Muscular primate that ‘looks like bodybuilder’ stuns zoo visitors
THIS pumped-up primate looks like she has been doing some serious working out on the monkey bars.
Shocked games developer Santeri Oksanen snapped the muscly beast as she stalked her zoo enclosure.
The 34-year-old captured the White-Faced Saki’s fierce expression at Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki, Finland.
He said: “I couldn’t believe the huge muscles that the monkey had. The others were very small in comparison, they all looked a bit scared of her.
“The pictures make it look like it’s competing in a bodybuilding contest.”
White-faced Sakis live almost entirely in trees and use their immense muscles to swing from branch to branch.
The burly breed is native to South America and Santeri believed the specimen she spotted was one of the dominating mothers of the troop.
The male and female Sakis are identified by the colour of their faces – a male would have a white face while a female would have a brown-grey coloured complexion.
In December we published stunning pictures of ripped chimps said to be FOUR TIMES stronger than their human “cousins”.
Chimps are considered the closest living relative of humans, sharing between 95 to 98 percent of the same DNA.
However, when it comes to muscular strength there really is no comparison between the two, say wildlife experts.
And if it ever came to a one-on-one fight there would be only one winner, said Steve Ross of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo.
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When they fight “it’s the closest thing we know to human warfare,” said Ross, director of the Study of Conservation of Apes.
“Chimps are incredibly strong and fast so humans are easily overpowered.”
The apes are in fact at least four times as strong as humans, according to biologist Alan Walker, formerly of Pennsylvania State University.
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