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.
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so to bite harder i need crocs and seasalt, ok ok ok.
Did they run out of old tons or something?
Our ancestors had more bite force. It wasn't needed anymore.
Bite Force and Occlusal Stress Production in Hominin Evolution
Lion is still trying SO hard!
alternatively it looks like someone just bit him haha
Highly depends on the dog.
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
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.
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
All this picture says is basically "the bigger the jaw, the more biting force". And then it compares animals with bigger jaws than humans
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.
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
We also have better full-light vision than a lot of animals, even the ones with good dark vision.
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
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
jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one
Oh, we are bad-ass runners. Top that one!
we're certainly bad ass-runners, i'm not sure most people could even walk on their butts!
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.
Not all dogs are the same, of course. Some dog breeds can bite harder than wolves. We selectively bred them for chomp strength.
It's averaged out, the real values are in a range, they just took the average between them.
I bet chihuahuas are bringing down the average
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.
Me, I can only do about four or five of those cookies at a time
But it's not a cookie! It's a Newton!
I can eat way more than 700 fig Newtons. This is bullshit.
I have a cat named fig, could you eat 700 of her?
Yeah but do you have the bite force to bite through all 700 at once?
I would think... They're pretty soft.
Perhaps not after my jaw dislocates to fit them all in my mouth, though.
Newton had some weak ass jaws.
Never skip jaw day.