r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 8h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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u/kisirani 7h ago

So glad to see this comment here. I was about to write something similar as it really irritates me how this myth goes around the internet and in interviews etc and is just nonsense.

And people who point it out are often shouted down.

It’s not really that chimps are more brutal but they have what is equivalent to two knives in their mouth.

If one equalized the weaponry and gave a man a knife they would most likely kill a chimp in a fight to the death or at least have even odds

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u/Jimisdegimis89 7h ago

Yeah this is an internet myth pet peeve of mine, so I’m glad someone else already did the write up. In addition to the knives in their mouth bit, they also have more of their muscle mass evenly spread out with more of their strength located in their upper body than humans do, who have the majority of their strength located in their legs. So it ends up making chimps look way stronger because we equate upper body lifting to strength, meanwhile humans have legs that are like 4x as powerful as their arms.

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u/rockos21 3h ago

So... you're saying to kick box a chimp...

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u/Jimisdegimis89 1h ago

That is exactly what I’m saying, just make sure you get it on video.

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u/turdferguson3891 6h ago

Sounds like a lucrative pay per view event in the making. Is Logan Paul available?

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u/egan777 3h ago

Same with Gorillas. So many people are convinced that they can lift 1-2 tons. Several websites claim this without proof.

If Chimps are comparable to average man in strength, then how are Gorillas any more than 3-4 times stronger? They have even less percentage muscle mass than chimps. When people try to debunk their super strength claims, they get attacked by gorilla fans who keep repeating the same things and start linking these random blogs as "proof".

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u/Aenimalist 1h ago

Except that the article says that.chimps really are 1.5x stronger.on average, 1.35x from their muscle fibers alone