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The size of adult elephants makes them nearly invulnerable to predators. [33] ... [95] [96] There are rare reports of adult Asian elephants falling prey to tigers. [97]
Adult elephants are hardly bothered by predators, as they tower over all other terrestrial animals. When elephants move, they stump the ground and sometimes uproot trees to feed or clear a path.
In Botswana's Chobe National Park, lions attacked and fed on juvenile and subadult elephants during the drought when smaller prey species were scarce. Between 1993 and 1996, lions successfully attacked 74 elephants; 26 were older than nine, and one was a bull of over 15 years.
African elephants are members of the genus Loxodonta comprising two living elephant ... and for defending themselves against predators. The tusks weigh from 23 to 45 ...
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south. Three subspecies are recognised—E. m. maximus, E. m. indicus and E. m. sumatranus.
African savanna elephants, Loxodonta africana africana, are the largest land animals.They can grow to be 10-13 feet tall, 19-24 feet long, and weigh as much as 15,000 pounds. In the wild, they ...
The above video highlights an Indian elephant, a subspecies of the Asian elephant.Approximately 15% of the world’s wild Indian elephants live in Thailand.Around half of Thailand’s elephants ...
In size-selective predation, predators select prey of a certain size. [81] Large prey may prove troublesome for a predator, while small prey might prove hard to find and in any case provide less of a reward. This has led to a correlation between the size of predators and their prey. Size may also act as a refuge for large prey. For example ...