re: What is the largest animal a grown man could defeat with his bare hands?

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There is nothing you could do to hurt a horse with your bare hand.

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Back in the Middle Ages, a Byzantine emissary went to meet with a Norman army. A big Norman went up to the emissary’s horse and pinched it in the head so hard it dropped dead.

This is before Europeans all became trannies, and perhaps the Norman wore chain mail, but still.