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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2322046" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Humans can kill mountain lions just through unarmed grappling, using our greater mass and primate build.  I do _not_ recommend this, but it's quite true, a human can kill a mountain lion unarmed.  The lion may well kill you too, though.  We're not standard prey for lions so they can't easily do the throat-kill they're designed for and have to rake us to death with their claws, which is hard in a grapple.  An unarmed human can kill a single dog or wolf too, likewise - in fact AFAIK a fit adult human can usually beat a lone dog of even greater mass.  Dogs or wolves are designed to kill in packs, and are only really good at killing humans when in packs.  The only land predators that can really easily and reliably kill humans 1-1, making us a suitable prey animal, are tigers and large African lions.  Grizzly & polar bears can easily take your head off in 1 swipe and should be avoided, also.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>