How do animals not break a majority of their teeth when eating/fighting?

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Humans for example can bite into a jaw breaker and chip our teeth and many other things we can not do that animals can. Is this based on the PSI of animals bites, bone density or anatomy? Various animals such as Gorillas or crocodiles can bites skulls and fight with one another and experience little to no damage to their teeth in respects to how a human would.

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They do, they just aren’t able to use medicine and an understanding of nutrition to live for 4-5x their natural life time, so they usually die before toothlessness ever becomes an issue. Humans are only really built to last healthilly to puberty, then nature dosent care if they break all their teeth and die.

Also I know most predators have teeth a bit stronger than humans because they bite things for a living, but lions for example, actually take special care to only bite animals on the neck once they have restrained them with their claws because they don’t want to break their teeth on bone.

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