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We should look at the stats first:

A full grown and healthy African elephant can have a mass of between 3.5 and 6.5 tonnes.

Elephants are mammals.

Elephants are intelligent.

Elephants are pack animals.

Elephants have a prehensile trunk.

Elephants have tusks.

Elephants are herbivores.

Alligators have a maximum mass of around 0.5 tonnes.

Alligators are reptiles.

Alligators show cunning but not intelligence anywhere near approaching that of elephants.

Alligators can live in family groups but are generally solitary.

Alligators have sharp teeth and strong musculature for closing their jaws.

Alligators have powerful tails.

Alligators are carnivores.

We have a highly aggressive and powerful carnivore designed for rapid surprise attack against the largest land animal. We have a killing machine with base cunning against what is probably the third most intelligent animal on the planet...

...we also have an extremely thick hide against relatively small teeth and 0.5 tonne against possibly 6.5 tonnes.

The alligator nips the leg of an elephant and one of 3 things happen:

  1. The elephant falls and crushed the alligator to death.
  2. The elephant falls and is attacked by the alligator; other elephants arrive and trample it to death (or the elephant stands up and does it).
  3. The elephant doesn't fall and just tramples the alligator to death.
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