Can you bite off a finger?

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asked Jul 18, 2019 in Body/Skin by RjCorazza (200 points)
Can you bite off a finger?

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answered Jul 18, 2019 by Jabakklah (330 points)
Biting off your own finger or someone else's finger would be near impossible.

It would take a big bite force stronger than a human could bite down at to bite someone's finger or to bite your own finger off.

You'd likely stop trying to bite down on your own finger anyway when you feel the pain from it.

I tried biting down on my finger once and it hurt enough that I stopped before I could even try to go further even though I would never really actually want to bite my own finger off.

Some other animal that has a strong bite force though could bite your finger off such as a shark or tiger, bear etc.

Basically it would take a huge and strong bite force to bite a human finger off because you have to bite through the bone in the finger as well.

Although you could probably bite down enough on your own finger to cause the skin to tear open but biting the finger off would be unlikely to happen.

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