[End Times Sentinel]

I've thought a lot about fighting a kangaroo, and if I was younger, I'm pretty sure I could do it. Don't fight it square on, only from the side, lots of head shots, and DO NOT LET IT SET IT'S TAIL, or you're done for. Obviously, it'd have to wear boxing gloves and something on its feet to protect me from its claws.
A lion, though, that’d be a lot harder. I think if you got behind it you could put it in a full Nelson, but that's not really beating it up. That's just a losing proposition.

[NFHale]

RE Nelson:

To quote Baloo the Bear, while hanging on to Shere Khan’s tail, and hearing Bagheera the Panther shouting “Let Go!”...

“Are you kidding??? There’s TEETH in the other end!!!”

[Haiku Guy]

A lion, though, that’d be a lot harder.

I remember reading an SRA story in elementary school about a guy who fought a tiger and lived. He killed the tiger by shoving his arm down it's throat as far as it would go, and the animal choked to death.

You know it sucks when that is your best option.

Anybody else remember SRAs? Independent learning. It was a thing in the Seventies.

[Haiku Guy]

I used to wander around unarmed and on foot in lion country in Africa a fair bit, back when I was young and stupid (as opposed to old and stupid, as I am today). I used to carry a hatchet, because it was better than nothing. The working theory is that I would face the lion, make a lot of noise and wave the hatchet around, to make myself look like I was not worth the trouble.

The main thing was to not run. The lionesses just love to take down running prey, and a human is so slow that running is pointless, anyway.