Rumble in the jungle: what animals would win in a fight?

Well, it turns out there are men who can beat a leopard, bare hands.

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bloodiedathame said:
Cobra/Eagle would be the upper limit. Taking on a Wolf bare-handed... yeah nah.
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Depends on the situation with the wolf.

If it's a case of to the death and you know this, do you sacrifice parts of your body to injury to win?

If you can stuff you leg into it's mouth and just keep forcing it down you'd probably kill it. This would never happen in the wild as prey would always try to pull away.

Human thinking is the only why we'd have a chance against the larger animals.

What sort of constrains are there on this contest, how much space is there, how far apart are we, any terrain?
Wolf is probably the largest one you'd have a chance, with the bigger ones pretty much impossible unless we have other options like space and time to wear them out. If it's just a limited box area with nothing in the way we are dead.
Humans can probably last longer than most without food or water when still being active.

Also some of the options are a big vague. Eagle, I mean I think I'd beat the South Nicobar serpent eagle at 450g pretty easily.

But the 3rd largest eagle the Harpy eagle (probably more dangerous than the top 2 for humans as they prey on larger primates than these do) would be down to you avoiding having your head grabbed.
Harpy eagles possess the largest talon of any living eagle.

If you could avoid that and get hold of it before it lands a fatal blow and just crush it with your body weight you'd have a chance to win. But if you just wet yourself and ran around it would probably win. :)
 
If you're fighting the Cobra is it on condition of getting anti-venom after the fight or is this a fight in the middle of nowhere and you've wandered into his crib ?

http://umich.edu/~elements/5e/web_mod/cobra/venom.htm

Cobras belong to the sub-group of snakes known as elapids; there are over 270 species of cobras and their relatives. An elapid's venom contains postsynaptic neurotoxins that spread rapidly in its victim's bloodstream, causing respiratory failure and, eventually, death.

Cobra venom is an example of a molecule that prohibits the interaction of acetylcholine molecules (transmitted from nerve endings surrounding the diaphragm muscle) with the receptor sites on the diaphragm muscle. (See the section on Human Respiration for more details). It binds to the receptor sites, blocking them from interacting with acetylcholine molecules. Even worse, the venom molecule will not immediately break down and vacate the receptor site, effectively removing the site from active duty.

It has been determined that even if only 75 to 80% of the receptor sites on your diaphragm become blocked by venom, you will cease breathing. With cobra venoms, this process can take as little as 30 minutes. The only way to counteract the effects of cobra venom (or most other poisonous snake venoms) is to inject the appropriate antivenom shortly after the bite occurs. If antivenom is unavailable, your life can still be saved by putting you on an artificial respirator until the paralysis of the diaphragm muscle wears off.
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Is 30 minutes enough to defeat a cobra ? probably, unless he blinds you first then I guess all he needs to do is give a good bite and wait you out as you fumble around

So then it's a question of anti-venom or not ?
 
Sasahara said:
Depends on the situation with the wolf.
If you can stuff you leg into it's mouth and just keep forcing it down you'd probably kill it.
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We really need the technology that would allow us to witness your mental video of how you'd go about forcing your leg down a wolf's neck while it's busy trying to tear your throat out.
 
A king cobra can be up to 18ft of highly venomous, extremely quick and aggressive snake. A normal man would have very little chance of coming out on top against one. Also, if you’re actually fighting it, your adrenaline and blood flow would be pumping so hard, that the neurotoxic venom would work much quicker and probably cause you to collapse and lose all control within minutes.
 
I am sure I read somewhere, that someone who owned a Chimpanzee, it got angry and tore the owners arm off.

Forcing a foot/leg down a Wolf's throat, sounds like a Looney Tunes episode. :D

There is a cat, a proper bruiser, that wanders around here, I am sure its feral, crispy ears and battle scars, would I go near it, hell no!

I still bear a scar from being a numpty and wandering over to stroke a scrap yard Jack Russell, jeez, it bit straight through to the bone on my hand.
 
Ninco! said:
There is a cat that wanders around here, I am sure its feral, crispy ears and battle scars, would I go near it, hell no!
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There's a feral cat like that around here too. Bloody thing started sitting on our backyard wall just staring into the kitchen, chuntering away. I swear the thing is borderline retarded because if you're peeling spuds in the sink and give it some potato peel it quite happily trots off with it in it's mouth and give you a smug look as if to say "Yeah, I won that round". It's got to the point now whereby it only appears when you're doing the spuds. Somewhere it must have a lair that's filled with little slivers of potato peel.
 
So 24%, 26%, and 29% of men asked do not think they could win against a rat, cat and a goose??

Its far worse than the 7% of people thinking they can win unarmed against a huge bear.
 
Malevolence said:
There's a feral cat like that around here too. Bloody thing started sitting on our backyard wall just staring into the kitchen, chuntering away. I swear the thing is borderline retarded because if you're peeling spuds in the sink and give it some potato peel it quite happily trots off with it in it's mouth and give you a smug look as if to say "Yeah, I won that round". It's got to the point now whereby it only appears when you're doing the spuds. Somewhere it must have a lair that's filled with little slivers of potato peel.
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:D Briliant. Made me laugh!
 
Seen Grizzly Bears in Canada, a girl out running was attacked by one near the hotel we were staying out and was very badly hurt - no chance.
Saw wolves in Canada slicing though bone several inches thick - no chance.
Saw a bull elephant in Africa ripping a tree out of the ground - no chance.
Seen Lions in Africa - no chance.

Went out in the garden a few years ago to bring in our cat, picked it up and found out that it was not our cat at all, it scragged me good, arms and face, I was in pain for a week
 
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