Is it possible for a man to become stronger than a gorrilla?

Question

i've heard quoted that gorrillas are extremely strong creatures, and was wondering if for instance, the strongest man in world is as strong as a big silverback male gorrilla??

Also gorrilla's are fairly intelligent creatures, so surely one could be trained to take part in the world's strongest man competition, would this be possible if the rule's allowed it?

Answer 1

a man vs. a baby gorilla

Answer 2

a man has no need to be that strong. men that are that big are actually muscle bound and cant even reach behind themselves, or stretch like a normal human is supossed to be able to. Man can use more intelegent tools that can multiply his/her strength many times, even many times that of a gorilla. The risk factor for letting a silver back gorrilla compete with humans would be huge and I don't think you can even train them to be 100% docile.

Answer 3

i think you should realise Its not a simple, or particularly useful question but I think Greiner addresses this best when answering a similar question"would a gorilla be stronger than a world strongest man of the same weight"

"Comparison questions like this are fun to think about, but they are impossible to answer in any absolute sense. There are too many variables to consider. Here are a few:

A typical adult male gorilla weighs about 350 lbs (175 kgs). Although some people have certainly obtained this weight, they were never the trained athletes you would want to have compete against the gorilla. One the other hand, if you used a underweight gorilla that is down to the weight of human athletes, you would either have a juvenile gorilla or one that was quite sickly. Any way you want to put this contest together based upon body weight, either the human or the gorilla would not be fair example of their species" (>so it looks as though if weights a factor-the gorillas got it in the bag but of course it depends whether there is an advantage to weight in the contest-it may depend more on skill or dexterity with weight ...

so )..".another problem is what do you mean by strong? Most human strength activities, such as weight lifting, involve a degree of skill as well as strength (that is why they are still considered to be athletic contests). It wouldn’t surprise me if a human could bench press more weight than a gorilla (if you could even get a gorilla to try it), but that very same gorilla would probably be able to tear the arms off that very same human" (>i doubt a human could do that to a human-or a gorilla)

"A general principle in biology is that the basic unit of muscle activity (the sarcomere) is pretty much the same in all animals. That means that the muscle of any animal is just as powerful as the muscle of any other animal. What differs between animals is how the sarcomeres are arranged, and how many of them are dedicated to a particular action. This is a difference of biomechanics. By way of comparison, you could put a 500 horsepower engine in a race car and in a tractor. The engine in both vehicles is equally powerful. However, the tractor uses that power to pull heavy objects but not to go fast, while the race car uses that power to go fast but it cannot pull much weight. So, the two vehicles are just as powerful, even though there is no way to compare their performance. Your human and gorilla comparison would produce a similar result. Even if two creatures may be equally powerful, they may be completely unequal in their abilities."



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Answer 4

Trainers for bodybuilding competition look for balanced muscles and where the muscles are distributed. Fast twitch muscles are used for speed and slow twitch muscles are used for strength. Depending on the type of workout the muscle types can be improved. However there is also a system of cartilage that attaches the muscles. If the muscle cartilage is not developed correctly the ultimate strength will be limited.

Interestingly enough thru the use of steroids and hormones scientists have discovered part of the reasons why animals are naturally strong. More and more research is needed to duplicate some of the Gorilla's hormone system. If done man can come closer to duplicate the strength of the Gorilla.

Answer 5

No, I feel human muscles have some theoretical limits for development and cannot match that of a gorilla. And if humans are genetically modified as suggested by some one here, the human will no longer be human!

As for a contest is concerned, there is no contest between two inherently unequal participants.

Answer 6

A mature male gorilla can be over 6 feet tall and weigh 300 to 500 pounds. He can spread his arms 8 feet across and is as strong as 4 to 8 strong men.

Answer 7

Yes, a genetically-endowed young man, with super-circuit training and steriods, after years of intensive strength building, should be able to take on a nearly-blind old silverback male gorilla with 2 broken arms suffering from terminal AIDS.

Answer 8

Their muscles are denser, and made for heavy lifting, so no. Even if a man could do it he would have nowhere near the stamina of a gorilla.

Answer 9

No, Gorilla's are built differently thn Humans and we can't match their strength no matter how hard we work out.

Answer 10

Watch 'Congo'.

I think man can become stronger than a gorilla only after man drug the gorilla.