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How about an adolescent kangaroo?

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[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Blue whale.

You never said I had to win.

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also never said in which environment:

Stranded blue whale.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the ocean. I punch it once, it swims away. "Yeah bitch, you better run!"

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With all the blubber, would a whale even notice a punch, especially if the force was lessened due to water drag?

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notice it? Likely. Interpret it as a threat? Unlikely. Swat you like an annoying insect? Probably.

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[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn’t “think you can take on” imply winning though? If not at least surviving with most limbs attached.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sit in its blowhole until it suffocates?

Obviously I am not advocating for these beautiful majestic giant beasts to be killed but if it was a life or death thing... I'd be getting in that blowhole like a big old human tampon.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They can hold their breath for 30-90 minutes and can dive to 1000 feet. Good luck.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Their error was sitting in the blowhole. The trick is you have to go in head first so you can steal the oxygen from the whales lungs.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 25 points 1 year ago

T-Rex. I mean, all I gotta do is remove one pin and the whole skeleton collapses.

[–] relative_iterator@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] itsdavetho@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Ah ya bastard

[–] swordsmanluke@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Most beasts under 80 lbs. Over 80 lbs, it's gonna be on a case by case basis. 90 lb sloth, no problem. 81 lb wolf, ...problem.

The biggest animal I feel confident in is an 800 lb human. Huge, but that fucker's gonna be exhausted ten seconds into the fight.

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[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A blue whale. (they won't fight back b/c they don't consider me a threat, and so when they wander away I win by technicality)

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I call foul play, there was no "taking on" just "swimming near"

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[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] oo1@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ew, i dont want to touch one of thoser with my bare hands though.

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 17 points 1 year ago

If I had bear hands then probably a small bear.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A large opossum. I could probably handle something larger, but I can only handle one pet at a time and I like opossums.

Yes, I understand you're asking about the largest animal I can fight and I'm telling you that that opossum is going to become a pet if I win.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A giant squid. It would have to be on land though (you never said we had to do it in their natural habitat).

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Definitely something smaller than a grasshopper.. Lost that fight a few days ago.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could totally take a 6-year-old human.

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fuck off those things are animals

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Galapagos tortoise. That's the largest I can think of without teeth and claws, not fast, and not in water.

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[–] Murais@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

Sunfish.

They are enormous wastes of flesh and evolutionary effort.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Probably a fainting goat.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

A blue whale, as long as we're on land.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can totally choke a chicken

[–] Nahvi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have lots of practice do we?

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[–] tallwookie@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

assuming we fight in my natural habitat, a blue whale - gravity does most of the work though.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Sleepydeepyweepy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

My 3.4lb rabbit recently decided I am not a threat and started chilling in the middle of my walkway at night. She now takes multiple shoves to make move. So, not a bunny

(This took years of work on trust I am mostly bragging my bunny loves me)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I could probably handle a vole okay. Or maybe a tufted titmouse. On a good day.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Definitely not a cat. I have cats and he wanted to go ballistic on me when I tried to get him off the window ledge when there was another cat outside. I had to push him off with a broom or risk losing an eye even though his nails are trimmed. He's lovely otherwise, I swear.

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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

None, I would think how bad I felt if I hurt the cute furry friend, then tried to pet them instead and get mauled.

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