How much could a silver back gorilla bench

At the Milwaukee Co. Zoo orangutan exhibit, there's a horizontal bar on a spring to demonstrate an orangutan's strength. I can't recall what the max force required is to move the marker to match the orangutan, but it's hard AF to move it a few inches.

Yeah it's really hard to measure because A. they are animals and don't do what we say and B. their physiology is so different, but as others have explained, there is plenty of evidence to prove that a silverback gorilla is many times stronger than the most roided up human male in history. I think chimps can rip humans' arms off, and chimps are MUCH smaller than gorillas.

I do have this amazing imagine of a man vs. beast challenge, a fight between some World's Strongest Man guy like Magnus Samuelson (or, hell, Ryan Crouser or Joe Kovacs) against a giant male gorilla and the gorilla just shatting all of his ribs and swatting him out of the ring with one casual but swift backhand.

According to this website, a silverback gorilla can lift 1800 lbs. Particularly:

"In general, gorillas are 4 to 9 times stronger than the average male human being. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a silverback gorilla can lift up to 815 kg (1800 lbs) of dead weight. in comparison, a well-trained human being can lift a maximum of 410 kg (900 lbs)""

How Strong are Gorillas?

Can't imagine a stronger looking gorilla than this one...

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Are the chimps ripping arms off frail old ladies or Eddie Hall? Context matters.

I would worry less about ribs and casual backhands, and more about a hammerfist or double hammerfist crushing organs.

^This

I think the strength of prime apes gets exaggerated. Like, how many times stronger than what human? There's a pretty diverse amount of strength among humans.

I never made silverback but I was close during my time in Cincinnati. Topped out at about 1700 lbs.

Keep in mind most primeapes are only 3'3, how strong can they be??

That's still impressive! And about 9 times stronger than your average letsrunner!!

How about......

Yea pretty sue this is a well known joke video

how far could they put the shot?

Well at 10 times stronger than a human, but would say only 8 times stronger than a world class shot putter who are a couple times stronger than a normal human, so.......a long long ways. Could throw it like a baseball.

Anything that requires strict form (like the bench press or any other judged lift) is out of the question.

Put a pile of food under a metal cage (with multiple handles) that is held down by an electromagnet with adjustable force. See how much force it can overcome when it wants to lift the cage off to the get at the food. That might be as close to a deadlift as we could get.

Then have a human try the same thing. Have the winner of the World's Strongest Man try it.

Then laugh at how weak we are by comparison.

Hey mods, where is the original “How much could a gorilla bench?” thread from 10-15 years ago?

We keep using just normal people, up against legit strong men those in the being strong business don't think it's a 10 times more like 4 maybe 5 times stronger.

Can see a gorilla pulling some incredible weight no human can budge.

Lol forget about bench, how about single scull? 😁

Arm wrestling😂. I would pay money to see some roid monkey jackoffs get their arms broken and ripped out by a silverback👍.

Of course this thread would be incomplete without a reference to the hairless chimpanzee:

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