What can beat an elephant?

Aside from humans, lions are the only predators powerful enough to kill an elephant. The males, being 50% heavier than the females, are especially suited to the task. It typically takes seven lionesses to kill an elephant, but just two males could do the same. Even a single male can overpower a young elephant.

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What can kill the elephant?

Predators. Carnivores (meat eaters) such as lions, hyenas, and crocodiles may prey upon young, sick, orphaned, or injured elephants. Humans are the greatest threat to all elephant populations.

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What could beat an elephant 1v1?

A lion has enough strength to defeat a baby elephant on his own. Lions attack their prey by dragging them down from behind, rather than a frontal assault. Lions' main prey are zebras, buffalo, wildebeests, and giraffes. They usually only go after elephants if there is no easier prey to find and the opportunity arises.

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Can a tiger kill an elephant?

By Press Trust of India: Tigers have been found to be killing elephants, mainly young ones, in the famed Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand and in a few cases eating them too, according to an official study.

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What is an elephant weakness?

An elephant's weakness is its desire to be in water. This is exploited to the full.

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7 Animals That Can Kill an Elephant

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What is elephant afraid of?

Elephants are afraid of bees. Let that sink in for a second. The largest animal on land is so terrified of a tiny insect that it will flap its ears, stir up dust and make noises when it hears the buzz of a beehive. Of course a bee's stinger can't penetrate the thick hide of an elephant.

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Can a human beat an elephant?

An unarmed human could not win a fight against an elephant.

Simply put, the elephant is too large and powerful for a human to harm without a weapon. If the elephant regards the person as a threat, it will charge, gore, and stomp on the person until they're dead.

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Can a hippo kill an elephant?

In an elephant vs hippo fight, the elephant is going to win. Assuming both creatures are fully grown adults, the elephant is just too big for the hippo to handle. Hippos are too smart to pick a fight with an elephant, so they have no idea what it takes to bring one down.

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Would a polar bear kill an elephant?

The bear might inflict a few gashes or bites against the elephant, but that is not enough to kill it. Polar bears do not even have the benefit of a large pack to bring down an elephant, either. Just about everything an elephant would do to attack a polar bear would be fatal, either by goring or stomping it to death.

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What animal Cannot be beat?

Why tardigrades are so damn tough. It's important to note: Tardigrades are basically indestructible only when they enter a special state called cryptobiosis. In harsh environments, the animals tuck in their legs and expel all moisture from their bodies.

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Can elephant beat gorilla?

An elephant would win in a fight against a gorilla. Gorillas are certainly powerful and smart animals, but they lack any definitive means of killing an elephant. Unless they happened upon an elephant lying down and managed to inflict severe bites to them, a gorilla simply would not stand a chance.

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What eats a tiger?

Because of their size and strength, adult tigers don't have many predators. Humans are predators of this animal. Elephants and bears can also pose a threat to them. Tiger cubs have a lot more predators than adults – including hyenas, crocodiles, and snakes.

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Can any animal kill a hippo?

Besides lions, the Spotted Hyena and the Nile crocodile are the other predators for hippopotamuses. Due to the size and aggression, adult hippos are rarely preyed on and the predators only target the young calves.

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Can elephants kill lions?

The elephant is the largest land mammal, a characteristic that ensures a pride will need all lions on deck to have a chance of bringing one down with claws and teeth. It's no surprise that these animals can kill a lion.

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Who can kill lion?

There have been instances in which lions have been killed by giraffe, buffalo, kudu, snakes and even porcupines.

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What is the strongest land animal?

Elephant

In brute strength, elephants are the strongest mammals and the strongest land animals. African elephants can weigh up to 6,350kg and they can carry up to 9,000kg, the weight of 130 adult humans.

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Would a grizzly bear kill an elephant?

An elephant would beat a bear in a fight. Even though we have granted this hypothetical bear the best features of all the various species, the fact remains that they cannot do enough damage to kill an adult elephant.

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What can kill a grizzly bear?

Here is a list of animals that eat bears:
  • Tigers.
  • Coyotes.
  • Bobcats.
  • Wolves.
  • Cougars.
  • Eagles.
  • Mountain lions.
  • Human.

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Can anything beat a rhino?

The two species most often reported to prey upon rhinos – usually young ones – are lions in Africa and tigers in Asia. However, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs and Nile crocodiles are also known to kill African rhino calves on occasion. By far, though, people are rhinos' #1 enemy.

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Can a lion kill a hippo?

Although their bulk and toothy armoury usually ensure that they do not become victims of nocturnal hunters, even hippos fall prey to lions on occasion.

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What animal kills the most humans?

In terms of the number of humans killed every year, mosquitos by far hold the record, being responsible for between 725,000 and 1,000,000 deaths annually.

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Can elephant crush you?

If an elephant does attack-charge you, it will use its tusks to gore you, throw you and crush you. It will often keep stomping until you're dead.

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Can elephants take revenge?

Joyce Poole, from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya, told New Scientist: "They are certainly intelligent enough and have good enough memories to take revenge.

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What gun can take down an elephant?

The minimum legal caliber in almost all of Africa for elephant, buffalo, rhino (and lion) is . 375 H&H Mag. Most professional hunters (PHs) and experienced clients prefer calibers that start with a “4” such as the . 404 Jeffery, .

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