Could the mammoth kill a saber-toothed tiger?

Answer 1

Yes. A large pack of saber-tooth tigers often hunt and kill a woolly mammoth out of defense and prey to eat if the woolly mammoth is alone. They work together to kill the woolly mammoth by stabbing their fangs and clawing the woolly mammoth down.

Answer 2

A mammoth can kill a saber tooth cat easily. But only a pack or the mammoth is in a tar pit will be killed by saber toothed cats. A 11 ton, 14 ft tall Columbian Mammoth would kill 2 or 3 saber tooth cats easily.

Answer 3

This really depends on a number of factors. A fully grown mammoth would probably have no problems killing a sabertooth, owing to their much greater size and strength... Calves and immature mammoths, however, are a different story, and sabertooths probably preyed on these at least on occasion (assuming they could get past the adults, that is). Certainly, the smaller scimitar-toothed cats (Homotherium) are known to have preyed on juvenile mammoths on a regular basis. In a one on one fight, though, even a large and powerful sabertooth such as a Smilodon would probably stand little chance against an adult mammoth, and it's unlikely that such mammoths would have been preyed upon, especially considering that current theories of sabertooth predation say that these cats would first have to wrestle and pin down their prey before delivering the killing bite with their saber teeth, which would've been all but impossible against a gigantic mammoth, but then again, one never knows...

Up until fairly recently, it was general consensus that adult African elephants were essentially invulnerable to predation, owing to them being so much larger than any predator in Africa... that is, until large prides of lions were filmed attacking and actually bringing down fully grown elephants in the wild. If sufficiently large (and bold) prides of lions can overcome an adult elephant, then perhaps a pride of sabertooths could succesfully bring down and kill an adult mammoth. This, of course, hinges on the sabertooths actually having been social cats that lived in prides as lions do, which is speculative at best... but it's a tantalizing possibility, to be sure.

Answer 4

It's virtually certain that they could, just as a fully grown elephant can easily kill a lion, should the need arise (perhaps in defense of calves). Some saber toothed cats were very large and powerful, but most mammoths were far larger and stronger than even the biggest sabertooths, and could impale them with their tusks, trample them or just crush them underfoot.

Answer 5

Definitely. A woolly mammoth has the strength and muscles to defeat a whole pack of saber-tooth tigers without painfulness.

Answer 6

Yes. A cave bear could even kill a pack of saber tooth tigers.

Answer 7

It depends on the type of dinosaurs. Most of the smaller ones it could probably kill, but not the largest ones.