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I'm reminded of this scene below from the Amazon show Patriot, some kind of government training about how to handle a dog attack. The instructor says (paraphrased) to think of a dog as an 80lb man whose only asset is powerful jaws.
clip from the show, NSFW (cursing):
I did some research in the past about the strength of animals vs humans. I went into it thinking that humans are relatively weak for our size, as I've often heard about this animal or that animal being "10 times stronger than humans pound for pound." What I found was that no vertebrate is 10x stronger than we are, and that we're actually near the top of the list for strength vs size as far as vertebrates go. Most vertebrates are opposite of us, having more fast-twitch muscle fibers than slow-twitch, meaning they could deliver a harder/faster blow and/or react faster than us, but we can deliver more prolonged power output than just about anything but horses. The average chimp isn't 10 times stronger than the average man. Maybe 1.5-2 times. Chimps and horses are two of only a handful of animals that are stronger than us pound for pound, and dogs aren't in that handful (according to what I read) - we're about on the same level. So if I'm to believe that, then the "training" in the above video isn't as ridiculous as it sounds and the idea that my dog moved this thing is even more incredible.
You should double check your "research"...it's flawed...great and other ape primate muscle tissue is known to be at least 6 times as strong as human muscle...