Who can defeat elephant?

Lions are the number one natural enemy of elephants. Lions are elephants' number one natural enemy and another member of the Big Five. While they move and hunt in packs, it is the lionesses that do most of the hunting for everyone, while the male lions protect the pride.
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What animal can defeat 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.
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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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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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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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7 Animals That Can Kill an Elephant



Who will win elephant or lion?

An elephant would win in an elephant vs lion fight. A single lion does not pose much of a threat to a fully grown elephant. The elephant is simply too large for the lion to handle. The only way it could win a fight is if it managed to bite and claw the elephant all over and make it bleed to death.
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Can an elephant crush a 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 is the strongest?

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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Can an elephant kill 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. A fully grown bull elephant would most likely smell or hear a bear coming long before it showed up.
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Can a rhino kill an elephant?

An elephant weighs about six tons and is 12 feet tall, while the rhino weighs two tons and is six feet tall. On the other hand, it is also twice as fast as an elephant and is able to strike with its horn, which is sharp enough to penetrate an elephant's thick, tough skin and deliver a blow serious enough to kill it.
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Are lions afraid of elephants?

Lion will usually avoid adult elephant, and attack youngsters only if they have become separated from the herd. However, some prides have learned how to take down full-grown adults under dire circumstances when other food sources are scarce.
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Would a polar bear kill an elephant?

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. Either way, the elephant wins.
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Who will win elephant or rhino?

A rhino can run at up to 50 km/h. With this considerable speed and agility the rhino would be able to strike first with it's incredibly sharp horn of solid keratins. The elephant would struggle to recover from a direct hit, particularly if the rhino managed to penetrate it's under belly. So, we would be bet on rhino!
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Who is an 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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Is elephant afraid of tiger?

“We noticed that the elephants were more scared of tigers than of leopards,” says Vivek Thuppil, who carried out the work with Richard Coss, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, as part of his PhD in animal behavior.
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Can an elephant beat a 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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Who will win tiger or elephant?

The tiger is undoubtedly a fierce beast, and it might stand the best chance out of all other land-dwelling animals of successfully hunting an adult elephant. Yet, the elephant's size and power are simply indomitable. In most cases, in a tiger vs elephant fight, the jumbo would win.
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Can any predator kill an 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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Do elephants have any enemies?

Given their tremendous size and strength, and because they gather in groups, elephants have few predators to worry about. Lions, hyenas, and crocodiles may attempt to prey on young or sick elephants.
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What is the hardest animal to defeat?

If a cataclysm wipes out most of life on the planet — including humans — it's likely that tardigrades will survive. These oddly cute microscopic animals are among the toughest creatures on Earth. Some can withstand the shock of boiling water and temperatures that near absolute zero.
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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 animal is the strongest fighter?

Strongest Fighter: Grizzly Bear – Can Lift More than Twice its Own Weight. A grizzly bear can weigh up to 500 pounds and lift twice its weight.
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Would a rhino beat a hippo?

The biggest determining factor in a fight between a rhino and hippo would be whether the fight was in the water or on land. A fight on the land could end with a rhino charging at 30mph with its horn and strong neck muscles thrusting into the side of hippo, knocking him over, and using his horn to finish the hippo off.
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What animal can hurt 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 an elephant crush a crocodile?

While this event was unusual, it is not the first time an elephant has been documented killing a crocodile in the wild.
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