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Topic	Would you rather fight 1 bear sized duck or 100 duck sized bears?
darkknight109 06/06/19 6:45:47 PM #47:	Zangulus posted... Dont you dare challenge my Nekomancer powers! You think I have this many cats not to murder someone and destroy the evidence? Just test me, pal. OK. In the Japanese sport of sumo, what is the title of the second-highest rank of wrestler? Moonjay posted... The more I think about it, the more I still think that an insistent cat or a horde of cats could kill a human... But what it really comes down to is that they don't because of their nature. They are predators but they're small and smart and know that they are small. A dog, a bear, a damn duck will come at you for no reason and keep going after you even if you run away. I'd say that depends very much on the dog, the bear, the duck, the cat, and the circumstances surrounding the encounter. Having previously lived in bear country, I can attest that most of them are runners. The black bears are big cowards and even the big grizzlies are generally pretty shy when it comes to humans and will run away if they know you're there (I've literally come face-to-face - as in, less than two metres away - with a grizzly bear that was ~5x my size when I turned a corner on my deck while it was coming the other way and it bolted as soon as it saw me). The only exceptions are if there's cubs or food nearby, or if the bear is acclimatized to humans. Most bears are omnivores and subsist mostly on berries or foraged kills; what animals they do go after are usually things like fish - i.e., stuff that's not going to fight back. Unless they're very hungry, bears don't often kill for food like a cougar will; they only fight to protect food, territory, or cubs. Given that a bear is used to being the biggest customer in its environment (possible exception for where they overlap with moose populations), I suspect they would be even more cowardly than cats would be if they were shrunk down to be duck-sized. By contrast, ducks are already remarkably fearless if you find one in a bad mood and they will dive-bomb or harass humans getting near food or nests (and they have absolutely no compulsions against picking on things their size or smaller, as anyone who has owned a flock of ducks can attest) - I think if you scale that up it would be more than happy to fight to the death with a human-sized target. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:922891016] in Would you ... [t:77763978]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zangulus posted...</cite> <quote>Dont you dare challenge my Nekomancer powers! You think I have this many cats not to murder someone and destroy the evidence? Just test me, pal. </quote> OK. In the Japanese sport of sumo, what is the title of the second-highest rank of wrestler? <cite>Moonjay posted...</cite> <quote>The more I think about it, the more I still think that an insistent cat or a horde of cats could kill a human... But what it really comes down to is that they don't because of their nature. They are predators but they're small and smart and know that they are small. A dog, a bear, a damn duck will come at you for no reason and keep going after you even if you run away.</quote> I'd say that depends very much on the dog, the bear, the duck, the cat, and the circumstances surrounding the encounter. Having previously lived in bear country, I can attest that most of them are runners. The black bears are big cowards and even the big grizzlies are generally pretty shy when it comes to humans and will run away if they know you're there (I've literally come face-to-face - as in, less than two metres away - with a grizzly bear that was ~5x my size when I turned a corner on my deck while it was coming the other way and it bolted as soon as it saw me). The only exceptions are if there's cubs or food nearby, or if the bear is acclimatized to humans. Most bears are omnivores and subsist mostly on berries or foraged kills; what animals they do go after are usually things like fish - i.e., stuff that's not going to fight back. Unless they're very hungry, bears don't often kill for food like a cougar will; they only fight to protect food, territory, or cubs. Given that a bear is used to being the biggest customer in its environment (possible exception for where they overlap with moose populations), I suspect they would be even more cowardly than cats would be if they were shrunk down to be duck-sized. By contrast, ducks are already remarkably fearless if you find one in a bad mood and they will dive-bomb or harass humans getting near food or nests (and they have absolutely no compulsions against picking on things their size or smaller, as anyone who has owned a flock of ducks can attest) - I think if you scale that up it would be more than happy to fight to the death with a human-sized target. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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