There have been Alaskan Browns that have exceeded 2000 pounds as they gorge on Salmon, but that's not typical nor is 800 pound Lions.
I'd be inclined to favor an Alaskan Brown over most any predatory land animal including Lions and Tigers, but as far as I know the only two species known to kill an Elephant are humans and Lions. Of course, when Lions kill an Elephant they do so with numbers. There is in fact one or more prides in Africa that frequently kill Elephants.
I would love to know if the Romans kept detailed records of the animal death matches in the various coliseums throughout the Roman empire. It would be interesting to see what the outcome of actual matches of this kind would be. Somewhere there must be records...
Brian
(Roman account)
Liokos is not allowed to retire into his cage this time, further infuriating him. The final match is now on between him and
the heavily favored bear named Shardik. Diana bets against Shardik hoping that he will be killed. She despises Senator Palladius for making a gift of him to her. The bastard has hated her ever since she ignored his amorous advances during the Saturnalia festivities a couple of months ago. She hopes that the senator loses heavily on this bout. She has learned from her spies that he has bet heavily on Shardik. She has sent her agents around the city to find out what animal the senator is terrified of in order to give him that as gift in return.
Shardik enters the arena and the two animals cautiously eye each other at a distance. Liokos begins his attack by crawling very close to the ground, appearing to be as small as possible to his opponent. Liokos charges him without any further hesitation. Shardik gets a paw up in time to prevent Liokos from getting him by the neck. This has just cost him his paw and part of his foreleg now ripped to shreds. He falls backward with the lion falling on top of him and going to town with his lower claws on the hapless bear's belly. The bear tries desperately to kick him off with his three remaining limbs but by now Liokos has him by the throat and quickly dispatches him with a violent shake of his great maned head. The crowd explodes into applause.
The winner of the Venationes is Liokos the lion, owned by Arminius Reccanellus. The only ones happier than him are the bookies who took in millions of cesterces on the favorite Shardik...and of course Diana who has finally gotten rid of the hated Shardik
Humbly submitted from the stands
http://www.crystalwebvision.com/aedil/april5.htm
Its seems even like now days; people favored the so call bigger, more powerful bear, yet the superior fighting experince of the lion (Sense he kills animals that dwarfs any bear) is almost like a walk in the park for lions.
(Roman account)
Lioness kills atlas bear in the roman arena
http://books.google.com/books?id=nh...a=X&ei=xHkGUMzXDuil2AXP1_DDBQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ
lion kills polar bear and lion attacks another polar bear 1955 By Alfred Court.[Book]Pages 131-132,
Although it is some, the day of the arisen accident to Artis, the repetition extended itself to noon. For five hours of clock Anton and me had lived in the cage to the big cats. One will believe me maybe if I assert that we in went out exhausted, broken fatigue. The next day this lut the turn of the tigers, then I practiced alternation: a day the lions, a day the tigers. The constant concern of the tamer has 'to be first to assure itself that every beast perfectly possesses l'a.b.c. work that it will have to execute. That obtain, it can risk "the mixture". First the lions and the meet tigers, but that demanded a months and half of repetitions, then the leopards, the Danish dogs, at last the bears of the Himalayas. In the month of August, I began, as early as delivery, the training of the six polar bears.
To the first essay of "mixes" the one of them was égorgé by a lion. It immediately was replaced, thus besides that the aggressor that dut to yield his place to another lion less hargneux,,
Another lion attacks a polar bear
On the big pyramid, a white bear, neighbor of a lion mordit the latter, the lion jumps on the bear, both of them ran down of their perchoir, rolled to the ground and immediately a tiger jumped them over. Instantly Drilled e burst, with his habitual music of blows of mouth, of roarings, of hilarious claws the air. Helped of Schultz that I had taken with me in the cage, I arrived to bring back peace.
http://www.worthpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Life-With-Big-Cats.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y2wHaYYEsJw/Saowc4ij0-I/AAAAAAAACzI/uw1xcq-YVxQ/s400/court+act.bmp
http://alfred.court.free.fr/lacageauxfauves.htm
I looked up what
egorged means in french, heres what google images shows...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=égorgé&gbv=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Apearntly the polar bears throat was ripped out by the lion.
A kin to the Kodiak...
Thats gotta sting, the bear was ready too, hence it states the they both looked at each other, so it wasent a ambush, it shows how more agressive the lion is to the brown bear family not to mention what happen to the all mighty brown bear, it states
the lion made short work of him...since all accounts like these; show they are the ones to make the initial attack not the giant fur ball...
Huh! Some unstopable animal, what cant handle a smaller animal as usual?
lol
