In america’s defence on the eagle front, theirs are basically glorified seagulls
Every single creature on this list would kick my ass no problem.
Please do not make me have to explain to my mother I lost a fight against a rat.
She’d understand if I lost a fight against a cat though. None of us win against an angry cat.
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That’s over 2 terabytes of adults! That’s a lot!
Some of these are a grey area. I could probably be the last one standing with a wolf, but would likely die later from the damage.
I’m always more concerned by the 30% of humans that don’t think they could take a rat more than the delusional people myself.
They might be assuming you get weapons or whatever, but 30% of people don’t even have to self confidence to just flop around on the ground for a bit.
I’m pretty confident in fighting most things that are smaller than a dog. Once you get into dog size or larger, things get complicated.
The largest animal I think I could take in a fight is a capybara. Maybe a manatee; but only on land.
Why do 5-10% of Americans think they can beat a Gorilla Lion Elephant or Grizzly Bear? Note beat in a fight as in engage successfully in combat. What do they think you are even going to do vs the Grizzly or elephant again?
Also chimps should be way further down on that list. You’d have a better chance against the wolf.
americans are just tougher thats why 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I mean I’ve been thinking about how to fight geese for a long long time now. I’ve got grudges.
Chimpanzee is way too high Jesus Christ. It goes from reasonable shot at winning but succumbing to your wounds later to 20x stronger than you and smart enough to go for the sharp bits
Yeah, my first thought was that a king cobra should be higher than chimpanzee. Not because king cobras would necessarily be easy, but because it would be possible.
Beating a chimp would depend on whether a human hit to its head could knock it out or at least stun it, as well as getting such a blow in immediately at the start. But my guess is that their skulls are built differently enough that such a hit would just motivate it more.
the dogs you have to worry about is the ones that are known to bite or aggresive.
Right, don’t fuck around with Dachshunds…
Over 30% don’t believe they would prevail over a house cat.
Would like to hear their story.
I feel I could walk away victorious from a fight with a cat, but I’ll probably bleed out on my way to the hospital. Similar results to a knife fight.
It’s the infection from cat bites that will get you. You could lose a limb.
Cats are literally made of weapons and they are very assertive about their rights.
I don’t know what precise definition you want to use for “win the fight,” but in think in most cases, you will either kick the cat before it attaches itself to you or else it will do a significant amount of damage for which you should go to the hospital and then take its leave. I think the second outcome is probably a lot more likely if the cat has decided it’s go time and I would generally define that as “win.”
Winning the fight in this case just means accepting some pain.
Getting hold of the cat will probably hurt. Breaking its neck doesn’t take a lot once you’ve got hold.
I’m sorry. I’ve owned house cats all my life and I can tell you you’re severely mistaken.
They can turn 180° in the middle and you will not touch them without risk of major injury if they’re in severe distress.
We had one that needed to be held down by three adults to get an injection. She was only pissed off, and not even a large or muscular cat.
They are predators. Do not mistake them being domesticated from an inability to fight.
I love my cats and would NEVER hurt them but you cannot tell me that I couldn’t easily crush their skulls if it came to life or death. This post is “could you take on in a fight” not “can you hold them down”.
They are faster than us. But not trying to convince anyone.
You could of course harm them in a surprise but that’s also not what the question was.
Just because you couldn’t has no bearing on what others can do. I’ve owned cats too. None of them could do more than make me bleed a little.
They’re tiny and fragile compared to a human. Just stepping on one could kill it.
You couldn’t easily step on one in a fight.
Of course I could easily harm any cat not expecting it. But this is about a fight. And I’ve seen people trying to touch even their own cat during a fight.
Try a look at wild cats.
https://www.thepoke.com/2016/06/06/cat-experiement-goes-wrong-in-funny-way-yeah/
Fella was already ready to kill the cats and had 0 success at all in dispatching them once it was real. Like Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until the hand that’s going to break the neck is getting eaten like a mouse.
I won’t say that what you say is impossible, just that things like that are not as easy as they seem. Animals generally pretty capable when it’s go time even if the theory seems like they should be easy to deal with.
By the picture and the comments there’s a majority of people seriously underestimating cats. 😁
Funny but not exactly a normal circumstance and a 4v1 by the sound of it.
If I couldn’t kill a cat with a kick which is seriously doubtful, I could definitely do it with my hands.
Like I said, everyone has a plan until.
My girlfriend’s cat got very sick one day and we had to feed her through a tube.
Well one day she got better and decided that she wasn’t going to put up with tube feeding. I am a 6ft, 230lb man and I shit you not, I had to put my entire body weight on her to keep her from squirming. Every ounce of my strength went into holding her down so that the tube wouldn’t rip out of her throat as the food was going down. I couldn’t believe how strong a kitty could be when you try to get them do do something they don’t want to do.
So no I don’t think I could take a house cat in a fight.
But she got fed so in a way you did beat an angry cat in a fight. I’d call this a win.
Yeah but there’s a difference between fighting because you don’t want something, and fighting for your life. I imagine that a housecat would put a lot more effort into winning a deathmatch. I wouldn’t take that bet
Mom had two female cougars she raised from the bottle, as house pets. They were abandoned for whatever reason, can’t remember. Declawed for safety, but still.
Tasha had a thing for men wearing hats. Any hat. Any man. So my 20-something dumbass decided to start a little shit. 90lb. cat vs. 130lb. me. Got down on the living room floor wearing my straw cowboy hat and stared her in the eye. “Let’s go bit-…”
All I saw was a tawny blur and fighting to get on my knees. She got the hat and a monster hank of my long hair. I let her keep the hat. And the hair.
I now have zero illusions as to fighting animals.
Wtf though there’s a huge difference between a 10lb housecat and a 90lb cougar. Although there are cases of people fighting off cougars with their bare hands…
Confirmed: Brits are shit fighters
-majority of British think they could not beat a goose
Just LAY on them they weigh like 5 poundsgeese are fawkin aggressive and WILL be attacking you and moving a lot. you would have a hard time landing a kick let alone a landing whole body.
That’s not how I’m reading this chart. Brits seem to broadly agree with Americans about almost everything, they’re just more pessimistic.
They’re right about geese though
Don’t take my comment seriously.
You’re not the boss of me 😛
That’s how I’m reading it 💪. Although, I would let the eagle win🫡 🇺🇸
U fackin wot m8 ?!?
We can all beat the fuck out of cobras. Just sayin
It would probably be a pyrrhic victory though.
Yeah if there’s no anti-venom, this does seem like the kind of fight where just everybody dies.
Hey it diddnt say ‘win’ just ‘beat’ 😉
Yup. I mean, you might not survive with this method, but if you just get it to bite your foot (assuming you have shoes) you could just stomp it immediately afterwards.
Similar story for the eagle - it will definitely leave gashes in you, but so long as you flail your arms and get one decent hit on it (enough to get it out of the air), you would be able to cripple it decently fast.
I’m realizing I don’t really like thinking about hypothetically beating up animals, though. If they’re fighting you, they’re either scared for their lives, defending their young, or starving to death.
Would enjoy watching some tough guys try and fight anything from chimp on down.
“Yeah, bro, I can totally fkn take an elephant!”
