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On 2002-05-31 12:24, ToSeek wrote:
Humans are also quite weak by animal standards. It's common knowledge among zookeepers that a human being can tighten a bolt as tightly as possible using a wrench, but a chimpanzee, gorilla, or orangutan can undo the bolt with its bare hands.
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I must express dubiety... Yes, a chimp is much stronger than even a strong man, in terms of rasslin' and grapplin'. Put a chimp in the ring with the WWF group, and he'd clobber 'em all.
But fingers are fingers, no matter which hominid they belong to, and a wrench gives an awful lot of leverage... I can only pinch maybe twenty pounds worth, but with a wrench, I can bear down with my whole weight upon a system that gives maybe 10:1 leverage advantage.
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I find that rather difficult to believe.
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Silas