# Could you knock out an enraged chimp?

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**Created:** [July 7, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knock-out-an-enraged-chimp/545830 "2010-07-07T08:20:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knock-out-an-enraged-chimp/545830/27 "2010-07-07T21:54:30Z")

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You can really see how strong chimps are if you look at one that doesn’t have any hair. Here’s a Google image search on it: [http://www.google.com/images?client=firefox&rls=en&q=hairless%20chimpanzee](http://www.google.com/images?client=firefox&rls=en&q=hairless%20chimpanzee)

Some good examples:  
[![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vINstQpJYak/SmcWGxH8oYI/AAAAAAAAA50/_umpd-Lv6wE/s800/ape%20died%201000.jpg) ](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vINstQpJYak/SmcWGxH8oYI/AAAAAAAAA50/_umpd-Lv6wE/s800/ape%20died%201000.jpg)  
[![](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/3024567966_4ffe563ebd.jpg) ](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/3024567966_4ffe563ebd.jpg)  
[![](https://zoopictures.zenfolio.com/img/v3/p140090038-3.jpg) ](https://zoopictures.zenfolio.com/img/v3/p140090038-3.jpg)  
[http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2821/baldchimp5bk6.jpg](http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2821/baldchimp5bk6.jpg)

([This](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6waX9ryUnv8/Seydm0ekwzI/AAAAAAAAAN8/UphcQTcMJwY/s320/Picture+9.png) is one of the skinnier ones, but it’s interesting because it looks so much like a human.)

I wonder how a chimp would compare in strength to a world-class bodybuilder. Of course, in a fight the chimp as the advantage if its teeth.

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