re: Animal death tournament

There's 3 categories: brute strength, weapons, and hybrids.

Take buffalo out as they are prey to several other animals in here.

Take Hyenas and Wolves out (not sure why hyenas get more than wolves since hyenas are bigger than wolves on average) as they are way too small to take out some of the other animals on the list in a fight to the death. A pack of hyenas could likely take out several of my seeded animals but if lions don't get a pride, hyenas don't get a pack.

Seeding-

Brute group:
1-Elephant: 12,000lbs, 11' tall. Thick hide, dexterous trunk, massive tusks.
2-Rhino: 5,000lbs. stomping ability with weight, large tusk to gore animals
3-Hippo: 4,000lbs. Stomp ability, large front teeth
4-Silverback: 400lbs. Teeth and opposable thumbs. Gives up too much weight and doesn't have a thick hide compared to the others. Primarily eats plants and doesn't have natural hunting/combat skills.

Weapons Group:
1- Tiger: 670lbs Claws & Teeth. Tigers get the edge on lions due to size and the fact they are naturally solitary hunters. Evidence from the Roman Colosseum showed Tigers usually won against lions.
2- Lion: 420lbs. Claws & Teeth. Gives up weight/size to the tiger and relies primarily on group hunting.
3- Jaguar: 210lbs. Claws & Teeth. Basically a very small tiger. Eliminated from Contention.

Hybrids:
1-Polar Bear: ~1,000lbs. Claws & teeth
2-Grizzly: 600lbs. Claws and teeth. Loses a lot of weight to other animals on this list so gets a deduction in rank. Has a chance because of claws though.

Brackets (winner in bold):
1-Elephant
vs
8-Silverback

2-Polar Bear
vs
7-Lion

3-Rhino
vs
6-Grizzly

4-Hippo
vs
5-Tiger

Rhinos and Hippos both rely more on defense than offense. Grizzly and Tiger barely win but these are basically toss ups. The others are no brainers.

Round 2 (reseeded after round 1):

1-Elephant
vs
6-Grizzly


2- Polar Bear
vs
5- Tiger


Elephants sheer size makes this a quick fight. Polar bear edges out the tiger on size alone. Siberian tigers prey on Black and Brown Bears but the Polar bear is significantly larger and causes too many problems.


Final:

1- Elephant
vs
2- Polar Bear

Elephant is 12x heavier, even standing on its hind legs a polar bear doesn't reach an elephants shoulders. Imagine a 200lb man fighting a 16lb house cat and you have the same size difference between an elephant and a polar bear. The bear would cause some serious wounds but ultimately the elephant wins.