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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ha. Nice. What is interesting about that scenario is the human would be loading up on protein (probably meat based diet) and working hard to gain that, and the gorillas sit around eating a vegetarian diet and have massive muscle mass just because.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

gorillas sit around eating a vegetarian diet and have massive muscle mass just because they metabolize different kinds of protein MUCH more effectively than humans do and also are much more physically active than the average human

Fixed it for you.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Brb gonna go throw a gorilla into some nuclear waste and get it to bite me.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

aw dude why waste all that nuclear waste on a gorilla when you could have a mandrill bite you

cool faces and inflatable asses. why would you pass that up.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because mandrillman is already my tinder profile name.

it seems more like we've found a (dear gods gag me but it's the right word) synergy we could exploit

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

But what if the gorillas stopped sitting around and actually worked to build muscle mass? We've never actually seen a gorilla that was trying to get as big and as strong as he could.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know about the physical activity. Gorillas are known for not moving around much. But they lack the muscle size regulation that we have.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

Well That was my point, we work at it they don't. And most of bro dude protein intake is wasted

[–] o1011o@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Bro vegan athletes win in the olympics, in strong man, in sprints, in marathons, all over the place. They have to work hard for it, sure, but there's nothing special about meat protein.