beefypigeon
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So does being eaten by animals of a similar ilk make them hard then? I'm confused
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***Worlds Hardest Creature VIII: SEMI FINAL TWO***
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So does being eaten by animals of a similar ilk make them hard then? I'm confused
True that.
Crocodile < Steve Irwin < Manta Ray
Croc deserves his place in the later stages - sadly many of his votes are just revenge by Tardigrade and grasshopper mouse lovers.
Croc, obviously. Why obviously? It isn't the kin badger. Obviously.
The Honey Badger's weakest point is that it doesn't actually seem to cause much damage to other animals. Sure, it stands up to them and sometimes enough to make them clear off, which is to be commended - but I've yet to see any evidence of it going completely headmental for the massacre of any creature, tearing it apart limb by limb, ripping it's head off - at least, not above the level of what other animals who haven't reached this stage can do. HB seems to be very good at talking the talk - enough to successfully repel other bigger animals on the odd occasion - but it doesn't seem to be able to walk the walk. And that's why I've voted croc.
On my crappy phone at the moment so hard to do links, but would HB eating the entrails of a 4m python while it's still alive count? Or taking down a monitor lizard? Also I would like footage of crocodile taking a non prey animal that outweighs it.
Nope, no better than what the Grasshopper Mouse does to coral snakes.
I agree their snake eating is reasonably equal.
This is honey badger vs croc though.
Hillian1
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Yep, and for me the croc does show that sort of mentalness, maiming and destroying its opponents where the honey badger just (sometimes) kills.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
A couple of cats can bring down a croc…
Thanks for that. Found a blog about it. I tend to agree this is more of a mistake by the croc.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2013/02/04/crocodiles-attack-elephants/
Thing is I think honey badger is smarter, so it's mentalness comes from a place of knowledge, not just reptilian instinct.
JamesAndTheGiantHead
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Crocodile should win on the strength of this photo alone.
With all due respect, I doubt that the intelligence of either animal is either easy to assess, nor is it easy to compare the intelligence of the two, so I can't really take that as any sort of evidence. And in any case, if intelligence was a factor behind hardness then, as discussed earlier in the competition, humans would win hands down.
Bold Seagull
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The Elephant generally just shakes them off...
Hillian1
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The Elephant is generally about 10 times it's weight.
If a Hippo sat on a Honey Badger it would kill it, but that's not the point is it.
You are familiar with the concept of Pound for Pound aren't you?
And Lions generally just ignore the "scrappy doo" of the animal world that is the honey badger. You've still got to be hard to take on an elephant when you know just being trodden on could kill you.