I'm mildly amused by this statement - as if there was a large dataset of chimps punching humans.
I love how relaxed the orangutan is. It's just like; "here we go again, another puny human to humiliate. Give me the coconut and stop wasting my time."No exactly a chimp, but in a human vs orangutan bare-hand coconut-opening contest the human will suffer a total humiliation. Not only because he lacks the needed strength, but also the needed technique and knowledge:
Chimpanzees have already beaten us at chess. They aren't building habitats for us, and distributing us globally. They don't make films about us conquering the world. They don't team us with a young Clint Eastwood. They have a.ready outmanoeuvred us.
Fair enough... but impaling it on a knife as it jumps you sounds feasible, at least on paper.
A full grown chimp is basically a small bear dude. They have built in knives in their mouths, and they fight by biting each other's faces and hands off. It would take the luckiest knife strike in history to kill a jumping chimp with a single blow, and you're unlikely to get a second attempt.
Story kind of proves m point. Gene mOe is awesome, and he got lucky.
He is awesome indeed. But here we had 69-year old guy against 750 lb bear.
If we're saying the chimp is ready for a fight, you're removing at least some of the intelligent tactics advantage that a human has over an animal (and, indeed, over other humans). Anyway, I think a trained soldier with a knife could absolutely kill a charging chimp, but might not survive himself. I think both of them could easily wind up dead. I don't know if chimps go for killing blows like predators do, or just kind of go crazy and smash. If it's the latter, the soldier might survive, with a broken arm, or something, but alive. Unarmed people have survived surprise chimp attacks, albeit f'd up. A soldier with a knife, ready to go, would presumably fare better.
"Stick the knife out and it hits it as it jumps" is a whole lot different than the various "slit throat" or stab to the heart things that were said about catching the chimp unawares. The quickness to get the knife in line at all is a big ask, and getting results like a well targeted fatal blow is unlikely.
