Would you rather be eaten alive by a shark, a grizzly bear or a hyena?

definetely not a hyena, aren't they scavengers?

A shark would not need to kill me as I cannot swim so I would be drowning anyway. A single hyena would be quite unlikely to attack an adult human, but they are pretty mean. Grizzlies are cute. I think I'd stand the best chance against a hyena, but if death is preordained here (and assuming there is no 'none of the above' option), I'll take the cuddly grizzly please.

Come Back N.!

The hints of CJ's secret life are beginning to worry me.

I don't fancy the hyena option - don't they try and disembowel their prey?

Grizzlies look cuddly, and you'd be OK if it turned out to be one like Harry and the Hendersons, but otherwise I fear it may be too strong for me. Might inflict terrible pain, and I'm not v good with terrible pain.

You might win against a shark though!! :-


Shark the Loser in Attack on Father-Son Bathers

PLETTENBERG BAY, South Africa (AP) A father and son were attacked by a ragged-tooth shark, but the creature wound up the loser when the father grabbed the four-foot-long shark and dragged it onto the beach.

Mark Thomas, 10, had just caught a wave on his surfboard in waist- deep water Monday when the shark sunk its teeth into the boy's right leg, the newspaper Beeld reported today.

Clark Thomas grabbed the shark and pulled it off his son but also was bitten in the right leg in the process.

"I grabbed the shark in a vice grip, pulled it out of the ocean and threw it onto the beach," the 47-year-old father was quoted as saying.

Mark needed 22 stitches and his father 21, news reports said. With the attack happening amid a spate of shark incidents in recent weeks, doctors dissected the fish to see if it had attacked other bathers. No human flesh was found in its stomach, Beeld said.

The attack happened in Plettenberg Bay in the Indian Ocean, 280 miles east of Cape Town.

At least six people have been injured in shark attacks off South Africa in the past six weeks. One of the victims died.

Sharks apparently mistake some wetsuit-clad surfers for seals or turtles. Others approach the coast to feed on schools of sardines that make migratory runs past the shores.

Dive operators also lure sharks into coastal waters by throwing bait into the ocean so paying customers in underwater cages can view the predators.



(Martin - can you really not swim? Not at all?)

I can't swim either, FWIW.

I do always feel the urge of mocking people who cant swin? Especially when im a similar target since i cant ride a bike

I really cannot swim at all. Never been able to, however much I try and people try to teach me. I am one of a very small minority with negative buoyancy (I've only knowingly met one other): even with lungs full of air, and held steady with just nose and mouth barely out of water, I sink. Most people think I'm making this up, as if most humans are very far in density from water anyway, so this degree of variance is ludicrous. They look at me and smile in a patronising way and tell me that I sink because I am tense, which I am not. Everyone who has spent time in pools with me eventually acknowledges that I'm telling the truth. I am not scared of water, and spend lots of time in it when given the chance. I was just watching some of that Jamaican stuff on TV at the moment, and being reminded of the many hours playing pool volleyball on my hols there.

Chickenbear!

since the question specifies "rip you open and bite your head off" i don't think survival is an option...i can't answer this question. not a shark because there's that awful music that always goes with it...not a hyena because it's too small and it would take too long to kill me...i guess a bear. this is not a request.

If you were on a bike you'd kick the shit out of a shark. Then ride away laughing whilst it flopped around gasping.

Heya, don't worry Chupa, I can't ride a bike either. So you can still feel superior to me. ;-)

What *can* you do, Ned?? ;)

where are these miniature hyena you speak of? they could easily take down shaquille oneal and their jaws are so strong they will simply snap right through your bones. but a shark could swallow you whole, wouldn't want to die in his stomach. grizzlies are so big they would probably be most effective at killing you quickly with one slap to the head.

Tiny hyeanas vs stranded sharks FITE!

Ive often think about the shark one, Im an australian who can swim so its a real consideration, I just make sure there are surfers out past the breaks, theyll be chomped first.
I choose hyenas.

So, in the tiny hyenas vs stranded sharks vs head-slapping grizzly bears FITE....... it's sharks 1, hyenas 1, and bears 3 so far.