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[–] 36 points 8 months ago (1 child)

This hurts me. The term is 'yoked' as in strong as an ox that can bear a yoke, not 'yolked' as in somehow related to egg slime. Hugging gorillas is very wholesome though.

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Also being able to open that one pickle jar without the neighbor kid laughing at me.

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  • [–] 69 points 8 months ago (18 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I was gonna object that it's a vegan diet, because they're presumably not gonna do eggs or milk, but apparently not strictly vegetarian either:

    Mountain gorillas spend about a quarter of their day eating, mainly plants. Around 85% of their diet is made up of leaves, shoots and stems, but gorillas can also eat larvae, snails, ants, and even roots, barks and rotting wood (a good source of sodium/salt).

    https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/gorillas

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  • [–] 51 points 8 months ago (13 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.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    This would, of course, change if said gorilla had to sit at a desk for 40 hours a week.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    Definitely a little but probably not as much as you'd think.

    Humans produce a protein that forcibly limits our muscle growth and its impact is kinda crazy. Gorillas produce a bit of it too, but it's a drastically lower amount. It's called myostatin if I remember right, there is a dog that sometimes has a mutation where they barely produce it too and the differences between a regular one and a mutated one is pretty extreme. Look into 'Bully Whippets' if you want some interesting reads.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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    I always thought from hearing it that it meant they ate a lot of raw eggs, since that is sometimes associated with bodybuilding. I guess it means you look like an animal that would normally be yoked together to pull a plough or some such

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    No it's like how you yoke an ox or draft horse.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Because they want other guys to find them attractive.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    If you don’t train: β€œI love you, brother but you’re hug game is weak.”

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So yolked! I bet he drives a souped-up car!

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    That won't work. That guy is going to get his arms ripped off.

    What a fucking idiot.

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    [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Jane Goodall wasn't jacked.

    EDIT: Actually, I should've used Dian Fossey as my example since Goodall studied chimpanzees. Fossey wasn't jacked either, though.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    Return to Monke.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yolked? Maybe that's part of the joke, but you can't trust anyone to use words right in a professional setting like webcomics.

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