Beastars had problems, but one thing it did well was the depiction of the wide gulf in capability and resilience between predators and some prey animals.
Like, you don't think about it because you ARE human, but you're extremely close to being a perfect organism. Yes, your physical strength will never be more than average even if you train your entire life, but what you DO have is freakish endurance and the resilience to survive wounds and illnesses that would kill most other creatures.
But if you scaled animals up to human size with their physical traits proportionally intact?
Yeah, a panther would irreparably damage an herbivore just by pulling their arm with too much urgency.
It takes a certain amount of talent to get out of your own head and put that kind of common-sense world building together.