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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Bite pressure would be a more interesting comparison IMO. Of course a Trex is gonna have a massive bite force because it's dominated by size.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

so to bite harder i need crocs and seasalt, ok ok ok.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 hours ago

Did they run out of old tons or something?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Our ancestors had more bite force. It wasn't needed anymore.

Bite Force and Occlusal Stress Production in Hominin Evolution

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Lion is still trying SO hard!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

alternatively it looks like someone just bit him haha

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago

Highly depends on the dog.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I got a bone to pick with this kind of diagram. Everyone likes to talk about how much better other animals are at things than us, but if you look at animals holistically, humans are really fuckin good at everything. Like yeah there's a bunch of animals that are faster than us, a bunch of animals that bites stronger than us, a bunch of animals that are more muscular than us, but we're consistently in like the top 10% overall

Finna make a version of this meme where it's mice and iguanas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Don’t forget about the human ability to literally chase an animal until it collapses with exhaustion. Humans are literally the monster from It Follows.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

compared to body mass lizards probably have us beat there too. I remember catching a lizard when I was little then running around the yard screaming because it latched onto my finger
It didn't even hurt, I was just scared

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

All this picture says is basically "the bigger the jaw, the more biting force". And then it compares animals with bigger jaws than humans

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Also like, we aren't cursed to a life of suffering and early death if something takes a bite out of our leg, we can patch it up and get assistance from those around us to still live a good life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Hell yeah, that's what sets humans and non-humans apart: if part of our pack can't survive on their own, we take on the burden of surviving for them. No other animal can survive a broken femur like humans can, and it's not because we have some incredible healing factor. Whenever I'm on the verge of feeling despair, I think about that 15,000 year old broken femur

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We also have better full-light vision than a lot of animals, even the ones with good dark vision.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

And we have better night vision than most the animals that have better day-vision than us. Humans are like the Leatherman of animals. Universally capable of doing most things but not as good as something specialized for that task. Plus of course capable of coming up with ways to cheat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Plus of course capable of coming up with ways to cheat

Yup! Ingenuity is our greatest strength! People like to talk about how a naked human with no tools is weak, and like yeah, but that's like saying your average house cat could kill a gorilla if you simply removed its muscles

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, we are bad-ass runners. Top that one!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

we're certainly bad ass-runners, i'm not sure most people could even walk on their butts!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's no way a human's bite is only 30% less than a dog's. Our jaws have shitty leverage to chomp down hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not all dogs are the same, of course. Some dog breeds can bite harder than wolves. We selectively bred them for chomp strength.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's averaged out, the real values are in a range, they just took the average between them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I bet chihuahuas are bringing down the average

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

We are omnivores and do a lot of chewing. Dogs don't really chew, just rip.

Some great apes that have more raw plants in their diet even have a bony ridge on their skull that the jaw muscles attach to.

Our jaws actually have great leverage, our molars are very close to where the jaw muscle attaches.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me, I can only do about four or five of those cookies at a time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

But it's not a cookie! It's a Newton!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can eat way more than 700 fig Newtons. This is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I have a cat named fig, could you eat 700 of her?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but do you have the bite force to bite through all 700 at once?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would think... They're pretty soft.

Perhaps not after my jaw dislocates to fit them all in my mouth, though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Newton had some weak ass jaws.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Never skip jaw day.

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