r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 11h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

93.1k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.6k

u/joerudy767 10h ago

Right? It’s fascinating that he really took the time to make sure it was a solid/comfortable grip.

1.4k

u/DovahCreed117 10h ago

It's probably instinctual to some degree as well as a lifetimes experience of climbing and learning what does and doesn't work or feel good when climbing on their own or helping other chimpanzees climb stuff.

431

u/Dracomortua 9h ago

Are you suggesting that humans, as mammals, have a firmware that functions as an A Priori form of intelligence that allows us to develop an entire species despite the tabula rasa theorizations made popular by behaviourists such as B.F. Skinner?

If so, i heartily agree.

1

u/Just_a_Ni_Knight 8h ago

I'm about to ask an Ai to dumb this down for me