# Lion / Elephant Scenario

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-elephant-scenario/597256>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 22, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-elephant-scenario/597256 "2011-09-22T21:43:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-elephant-scenario/597256/21 "2011-09-23T18:36:22Z")

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This [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-EZHZpAsOI)shows the sheer physics involved in the contest. It’s a group of lions and a group of elephants but the same advantages the elephant has here would only be magnified one on one. I like the comment on the video: “If elephants could run 7 MPH faster, there would be no lions”

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**Author:** ![AndyLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-elephant-scenario/597256/22 "2011-09-23T19:07:51Z")

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This reminds me of that YouTube video, you have a giraffe being attacked by a pack of lions by a river. And the giraffe is really kicking some lion butt at first, but eventually the pack wears him down, but I kept thinking to the giraffe. Hey dummy just walk into the river, it’s like four feet from you and it’d get rid of the lions. Well maybe the river had crocs in it.

But that doesn’t explain why hippos are afraid of lions, and lions are afraid of crocs , and the crocs are scared of the hippos. Somethings seems off there

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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-elephant-scenario/597256/23 "2011-09-23T21:04:02Z")

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> [@Malacandra](#):
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> footnote: though the site seems to be edited by a heavily pro-tiger whackjob, e.g. [this](http://jackjacksonj.webs.com/liesfromlionfanatics.htm).

That definitely gives me a Poe’s Law vibe. Although if it is parody, it’s still nutty.

Maybe there should be some sort of Poe’s law corollary for things that are nutty even if they are parody.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-elephant-scenario/597256/24 "2011-09-23T21:06:33Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> The Lionists conspire with the Zionists every day to create a tiger-free homeland for the Jews. Doesn’t everyone know this?

Lies! Liwes! It’s all lies, I tell you, lies! I can prove it right here with my copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Lion!

😃

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**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-elephant-scenario/597256/25 "2011-09-23T21:19:24Z")

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_Lie of the Tiger_

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