animal fighting...what's the hardest animal?

[Vector Media]

what's the strongest, hardest, most powerful animal on earth (no humans, ok) ?

a big crazy elephant is unbeatable.

[Naked inc.]

OK... no humans... thread started with a bear...so here is one for you.

water bear:
can revert to an "instant coffee"-dry state which resists storage in liquid nitrogen, contact with mineral acids, organic solvents, radioactive radiation and boiling water. After this kind of brute "scientific" scrutiny the miraculous creature is still able to return to normal life—it needs only a small droplet of water!

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/...1/wbsweets.wmv

detailed info.
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/...0/mmbearp.html

[silverx2]

glad i could bring back a relevant topic from teh dead

[stevietat]

perhaps it was googled already an I missed it in the other pages, but as for hippo bear:

http://www.easythrift.com/home/arena/bear_hippo.htm (with illustration no less!)

Apparently a video was even made
http://www.couch-tomatoe.cc/ubbthrea...er=52769&page=
but link is down

Seriously though, I'm guessing a hippo would own any bear for free. The bear might get a couple bites and scratches in there, but as soon as the hippo gets one serious puncture its over. If you've ever seen a nature show with hippos, you'll see they're nasty territorial beasts, not the docile-floating-watercows people think that they are.

[silverx2]

lol that video was horrible, yet funny, the bears and hippos fought like super humans, with laser eyes and stuff

[jide]

Reminds me of pokemon

[silverx2]

sorry to bring this up again, but i found another video this one of a tiger vs a croc.

http://www.fugly.com/videos/3127/tig...lligator1.html
and with the video of an octopus killing a shark i think this could be discussed some more.


have any of your opinions on which animal would be able to beat another animal?

lets see some new matchups.

[luvenny]

Hippo vs Rhino?

[Visionray]

Hippo vs Rhino?

I say Rhino.

Hippos might be the most dangerous to man, but I don't think they can take down a rhino, with all those armor plates, plus the rhino has a weapon.

That's not to say the rhino could own the hippo either, but in the end I believe it would win.

[TallGuyLittleCar]

I say Rhino.

Hippos might be the most dangerous to man, but I don't think they can take down a rhino, with all those armor plates, plus the rhino has a weapon.

That's not to say the rhino could own the hippo either, but in the end I believe it would win.

I think a hippo has jaw strength that could easily punch through the rhino's armor. They can bite a croc right in half.

[Ask The Geezer]

Well, I saw an old 8MM home movie of Hemingway on a lion hunt in Mexico. He's on horseback, out in the desert, flatland. The camera points at this little dust cloud of about 50 Chihuahua's following the horse. all of a sudden, they take off and chase down a mountain lion, a cougar, I guess. They finally caught it and it looked like one of those cartoons of a dust cloud and things jumping out of it and back in. Those dogs killed that lion before the guy with the camera could get close. That was pretty funny. You'd never think it of a Chihuahua.

[Visionray]

Not sure if it's been posted, but here's the video of a huge snake regurgitating a Hippo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY547...=hippo%20snake

Maybe he didn't kill it in a fight, but I can't believe the snake ate that hippo.

Otherwise, I think we've all concluded that a Hippo can kick some major ass. Except for maybe an Elephant or Rhino.

Battle Royale - Water

1. Giant Squid
2. Great White Shark
3. Polar Bear
4. Crocodile
5. Hippo

I believe the Giant Squid wins every time.

Battle Royale - Land

1. African Elephant
2. Rhino
3. Lion
4. Tiger
5. Crazy Chimpanzee on Crack

Who wins?

[Ask The Geezer]

Heard it on one of those nature shows, about the giant squid and a whale. The old pictures from 20,000 Leagues under the sea and all that. They say the whale wins almost every time. Apparently, giant sqid is one of the main foods of some whales.

I can't see a bear, any bear, being able to whip a hippo. A hippo can weigh several tons. A bear weighs a thousand pounds at best. Most of them are much smaller. It'd be like a toyota against a freight train.

[Visionray]

I don't know dude, perhaps a huge whale could swallow a giant squid whole, but we're talking about a fight here. Anyways check this...

The giant squid is a carnivorous mollusk with a beak-like mouth strong enough to cut through a steel cable and its eyes are the largest in the animal kingdom -- growing up to 45 centimeters (18 inches) wide.

The giant squid is believed to feed on, among other things, the world's biggest animals with several eyewitness stories from fisherman who have seen the squid in fierce battles with whales.

Dead whales have been found washed up on beaches with large sucker marks on their bodies, apparently from squid attacks.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/sc...uid/index.html

[Ask The Geezer]

No doubt, the whale loses some of the time. But according to the program I saw, it's the other way around, the squid is primary food for the whale, they go hunting the squids. I believe they were talking about the Sperm Whale, which is not one of those krill eaters, but has a huge mouth with big teeth. They need a full course meal of meat, not strained out mini shrimp.

I also saw a program on the giant squid, one of the recent bodies they found floating at the surface. They haven't found many over the years, but probably because the whale population has been hunted to near extiction, more giant squid are being found. The one they had movies of was dead, it had tentacles 60 feet long, but the body was not much larger than a man. I just don't see a half ton of squid owning a hundred ton whale, not on it's best day.

[Visionray]

yeah you're right I did some more reading on the giant squid and it seems most of the time they are prey of the sperm whale. I need to get back to work now lol.

[ViRGo_RK]

Yea, but rhinos charge. Wham, you get hit by a rhino you don't have time to think about biting him. The hippo wouldn't get a chance, with a slow reaction speed.

[TallGuyLittleCar]

Yea, but rhinos charge. Wham, you get hit by a rhino you don't have time to think about biting him. The hippo wouldn't get a chance, with a slow reaction speed.

hippos are actually really quick... at least that is what I think I remember from teh discovery channel thing on a fight between a hippo and a great ape.

[Ask The Geezer]

I doubt you'd get either one to fight the other.

[SpockBert]

I doubt you'd get either one to fight the other.

Could be right there, I have scientific proof there in....er...well the super realistic Zoo Tycoon. After becoming a bit bored with the game I decided to stage my own sort of Animal World Cup.

Imagine a sadistic Noah's Ark but instead of 2, having 20 of each animal and instead of an ark, a bit of fence seperating them. You then remove a section of fence so 2 different groups can scrap it out for the right to play the winner of 2 other oponents.

After a glorious tournament Lions and Bears met in the final where to the disappointment of the paying crowd they decided to co-exist peacefully rather than fighting.