Ape Strength: Myth vs Reality

[johnny rex]

(01-19-2019, 05:11 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(01-19-2019, 04:01 PM)johnny rex Wrote: According to https://physicalculturestudy.com/2017/07...a-gorilla/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1635523/, a 135 lbs female chimp named Suzette, a former circus performer, "From a relaxed state, Suzette was credited with pulling 905 pounds and over 1260 pounds once agitated" by ‘sprang to the rope and, bracing both feet against the bars, pulled back with both hands upon the rope, making a pull on the latter that recorded 1260 lb upon the dial of the recording device’. A male chimp named Boma "Suzette’s father Boma registered one-hand pulls of 847 pounds with his right hand and 640 pounds with his left." Even football players can't do the exact feats that were done by chimps.

Interesting to read, still reading it. Here is one interesting video, which I remembered. Look from 4:27 about a minute if not willing to look whole video. There is quite similar kind of jump and there is easy to see the difference between untrained relatively fit man and then one, who can jump. That jumper is impressive and as everyone can see, very similar kind of jump as on this study when looking at chimp.

Anyway, I forget to tell you that Bauman's study which is involving a 135 lbs female chimp named Suzette, a former circus performer, pulling 1260 lb upon the dial of the recording device which is a dynamometer along with a male chimp named Boma "Suzette’s father Boma registered one-hand pulls of 847 pounds with his right hand and 640 pounds with his left" is already contradicted by later studies such as "In 1943, Glen Finch of the Yale primate laboratory rigged an apparatus to test the arm strength of eight captive chimpanzees. An adult male chimp, he found, pulled about the same weight as an adult man. Once he’d corrected the measurement for their smaller body sizes, chimpanzees did turn out to be stronger than humans—but not by a factor of five or anything close to it." Reply