What's the hardest land animal?

[ruffers]

You know, in a fight. My money's always been on the polar bear but bloke down the pub has rocked my faith.

[felt-tip]

Man. For he destroys life indiscriminately.

[Loz]

Maybe. But unarmed, man is a bit of a wuss.

[ruffers]

Indeed. The question relates to unarmed one on one combat. BDTP reckoned an elephant could take a polar bear, I wasn't sure.

[Tarot]

If your talking skin, its got to be the rhino, if you mean awesome,then its the lion. But if you mean Hard, then its got to be Ross Kemp.

[northlondoner]

Silverfox.

[The Minkey]

Hungry Hippo - haaaard!

[Dickensman]

Fully grown walrus have been known to maim to such an extent it can eventually kill a polar bear.

As they out weigh them by over half a ton, not too surprising.

The smart money would go with ruffers selection.

But even the army ants will make it move along somewhere else.

[Strawbs]

Komodo dragon

[Ms_Lilith]

African Bull Elephant

[Ms_Lilith]

[steveo]

Badger v baboon. I wouldn't like to call that one

[MrBen]

It's a Wolverine. And no mistake. Ask Mrs B (a Canadian) who had one try to attack her truck as she was was driving down a logging road in the Yukon in an artic winter. Also in winter, her Dad had one eat it's way through the breeze block wall of his summer cabin. It then ate some wooden furniture before eating its way out the other side (rather than go back out the hole it had made earlier).

Beat that.

[Captain Scarlet]

Nahhhhhhhhhhh hardest animal is the crocodile!.tough skin,hard as nails,loads of teeth!.

[Ms_Lilith]

You can't get harder than this animal...

[Brendan]

Tortoises are fucking hard.

[mockney piers]

Is there an implication that the hardest animal is a sea or air one?

I could go along with a bull shark or orca as the hardest, but if I were to fight one in Croydon I reckon I'd win.

Ultimately you'd have to go with something stupidly poisonous over big and strong.

[Keef]

Relatively speaking, it's an ant.

[DJKillaQueen]

Puff Adder.

[Mick Mac]

The peckham gate crasher

[mockney piers]

As much as I love ant, I agree with keef, ants might be the coolest creatures on the planet. And probably the chosen people.

And how much more elegant a pheremonic language that all this crass guttural sound?

We are simply providers....

[HAL9000]

The cockroaches shall inherit the Earth - it is written.

[Tarot]

Those ants are a real pest to get rid of,apparently can even survive an atomic bomb.

[DJKillaQueen]

After which they grow to the size of a rhino!.....saw it in a movie somewhere.......so it must be true ;-)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Okay mick mac - outside!