Are humans among the strongest mammals?

[Anonymous]

Why do people underestimate the potential of human body and overestimate that of animals?

I think it's due to the hate for their own species and for the fact that 90% of the people around us do not live a healthy life, so they can't even reach normal human potential.

For exemple, I have seen many comparisons where people said stupid things like, a bear has the strength of 10 men (yes if we take as an example a 600kg bear and 10 let's say men in very poor health)

a bear can only lift 80% of its body weight, while humans can lift 1x to 1.7x their body weight on average (without training), even a average girl has more strenght than a bear with same weight especially if we consider olympic athletes.

Mihaela Cambei 50kg girl can lift up 200kg in deadlift, 150kg in squat, 110kg powerlift, she has same lifting power of a 250kg bear, that means that if we compare her to a 50kg bear there is no contest at all.

just watch the weightlifting records, some men can even lift over 500kg

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This is a small list of mammals and their weight lifting capacity relative to their body weight:
Apes: up 9x their bodyweight
Humans: from 1x to 4x
Muskox: 2,2x
Tiger: 2x
Elefant: 1,5x
Leopard: 1x
Bear: 0,8x
Cat: 0,6x
Hippo: 0,5x
Rhino: 0,5x
Wolf: 0,3x
Dog: 0,2x
Horse: 0,2x

[Drewtate]

We aren't even the strongest in the ape family. A gorilla is supposed to be ten times stronger than a human. Chimpanzees are 1.5 times stronger than humans pound-for-pound at half the size. An Orangutan is said to be 7 times stronger.

Neanderthals are said to be 2-3 times stronger than a homosapian, probably could run faster, jump higher and had superior reflexes.

What homo sapiens biggest strength over most other mamals on land is our endurance and intelligence. A human being doesn't have fur so we can sweat to cool us down and we can out distance most other predators.

When the first humans appeared again in the middle east, asia minor, Europe and Asia the other humans living there the neadrathals, denovians and others must have hot a shock because they brought with the weapons with greater ballistic capability such as spear throwers that could hurl a javelin further than a neadrthal could throw a spear, slings and bows when all neadrathals had was Spears. The domestication of dogs was another factor, one on one a neadrathal could beat a human in combat but a human with dogs, maybe not. Humans were less physically adapted for the colder ice age north but could build boars, could make better winter clothing, could fish better, hunt better, range further, preserve food better and like travelling in snow a human can actually walk pretty far dragging a sled along behind. Humans out competed them and human numbers were able to grow rapidly.

[Asker]

u didn't read the details of the question and here the list of weightlift of some mammals:
This is a small list of mammals and their weight lifting capacity relative to their body weight:
Apes: up 9x their bodyweight
Humans: from 1x to 4x
Muskox: 2,2x
Tiger: 2x
Elefant: 1,5x
Leopard: 1x
Bear: 0,8x
Cat: 0,6x
Hippo: 0,5x
Rhino: 0,5x
Wolf: 0,3x
Dog: 0,2x
Horse: 0,2x

u did the exemple of apes but the apes are the only mammals who are stronger at same weight

[thearchjoker]

so what, ants can lift 150 times their weight. the smaller something is the easier it is for it to lift things that are heavier than it.

[Asker]

ants can lift 10 to 50 times their bodyweight however a giant ant don't exist but humans and bear can have same weight, there are 100kg bears, 150kg bears, etc. there are humans who are strongher than big mammals, the only mammal who can lift more than humans considering the bodyweight is the gorilla

[thearchjoker]

the humans who can do that are ripped, imagine a fat person who weighs 150 KG. Just because a muscular hulk that weights 150 can doesn't mean the average human can and unlike humans bears don't have gyms or steroids.

[Asker]

of course, average human sucks compared to a bear, i was talking about some humans

[Kelley1]

If you understand physics in which strength is approximately proportional to the cross-sectional area or the square of dimension. However, weight increases at a cubic rate. On that basis, humans are far stronger than ants. A 6-foot human might lift another equally-sized human. That is he can lift 6 feet of his cross-sectional area. If the proportions are identical, a 3-foot human could lift 6 feet of his cross-sectional area. A 1/4th inch ant might lift one inch or 2 inches of its cross-sectional area. However, 6 feet of an ant's cross-sectional area would crush and kill an ant.

To survive land animals must easily lift their weight. However, the physics of size, as I explained, is the reason large animals have proportionally much larger legs.

[Kelley1]

It depends on how you wish to judge strength. That is; life span, size, or strength and toughness. We are not as strong as most wild mammals near our size such as the great apes or a leopard.

[RebelinSteel]

So when she punches the bear and the bear hits her with its claws….

yes we really stack up well,

how would you compare against a Suffolk Punch horse, pulling a car?
or a mule carrying a 100kg pack for 25 miles?
How would you do running 12 miles and keep up with a Dalmatian or similar?
no we are not.

[Asker]

you're confusing everything, did you at least read the question? I'm talking about equal weight

[Asker]

in russia there where fight between men and bears with similar height, usually men win, no drugs, and the bears have claws and teeth, just to make an exemple

[RebelinSteel]

I am saying humans are not good, not the average human.
Can an Olympic level athlete out perform some animals yes.
That makes it a pointless question.
Can a human out run a horse,
Can a human out run a greyhound
Can it outrun a cheetah

Is there a 50kg adult bear (as in a proper, black, brown etc not some small panda).

[Asker]

using the superior intelligence human can use strategic position to avoid claws as headlock or similar, of course you can't win against a bear that is 3 times or more your bodyweight, however to defend yourself you can even hit the eyes of the predator for exemple, obviously I don't want that to happen, I love animals, is just a comparison

[RebelinSteel]

Fuck off can avoid claws
A dog that is far lighter than a human will kill the human, happens a lot with pit bull types.
Very few humans without tools with against a dog or big cat, they go down quickly.

[Asker]

yes that is true, infact a dog is way more dangerous than a bear if we consider the same weight, but even in case of big dogs thare are humans who defeated them without weapons there are many ways to block a dog (however my question was about weightlifting power, not about fight or run speed

[RebelinSteel]

You said strongest, strength is in different things,
Being able to lift something big it’s fairly pointless.

[Asker]

ok i did a weightlift comparison, sorry if i didn't explained exactly, im not English

[RebelinSteel]

I went off the question, weight lifting is an example of strength.

[Asker]

however I could also spend a few words about the resistance of man in covering long distances, if you take a marathon runner but also a man of an indigenous people can cover more kilometers than most mammals, because bipeds unlike quadrupeds are made more for resistance than for speed in fact there are peoples who hunt animals that are much faster at running, chasing them until they get tired, precisely because man can cover more kilometers

[exitseven]

I was at the NY state Fair and I wrestled a bear. He was an old, toothless bear who had been declared. I never had a chance.

[Asker]

what is your weight and what was the bear weight?

[exitseven]

I was probably 175-185 . I do no know about the bear. He had a few pounds on me.

[Asker]

i can do another exemple, a average human (male or female) 150-200lbs is strongher that a bear 150-200lbs understood what i mean? if the human is an athlete will be much more strongher than a bear with same weight

[exitseven]

I was in really good shape back then.

[Asker]

however if you read the question details i was talking about weightlifting not wrestling, wrestle a animal incluse various factors not only strenght, for exemple, agility, speed, tactics, intelligence, resistence, courage etc. about weightlifting i've posted a list of mammals ranked (scientific data), apes are the only mammals who have more strenght at same weight

[LiamJHayden]

Okay, so lb. for lb. I'm stronger than the bear. I weigh 194. The bear weighs 1200 lbs. and has razor sharp claws. I'm still just as dead even though I can bench nearly twice my body weight.

[Asker]

yes, however there are bear breeds who have same weight of humans +/- my question was about a comparison at same weight, people just consider average human against largest predators so they underestimate human strenght