American Mastodon vs. Giant (Long-horned) Bison (herd of 5)

[dinosauria101]

American Mastodon - Mammut americanum

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Order: Proboscidea
Family: Mammutidae
Height: 2.3 to 3.25 meters
Mass: Average of 6.8 to 9.2 tonnes for males; very large individual ~11 tonnes known (Larramendi, 2016)
Diet: Plants
Age and Location: 11,000 years ago, Pleistocene epoch, the Americas
Killing apparatus: Tusks
More heavily muscled relative to its size than mammoths or elephants. Known to have been hunted by Clovis people for food.

Giant (Long-horned) Bison (herd of 5) - Bison latifrons

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Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Length: 4.5 meters
Mass: 2 tonnes
Diet: Plants
Age and Location: 30,000 years ago, Pleistocene, North America
Killing apparatus: Horns
The largest species of bison to have ever lived. Had horns over 2 meters wide.

[6f5e4d]

There are more bison than the mastodon can handle, with better horns, the bison win this battle.

[dinosauria101]

I also favor the 5 bisons. They do outnumber and outweigh the mastodon, in addition to much bigger horns better for goring.

[DonaldCengXiongAzuma]

African elephants have walked through a river with angry hippo and come out unscathed.

[DonaldCengXiongAzuma]

Now a mastodon is way more powerful than an African bush elephant and these long horned bisons are weaker than a hippopotamus.

[dinosauria101]

Why are the bisons way weaker than a hippo? They're a full third heavier and more agile

[DonaldCengXiongAzuma]

A hippo can weigh up to three tonnes. A hippo not only has thick hide but blubber to protect its vital organs. The giant bisons can run faster on land but they weigh 2 tonnes at max.

[dinosauria101]

That leaves another question: how fast do you think the mastodon can kill each bison before succumbing? Those horns are no joke

[DonaldCengXiongAzuma]

While I agree that these horns are no joke, white rhinos have gored weaker animals (which took a while to die), therefore, I think the mastodon would crush them before hand. A triceratops would do even better given its added protection.

[DonaldCengXiongAzuma]

I read the op carefully. It seems that mastodon is pound to pound stronger than both an elephant and mammoth pound to pound.

[dinosauria101]

Jan 2, 2020 7:57:19 GMT 5 DonaldCengXiongAzuma said:

While I agree that these horns are no joke, white rhinos have gored weaker animals (which took a while to die), therefore, I think the mastodon would crush them before hand. A triceratops would do even better given its added protection.

This is in non-lethal confrontations; all the rhinos want to do is INTIMIDATE, not kill. This is to the death, so I do believe the bisons will cause more damage than that