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<blockquote data-quote="turnip" data-source="post: 5359275" data-attributes="member: 95779">To be fair, this is pretty unusual behavior. As far as I know, this only occurs with the Savuti lions of Botswana. A full 2/3 of elephants killed were juveniles aged 4-15, which makes them weaned (and thus not under the direct protection of their mother) but not yet fully grown, and all kills were made at night. Furthermore, an adult lion weighs on average 124 kg for a female and 188 kg for a male, and has substantially greater musculature than a human. The elephants were first brought to their knees by weighing them down, and tiring them, then dispatched when they were down (ha...similar to a 4e coup de grâce).Not exactly a good argument for a halfling vs. a giant or dinosaur or something. Hell, remember in The Land Before Time when they put out Sharptooth's eye? He just got more pissed.Joubert, D. 2006. Hunting behaviour of lions (Panthera leo) on elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Chobe National Park, Botswana. African Journal of Evolution 44:279-281.Power, J., S. Compion. 2009. Lion predation on elephants in the Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana. African Zoology 44:36-44.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="turnip, post: 5359275, member: 95779"] To be fair, this is pretty unusual behavior. As far as I know, this only occurs with the Savuti lions of Botswana. A full 2/3 of elephants killed were juveniles aged 4-15, which makes them weaned (and thus not under the direct protection of their mother) but not yet fully grown, and all kills were made at night. Furthermore, an adult lion weighs on average 124 kg for a female and 188 kg for a male, and has substantially greater musculature than a human. The elephants were first brought to their knees by weighing them down, and tiring them, then dispatched when they were down (ha...similar to a 4e [I]coup de grâce[/I]). Not exactly a good argument for a halfling vs. a giant or dinosaur or something. Hell, remember in [I]The Land Before Time[/I] when they put out Sharptooth's eye? He just got more pissed. Joubert, D. 2006. Hunting behaviour of lions [i](Panthera leo)[/i] on elephants [i](Loxodonta africana[/i]) in the Chobe National Park, Botswana. [i]African Journal of Evolution[/i] 44:279-281. Power, J., S. Compion. 2009. Lion predation on elephants in the Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana. [i]African Zoology[/i] 44:36-44. [/QUOTE]

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