Hairless Chimps = Awesome Ref!

Sputch

Who knew?











These were some of the better ones I could find. If you want to search for more, the names of the ones in captivity I know of are Ashes, Guru and Jambo. Feel free to post other bald animals in here too. I love these guys!

eld

Holy shit, you always do hear about their incredible strength, but seeing their muscles like that :X

cholden

The muscles on this beast. Rips your face off.

aivanov

They look so comparatively harmless with their hair present! Now all I can imagine is how much it must hurt to get wailed on by these guys.

Saman

They look like bodybuilders but they're born like this. Can you imagine how they would look if they would start pumping iron!!

Sculptaur

I was too busy looking at how odd they looked to notice the muscles at first. Whoa, crazy.

DeadlyFreeze

Damn nature you scary.

Alismuffin

3rd from the bottom has huge balls O:

SnowInChina

Goraaz wrote: »

They look like bodybuilders but they're born like this. Can you imagine how they would look if they would start pumping iron!!

my gues would be this

seth.

awww thats ace, thanks for the shares sputch

Anyone got the balls to shave a gorilla for me?

......aside from my own weird passtimes it would be great to see their muscle structure too

Paradan

A chimpanzee's skeletal muscle has longer fibers than the human equivalent and can generate twice the work output over a wider range of motion.

also they have something like 10 times more of the rapid firing kind then we do.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/02/how_strong_is_a_chimpanzee.html

Sandro

OMG SPACE MARINES!

Y_M

+1 to the muscle comments, whoa!

They look like smug old men

disanski

awesome thanks for sharing. What a strong arms and legs really. I was thinking how come they have such a bellies?

almighty_gir

Paradan wrote: »

A chimpanzee's skeletal muscle has longer fibers than the human equivalent and can generate twice the work output over a wider range of motion.

also they have something like 10 times more of the rapid firing kind then we do.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/02/how_strong_is_a_chimpanzee.html

i love that link... he's comparing average chimps to body builders and world class atheletes, and then saying that chimps aren't 5x as strong.

maybe not to world class atheletes and bodybuilders, but to average humans? quite possibly.

Tigerfeet

disanski wrote: »

awesome thanks for sharing. What a strong arms and legs really. I was thinking how come they have such a bellies?

Apes have a much longer digestive tract than humans do, and they need room to put it, hence a larger belly! Just think of a gorilla, they're primarily vegetarian so they need space to break down all that vegetable matter.


Though I have to admit, I'm quite fond of leeks as well

Emil Mujanovic

Man! That's gnarly!
Great share, Sputch.

Polygoblin

They freaked me out BEFORE I saw em hairless...

Donavonyoung

That is spectacular. The strange things that make life easy! Thanks for collecting these!

Pix

I just could not resist

rolfness

didja see the balls on that chimp :O lol

Bigjohn

Awesome reference, thanks for sharing!


About the bellies, I remember reading once that when we humans started cooking our own food, we essentially externalized a bodily function, and it affected the length of our intestines. Can't remember where I saw it, and it could be BS, but that could explain the difference.

Isaiah Sherman

Sheeeeeiit... Just like everyone else says, it's CRAZY to see them with now hair! They're all short Bruce Lees!

Malus

What's crazier is that was a female chimp with a skin condition.
She has since passed away, not sure if there are any others out there but can you imagine a mature male? Yoinks!!

Actually those aren't all her so some might be male (she was just the one with the glasses :P)

eld

Pix wrote: »

I just could not resist

dfacto

Damn, George Bush has really been working out! *rimshot*