What animal is the GOAT of the animal kingdom?

Look in the mirror, bro.

thedub wrote:

Lets say you took every land animal in the world and had a round robin style tournament in a stadium the size of a soccer field. It is a fight to the death.

What animal wins this tournament?

A motivated silverback gorilla.

/thread

I would imagine the goat is the GOAT of the animal kingdom.

Is this a trick question?

Bull elephant. Name one animal that can bring one down without a gun.

Blue whale is air dropped in. Nothing but lack of water can kill that thing. Crushes all competitors with initial drop and flailing

Dumbo wrote:

Bull elephant. Name one animal that can bring one down without a gun.

Mosquito.

Dumbo wrote:

Bull elephant. Name one animal that can bring one down without a gun.

Human with a bow and arrow.

it could be ants. If team tactics are allowed.

Cockroach. Can survive nuclear winter

Keep in mind that the cockroach can't kill other animals! If I got paired up with something as measly as a house cat it would lose.

I'm thinking a big cat or rhino would win this. Cats have the speed and agility, and are natural predators. Rhinos are just tanks, with a spike in their head. I don't see what can take a rhino down.

thedub wrote:

I'm thinking a big cat or rhino would win this. Cats have the speed and agility, and are natural predators. Rhinos are just tanks, with a spike in their head. I don't see what can take a rhino down.

Big cats can't touch a grown rhino. And even a mid-sized cow African elephant kills a rhino.

All documented. On the Tube.

thedub wrote:

Keep in mind that the cockroach can't kill other animals! If I got paired up with something as measly as a house cat it would lose.

I'm thinking a big cat or rhino would win this. Cats have the speed and agility, and are natural predators. Rhinos are just tanks, with a spike in their head. I don't see what can take a rhino down.

Rhinos are the only species that could get a lucky jab on an elephant. Rhinos are surprisingly fast and nimble, with a four foot horn for offence. Butt realistically, elephants destroy allcomers.

deadly bacteria

The cicada would win at least 1 round unless it got an unlucky draw. It would burrow underground and stay there undetected until its opponent died. Only the rare animal that lives 17 years or longer would beat it.

Then the impatient refs would start the 2nd round and the still-underground cicada would DNS and exit the tournament with a 1-0 record. Not bad.

thedub wrote:

Lets say you took every land animal in the world and had a round robin style tournament in a stadium the size of a soccer field. It is a fight to the death.

What animal wins this tournament?

A bull African elephant would be the most formidable individual combatant. Outsize individuals can be even more physically impressive than one might think.

The Guinness Book listed the largest as:

Height: 13 feet 2 inches at the shoulder

Length: 35 feet 8 inches trunk tip to tail tip

Weight: 27,000 pounds

Foot circumference: 5 feet 11 inches

Advantages other than size:

highly intelligent

tusks for weapons

trunk is a weapon and can wield other weapons

Suggestion: If you are encounter such an animal in the wild

and you are unarmed, do not show any sign of being scared.

Stand your ground and try to appear big.

Bodybuilders may want to flex their biceps

Or maybe hit some other poses to teach the brute some respect

Elephants should be GOAT, but they are not invincible

rhinos occasionally kill elephants

King cobras kill elephants with trunk bites

David Attenborough had captured a number of poison snakes

But army ants came through and killed all of them

Nothing is absolutely safe, especially in Africa

marlin perkins II wrote:

Suggestion: If you are encounter such an animal in the wild

and you are unarmed, do not show any sign of being scared.

Stand your ground and try to appear big.

Bodybuilders may want to flex their biceps

Or maybe hit some other poses to teach the brute some respect

Oh, my sides!

Ignore this armchair wildlife expert if you want to survive folks. Race up the nearest tree as fast as you can. Such advise would be especially stupid should you run into a LONE bull elephant or an African buffalo (I'd rather meet a lion than these bad boys, by the way).

Granted some elephants may try to shake down the tree and buffalo are notorious for trying to wait out people then ambush them the second they get down, but I know firsthand a tree would offer the best chance of survival

The platypus. By far the biggest badass of the animal kingdom. It doesn't care about your classifications and other societal constructs.

A mouse would scare the sh|t out of an elephant. Obvious winner.

El Keniano wrote:

some elephants may try to shake down the tree and buffalo are notorious for trying to wait out people then ambush them the second they get down, but I know firsthand a tree would offer the best chance of survival

On the one hand, Kenya is the place where our ancestors first came down out of the trees.

But on the other hand, according to you, the only safe place there is in a tree.

How the hell did our ancestors survive?