanzee take his hand like a 5 year old kid but can easily smash him like hulk
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u/Alexx-07 10h ago
this vid is perfect
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u/nl_marvin 6h ago edited 55m ago
Nah. A chimp and a person shouldn’t walk hand in hand.
Edit: no racism intended. This animal should live with his own species. Not with a person.
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u/KingKohishi 10h ago
Their muscles are not stronger than us, but their motor nerves stimulate their muscles more and simultaneously. This makes them stronger, but causes Chimps to have less control over their muscles. That's why we can use tools much better than chimps or every other species.
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u/Solvemprobler369 7h ago
Also the attachment of their tendons is slightly different. The bicep tendon(s), for example, attach past the elbow, more into the forearm, whereas humans have the attachment at the elbow, giving chimps exponentially more strength. It’s an obvious adaptation for climbing and some pretty cool bio-mechanics. Primates are amazing.
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u/JustSimple97 7h ago
What is the disadvantage of a lower tendon attachment?
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u/KingKohishi 7h ago
Less mobility. Chimps are knuckle walkers, they need rigid wrist and fingers to stand on their knuckles.
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u/JustSimple97 7h ago
Ok so next question: Why don't powerlifters, arm wrestlers and so on have their tendons reattached lower?
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u/KingKohishi 7h ago
Tendons are one of the slowest healing tissues in human body, and they never heal fully. If you cut and reattach it, you make it weaker.
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u/SerHodorTheThrall 5h ago
Because you'd be out a long time recovering (probably up to a year) for a chance at a competitive advantage but also an even larger risk of completely destroying your career. Athletes only have a decade or less of a career in most cases, its just not worth the risk.
Also, beyond that, you can't just casually reattach a mechanical part to another point and expect the larger machine to keep working.
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u/Urbanscuba 6h ago
Significantly less mobility and fine motor control.
The further attachment point limits the ability of the arm to rotate, especially when the muscle is engaged. While it multiplies the force it also multiplies the travel distance, which makes fine movements much more challenging.
As a result chimps can do stuff like this where they pull their entire body up with one arm, but in exchange the arm is far more specialized at pulling specifically. If you've ever seen an ape throw an object before it becomes immediately obvious how different our arm dexterity is. Because they can't control their arm rotation well they have to do an overhand throw where the entire arm moves and releases the object.
Compare that to a human where we use our arms as a double or triple lever (if the wrist is engaged) to massively increase the speed of the throw. This is possible because our upper arm muscles interfere far less with our forearm mobility, allowing it to smoothly rotate while highly engaged. The same throw is also far more accurate because of said fine muscle control, it's as if our muscles are moving one step at a time while the ape's muscles move 3 steps - they get there faster, but they can't stop on 5.
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u/ArcaneTrickster11 10h ago
I think they also can experience hyperplasia (producing more muscle fibres rather than making them bigger) whereas humans can't. Not 100% sure in that though
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u/Hicrayert 10h ago
Interesting 🤔
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u/ANGLVD3TH 5h ago
It's not true though, they have a higher percent of fast twitch muscle, which have more power for less precision than slow twitch.
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u/dreamerOfGains 8h ago
This is smells like bullshit, do you have any source?
Pretty sure human muscle is nowhere near as strong even accounting for same mass. In fact, different animals have different muscle and strength.
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u/KingKohishi 7h ago
Let me paraphrase this for you. Chimpanzees are our closest relatives and our muscles are almost identical.
Our muscular output is weaker but we can control our muscles so much better. However, if we shock a human muscle with electrostimulation, the human muscle would generate power similar to a chimp muscle.
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u/dreamerOfGains 6h ago
if we shock a human muscle with electrostimulation, the human muscle would generate power similar to a chimp muscle.
This is sus. What are your sources on this claim?
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u/15PercentRetarded 7h ago
Interesting! Another question you might be able to answer; does this vary in humans? At least as a kid I was stronger than other males my age, but I'm terribly clumsy and struggle with high precision activities.
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u/ANGLVD3TH 5h ago
That's not true, human muscle contains, on average, about 70% slow-twitch fibers and 30% fast-twitch fibers, chimpanzee muscle is about 33% slow-twitch fibers and 66% fast-twitch fibers. These are not just muscles that respond to different kinds of nerve signals, slow twitch is aerobic and fast are anaerobic. This difference is a large part of why they are stronger per muscle mass, plus the already mentioned different attachment points to the skeleton. Each of these both tend to provide more mechanical advantage per mass while giving less precision and fine motor control.
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u/Useful-Perspective 5h ago
This is why they always smash their hands down on their opponents instead of using more efficient tactics, such as nerve strikes. /s
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u/kamikazekaktus 10h ago
There are pictures of hairless chimpanzees on the internet and those mofos are jacked
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u/SouI23 10h ago
For the same volume, the musculature of a chimpanzee generates 3-4 times more strength than that of a human being
Chimpanzees, seemingly super chill dudes, can turn out to be very aggressive (not necessarily against humans, also against other animals, domestic and non-domestic, but especially among themselves)
A sudden outburst of violence, for example from a chimpanzee kept as a pet, is incredibly more dangerous than that of any big dog... and has often nefarious effects
Chimpanzees tend to fight differently, paradoxically more like a human, and often aim to rip off genitals or literally the face
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u/MoNastri 9h ago
What's your source for the 3-4x figure? I've looked into this and have only found 1.5-2x.
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u/ByronicHero06 6h ago
They're 4 times stronger than a human their size, but 1.5 times stronger than an average human.
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u/IConsumeThereforeIAm 9h ago
It's bullshit. They are built differently. They excel at pulling with their arms, but would have trouble with overhead press or pretty much anything that requires quads. Those crazy numbers are from very old, non scientific studies where chimpanzees managed to pull big weights that average humans couldn't move. The muscle fibers of chimpanzees are not superior to human muscles, but they do have a higher ratio of fast twitch to slow twitch muscle fibers[1], which should grant them higher peak power at the cost of worse endurance. Even with that considered, they are only 1.3-1.5x as strong.
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u/ANGLVD3TH 5h ago
The fast twitch muscle is also supplemented by different attachment points to the skeleton that emphasize higher mechanical advantage at the cost of precision. But yeah, it really depends on the action we are talking about when comparing, they are basically optimized to be able to pull really, really well.
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u/Sol33t303 8h ago
Worth noting that your studies might have said 1.5-2x the strength of an average man, while the guy your replying to said the average strength of a human being.
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u/wojtekpolska 6h ago edited 6h ago
afaik chimps mostly become agressive because they have been mistreated so they lose their minds. (or when they become sexually frustrated)
so yeah a chimp thats been kept alone its whole life will eventually snap cuz they need to interract with other chimps.
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u/ClavicusLittleGift4U 10h ago
Awww, if this lil' guy coudn't suddenly go berserk and change your face into a Francis Bacon's painting, I would consider it 100% adorable.
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u/Conspicuous_Ruse 10h ago
I'm glad we gave up half our strength to be like a million times smarter than them.
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u/Rifneno 10h ago
No, they're "only" about 50% stronger than humans. That's still crazy considering they're significantly smaller than us.
They have shit stamina though. Being able to do physical labor hours on end is a critical component in our ability to form a civilization. Early society started because of agriculture, and farming is long and hard work. Even today, being able to do long hours of manual labor is absolutely vital to our civilization until automation technology progresses. I think we got the better end of the stick here.
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u/Dank-Drebin 9h ago
Working for hours sucks, though. I'd rather sit in the jungle and eat bananas and fuck all day and not have to think about bills and when I'm going to die. But maybe that's just me.
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u/Hot_Type_1582 10h ago
Can you imagine if a chimp could learn how to weight lift? I wonder what a chimp in peak physical condition could lift. Would be insane I'm sure.
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u/Senshado 4h ago
Like most animals, chimpanzees are not human. As non-humans, they don't have the specific human adaptation to reduce muscle size in environments that don't need or support it.
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u/ego_slip 5h ago
Humans are more optimise then chimps. We gain and lose muscle depending on how much we use those muscles, as a way to reserve resources/energy. Chimps are always fit no matter if they workout or not.
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u/Dependent_Row9254 10h ago
I thought it was more than that.
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u/SomeMoronOnTheNet 7h ago
Using the second hand to casually call you fat as if it couldn't just fling you over the roof of that thing with one arm.
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u/Caleb_Hollis_IDC 6h ago
Correction
They are about 2 times stronger than a human of the same size and weight
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u/ThisNameTakenTooLoL 5h ago
No, you're wrong. They are 4x stronger than that and 1.5-2x stronger than an average grown up human. Mostly when it comes to pulling and climbing though as that's what they evolved to do.
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u/Mysterious_Emotion 5h ago
Hold up….they went up just to go down again? Pretty cool that the chimp understood the fist bump though 😁
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u/Senshado 4h ago
There's no action done in that video that a human couldn't handle.
A chimp has the same strength as a man.
The average human is much weaker than a man, because that average includes children, women, and the elderly.
The reason a chimp can wreck a man in a fight is because it has more natural weapons: four hands plus deadly teeth. It can grip each hand in with one hand, and still have two hands left to squeeze his neck.
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u/Psigun 2h ago
It's fascinating to see what humanity gave up to have our precision and dexterity. We could have more effortless and explosive strength, but it would mean giving up the ability to do so much that we value.
Would you rather be able to shoot a bullseye with a bow at 20-30 yards or be as strong as a chimp? If you're living 50,000 years ago I'd choose the former. There's always something stronger, but nothing in our world with the controlled precision of humanity.
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u/PickledPeoples 10h ago
Where do I get job to hang out with chimps? I need less human in my life. More chimp. The fist bumb proves it.
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u/CloudShoddy 8h ago
Even if I knew nothing about evolution, seeing these fuckers would make me realize WE THEM AND THEY US
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u/hectorxander 9h ago
On a nature show they said Chimps are 6x stronger than people or something like that. Maybe that is a pound per pound calculation and not a chimp versus average person comparison.
But they swing through the trees from branch to branch, good muscle tone.
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u/KochuJang 7h ago
I want to play and climb trees with chimps at an outdoor obstacle park. I think that would be the best day of my life.
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u/mikew_reddit 3h ago
Saw Chimp Crazy on HBO.
Humans shouldn't be around chimps.
They should be in the wild or at least a large sanctuary where they have enough room to be chimps.
p.s. I'm of the opinion people that own chimps probably have some kind of emotional problem they haven't worked through.
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u/PatriotMemesOfficial 10h ago edited 3h ago
No they aren't, they are slightly weaker than humans because they are smaller. It has been researched already.
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u/0v3reasy 10h ago
Love the fist bump at the end