They are the largest arboreal tree dwelling animal in the world, reaching heights of four to five feet and weights of to pounds or more. Orangutans are reddish-brown in color and some males grow white or yellow beards. Also characteristic are their bare faces with round eyes and small ears; their long, shaggy hair; long arms; and curled fingers and feet.
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Center for Orangutan and Chimpanzee Conservation, Inc. About Apes. Another great hindrance the orangutans will face in a fight with a gorilla is in their teeth. Their opponents, the gorillas, might resort to using their pointed canines as a weapon, and the orangutans cannot retaliate as there is nothing compared to the lethal canines.
Orangutans are heavier in size, but a gorilla is stockier and heavily built. Although the chances of the paths of these two apes crossing are very unlikely, as they live in different habitats, but if they do, the gorilla would beat an orangutan in a fight.
Orangutans are strong, but not as strong as the gorilla. Chimps, as opposed to orangutans, are used to violent behavior. They are known to get into physical confrontations with one another regularly. But even though chimps are more experienced fighters, orangutans are much bigger than their counterparts.
Orangutans are much taller than chimps, and they are almost as twice as heavy. So, in a potential brawl between the two, orangutans would come out as winners as they have more muscle mass and strength in general. However, the encounter of these primates in the wild is close to impossible because chimps inhabitant the African continent, while orangutans are native to Asia.
Still, in the light of adaptation, orangutans have large and long hands, with a thumb directly opposite to the fingers that aid them in gripping onto branches and trees without falling. Researchers and biologists say the grip of an orangutan is about four times stronger than that of humans. However, real numbers cannot be attached to the strength of orangutans, these number serves as a rough guide to estimating their strength.
An average orangutan might rip off your hand in one powerful yank. So the next time you visit an orangutan, go in for the hug instead of the handshake to be on the safe side!
Orangutans can lift about 2 feet tall palm trees which is about the size of Olympic dumbbells, 66 lb 30 kg of weight. An adult Bornean orangutan weighs about lb 70 kg and they can lift themselves onto trees and branches. Orangutans can lift up to lb kg in weight. This is about the size of 7 Olympic dumbells put together!
Of course, an orangutan has never been given a dumbbell to carry. Moving their weight from tree to tree and sustaining it in mid-air for long periods of time has made these muscles strong and therefore their strength. However, none of this would be possible without genetics. Chimpanzees are considered the closest living relative of humans, sharing 95 to 98 percent of the same DNA, according to the Jane Goodall Institute in Washington, D. But in no way do humans compare with a chimps' sheer strength and the few percentage points in which the two differ are extreme, many experts say.
Indeed, chimpanzees have been shown to be about four times as strong as humans comparable in size, according to evolutionary biologist Alan Walker , formerly of Pennsylvania State University.
In chimps, the muscle fibers closest to the bones -- those deemed to be the source of strength of both chimps and humans — are much longer and more dense, so a chimp is able to generate more power using the same range of motion, Ross of the Lester Fisher Center said. Also, unlike humans, chimpanzees have less control over their muscles. As a result, sometimes chimps use more of their muscle strength than necessary, according to Walker's theory, published in the journal Current Anthropology.
Such physical lack of control can potentially lead some chimps to become more aggressive when physical.
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