Originally Posted by TheEmpireNeverEnded
Chimps have extremely dense bones and muscle tissue which is the best explination ive seen in regards as to why chimps have such immense strength compared to how big they are.....
Can a 90-lb. chimp clobber a full-grown man?
"It's a lot easier to get a chimp in roller skates than it is to get
him to pump iron--hence, most of the data on chimp strength is
anecdotal and decidedly unscientific. In tests at the Bronx Zoo in
1924, a dynamometer--a scale that measures the mechanical force of a
pull on a spring--was erected in the monkey house. A 165-pound male
chimpanzee named "Boma" registered a pull of 847 pounds, using only
his right hand (although he did have his feet braced against the wall,
being somewhat hip, in his simian way, to the principles of leverage).
A 165-pound man, by comparison, could manage a one-handed pull of
about 210 pounds. Even more frightening, a female chimp, weighing a
mere 135 pounds and going by the name of Suzette, checked in with a
one-handed pull of 1,260 pounds. (She was in a fit of passion at the
time; one shudders to think what her boyfriend must have looked like
next morning.) In dead lifts, chimps have been known to manage weights
of 600 pounds without even breaking into a sweat. A male gorilla could
probably heft an 1,800-pound weight and not think twice about it.
" Chimpanzees have robust bodies and powerful arms (Vaughn, 1996).
Because of their dense bones and muscle tissue, chimpanzees? upper
body strength is 8-10 times stronger than that of humans (Rowe,
1996)"