but a suitably fit and acrobatic individual (maybe two or three if you're feeling lucky) may actually have a chance against a lion, at least if they hunt and fight anything like domestic cats do -- which AFAICT from the Discovery channel (Well, "Animal Planet") they do, just with somewhat larger targets.
The trick, of course, would be to not let the lion sneak up on you; that kind of thing would make you rather dead. When it tries to throw you off, jump -- for a creature built like a human, a controlled landing provides about three quarters of your agility, and if you select your direction to continue jumping in carefully you can use the lion's strength to augment your own -- and that gives a fast-breathing human a lot of time to recover enough to keep going, as a lion can throw something with as little mass as a human a lot further than he can run in the same time, and will do. Rinse and repeat, and eventually the lion would run out of immediately available energy before you did. Provided you're suitably fit and acrobatic, have a well balanced diet, et cetera, et cetera.
Keep in mind that the baboons beat the leopards most of the time. For a less extreme example (in some ways -- but also leopards are more generally agile [but weaker] than lions and humans are more generally agile [but slower and weaker] than baboons). Also the lion has claws, and you don't, or you do but they're more likely to break than to damage. Your best weapon is the heel, used against the throat (That said, the throat is where the lion will protect best, cause that's where fights are won and lost).
Of course, a group of 42 people would just get in each others' way and be slaughtered.
I must stress not to trust this information or try this at home. For starters, mum won't like you keeping a pet lion. |
