Ape Strength: Myth vs Reality

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@Shadow :

About what you told at #29, - "Gorilla can lift 2000 kilos", then "Gorilla can lift 2000 kilos easily" and finally "Gorilla can lift 2000 kilos just like that..."-, In French we speak of "téléphone arabe" (literarly "Arabian phone"), in the french-english dictionary this expression is translated by "Chinese whispers" or "bush telegraph"...

Of course, nor do I believe that gorillas are able to lift 2000 kilos. Of course too they are very strong, but they exert their strenght much more seldomly than, for example, big cats, lions and tigers (that weighs aproximately the same weight, around 200-220 kilos) when they come to kill a big prey and, after, to pull it into a more safer place. Even if they don't have neither arm nor hand able to lift the corpse over their head. Thus... Reply