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
We also have better full-light vision than a lot of animals, even the ones with good dark vision.
It’s well understood and documented that humans are very OP.
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
To break the largest human bone, the thigh bone, an estimated force of 4,000 newtons is needed. However, the amount of force required to break a bone depends on how the force is applied.
-Random internet source
Highly depends on the dog.
Our ancestors had more bite force. It wasn’t needed anymore.
Bite Force and Occlusal Stress Production in Hominin Evolution
Man, we gotta pump those numbers up. Get our bite force on the next level.
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.
It’s also got some trick jaws, it’s not 100% from size alone. Like dunkleosteus, which had a novel jaw that amplified the force.
Fair enough, from my very limited research (Chicago museum has an exhibit about this exact thing), some animals use a 4-bar linkage to maximize force. I think Trex was among them.
Lion is still trying SO hard!
alternatively it looks like someone just bit him haha
No fuckin chance a dog has 25% of the bite force of a lion.
Every time I picture an alligator biting me I’m like I bet I could wiggle out or like somehow overcome it, because their jaws look so long and flat - like how much strength could they have? Certainly not more than a lion.
Well.
The closing force is significantly higher than its opening force IIRC. If you can close its mouth without getting bitten it’s screwed.
Didn’t like everyone watch Steve Irwin do this to massive crocs like all the time.
Yeah, but time marches on and everything. Young people won’t know him. Someone said they didn’t know who a guy in a picture was the other week. It was Tony Bourdain and I felt old.
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!
Did they run out of old tons or something?
