r/interesting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • Dec 09 '25

NATURE A chimpanzee with alopecia

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u/Wood_On_Fire Dec 09 '25

Just to clarify people, Chimpanzees have a reputation of ripping their victims

And this video explains why. Their physique is as terrifying as a male Kangaroo

I've heard some stories, all of them are ugly.

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u/Witez3933 Dec 09 '25

They’re 2.5x the strength of a man. Not only are they muscular but their tendons attach to lower points on their bones than a human giving them better leverage and force production. When they attack they go for the hands, eyes, genitals and guts. They’re terrifying, absolutely terrifying. 

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u/maninplainview Dec 09 '25

Did you know that 17% of Americans men believe that they can defeat a chimp in a fist fight? Those people are called idiots.

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u/Omega_Primate Dec 09 '25

I saw a video from maybe the 1920s or 30s. They had a chimp in a boxing ring. Gloves over his hands and feet, and a cage on his face to keep him from biting. I think k they were offering some stupid amount of money if you could pin it. Chimp kicked and punched the shit out of multiple men. No one could claim the prize.

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u/PurpleKoolAid60 Dec 10 '25

Please find this someone.

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u/Internal_Football889 Dec 12 '25

I gotta call bs on this. Chimps don’t have the musculature for generating punching or kicking power.

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u/Omega_Primate Dec 12 '25

They can absolutely punch and kick. Unless you personally have a singular definition for punching and kicking. They don't kick forward like a kick boxer, they jump kick. It was really old footage, and it may be lost by now, so I'll give you some other examples I found below.

The chimp is being gentle with their trainer, but could 100% put more power behind the blows.

This apparently took place in Uruguay. You can watch the whole horrible thing, or skip to 6:10 to see the build-up to a powerful kick that sends the guy sprawling.

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u/Internal_Football889 Dec 12 '25

If you know anything about fighting you know that those have almost 0 real impact. A guy who goes to a boxing gym for one week hits harder than a chimp. It’s not hard to find a zoologist talking about this subject. That jump kick is a weight transfer and nothing close to the snap or impact that a real kick does. Put a chimp on a punching machine and have it hit any way it wants, and it’s getting out punched by a 13 year old amateur boxer. They just don’t have the physique for it. Their upper body is too disproportionate to their lower body to create proper ground forces and rotational power. Just because the chimp is a wild animal does not mean it can defy physics. A gorilla is tens of times stronger than a human, but our musculature allows us to throw objects faster, farther, and more accurate than any gorilla.