I invite your assistance to help me solve a question that plagues biology and has been running through my mind for quite some time:

Which bird would win in a fight? A chicken or a penguin?

You decide. Long-winded diatribes are especially encouraged.

I guess it depends on who gets home turf.

In the farmyard the chicken has the advantage, the penguin won't last too long due to limited mobility and inability to raise its feet high enough to get a good scratch in, so its dependent on striking with its beak.

On the Penguin's home turf its a different matter - on the antarctic ice, the penguin simply needs to hold on for long enough for the chicken to freeze to death - and considering its thick layers of body fat protecting its vital organs, I don't see it having too much of a problem - likewise in the water, the penguin can make speedy and elegant hit and run strafing runs on the chicken, while the chicken just flops about steadily drowning.

I'd take the chicken Foghorn Leghorn...

http://sundancereflections.com/images/foghorncel.jpg

over Chilly Willy any day....

http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/219/972/56/chilly_willy.gif


Chilly is just to small and cute to even try to fight.

Come on, let's be serious here. We're considering chickens and penguins of equal sizes on a neutral proving ground.

Don't try and make this thread about some kind of sick inner biases of your own.

None of you are worthy of being penguins.

I assume male chickens are allowed to play? No contest if they are. A good rooster wouldn't have much trouble with an eagle on the ground, let alone a penguin.

Come on, let's be serious here. We're considering chickens and penguins of equal sizes on a neutral proving ground.

Don't try and make this thread about some kind of sick inner biases of your own.

None of you are worthy of being penguins.

But considering that a penguin will be at a distinct disadvantage in anything but an aquatic envionment and the chicken would be equally disadvantaged IN the water, how would you determine a neutral proving ground?
Mixed boggy terrain perhaps?

Yeah...I really don't see penguins kicking too much ass, too slow on land and no real weapons to speak of. I'll put my money on the chicken.

UnknOwn to mosT people, moSt Penguins carry cHicken AIDS.

Yeah...I really don't see penguins kicking too much ass, too slow on land and no real weapons to speak of. I'll put my money on the chicken.

Thick body fat would give the penguin some protection - but could only really hope to win by soaking up the blows until the chicken is exhausted - rumble in the jungle stylee

We have to look at it from a scientific physical perspective. A normal chicken mass is 3 lbs and a penguin normal mass is 75 lbs. (wiki)

From the momentum of inertia equations it is quite apprehendable that a penguin would win a fight.

ContRary to popular homersexual (as in the love between two educated men: not to be confused with the standard relationship between men from Manchester) belief the penguin is actually a highly skilled predator, whereas the ChiCken is merely a docile herbivore only capable of establisHing a pecking order.

We have to look at it from a scientific physical perspective. A normal chicken mass is 3 lbs and a penguin normal mass is 75 lbs. (wiki)

From the momentum of inertia equations it is quite apprehendable that a penguin would win a fight.

depends on the penguin I think - emperors are very large, Adeles are small - but you have a point tho, we would need to decide on the species first.

I weep from being hurt.

Penguins eat meat so I would have to think they would know how to go in for the kill. A chicken would just flap around and a make a lot of noise.

I dunno. I think chickens can fight a bit. They're smaller but fast. But I still think the penguin would win. Rope-a-dope, followed by one herring smack and Clucky is out.

Chickens are one of the most elite fighters in the animal kingdom lbs for lbs. That's not a joke. They have huge sharp spurs on their feet they dig into their adversaries with surgical precision. Even with a big size advantage a penguin would be opened up like a can of soup in no time at all.

you mean cocks. Not the male organ of pleasure and reprocreduction. but the feathered dinosour.

Definatley Penguins, why do you thing Col Sanders went for chickens? His staff were too scared of the alternative.

The chickens are making a resurgence. Clucky is On The Move!

http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/cartoons/chickenrun/chicken_run_2.jpg

well if chickens have submachine guns on them, they could beat the penguins

Unarmed contest draqon

Those of you who have witnessed a cock fight know that a rooster will win even without the knives. They are savage and brutal. Just like a dinosaure.

Chickens are one of the most elite fighters in the animal kingdom lbs for lbs. That's not a joke. They have huge sharp spurs on their feet they dig into their adversaries with surgical precision. Even with a big size advantage a penguin would be opened up like a can of soup in no time at all.

Do you have a pic? The spurs our rooster had were not huge and sharp. I know the spurs they attach to fighting roosters are. But those are not their natural spurs.

Fighting roosters often fight with their natural spurs.
It's more ideal for the purists because more of a fight can take place, a lucky kick from a lesser cock can end a fight when blades are involved, when they fight with their natural spurs it's more like what a rooster fight naturally is supposed to be, and the superior specimen is likely to prevail.

I might be overstating their lethality a little, but the natural spurs are still pretty deadly weapons, far superior to anything a penguin has.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2004/12/09/national/cock.184.1.jpg
And most significantly they know how to use them.

It's possible your rooster had his bluntened down or sawn off, or else he was from a wuss breed with weak spurs.

Or he was young.

I thought I found some evidence.. but it's still not clear to me who actually won (??)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXYhWA7RdwU&feature=related

After seeing this, I definitely go for the chicken.

http://www.crazyclips.co.cc/videos/dog-vs-chicken/index.htm

But penguins are cold-hearted and evil.

http://www.crazyclips.co.cc/videos/evil-mother-penguin/index.htm

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/batman_returns/danny_devito/batmanreturnsdvd.jpg

What about The Penguin in Batman? Surely, chickens cannot compete with the underground Penguin Take-Over?

But penguins are cold-hearted and evil.

http://www.crazyclips.co.cc/videos/evil-mother-penguin/index.htm

Hmm point taken.. :scratchin:

As I was bloody well saying.... before being ripped to another thread...( this is serious stuff to me)

The Penguin is gonna eat the chicken..forty fucking kilos of angry, inpeneterable, frosty death!
The little chooky spurs won't even draw blood through the coarse matted ( minus sixty degrees rated feathers), let alone the fat and muscle,..keep it real!

I'd have to go for the penguin too. Yes the rooster might have the weaponry but penguins have the steadfastness, guile, intelligence, perseverance and stamina to see the cock to its death. Plus, no one really knows a chicken's motives as they're always being questioned (Why did the chicken cross the road), unlike the penguin who's well known for being the heavyweight champion of the small, aquatic, non-flying Southern Hemispheric bird.