Could you take a 200 lb chimpanzee in a fight?

chimp wins.

it's a matter of biomechanics.

the insertion points on muscles on a chimp are farther away from the axis of rotation. ie, the biceps muscle attaches further down the forearm than in humans.

this allows for stronger forces to be generated with a very small decreased in speed of movement.

Chimp wins every time because he has the "killer instinct" that people are not going to have. For example, when chimps fight in the wild they bite each other's balls off. Are you going to continue fighting him after he bites off your balls?

All of you dopes who believe that you can defeat a 200 lb champanzee clearly have no sense of reality. Here is an article that will bring most of you back to reality.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_man_who_lost_face_in_05_mauling_knows_he.html

I have an Ivy League education. I believe I am capable of "taking on" a chimp, as you say.

Animals know how to fight dirty a lot more than you. It would kick you arse into the middle of next week whatever you did. That 200lb one is actually overweight and fairly tame, imagine what a wild alpha male would do.

Of course they would normally not act in an agressive manner towards humans, so your best bet would to act friendly towards it and not mess with it like the guy above

One Monkey Guy wrote:

Just to add...

The grandmother's house was totaled by the monkey. Every single light was pulled from the wall, the drywall was torn to shreds, furniture was shredded, etc. The place literally had to be gutted and remodeled, top to bottom.

To add a bit of context, this is a very, very well-to-do family. Although they are from rural SC, they are all very well educated and have more money than God, so this isn't a bunch of toothless moonshiners running around. The house is probably a 2 million dollar home.

um my sons pet monkey broke into my house and beat me . . . and I'm wondering if that's covered in my policy?

Is that you, George W. Bush?

I couldn't take on a 200-lb human, let alone a chimp with massive forearms.

chimp wins all the way wrote:

chimp wins.

it's a matter of biomechanics.

the insertion points on muscles on a chimp are farther away from the axis of rotation. ie, the biceps muscle attaches further down the forearm than in humans.

this allows for stronger forces to be generated with a very small decreased in speed of movement.

This is true, and why Franco, who was 1/2 chimp (on his father's side) was so strong:

uncleB wrote:

I'm pretty sure Manny Paquiao would F up any chimp under 140 pounds.

Maybe if you could train up the chimp to box and train Him not to fight like Tyson

The boxing analogy can be used though if you put Paquiao up against someone who could out bench press him. The bench press king is going to be knocked out in 10 seconds. The chimps muscles aren't wasted on pointless tasks like bench presses, but are built to climb trees and fight other primates. They don't go down the gym once a day they live in the gym.

Thinking you can outsmart him or fight more dirty than him isn't going to work either. Try putting Bill Gates up against Paquiao in the ring!

This guy shows the way to get round a chimp who is kicking somebodys ass - say sorry to the chimp & give him a drink: (sounds like some pubs I know!)

Or make a swim for it!

People seem to believe that if they were armed, it would be a no-contest win for the human.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/02/16/2009-02-16_police_pet_chimpanzee_travis_attacks_wom.html

"The officers had "nowhere to retreat," Conklin said, and shot him several times.

Bleeding from stab wounds and gunshots, 15-year-old Travis staggered down the driveway and into Herold's house, where he collapsed and died in a zoolike cage the size of a room."

That's right: the chimpanzee's owner had beat him with a shovel, stabbed him repeatedly, and the cops finally shot him *multiple* times. He survived all this, and was even able to return to his cage to die.

Perhaps a SWAT team could take him down without injury, but otherwise, I don't know.

A three hundred pounder like Brock Lesnar could knock a 200lb chimp out easy.

It depends on the activity. Your SAT scores vs. the chimp's. Probably good odds for you. Typing the works of Shakespeare? You could both do it, but apparently people take less time at the task. A contest of Wii bowling? If you both played fair....

Fighting the chimp? Um ... no.

Bruinboy wrote:

Can you swing from tree to tree in the canopies of the Amazon jungle? If the answer is no, then you would probably get your ass kicked.

Chimpanzees live in the African jungle, not in the Amazon. But you're right, we wouldn't stand a chance.

Letrun.com males: you're a puny 15min 5k runner who typically can't bench press you're own body weight or do 20 pullups and yet have no problem defeating a 200 lb chimp. Riiight!!!

no fking way, you'd die even if you're 300lb

Did the ancient Romans try to address this sort of question in their colosseum?

To win any fight you must find and exploit your enemy's weakness. A chimpanzee's weakness is that it is short and lacks the wrist bones that give humans the power grip to manipulate objects with skill, such as spears and rocks.

The way to exploit this weakness is to sharpen a rock and tie it to the end of a stick, and stand up tall and stab at the chimpanzee. This battle was fought long ago and won by the humans. That is why the humans live everywhere around the world while the chimps are relegated to swinging around in the jungle canopy.

The tradeoff is that our power-gripping wrist bones are now no good for swinging around in trees. The apes are still dominant up there but the leopards are giving them a good run for their money. We have also lost our ability to fight most big animals without spears, having literally evolved around their use. Always carry a spear.

Get in this cage and rise to alpha male.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ADk_4dTXt8