Expert Zoologists Opinions on the Animal Tourney (more emails)

[mason55]

I apologize for clogging up the forum, but this is obviously very important and I don't want anyone to miss it.

With that said, holy [censored], these people did a lot of work. I should send them a fruit basket or something. She didn't answer my question about who would win it all though [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Guess we'll have to buy the animals still.

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Dear Xxxxx,

I'm glad I could help. Here is information about the other animals that you asked about.


Lion vs. Rhino: I think the rhino would have the advantage. The size
difference between the lion and rhino is considerable. The white rhino is the second largest land mammal next to the elephant. The five species of rhino range in weight from 750 pounds to 8,000 pounds and stand anywhere from four and a half to six feet tall and up to 15 ft. long. Because they are very nearsighted, rhinos often charge when they are startled. (This has given them an undeserved reputation for having a bad temper.) Don't be fooled by a rhino's lumbering size-a black rhino can thunder along at 40 miles per hour.


African Lion: Males stand at a shoulder height of about 4 feet and reach about 5 ½ to 8 feet in length. Their tails average a length of 3 to 3 ½ feet, and they can weigh as much as 330 to 550 pounds. Females are smaller than males.

Elephant vs. Grizzly Bear Because of size, the elephant would have the advantage. Remember, in the wild, the grizzly, a type of brown bear, and the elephant would never meet because they do not live in the same regions of the world. In addition, they do not compete for the same food sources.
Elephants are herbivores, eating grass, small branches, and bark from trees.
Grizzly bears eat are omnivores, which means that they will eat both plants and animals. Grasses, sedges, roots, berries, insects, fish, carrion and small and large mammals are all part of a bear's diet. Elephants are found in Africa and SE Asia; Brown bears are found in North America, eastern and western Europe, northern Asia and in Japan. Size alone gives the elephant the advantage. While a grizzly bear seems large to a human, the elephant is the largest land animal Some male elephants can grow to be thirteen feet tall. That's more than twice as tall as many human adults. Elephants can weigh as much as a school bus-between ten and fourteen thousand pounds! An elephant's skin can be up to one inch (2.54 centimeters) thick on some parts of its body. Tusks are an elephant's incisor teeth. They are used for defense, digging for water, and lifting things. Elephants tend to live in herds of 10 or more females and their young. Adult males, called bulls, don't live in a herd. Once male elephants become teenagers, they leave the herd.
Only after they become adults will they visit other herds, and that is only for short periods of time to breed. Bulls do not take part in caring for the young.

One of the largest of living carnivores, grizzly bears can grow as large as 9
ft. in length from head to rump. Females reach their maximum weight of 270
to 770 pounds in 8 years. Males reach their maximum weight of 330 to 1150 pounds in 12 years. Bears are generally solitary. Occasionally, bears may gather in large numbers at major food sources and form family foraging groups with more than one age class of young.

The laws of physics and animal biomechanics prevent a giant animal, like the elephant, from walking faster than about 12 mph. A Grizzly bears can run at
a top speed of 30 m.p.h. but only for a short distance.


Crocodile vs. Human: The crocodile is one of the largest living reptiles.
There are a very few reports of this species attacking humans, but because of the shy and reclusive nature of crocodiles, they generally do not pose a problem for humans. The American crocodile feeds largely on fish and other small marine life. Some large individuals may also feed on small mammals, birds and turtles. In Florida, some are known to eat bass, tarpon and mullet.
If the crocodile and human were to fight, I believe the crocodile has the advantage here, if the human has no weapons.

I hope this information is helpful.