What beast can a man defeat with his bare hands?

What should you do if you encounter bears, tigers, wild boars and other wild animals in the wild? Is it possible for a person to beat a bear/tiger/wild boar/... with bare hands?

This is a question that has been circulating on the Internet for a long time but has never been truly answered, because the opinions of the answerers are always polarized. One side says that in terms of body structure, speed, and strength, humans are destined to be tortured and killed, while the other side thinks that human intelligence is enough to crush any other animal.

In this regard, the answer of the "Tieba Five Tiger Generals" is:

The statement of the netizen in the above picture is undoubtedly a joke, and upon closer inspection, there are many common sense errors. But at the same time, these statements perfectly illustrate various folk rumors about the "battle between humans and animals", as well as the basic response ideas when humans face wild beasts and their safety is threatened: understand the habits of wild beasts - take advantage of human advantages - attack the weaknesses of wild beasts.

We are very familiar with the sayings of pretending to be dead or climbing a tree when encountering a bear, and using the "sliding shovel to break the belly" to deal with the flying attacks of all cats. But in fact, not only are bears not picky eaters at all, they can run much faster than humans, and many of them can even climb trees.

It is not reliable to rely on imagination to figure out how to deal with beasts. To answer the question of whether humans can defeat wild beasts, or to find practical and effective ways to avoid danger in the wild, we should still start from real cases and find out the advantages and disadvantages of animals and humans, so as to draw more scientific and rigorous answers. Answer.

In the last century, bear wrestling or boxing competitions were once very popular in New York and other places and were later banned because they were too cruel to bears

In real life, our most common reluctance What can be called "wild beasts" are stray dogs living in cities, or wild dogs living in suburban mountains and forests. Don’t be fooled by the docile domestic dogs that have been domesticated. As a subspecies of wolf, many dogs are still ruthless killers who maintain their ferocious nature.

News of larger domestic dogs biting children or the elderly to death when people are not prepared are common, and specially trained police dogs can even deal with gun-wielding criminals. However, the odds of an adult winning against a vicious dog are quite high. The main reason is that humans have an advantage in terms of weight and absolute strength.

This advantage means that during the fight, human punches and kicks can cause considerable damage to dogs, and they can also rely on their weight advantage to suppress their opponents, preventing them from moving and being slaughtered. Relatively speaking, dogs can only use their claws and bites, and their collisions and attacks pose no threat to adults.

So as long as humans pay attention to protecting their vital parts from being bitten, dogs are actually the best common beasts to deal with.

Dog danger level: ★☆☆☆

What is very close to dogs but a little more difficult to deal with is wild wolves.

Different types of wolves vary greatly in size. Generally speaking, the higher the latitude of the area, the larger the size of the wolf. However, the body length of wolves is generally only between 1-1.6 meters, no longer than an adult. The strongest North American wolf can reach 75 kilograms, while the average weight of the Indian wolf near us is only 25 kilograms.

Judging from the data of size, weight, and strength, the combat effectiveness of wild wolves is at best comparable to that of an adult male. But the most fatal objective weakness of human beings in the face of wild beasts is that we lack the means of attack to cause death quickly.

The fangs and claws of wild wolves can cause prey to bleed quickly, and can even bite the throat and other vital parts with a fatal blow. In comparison, human beings do not have sharp teeth and can hardly be fatal with fists and kicks, so they are naturally at a disadvantage in a life-and-death struggle. But in the long process of evolution we have also developed a unique advantage: flexible hands that are good at using various tools.

Don’t be nervous, this is not about “cheating” and deviating from the original bare-handed setting to take advantage of humans’ ability to use tools. In order to better use tools, we have evolved hands with extremely strong grasping capabilities.

And this gives humans a brand new way of attack - strangulation (commonly known as strangulation).

In fact, in Russia, where human-wolf fights occur all year round, many passers-by who were attacked eventually defeated the wild wolves by strangling them. To deal with rough-skinned wild wolves, this is even more practical than a wooden stick when there are no swords and guns.

In January 2015, this Kazakh shepherd stunned a wild wolf that attacked his sheep with his bare hands. Wolf danger level: ★★☆☆

Corresponding to a docile domestic dog There were wild dogs and wolves, so before domestic pigs appeared, there were also raging wild boars.

Wild boars have rough skin and thick flesh. They can grow up to about 200 kilograms with their thick bodies. In Northeast my country, there are even giant wild boars weighing more than 400 kilograms. They have a bad temper. Although their staple food is vegetarian food and they occasionally eat small animals such as rabbits, they will treat humans who dare to approach them without hesitation.

The attack method of male wild boars is similar to that of cattle, but the horns are replaced by hard canines up to 6 cm long. They can reach 56km/h when running at full speed. With such a large weight, it is not a problem to push people several meters away and kill them instantly.

Never mess with wild boars with piglets

There is no conclusive record of human beings defeating wild boars with bare hands in historical records, but if "fouls" are allowed, Guizhou, China and There are cases in Kanagawa, Japan of elderly men using farm tools to kill wild boars with great difficulty. But the more well-known case is the wild boar attack in Shaanxi in 2018 that killed one and injured one. The local special police finally called in snipers to successfully kill it.

It is worth mentioning that wild boars are animals that generally attack humans only when they are at the end of their rope. Therefore, the so-called wild boar that the old man took several hours to kill was most likely a wild boar that was already starving. The well-known "death-seeking anchor" Andrew Ucles once tried to subdue a smaller wild boar with his bare hands, but he only succeeded after chasing it to exhaustion.

All in all, this is a beast that even tigers are not willing to mess with, and will not take the initiative to attack people when they see it from a distance. And based on a certain distance, humans can outrun it. No matter how far they can hide, they cannot defeat it with bare hands.

Andrew Ucles "subdues" wild boar scene Wild boar danger level: ★★★☆

PS: Although no one has killed a wild boar with bare hands, we can provide you with a small clue: Tiger The way to kill a pig is generally to "attack its perineum to cause it to bleed to death." I hope this knowledge point will not help you in reality

Finally, we come to the cats we are familiar with.

As we all know, lions, tigers, and leopards are very ferocious carnivores. Although their defense power is weak, their aggressiveness and power are extremely strong, and their attack methods are varied. They can be said to be natural ultimate killers.

When a person faces a big cat with bare hands, he must beware of its "slapping, biting, scratching," and even its powerful "kicks with its hind legs."

Brutal cats have been practicing the art of killing since they were young (no)

The tiger killing incident at Badaling Wildlife Park in 2016, the tiger killing incident at Ningbo Zoo in 2017, and the Japanese deer killing incident in 2018 The Kojima Hirakawa Zoo tiger killing incident... countless cases remind us that even if tigers have been kept in captivity for many years, they are still extremely wild and aggressive, and it can kill a human in an instant.

There are records of hunting wild cats with bare hands in modern times, but they are basically small characters such as leopards, pumas or lynxes. The most famous of these is probably the experience of American zoologist Carl Ethan Akeley who killed a leopard that attacked him with his bare hands in 1896.

This leopard weighs 80 pounds (about 36 kilograms) and should be regarded as a young leopard.

The way Ackerley killed the leopard was a textbook example of fighting a big cat with bare hands: while his right arm was bitten, he thrust his right hand directly into the leopard's mouth to resist it. It bites, pressing down on the leopard with all its strength and grabbing its throat with its left hand, eventually strangling it.

Photos of Carl Ethan Akeley and the leopard he killed

But if you think you can fight an adult big cat after mastering this technique, you are wrong. Childish. There is also such a small detail in Ackley's report: long before the leopard pounced, he had seriously injured it with a shotgun.

It can be said that a person with bare hands has no chance of winning against an adult tiger or leopard, let alone a lion.

In 2017, this tough 80-year-old American woman successfully killed a small bobcat that attacked her with a sickle. The cost was a full 60 stitches. Big cat danger level: ★★★ ★

So it can be seen that when the "strangle to death" option is disabled, humans are almost unable to kill any beast of comparable size.

But what is interesting is that the seemingly ferocious bear is a rare exception. In 2016, a Canadian boxer named Rick Nelson was attacked by a female bear. He used a precise right hand to The uppercut caught the bear in the nose, eventually causing it to move away.

An important reason is that bears are the only wild animals that may be willing to stand up and fight with people (and they will not raise their elbows to protect their faces). This allows professional boxers to have the opportunity to hit the vital part of the bear's nose. . But when Rick hit the bear's face, he also left claw marks on his face and body. If he hadn't dodged in time, or the mother bear refused to leave with her child, his life or death would have been uncertain.

Bear Danger level: ★★★★

In addition to the above-mentioned beasts, some people may also think of the Australian boxing king-kangaroo.

However, kangaroos are herbivores. If you encounter a kangaroo in the wild, as long as you don't go over and make boxing moves, it won't be interested in you.

Australian man Greig Tonkins rescued his dog from a kangaroo. Kangaroo danger level:?

The ultimate answer to this question is actually a bit like the story of Tian Ji's horse racing: The ultimate strong human beings may be able to defeat many ordinary beasts after systematic training, but in the end we are not naturally good at this. The most developed part of a human being is the brain.

So if you can't practice enough to fight against wild beasts, you must at least be smart enough to avoid their attacks.