It will charge a threat, it will use its body weight to crush any threat that gets too close.
It eats the enemy
if the elephant feels threated it will use it's tusks to defend itself and that could become very dangerous
They defend themselves by using their trunk to scare their predators.
they work as a team man mostly and they mostly get killed by humans for there tusk.
Size advantage is one adaptation. It's able to lose heat to survive in such environments. The trunk is the arm of an elephant allowing it to drink and eat.
An African elephant is big enough to defend itself from all kinds of predators except man who uses guns to hunt them.
Elephant
It uses it's tusks :)
A flower may have thorns such as a rose does enabling it to passively defend itself .
it kill itself
a sea star defend itself by hiding under rocks year around
Like the elephant it resembles, American Mastodons used their tusks to defend themselves from enemies. The word Mastodon literally means nipple tooth.