What is the deadliest elephant?

A musth elephant, wild or domesticated, is extremely dangerous to both humans and other elephants.
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What is the most powerful elephant in the world?

African Bush Elephant

It's not just their size (up to 4.5 meters tall and 12 tons) that makes them the most powerful animal on the planet – their trunks contain 40,000 muscles and tendons, and can carry 300 kg.
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Is an elephant more dangerous than a tiger?

500 deaths per year

The World-Wide Nature Fund estimates that elephants kill 100 people a year in India alone. This means more people are killed in India by elephants than tigers.
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Why is a lone elephant dangerous?

An elephant can charge at up to 30 miles per hour, making them dangerous when wounded. Rogue elephants, solitary, old males who are prone to charge without provocation, are especially dangerous.
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What is the most dangerous mammal on earth?

Slow loris. Poisons and venoms are rare in the mammal world, but the slow loris is an exception. Its bite is so venomous that it can kill a human – and there is no cure.
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What animal is the #1 killer?

Mosquitos are by far the deadliest creature in the world when it comes to annual human deaths, causing around one million deaths per year, compared to 100,000 deaths from snakes and 250 from lions.
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What is the #1 most murderous mammal?

The meerkat was unmasked in a scientific study as the most homicidal of over 1,000 mammals. One-in-five will be violently dispatched by another meerkat, likely their own mother, sister or auntie, demonstrating how the female of the species really is more deadly than the male.
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What is the strongest animal in the world?

Elephant

In brute strength, elephants are the strongest mammals and the strongest land animals.
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What is the most dangerous animal?

The Nile crocodile is the most aggressive animal in the world mostly because it considers humans a “regular part of its diet” according to a-z-animals.com. The animal can weigh up to 1,650 pounds and can be found in 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Who would win in a fight elephant or hippo?

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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Which animal can defeat 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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Is elephant afraid of Lion?

The herd of elephants charged at the pride of hungry lions and they could be seen running away like scared cats. Lions are the number one natural enemy of elephants.
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Can a elephant take down a lion?

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 is stronger gorilla or elephant?

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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Is an elephant stronger than a grizzly bear?

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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Who is stronger crocodile or elephant?

An elephant would win a fight against an alligator. Alligators are too prone to stomp attacks from an elephant, and they cannot inflict fatal wounds on an elephant.
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What animal can hit the hardest?

Mantis shrimp pack the strongest punch of any creature in the animal kingdom. Their club-like appendages accelerate faster than a bullet out of a gun and just one strike can knock the arm off a crab or break through a snail shell. These small but mighty crustaceans have been known to take on octopus and win.
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What kills humans the most?

Cardiovascular diseases

Cardiovascular disease is the top cause of death globally.
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What is the most unstoppable animal?

It's a tardigrade—the most 'indestructible' animal on Earth. Also called water bears, tardigrades can survive up to 30 years without food, live in volcanoes, and endure the vacuum of space. Researchers say they could even survive an asteroid impact like the one that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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What is smartest animal?

1: Chimpanzee

Chimpanzees can learn sign language to communicate with humans. Topping our list of smartest animals is another great ape, the chimpanzee. The impressive intellectual abilities of this animal have long fascinated humans.
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What is bravest animal in the world?

According to the Independent, honey badgers have been described in the Guinness Book of Records as the "most fearless animal in the world" and can even fight off much larger predators like lions and hyenas.
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What animal kills and eats the most humans?

Crocodiles. Crocodile attacks on people are common in places where crocodiles are native. The saltwater and Nile crocodiles are responsible for more attacks and more deaths than any other wild predator that attacks humans for food.
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What animal is the fastest killer?

Dracula ants of the species Mystrium camillae can snap their jaws together so fast, you could fit 5,000 strikes into the time it takes us to blink an eye. This means the blood-suckers wield the fastest known movement in nature, according to a study published this week in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
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