Animal Chicken Fights.

A short while back a bunch of us gathered on Google chat to discuss animal fights. The idea was simple: If you could choose two animals to participate in a chicken fight… what animals would reign supreme.

Ryan, Jesse, Kurt, Ben, Ruth, and I worked together to figure out the ultimate team. In order to do so, we decided to start with a team and then try to think of a pair that could bring them down.

A number of rules and definitions had to be laid out first.

– A chicken fight is when one person gets on the back of a second person. They then fight each other and the first to fall over loses. In this scenario, we’re not talking about falling over… we’re talking about a fight to the death. We’ll put one animal on top of the other animal for the sake of keeping it ‘chicken fights’ but if one animal dies and the other one takes out the other team… it’s still a victory for the last animal standing.

– We had to try and think of the best playing field. A swordfish would be awesome against a cow… but cows don’t really swim and swordfish can’t go on land. We tried thinking about all fights taking place in some sort of plasma that would allow fish to swim through the air. This gets complicated. So instead, let’s just try and judge each fight as if it were taking place on earth. If a swordfish needs to fight a cow… we’ll have to figure out a way to make that happen.

– The two animals have to be animals and there can only be two. While you can’t have a bottle of poison on the back of a flock of geese, you could have a deadly poisonous dart frog on the back of a butterfly.

Let the games begin!

9 thoughts on “Animal Chicken Fights.

  • 1/9/2008 at 2:16 pm
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    A tiger on the back of an elephant would be tough to beat. You’ve basically got a huge tank/launching pad with huge legs and sharp tusks… with an explosive set of claws, muscle, and teeth on top of that.

    If you’re thinking that a frog could ride a butterfly, then what about a blue whale riding a hummingbird. Just fly over your enemy, have the whale flop off, and SMOOSH!

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  • 1/10/2008 at 2:07 pm
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    I vote for a Narwhal attached to the back of a Unicorn.

    DOUBLE STAB POWERS UNITE!!!

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  • 1/10/2008 at 2:17 pm
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    A shark on top of a shark. Double the sharks, double the Ampullae of Lorenzini!

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  • 1/10/2008 at 2:26 pm
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    I think an anaconda on top of a cheetah would be awesome. The cheetah’s speed will help them chase down the enemy team, and the Anaconda can slowly squeeze the top animal to death while the cheetah uses claws and fangs on the bottom animal. Alternately, the cheetah can take them up a tree to attack the top animal together.

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  • 1/10/2008 at 2:42 pm
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    A hippo/polar bear team or a rhino/kodiak brown bear team would be pretty strong, though I don’t know if that’s enough to topple an elephant with tiger.

    Thinking outside the box, how about a Haring Ibon (world’s largest eagle) with an Inland Taipan (world’s most venomous snake)?

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  • 1/10/2008 at 3:05 pm
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    I can take care of your elephant with tiger. A mouse with lion team ought to have a decent chance. Once your elephant runs away, it’s tiger versus lion in a duel to the death.

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  • 1/10/2008 at 3:34 pm
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    runs away does not equal death

    and who says that an elephant is afraid of a mouse? (besides a bunch of old wives?)

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  • 1/10/2008 at 3:57 pm
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    If the elephant runs off a cliff, he’ll die. I don’t know if they’re really afraid of mice, but we’d find out, wouldn’t we?

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  • 1/10/2008 at 4:37 pm
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    a Boa Constrictor on top of a Tiger, hella pointy and hella resillient.

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