User blog comment:Cfp3157/Hyaenodon vs. Venator/@comment-5232784-20140602040838

Alrighty, lets do it

1. Primary weapon

The Hyeanodon's jaws (I assume this is Hyeanodon Gigas, the largest species) could fell megafauna with one bite, and where very large, a truly awesome weapon. However, unlike the spear, they are made of organic material, which can be pierced by metallic weapons, and unlike spears, if the teeth and jaws of the Hyeanodon are damaged, the animal is in serious pain (imagine your worst nightmare involving a dentist. The Venator does have a spear...). And unlike the jaws, the spear can be thrown, giving it superior range (though whether it is effective as a throwing weapon is debatable...)

EDGE: VENATOR!

2. secondary weapon

Easily the Venator. Though the hyeanodon's head is a powerful weapon, you can't cause a venator pain if you damage his net or whip, and the net could possibly be used to disable the Hyeanodon's jaws (a weighted net could keep them closed). The whip however wont do much, other than tick it off, and the Hyeanodon might fling the net off its head and then continue pursuing its prey

EDGE: Hyeaenodon

3. X factors

Hyeanodons have the physicality and hunting abilities factors, but they fall to the Venator by leaps and bounds when it comes to intelligence and tactics. Hyeanodon's brain was not very big for its body size, in comparison to modern carnivores. It was a creature of its age: most mammalian carnivores it met were likewise lacking in the brain department, and the prey mammals were likewise not as intelligent as those today. Only later did bigger brain beasties come about, like the Amphicyonids (Bear dogs), and some lay the blame for Hyeanodon extinction at their door: Hyeanodons could not hunt smarter prey as successfully as the fading dumber ones, and the smarter predators outperformed it in the wild.

Venators, on the other hand, being humans, are the most advanced mammal to date, in terms of intelligence, and Venators were trained to confront modern day carnivores, which as noted above are more intelligent than Hyeanodons. The intelligence and tactics factor have a much wider gap than what is listed above in the X factors section on this blog

EDGE: VENATOR

Due to the far superior intelligence and tactics of the Venator, combined with the superior primary weapon, I conclude that the Venator will defeat the Hyeanodon

VENATOR VANQUISHES HYAENODON!!!!!