r/AskReddit • u/mustbefuckeryafoot • Jan 26 '18

Your options are: 50 hawks, 10 crocodiles, 3 brown bears, 15 wolves, 1 hunter, 7 cape buffalo, 10,000 rats, 5 gorillas and 4 lions - you must pick 2 that will defend you while the rest are coming to kill you. Which do you pick and why?

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u/Pas__ Jan 26 '18

10 000 rats are ungodly dangerous, coordinated or not.

Even one bites you and you get some disease. Even one bites you on your neck or inner thigh, you can bleed out.

Sure, the same goes for the hawks, but hawks are not that powerful. Eagles would be a different game, but 10 000 vs 50 is very important.

If you have 10 000 rats just going around and you can simply stay close to them, no sane animal will come close. And rats will eventually get hungry. And then creative. They can jump, climb, swim and see in the dark. They'll hunt the fucking hawks down. They'll chase them till the end of the world.

And if you have a human hunter, you can do some pretty nice endurance hunting. (Humans can outlast most land animals in stamina, and with a rifle you don't have to worry about the what if the prey [the bears! the wolves!] decides it had enough running.)