Ned Hardy
The Amazing World Of Animals
Wolves are world-famous predators revered for their ferocious abilities and pack mentality. Not too different from these cousins of dogs is another pack animal who is often forgotten outside of being a Disney villain.
The hyena is a formidable hunter who is much more common in Africa than you may think. It’s no laughing matter, the amount of power and prowess this carnivore has.
But how does it measure up compared to the wolf?
Time for another round of animal death match – but this time we aren’t going to be pushing one of nature’s big beasts into battle, but choosing a smaller savage creature as our champion. 11 years ago, the Internet elevated the honey badger from little known curiosity to famously fearless folk hero thanks to a viral video entitled “The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger”. Popularizing the catchphrase “honey badger don’t care”, and showing the badger nonchalantly attacking cobras and even shrugging off what should have been a deadly bite, it’s now racked up almost 100 million views.
But is the honey badger really that fierce? Well, on fighting statistics alone it certainly doesn’t look all that terrifying.
Wolves hold a special and fearful place in the human imagination. After all, the idea of the werewolf has terrified us for almost two millennia. A form of the werewolf appears in ancient Greek sources, although the concept began truly flourishing in European myths from the fifteenth century onwards. It soon spread to America, and even led to so-called werewolves being persecuted and killed as part of the international witch trials. It’s hard to imagine another animal creating quite the same kind of fear – weremooses, weresheep and even werefoxes just don’t feel quite as chilling.
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Before we start our list, lets start off with a base measurement that puts everything into perspective. The average human bite force measures in at 160 pounds per square inch. While a human can bite though smaller bones, such as those from a chicken, its highly unlikely to be able to generate enough force to chomp through anything of substantial size. Plus human teeth will chip and shatter if too much pressure is applied. Now onto the list….
We absolutely DO NOT recommend that you try to tame a hyena or even own a hyena, but lets take a hypothetical detour and see if taming such a wild animal is possible.