Comment on Anon is a fighter
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’m commented this elsewhere as well, but the strength of chimps is commonly overblown. An average chimp is about 1.35-1.5x stronger than a human of the same mass. Male chimps weigh in at 40-70kg, which means that a large, strong chimp is about as strong as an average 105kg man.
The bites are terrifying though.
idriss@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Thanks for the citations!
What I was trying to say above is there’s a level of physical violence animals exercise and are used to that humans can never achieve. A super angry house cat would already make me not want to be around it and I am a relatively big dude.
Another example, I saw a video of a small monkey in India (I guess) removing the scalp of a human in a really fast attack (it will not hard to find the video). That for me is the problem with fighting an animal, even really small ones. They are too violent.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think a lot of the violence aspect is due to modern culture. We humans are taught our entire lives to not be violent, and it takes time to break down that barrier. Just like a well trained dog can be abused repeatedly without starting to fight back or even bark, because they’ve been trained to never bark or bite.
I don’t think there’s any reason to believe a human in a survival situation has any less capacity for violence than any other mammal, we’re just too similar to them, and violence is so ingrained in our reptilian brain. I just think most people are never pushed to the point where they behave like a cornered cat fighting back.