All types of species have different strengths that help them adapt to their environment. They have discovered the difference in muscle architecture between chimps and humans. Chimps, on the other hand, go full-bore all the time, making tog-o-war with their human caregivers a short-lived game.Īnyway, I’m in no position to evaluate either explanation, but its interesting to think about. Researchers believe that the chimpanzee is about four to five times stronger compared to humans. Chimpanzee Strength 745344 - 07/14/02 12:22 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) Edit : Reply : Quote : Quick Reply: Chimpanzees (and similar monkeys and apes) are roughly 10 times stronger than a human (pound for pound).
Only once in a blue moon do we hear of someone using all of their available strength, and only in times of severe stress – for example, stories of mothers lifting cars when their children are trapped underneath (just an example, I don’t know if that’s actually ever happened!). Basically, our brains limit the extent to which we can use our own muscles. people often exaggerate the strength of chimpanzees compared to humans, saying they are 3, 4 or 5 times stronger than a human- this is not true. But the second explanation, available in detail from the link above, says that humans simply have more “cerebral inhibition” over muscle control. Have you ever wondered how a 150-pound deer is able to gracefully leap over garden fences on those scrawny little legs? When you think about how powerful some animals can be with such small muscles, you start to realize that size isn’t everything. The gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and our species, Homo sapiens, are in the family Hominidae, often called in English the 'great apes.' The 'lesser apes' are the gibbons, in the family Hylobatidae. The first says that the chimpanzee’s greater strength is due to a difference in “musculoskeletal architecture”, meaning, basically, that their muscle fibers and the geometry of the attachments between muscle and bone are different than ours. An adult male gorilla weighs 300-400lb/135-180kg, at least twice as large as a male chimp. Indeed, when the team compared the muscle fiber in various mammals like mice. There are two explanations that I’ve come across, and they both seem plausible (and they are not mutually exclusive). O’Neill says it’s likely other apes have similar muscle strength to chimpanzees.
Sure, they are more muscular than most humans, but that doesn’t seem to be enough to explain such a dramatic difference in power. And yet, after all these years being around chimps, I’ve never really understood why this is. Honestly, I can’t think of a human on this planet who could compete with a chimpanzee in terms of sheer strength. Judging by your comments, you either think that Burrito is incredibly strong or that I am incredibly weak. As a follow-up to the last post, I thought I’d share this article that I came across last spring regarding chimpanzee strength.
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