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> An adult male cannot physically take on a monkey. It is impossible. Still they don't attack. Are you positive? A chimpanzee: yes. A guerilla: indubitable. B

> An adult male cannot physically take on a monkey. It is impossible. Still they don't attack. Are you positive? A chimpanzee: yes. A guerilla: indubitable. But a monkey? They seem like medium-sized dogs, that can move around quicker and more freely. They'll bite out your flesh, and perhaps maim you to a semi-serious degree (including infection), but I cannot fathom a monkey seriously killing a grown adult male human being. These are 20-40lb, very aggressive racoons. If you shock them with anything, they're most likely going to flee for fear of serious injury.

fellellor 5y ago
As an adult male, I’d rather not get my flesh bitten off or maimed. So I cannot engage in a fight with any monkey. The only fight that I would rather fight is one in which I have overwhelming odds of winning.
vijaybritto 5y ago
> But a monkey? Oh boy never test this out. They will attack violently and will not spare you. If they have enough numbers or have the pack leader(usually the one with the biggest balls) close by then they will retaliate. I'm from south India and I have seen a lot of grown up men get roughed up by monkeys
- 2-718-281-828 5y ago
  "roughed up" sounds like getting a beating. but I'd assume they rip your face off and stuff. care to elaborate?
  - vijaybritto 5y ago
    Yes they will scratch/bite you a lot. But they'll leave you after a while. They're not extremely violent like predators eating us. They only retaliate
    - 2-718-281-828 5y ago
      so they don't rip your face off - understood
polotics 5y ago
A Macaque, maybe 15 kg in weight, has the aggression claws and muscle to take on any non-beefy human and win, not doubt about that.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
  Win, or injure the human so badly that they won't pick the fight again before the human kills it, assuming the human actually fights to kill? I have no doubt it's not wise to fight a monkey, but I wouldn't expect it to actually win.
- mattkrause 5y ago
  Male macaques also have very large canines, and massive jaw muscles to use them. A bite that severs a major blood vessel could end very badly. They also move a lot more...three-dimensionally than you might imagine, making it hard to predict where they're going.
  - throwaway2331 5y ago
    I've been looking through monkey bites, and they're a lot more tame on human skin than they are on other monkeys. Macaques have large teeth and strong jaw muscles (as do dogs); but unlike dogs (or say even piranhas), it doesn't look like monkeys rip and tear flesh like canids. Their mouths are a lot like human mouths: incisors in the front, two canines on either side, and a bunch of (pre)molars, indicative of omnivores. The two canines will definitely pierce the skin. The incisors, most likely as well; but the molars are absolutely useless here. Whereas dogs (and more specifically sharks) have "saw-like" teeth, that combined with strong neck muscles (and a propensity to grab hold, and shake vigorously, as if they're literally sawing away flesh), make them a lot more lethal to most land mammals. If we include monkey eating habits, I don't see any large mammals on the list (all the mammals they may eat are smaller than them); compare that to the canid family, that will hunt down mammals many times larger than them. I just don't see how the monkey is built to be able to kill a human being. Granted, it's going to hurt a lot to get bitten by a monkey. But I just don't see how a 40lb mammal can do that much damage. If you can somehow restrain it by the neck, it's basically over for any mammal of that size without claws (or another means of escape) -- which monkeys don't seem to have. Now, if we're talking a chimpanzee? I'm going to do everything in my power to get out of that situation. But a monkey? A large dog is more of a threat.
dhosek 5y ago
Monkey bite your face off

fellellor 5y ago

As an adult male, I’d rather not get my flesh bitten off or maimed. So I cannot engage in a fight with any monkey. The only fight that I would rather fight is one in which I have overwhelming odds of winning.

vijaybritto 5y ago

> But a monkey? Oh boy never test this out. They will attack violently and will not spare you. If they have enough numbers or have the pack leader(usually the one with the biggest balls) close by then they will retaliate. I'm from south India and I have seen a lot of grown up men get roughed up by monkeys

2-718-281-828 5y ago
"roughed up" sounds like getting a beating. but I'd assume they rip your face off and stuff. care to elaborate?
- vijaybritto 5y ago
  Yes they will scratch/bite you a lot. But they'll leave you after a while. They're not extremely violent like predators eating us. They only retaliate
  - 2-718-281-828 5y ago
    so they don't rip your face off - understood

polotics 5y ago

A Macaque, maybe 15 kg in weight, has the aggression claws and muscle to take on any non-beefy human and win, not doubt about that.

tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
Win, or injure the human so badly that they won't pick the fight again before the human kills it, assuming the human actually fights to kill? I have no doubt it's not wise to fight a monkey, but I wouldn't expect it to actually win.
mattkrause 5y ago
Male macaques also have very large canines, and massive jaw muscles to use them. A bite that severs a major blood vessel could end very badly. They also move a lot more...three-dimensionally than you might imagine, making it hard to predict where they're going.
- throwaway2331 5y ago
  I've been looking through monkey bites, and they're a lot more tame on human skin than they are on other monkeys. Macaques have large teeth and strong jaw muscles (as do dogs); but unlike dogs (or say even piranhas), it doesn't look like monkeys rip and tear flesh like canids. Their mouths are a lot like human mouths: incisors in the front, two canines on either side, and a bunch of (pre)molars, indicative of omnivores. The two canines will definitely pierce the skin. The incisors, most likely as well; but the molars are absolutely useless here. Whereas dogs (and more specifically sharks) have "saw-like" teeth, that combined with strong neck muscles (and a propensity to grab hold, and shake vigorously, as if they're literally sawing away flesh), make them a lot more lethal to most land mammals. If we include monkey eating habits, I don't see any large mammals on the list (all the mammals they may eat are smaller than them); compare that to the canid family, that will hunt down mammals many times larger than them. I just don't see how the monkey is built to be able to kill a human being. Granted, it's going to hurt a lot to get bitten by a monkey. But I just don't see how a 40lb mammal can do that much damage. If you can somehow restrain it by the neck, it's basically over for any mammal of that size without claws (or another means of escape) -- which monkeys don't seem to have. Now, if we're talking a chimpanzee? I'm going to do everything in my power to get out of that situation. But a monkey? A large dog is more of a threat.

dhosek 5y ago

Monkey bite your face off