Ape Strength: Myth vs Reality

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(01-02-2019, 08:37 PM)johnny rex Wrote:

(01-02-2019, 08:33 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(01-02-2019, 08:25 PM)johnny rex Wrote:

(01-02-2019, 06:56 PM)Shadow Wrote: Here is one quite new footage about gorilla in "gym". Nothing extraordinary what comes to extreme strength, but still quite impressive agility, which demands certain kind of strength too. Quite easy looking movement from an animal weighing 150-200 kg.

That silverback easily lifts its own body weight though. Sorry but are you the same guy as Engineeringman0923 from Reddit? He constantly said a man can knock a gorilla unconscious with bare hands, without understanding that gorillas have denser bones compared to humans just like any other animals.

I don´t know what you are talking about with that engineeringman :) I am just curious to find out how much in gorilla strength is myths and where goes reality. Compared to other strong animals. So far I haven´t found anything extraordinary. If you look my previous comments here it should be quite clear how I think about this subject :)

Gorillas are strong, but not as strong as what most people believed though. We have to observe whether a silverback can pull a truck easily or not.

Yes they are strong, that is clear. For instance when looking at movements in this latest video that looks like a combination of some powerlifter and gymnast. Many people can move making it look like as easy as this gorilla here, but not when body weight is about 150-200 kg. So it is clear, that gorilla is a powerhouse. They should put there some heavy sacks or soft but heavy balls... Something what gorilla could play with if interested but not hurting itself like might happen with some steel weight or big rock. it would be really interesting to see some sack with 200 kg of sand etc. and how easily gorilla would handle it or could we see some effort. Just if some way to do it safely for gorillas and so, that they would do it because they like to play etc. Reply