How many people can win the tog of war with an elephant?
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tog? its tug!! maybe 10 body builders
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This question makes as much sense as any of the other animal kumite 'can x animal beat y animal' questions that get asked every day, and I commend you on your creative choices.\n\nI would say it depends on the exact type of monkey.  \n\nA spider monkey would be able to use its remarkable agility and prehensile tail to swing up over and behind the gorilla, grasping the knife in its tail and stealthily slitting the gorilla's throat while the gorilla was still busy sharpening his popsicle stick on the sidewalk.\n\nHowever a douroucouli monkey would attempt to hypnotize the silver back.  Masters of mesmerism, the douroucouli would stare down the mighty hominoid, not realizing that an amputee veteran gorilla who has managed to maintain his iron grip on the troop is not the sort who's will is gonna go all floppy at the first sign of liquid puppy-dog eyes.  The douroucouli will approach with the knife hidden behind its back, confident in its abilities, only to be suddenly impaled through the top of its fuzzy little skull by the world-weary cynical ape.\n\nA Hanuman langur would gibber to himself in glee, both in the relative fortune the mysterious bald man paid him, but also at the fascinating shinyness of the razor-sharp blade he provided.  The langur would twitch and pace, fantasizing about how he intends to murder the gorilla, sneaking through the back alleys and bazaars stalking his prey, but at the first actual sight of the massive ape, he will turn tail and run, leaving the glittering blade behind to be picked up by a mysterious leathery hand.\n\nNow a pygmy marmoset, filled with beserker rage, will charge headlong at the gorilla.  Startled by the ferocity of the attack, the silver back won't even have time to react before the furry fury is upon him.  Unfortunately, the marmoset's anger far outweighs its muscle, and while the marmoset saws madly, attempting to inflict some damage, the gorilla will bemusedly squish him with a single finger thwack.\n\nSuddenly, the gorilla whirls as he detects a disturbance in the air behind him.  A glittering steel shank twirls past his face, nicking his ear as it tumbles past to bury itself in a nearby tree.  The gorilla scans the dense jungle undergrowth, tense, vibrating nearly as much as the knife blade thrumming away in the tree behind him.  His popsicle stick held low, ready to defend.  Then a dark shape bursts from the foliage, coming in fast and low.  The gorilla hops back, turning to the side to present a smaller target and ready to impale the oncoming form on the popsicle stick, but the shape darts to the left at the last second and sails past the gorilla.  Using his free hand and his good leg, the gorilla quickly pivots to follow it.  Pulling the knife from the tree is a huge male Mandrill, face blazing with colour.  The Mandrill flips the knife nonchalantly from paw to paw, and grins, revealing massive 4 inch canine teeth. \n\nThe gorilla knows that this will be the fight of his life...
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Wow, talk about going to the extreme! \nThere are several questions I think you need to ask yourself before persuing this matter futher.\n1st, Taking into consideration the fact that even "tamed", elephants are wild animals....why would you expose your infant & other infants to a potentially dangerous situation for fun....especially since your baby is not goint to remember his/her 1st birthday. \n2nd.. "taming" elephants is a BRUTAL procedure.  They are beaten nonstop for days on end in order to "break their spirits" so that they will obey & perform....Is this something that you want to contribute to?
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http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/donkey-elephant.html
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Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. Elephantidae has three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant), and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). Other species have become extinct since the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago.\n\nElephants are mammals, and the largest land animals alive today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg (265 lb). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. It was male and weighed about 12,000 kg (26,400 lb).[1] The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric variant that lived on the island of Crete until 5000 BC, possibly 3000 BC.\n\nElephants are increasingly threatened by human intrusion, with the African elephant population plummeting from 1.3 million in 1970 to roughly 600,000 in 1989, to 272,000 in 2000 and then to between 400,000 and 660,000 in 2003.[2] The elephant is now a protected species worldwide, placing restrictions on capture, domestic use, and trade in products such as ivory.\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...
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... Does anyone ever win a war?
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some 1 else will get a chance to win against the cheating sods
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No one ever wins a fight....  Someone just loses less than someone else.  Avoid it if you can.
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Elephant exerts 62.5 PSI (2000lb/32in^2)\nBus exerts 58.3 PSI (4200lb/72in^2)\n\nThe elephant!
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I disagree with everyone here.\n\nI think the lion would win. Which was also shown on a discovery channel show, I forget the name of the show...but they did mock fights with different animals. I don't know if itss till on the air.\n\nAnyway, a lion in the wild faces fights with other male lions over territory and family. But in the wild, a tiger rarely sees another tiger...they simply do not have the same skills a male african lion would have. A lion would win.
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We talked to a bunch of elephant experts and none of them has ever seen an elephant jump. Most think it is physiologically impossible for a mature elephant to jump, although baby elephants have been known to do so, if provoked. Not only do mature elephants weigh too much to support landing on all fours, but their legs are designed for strength rather than leaping ability. Mark Grunwald, who has worked with elephants for more than a decade at the Philadelphia Zoo, notes that elephant’s bone structure makes it difficult for them to bend their legs sufficiently to derive enough force to propel the big lugs up. \n\nYet there are a few sightings of elephants jumping in the wild. Veterinarian Judy Provo found two books in her college library that illustrate the discrepancy. S. K. Ettingham’s Elephant lays out the conventional thinking: “… because of its great weight, an elephant cannot jump or even run in the accepted sense since it must keep one foot on the ground at all times.” But an account in J. J. William’s Elephant Bill describes a cow elephant jumping a deep ravine “like a chaser over a brook.” \n\nAnimals that are fast runners or possess great leaping ability have usually evolved these skills as a way of evading attackers. Elephants don’t have any natural predators, according to the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s manager of animals, Alan Rosscroft: “Only men kill elephants. The only other thing that could kill an elephant is a fourteen-ton tiger.” \n\nMost of the experts agree with zoologist Richard Landesman of the University of Vermont that there is little reason for an elephant to jump in its natural habitat. Indeed, Mike Zulak, an elephant curator at the San Diego Zoo, observes that pachyderms are rather awkward walkers, and can lose their balance easily, so they tend to be conservative in their movements. \n\nBut that doesn’t mean that elephants are pushovers. Why bother jumping when you can walk through or around just about everything in your natural habitat? In India, trenching has been the traditional way of trying to control movements of elephants. Veterinarian Myron Hinrichs, of Petaluma, California, notes that the traditional trench has to be at least two meters deep, two meters across at the top, and one and one-half meters across at the bottom to serve as a barrier for elephants: \n\nThat tells us that they can’t or won’t try to jump a distance of 6.5 feet. But these trenches have a high failure rate, for elephants can fill them in, especially in the rainy season, and then walk across the trough they have made. And larger bull elephants can go down through and up even a trench that size. \n\nWhy leap when you can trudge?
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1 - get wet\n2 - the water will splash out of the pool and the elephant will get hurt\n3 - they hit the ground at the same time\n4 - mak : i was too busy with the elephants!\n5 - what's long brown and sticky?\n   a stick
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More than 750\n\nMurali will win the competition (because he is capable)
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Elephants dont generally chew anything - they just swallow their food hence it doesnot matter if it is peanuts or bananas :)
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elephants are amazing\nand to think that they can find their way to their ancestral graves without ever having been there just tops it off
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I have worked around African elephants and I know for a fact that anything that will startle a horse will startle an elephant.  This includes small creatures, such as mice, scurrying around their legs.  Captive elephants have been know to refuse to go out on exhibit because of a duck or squirrel that is already occupying it.  Elephants may not be afraid af a specific animal, but they possess many of the prey insticts found in horses, deer, and antelope.  This give them a tendency to be flighty.  The reason for this lies in their history.  African elephants ancestors evolved during a time when many large predators roamed Africa.  Some of these predators were likely to take an elephant now and then, making prey instincts a good thing for elephants to have.  Elephants (esp. African elephants) are fairly skittish animals.
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The badger was probably hungrier than the leopard was. If the leopard had been defending her cubs from a badger the leopard could fend off two or three of them to save her younglings.