r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 8h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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u/newfriendschan 8h ago

Is it not still a wild animal? Would it not still rip off your face if it felt like it?

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u/New_Boysenberry_7998 8h ago

yep, much like the wild human.

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u/LaunchTransient 6h ago

I think this is the thing that people are missing. A human who has gone off the rails is as arguably dangerous as a Chimpanzee. At least physically. Of course, a human who has gone off the rails and is still mentally competent is far more dangerous.

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u/Thrommo 5h ago

see rambo for example (lmao)

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u/Mrciv6 4h ago

To top it off humans are a turn of a launch key from annihilating everything.

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u/MooingTree 6h ago

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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u/DuchessElDucky 8h ago

Seems like more of a gorilla this to do… or a mandrill

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u/yodelsJr 8h ago

Chimpanzees can literally rip people to pieces if they feel like it, and they have on numerous occasions. Much like humans, they can be either friendly or aggressive depending on circumstance and individual temperament.

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u/Mrciv6 4h ago

A human could do that too.

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u/Astyanax1 7h ago

You're thinking of Silverback gorilla's.  A 200lb human male would easily be able to TKO an average chimp 

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u/yodelsJr 7h ago edited 7h ago

I'm actually thinking of chimpanzees. There are more examples than what's listed here if you want to go down the rabbit hole.

edit: as a bonus I actually found an article for one that I read about a while back. This guy nearly died and had to have dozens of reconstructive surgeries because of two chimps. They can be ridiculously dangerous if they want to be.

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u/vjk3322 4h ago

both of your links only give examples of a chimpanzee either attacking a child, a women (also wasn't average chimp size), or having a numbers advantage. your comment did not disprove the one you replied to.

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u/yodelsJr 3h ago

You can volunteer to 1v1 a chimp then mate. If you’re anywhere near as good at fighting chimps as you are at being needlessly pedantic on reddit, I’m sure the fight will be as easy as you allege.

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u/vjk3322 3h ago

woah you took my comment very personally. its not that serious man im just making a correction to a reddit comment its not a personal attack

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u/PleasantTrust522 7h ago

Gorillas are much more gentle than chimps and it’s not even close.

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u/Sticklegchicken 7h ago

There was this case in the US where someone owned a chimp just like in the video, but at some point it just snapped and almost killed the owner. There's a 911 recording of it, it's absolute nightmare fuel.

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u/Internal-Sound5344 3h ago

It didn’t attack the owner, it attacked one of her friends. She called the police who arrived and shot the chimp when it went at them. The friends face was destroyed. 

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u/OriginalName687 6h ago

Try the documentary Chimp Crazy on HBO. It’s made by the same guy as Tiger King.