If you consider bite strength, humans lose again. When comparing average to average, the orangutan wins every time. While men and women bodybuilders can lift upwards of 1,000 pounds, the average human can only lift between 135 and 175 pounds. Orangutans can lift up to 500 pounds for the average orangutan, this is three times their weight. While the orangutan is one of human’s most closely related relatives, orangutans are around five to seven times stronger than people. How strong are orangutans compared to humans? Chimpanzees are not weak by any means, but orangutans are stronger still. The two animals are similar in their bite force, though the orangutan still wins.Ī chimpanzee’s bite force is up to 550 pounds per square inch, but an orangutan’s bite force is up to 575 pounds per square inch. An orangutan’s grip strength is around 600 pounds, and a chimpanzee’s grip strength is about 440 pounds. While an orangutan can lift up to 500 pounds, a chimpanzee can only lift about 250 pounds.Īs far as grip strength is concerned, orangutans win again. How strong are orangutans compared to chimpanzees? ape wild animal Christel SAGNIEZ from PixabayĬhimpanzees and orangutans are generally similar in size, but that doesn’t mean that their strengths are the same. If females weren’t so much smaller than the males, there might not be such a difference in strength, but as it is, male orangutans are much stronger than their female counterparts. Both male and female orangutans can lift more than twice their body weight, but since males weigh more, a male orangutan can lift more weight than a female. On average, a female orangutan weighs less than 110 pounds and is 4 feet tall or under. While male orangutans often weigh over 200 pounds and reach a height of 5 feet, female orangutans are much smaller. Orangutans are a sexually dimorphic species meaning the difference in size and shape between the males and females is significant. An orangutan is NOT stronger than a gorilla.Orangutans are stronger than chimpanzees.The average orangutan is five to seven times as strong as the average human.Male and female orangutans have significant differences in size and strength.
I will dig my animal physiology texts out of the attic this weekend and see if they mention anything about strength differences.Orangutans are large, tree-dwelling apes. I'm not saying a chimp is 10 times stronger than the average man because I have no data that supports that, but it is plausible. So it is very plausible that an ape can be much stronger than a man even if it is smaller based on the mechanical advantage it gains from its structure. Sort of like the same way a chimpanze has a different shape than you or I. They have differnt tendon thickness, etc. No dog of the same size even comes close. But the mountain lion can leap 8 to 10 feet into the air and 15-20 feet forward with a running start. The muscles in the mountain lion's hind legs do not have to be different or larger than that of the dog. These differences may not look like much on the surface, but it could translate into a tremendous difference in power.Ĭompare a mountain lion with that of a dog of similar size. Although there may or may not be differences in the proportion of muscle types and hormones each animal produces allowing for strength gains there is a huge structural difference with their body that can give them a mechanical advantage compared to a human being (length of limbs, bone shape, thickness of connective tissue, muscle density, where the muscles attaches, etc). I'm not an animal physiologist, but the fact is these animals have different morphology than humans and thus can be a great deal stronger. Here is an article which provides information on why there are signficant differences in ape and human hand structure, function, and thus strength:
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