Animal Strength Feats

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(11-24-2020, 03:26 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(11-24-2020, 01:12 AM)alexandro Wrote: Source: 


-Brown, G. (1993). Great bear almanac. Lyons & Burford.

(https://archive.org/details/greatbearalm...3/mode/1up)

I watched that orangutang video and it was nice, but I can´t say that I would have been too impressed. If that rock is for instance approximately 70cm x 30 cm x 25 cm, it would weight approximately 130-140 kg (around 300 lbs). Rolling that heavy stone isn´t too difficult for average man. In that occasion when it lifted other end of the rock it was "nice" and for sure it showed some strength there, but nothing extraordinary though, imo. For sure stronger than some guy same weight or somewhat bigger, but a bit difficult to say how much. It had to put some effort too there, it wasn´s some nonchalant lift. Nice video but for me a good example of it, that big apes aren´t as strong as some people think. Heavy rock for people is heavy rock for an ape same weight too, even though maybe a little easier for an ape.

Then what comes to that book and bears, I would be pretty cautious when reading it. For instance when there reads how a bear can kill a moose, elk or a deer and then there reads, that it can lift a carcass in it´s mouth and carry it away for long distances... lifting a moose in mouth and carrying away for long distances, it´s something easier to write than to see really happen. Big moose for instance can be 600-800 kg, dragging for some distance is one thing but then again when writing like a bear could do it like nothing is another. For some reason bears too, like all other predators tend to eat big prey animals right there where they manage to kill it. If dragging somewhere, not long distances really if able to do it at all.

There are many nice stories how bears, tigers and lions drag huge carcasses like nothing but reality looks usually very different. 500 meters in a book can be 50 meters in reality and so on. Or if real, then terrain and conditions have been very easy what comes to friction. I have mentioned this before but for instance a big moose on tarmac in cold weather (no ice needed) isn´t too difficult when getting carcass moving, fur slides on tarmac easily and this I know because I have dragged quite big dead moose off the road with my friend and it was easy. Trying the same in the woods would be something else.

Lifting a stone that shape isn't the same as rolling and that is extremely impressive to do so with minimal effort.
Just to give you an idea, here is a video of a 400lb ish Husafell Stone lift

These guys are going to be 280-350lbs compared to that Orangutan that flips it with one hand which probably weighs around 100-150lbs, maybe a bit more. Reply