Originally published at: Why are chimps so ripped? | Boing Boing
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They spend a lot of time on the jungle gym.
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Damn, I
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It’s the monkeying around, I do it daily, look at my Dad Bod…
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As do I!
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Years ago my wife and I did a vacation around the southern parts of Texas, with three important stops: Luling for barbecue, Houston for the Space Center, and Houston for the traveling Lucy (Australopithecus) exhibit.
I asked a very knowledgeable docent why the rib cage on Lucy was more like a chimpanzee, and the explanation is that the early hominids, like chimps and gorillas, subsisted on uncooked foods, mostly vegetables. This required a large gut area for fermentation (not unlike cows’ and other ruminants). Later hominids, including us, have a much narrower abdomen, because we don’t need the gut space because cooked food’s nutrition is more easily absorbed.
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That joke gets the Bazooka Joe seal of approval!
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I didn’t watch the video, but it’s amazing how muscles are simply a matter of the right hormones and steroids that the body produces.
Because we have adaptive muscles, we humans assume that exercise is a necessary requirement for strong muscles. But all exercise does, in fact, is signal that the muscles are being over-used/damaged, and the body responds by sending more of the hormones that cause more muscle to be built, making you stronger.
If you just got those steroids, you would grow muscle.
So plenty of predators in the wild, or even in the lazy zoo, are packing some serious muscle without necessarily exercising much.
On the flip side, those muscles consume a lot of energy, and so our evolutionary niche says “if you don’t need them, don’t bother growing them.”
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Have you seen Kangaroos? They are upsettingly jacked…
But we know that’s cause they’re really into working out and yoga…
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You’re gibbon me the giggles.
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Brachiation is going to require pretty strong upper body. Of course if you look at their legs, chimps don’t look nearly as ripped compared to humans.
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That’s because when you’re a biped every day is leg day.
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Thank you for my 2022 “no gym” excuse.
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Bro is juicing.
Nah… just…
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He wants to be a
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Oddly enough, that wasn’t in the video. It’s more about this research.
(open access)
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I go ape for puns like that.
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