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Note that an elephant can even take down 7 attacking lions in a large pride by charging and crushing them to death. One lion cannot kill an elephant due to the elephant's thick skin, muscles, and size. At least 10 lions are good enough to kill an elephant.

No. An elephant has thick hide and would trample the lion to death.

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