{"id":27509,"date":"2025-01-15T20:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=27509"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:18:25","slug":"would-5-lions-beat-a-t-rex-in-a-fight-if-not-how-many-lions-would-it-take-asking-for-some-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/01\/15\/would-5-lions-beat-a-t-rex-in-a-fight-if-not-how-many-lions-would-it-take-asking-for-some-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Would 5 lions beat a T-rex in a fight? If not, how many lions would it take? (asking for some friends)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW011525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW011525.jpg\" alt=\"Would 5 lions beat a T-rex in a fight? If not, how many lions would it take? (asking for some friends)\" class=\"wp-image-27508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW011525.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW011525-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW011525-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW011525-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Would 5 lions beat a T-rex in a fight? If not, how many lions would it take? (asking for some friends)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>T-Rex would have been about 40 feet long and weigh 11,000-15,000 lbs., somewhat larger than a big African Elephant. As lions tend to limit themselves to hunting young, sick, or elderly elephants, it&#8217;s unclear whether they&#8217;d even take on something as large as a T-Rex. The website of a S. African game reserves relates an anecdote of a pride of 26 lions taking down an adult elephant cow. It&#8217;s also unclear how a T. Rex&#8217;s teeth or claws might have compared to an elephant&#8217;s tusks as defensive weapons. Researchers also think T. Rex likely moved slowly, putting it at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Rex would have been about 40 feet long and weigh 11,000-15,000 lbs., somewhat larger than a big African Elephant. As lions tend to limit themselves to hunting young, sick, or elderly elephants, it&#8217;s unclear whether they&#8217;d even take on something as large as a T-Rex. The website of a S. African game reserves relates an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/01\/15\/would-5-lions-beat-a-t-rex-in-a-fight-if-not-how-many-lions-would-it-take-asking-for-some-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Would 5 lions beat a T-rex in a fight? If not, how many lions would it take? (asking for some friends)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27517,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions\/27517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}