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What is the horse going to do with prep time? What am I missing? This seems crucial.

Every fucking time this is posted. Goddamit, OP, they'll be at this shit for hours like crows with a diamond ring.

That's a short conversation for me:

Anything medium/large-dog size and larger, no.

Below that it can certainly depend (like a venomous snake? We'll both lose. Eagle? Honestly no fucking clue. If I got a hit in, it would be done, but I'm not sure I'd get a strike in).

There's no way a single dude is dropping a horse with their bare hands.

A single rear leg kick from a horse can easily break your skull apart, snap your neck or spine, cave in your entire chest, snap your femur, shatter your hip.

One good connecting hit and basically 99% of people are dead, paralyzed for life, or at best, extremely seriously injured and needing immediate hospitalization.

An unarmed human is not going to win an aggro'd fight with a horse in some kind of cage match scenario, unless its very young, very old, or quite sick or already injured.

Horses can be very dumb though: In a more real world scenario, you may be able to spook them into breaking their own legs on uneven ground, or even just running off of a goddamned cliff or into a tree or some other obstacle.

Alternatively: Spend the hour of prep time getting horse feed and poison.

Don't fight it, befriend it, and then betray that trust.

Is it okay to use the surroundings? Humans are good with this. Also with improvising tools. It's kind of our thing. (If we take this away, we'll be way worse but I would get it.) The problem with that is that it's super hard to measure. I could take on a horse in a jungle, I think, but not in the Eurasian Steppe.

It also depends on the age and character of the animal. I was able to grab a swan by its neck and throw it away because it was barely an adult. I bet it would have been a lot harder if it was a year older and even more aggressive. (This was in self defence of course)

Another thing to consider is the premise. Do I choose an animal and the animal is not aware of the danger? Is it aggressive towards me in the normal range of its species? Does the animal try to kill me with all of its power?

Animals I have beaten in a fight:

Feral dogs.

Feral dogs likely mixed with eastern coyote. I cheated though, I shot them.

Animals that have beaten me in a fight:

Geese.

A catfish (in my defense, it was massive and the fight was in the water. On land I would have won)

Humans.

Animals I have run from rather than fight:

Hornets.

Bears. Black bear, we startled each other, then I left a trickle down my leg while I ran.

A big pack of dogs. Wasn't armed, and saw them coming.

My record is not exactly impressive

My rule is anything smaller than my knees is gettin it's ass kicked. I've got strong legs and decent form while kicking, and so far haven't found a creature that size I couldn't fend off with a good hit. So far that's mostly meant wild dogs and a goose.

What's the girl equivalent of this? I'd like to have some conversations with my wife that don't send her off on list-making/plan-making expeditions or remind her of something she wanted to research on the internet.

Let's say it was reasonable to 1v1 a horse.

I wanna know what a lone horse does to prepare for a fight, that turns the tables from winning to losing...

he better be riding the horse over a rocky steep incline and not actually trying to fight it. why do they go for big animals? I can take a cat. maybe. most birds native to North America.

What's a horse going to do with prep time? Grow opposable thumbs and learn how to use tools?

Just the one hour?

I mean, just to cover the invertebrates part of the list would be several hours.

We had this question in a board game where the other people have to guess what animal I would pick. I opted for a herbivore - goat or sheep or something. I can only remember one other answer and that was my 7 year old son who quite brilliantly thought I could take a sperm whale.

Maybe on land.

Then no... Hahajah