Ape Strength: Myth vs Reality

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(11-22-2020, 01:01 PM)OrcaDaBest Wrote: Gorilla's aren't as strong as most people believe, for example, lets look at this clip;

It took him about 5 seconds of struggling to lift a smaller gorilla off the ground:

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[color=var(--text-normal)]He could hardly even throw the opponent; he pretty much dropped it:[/color]

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so, if gorilla's where really these super ape's many people make them out to be, shouldn't this gorilla have thrown that opponent several feet into the air with no effort?

This clip is quite problematic to figure out strength. These gorillas play around with each others and what happens there during those 5 seconds is most likely some kind of playing. If that would have been only about lifting and throwing that smaller gorilla then weight of that smaller one wasn´t the problem really. As it can be seen, bigger gorilla throws him nonchalantly like smaller would be a ragdoll. But obviously bigger one doesn´t want really hurt smaller one. This is just horseplay so to say, a bit rough from human perspective, but just playing.

I have no doubt, that this bigger gorilla could lift that smaller in split second if it would like, size difference is so big. If adult would be playing with 5-7 years old child it could look like the same. Adult could lift child anytime quickly or slowly, it´s just the matter how adult chooses to do in different occasions.

Then again I haven´t seen any video proving in some way, that gorillas would be "superstrong" in some way. Still any animal weighing 150-200 kg is very strong when comparing to people. I just don´t see any reason why gorilla would be any stronger than some other animal with same weight. I don´t think that it makes them any stronger that they happen to look a bit like us. Also modern science doesn´t back up old myths.

I have said this before, but in my thoughts gorilla is kind of combination of strongman (level Hafthor, Hall and others) and olympic gymnastic. It is very strong but in comparison to very strong people it´s capable to move like some gymnastic. That ease in fast movement is quite astonishing. Reply