how strong is a gorilla compared to a human?
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well if one wanted to rape you, you'd be fucked
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I think Spiderman.  I mean, he's got experience being a normal human.  Superman wouldn't know how to deal with being a normal human.  Spiderman would kick his tush within 2 minutes.
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i think it is stronger
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Hippo. They are immensely strong and powerfull. When males are fighting they use their huge teeth (longer than a 12")and impressive bulk, its hard to imagine what a grizzly could do with his comparatively puny canines and meager body
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In Africa, a pride of lions (male: ~400 lbs, female: ~280 lbs) pretty regularly hunt wildebeest (440-600 lbs), although they usually go after the sick or young ones.  Occasionally, they can take down a giraffe (2420-4250 lbs), but this doesn't happen often.  Elephants (11,000 lbs) and rhinos (2500 lbs) are just a little dangerous to be bothered.\nIn Asia, tigers can take down a water buffalo (1800-2600 lbs), although again, they usually go for the sick or young ones.\nThese are the cats with the largest prey.
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Since the dog is lighter, and stronger than a human (relative to it's own weight), I would think half as much.
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I don't think it's completely known, some people say a cheetah can do it in about 2 seconds........but i'd say the Cheetah would prob win - an Enzo does it in 3.34 seconds. But! An Ariel Atom will do it in as quick as you can change gear - around 2.5 seconds in general, i'd say that it could beat the cheetah!
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Of course the bear. Can the strongest man match the aggression a bear will show in attack?\nForget the bear, how about a gorilla? The beast's blow can break the back of a leopard, what more a man. \n\nMaybe a strongman can pull a truck, I doubt bears will do that, but using strength by animals usually involves a dose of aggression, that's what separates man from beast.
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Superman would win, no matter what. Spiderman is about 12 levels below Superman when it comes to strength, speed, endurance, intelligence, and invunerability. I mean, come on! Parker is a wimp compared to Kent! Just about every single villian (and a great number of heroes) have beaten the stuffing out of Spiderman. Even non-powered people like Frank Castle have whooped Spidey's behind! Not too many villains or heros can take credit for beating Superman- and those that have, its only been temporary, and they were the worst of the worst (Darkseid, Metallo, the Cyborg, Doomsday, The Joker (when he had Imp-Magic), Shazam, and Batman...thats about it..and anyone of them would make mince meat out of Parker in about 2 seconds (well, it would probably take Wayne some time, but he could put the smack down on Parker too)
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gorillas are apes ,monkeys are not apes .apes are gorillas, chimpanzees orang utans and gibbons.A subspecies of chimpanzees is called Bonobo. Those are the ones most closely related to us humans
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It depends on what you mean by "strong."  Either one can be stronger in their own way.
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Spider monkeys are very adept climbers.  With a prehensile tail and very long flexible arms and legs they are about as good as monkeys get.
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On average, men are about 30 percent stronger because males have more muscle mass and bigger, denser bones. But a woman can be as strong (or stronger) as a man if she develops sufficient muscle mass.\n\nFor example: take a man and a woman, both 5'10". She's a bodybuilder. He doesn't work out often. \nShe's probably stronger. But.. if they're both the non-workout types, then he's probably stronger by default.
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It's largely about torque, and humans, in the way they are designed structurally (bone structure, muscle strength, and position of tendons- which connect the muscles to the bones) cannot produce enough torque to translate into the speed of a cheetah.\n\nOur arms and legs are really levers. A lever turns about a fulcrum. This is similar to the way a see-saw is designed. If you have ever sat on one, you will have noticed that the farther away from the fulcrum you are (the fulcrum being the center point), the more force- (or what we call  "torque") you can generate. While cheetahs do have strong muscles (the size of the muscle also counts), they have the advantage that their tendons are attached farther away from their "fulcrums", which are the joints. Just as with the see-saw principle, they can generate more torque with the same amount of force, which means that even if a cheetah and a human had the same muscle mass, the cheetah would be much stronger, and faster.\n\nCheetahs are also able to generate a substantial amount of power for short bursts of time. This has to do with the muscle type. All animals have two major types of muscle: slow twitch and fast twitch. The fast twitch muscles are capable of enormous bursts of power for short duration, while slow twitch provide more steady amounts of power over prolonged distances.  Fast twitch muscles generally do not use aerobic (oxygen-based) energy, instead relying on the conversion of sugars like glucose in the absence of oxygen. Cheetahs have a higher percentage of these fast-twitch muscles and they can generate enormous amounts of power for te short bursts they require to catch prey. But their evolution has cost them because they are otherwise very thin and lack bulk- meaning they can expend up to half of their energy reserves in one hunt alone. Had they had more of the slow-twitch muscles, they would be better able to conserve their energy, but at the cost of speed and power.
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The two most closely related species to \nChimpanzees (Pan troglodites) are the Bonobos or Pygmy Chimps (Pan paniscus) and Humans (Homo sapiens).  Chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than they are to Gorillas and Orangutans. Some anthropologists argue that the two species are so similar genetically that they should be classified together in a single genus.
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a bear would likely be stronger pound for pound; i'll be interested to see an answer from someone that relies on more evidence\n\nthose of us that have answered so far have offered nothing more than personal opinion based on little more than air\n\n\nBUT, those that reason that the gorilla would be better able or the bear less able based on the existence or lack of opposable thumbs...know zero about weightlifting\n\nthose of us that do work out, and more particularly with free weights, but the issue would be unaffected by "circuit" training machines, know very well that we do not use our opposable thumbs to grip the bar with when benching\n\nwe put the thumb on the same side of the bar as the fingers and let the bar rest in our palms or on the heels of our palms :-)
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A gorilla is a great ape and a close relative of man.\n\nMoney is a means of payment.\n\nSo they're not really related at all - unless you use a lot of money to buy a gorilla from someone.