Which are stronger pound for pound Herbivores or Carnivores?

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@Shadow:

About #159 and #160: Thank you for the links you gave ! Very interesting (I only regret to be not as good in english comprehension...).

Yes, agree with you when you speak about a tiger killing an adult elephant. I believe we often confuse strength with ability to kill. I said at a previous thread that a plow horse, muscularly speaking, is probably stronger than any lion and tiger (no one big cat could accomplish the same physical feats during whole a day), but if this horse was cornered against a wild big cat it would be killed for sure.

Physically speaking the strength is the amount of energy expended during an intensiv effort. This intensiv effort is very short as concerns the big cats, more longer for the bears,  canids, the antelopes, the bovids. Probably an antelope escaping from its natural predator expends as much energy as its pursuer. But the farmer is a predator, thus more powerful and  the latter the prey thus...

The second link you gave will never make me compare very very small animals (insects) with big animals (mammals) ! Reply