Some 10% of Britons and 17% of Americans believe they would win in a fight against a chimpanzee. Researchers quizzed people in Britain and America on whether they felt they could overcome 15 animals, wild and domestic. They found that 72% of Americans but only 67% of Brits believed they could win in a fight against a rat. Meanwhile, just 6% of Americans and only 2% of Brits believed they could beat a grizzly bear. “The best advice to people facing a belligerent chimpanzee is to run away,” said The Times.
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