Current Events > How many of these animals could you beat in combat?

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I've worked for a cat rescue, I've seen first hand the damage that a housecat can do when it wants too. Trying to catch a scared, hurt and angry cat takes welders gauntlets and cricket pads on your legs.

I'm not getting near a proper rat either. Damn things are huge and vicious when cornered. Need specialist kit to hadle them too.

Out of the whole list, I'm leaving them all be and calling a specialist.


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Humans are really weak when stripped of their tools. We sacrificed raw physical power for more sophisticated cognitive abilities and tool use.

No mention of hippos or rhinos? Maybe those are the ones everyone agreed would be impossible to barehand.
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DravenRainrix posted...

I've worked for a cat rescue, I've seen first hand the damage that a housecat can do when it wants too. Trying to catch a scared, hurt and angry cat takes welders gauntlets and cricket pads on your legs.

You can just throw a towel over them in my experience. Though that would still count as a weapon.

I wouldn't want to try to smash any animals with my bare hand

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Guide posted...

If you can grab their mouth before the fucking murder you, there's not much they else they can do. Pretty all or nothing, but a few non-professionals have survived this way.

Yup. Put your weight on the upper jaw and attack sensitive areas like the eyes.

If you are in the water you are 700% dead though.

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How in the hell are people thinking they can beat first five unarmed lmao

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In theory I think I could beat everything large dog and below.

You can basically just grab and smash all the ones I mentioned and only take non lethal scratch or bite damage.

Also I think kangaroo is too high

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Master Kazuya posted...

Also I think kangaroo is too high

Bare hands against Kangaroo would be like squaring up to Mike Tyson, if Mike Tyson could also jump 30ft and he was wearing a Freddie Krueger gloves instead of.boxing gloves.

They have huge claws and massively powerful legs. They can box like humans and they kick like freight train.
Screw that.


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DravenRainrix posted...

Bare hands against Kangaroo would be like squaring up to Mike Tyson, if Mike Tyson could also jump 30ft and he was wearing a Freddie Krueger gloves instead of.boxing gloves.

They have huge claws and massively powerful legs. They can box like humans and they kick like freight train.
Screw that.

Their kicks are good but they absolutely cannot box like Tyson lol, or a human for that matter. I would much rather fight a kangaroo than Tyson as he is today. They're harder than a rat ofc but above a king cobra and a chimp? No way.

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As long as its COULD then I go even past chimpanzee and kangaroo. If its LIKELY then I die to the cobra.

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Snakes are overrated. All you really have to do to render them helpless is grab them right behind their head so they can't bite you.

An eagle would also be doable if you manage to grab it and get it on the ground since you can probably snap its hollow bones like twigs.

Master Kazuya posted...

Their kicks are good but they absolutely cannot box like Tyson lol, or a human for that matter. I would much rather fight a kangaroo than Tyson as he is today. They're harder than a rat ofc but above a king cobra and a chimp? No way.

How are you making these kind of determinations?


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I personally think people are overestimating themselves against large dogs, it's weird there's such a big disparity between large dogs and wolves. It's bigger than the difference between elephants and wolves in both absolute and relative terms. Not saying that big dogs and wolves are the same, but they should be closer than wolves and elephants

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People seem to gravely underestimate geese


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DarthWendy posted...

People seem to gravely underestimate geese

What's the worst they can do? They don't have much in terms of offensive weaponry and they're fragile.

Master Kazuya posted...

Their kicks are good but they absolutely cannot box like Tyson lol, or a human for that matter. I would much rather fight a kangaroo than Tyson as he is today. They're harder than a rat ofc but above a king cobra and a chimp? No way.

https://youtu.be/gzCb2XgTBYQ

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Guide posted...

Chimps are vicious and you're gonna bleed, but they're still shorter than 5 feet and weigh as much as a fat kid. You could potentially fight one off. A wolf is 250 pounds, and there's nothing you can do about that.

I was thinking this: Anything that is not too heavy to lift/hold, you may be lucky enough to grab it and smash it against a wall or the floor.
Then again, the cobra is fast. Will I be able to grab it by the tail and whip that floor with its skull?

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already have beaten everything on the list except a kangaroo, because I can't find any

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Hornezz posted...

Besides people overestimating their ability against large animals, it's also quite surprising that about 1 in 4 men and 1 in 3 women think they cannot defeat a house cat or a rat. How's that even possible?

they're some slippery fuckers. If your punches are slow, you're basically screwed unless you opt to bellyflop or something.

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

Humans are really weak when stripped of their tools. We sacrificed raw physical power for more sophisticated cognitive abilities and tool use.

And cardiovascular capacity, useful for both chasing and fleeing.
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Woman vs Rat

https://youtu.be/BUTfu06183c

Man vs Rat

https://youtu.be/u0NGKD4CkyY

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Maybe the 1/4 are assuming they'd get rabies in the process and end up dying a horrible death

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philsov posted...

they're some slippery fuckers. If your punches are slow, you're basically screwed unless you opt to bellyflop or something.

No doubt you can be scratched to hell and bleeding all over but I can't imagine a scenario where a cat would win in a fight against a human. (And by win I do mean in some way incapacitate them)

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how the fuck can you lose a fight against a small, non venomous animal if you're a grown ass adult? that's not even a discussion. It's definitely a case of "won't" rather than physically "can't"

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GeneralSecura92 posted...

What's the worst they can do? They don't have much in terms of offensive weaponry and they're fragile.

Geese love it when you underestimate them.

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