People always post that survey about the animals men think they could beat and laugh at them. I could totally beat wolf though.

first of all, you can stop posting pictures showing that Canadian timberwolves are deceptively large. Does the survey say "Canadian timber wolf". Yeah, pick the biggest wolf, because that's fair. (said no one ever.) If the survey said "can you beat a human in a fight" would smartasses post pictures of the human Dwayne Johnson?

wolves in most of the world are 50-75 lbs, so not only is your logic objectively wrong, you're also probably racist for trying to colonize the global south with your concept wolf size (Bergmann's rule, populations at higher latitudes have great size). so lets start by pointing out that the average Human already has a very large advantage in weight, height, intelligence, and dexterity.

next, does the survey say the wolf has an unnatural temperament and will fight to the death? you've probably only met wolves in videogames where they home in on you after entering their Agro radius and will keep biting you until you kill them. real wolfs just run away. They are pack hunters who need to charge herds and seperate off the weak. They are evolved to bite tendons of fleeing bison, not fight head on, like cats who wrestle large game into submission. Even if we say the wolf has to initially agree to fight, a human, standing 6'3" (with my boots on), and faces it dead on with confidence will make an unevolved dog run away with just a single good kick.

really, if i were you, I would be going through wolf social media and laughing at all the lupine-kin thinking they win a fight vs a human.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    With wolves, teamwork makes the dream work. Half the reason why they don't stick to a target and go all out to the death is because they don't have to - each wolf in a group does their bit and they wear their prey down until it can be cleanly killed. The "lone wolf" has been fetishized in our society, but in practice wolves who lose their packs either get really good at barely subsisting on rodents or they die.

    • fifthedition [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      With humans, tools make the dream work. It is a fool who goes against predators unarmed. Even wolves were a threat until the 1800s or so and the advent of repeating firearms and extermination campaigns. Still today, if you're in a region where wolves have been re-introduced, watch out.