The ox, clearly intimidated, stumbled over its words, “Oh, great lion, it is beyond dispute that you hold the supremacy among jungle inhabitants!”
Buoyed by these responses, the lion swaggered over to an elephant and thundered, “Who stands as the mightiest among all the creatures of the jungle?”
Swift as a bolt of lightning, the elephant ensnared the lion with its trunk, delivering forceful blows against a tree. The lion was left feeling as if it had collided with a safari wagon repeatedly.
Subsequently, the elephant pressed its weight down upon the lion, rendering it as flattened as a corn tortilla, before ambling away.
Despite the excruciating pain, the lion managed a feeble moan. He raised his head slightly and called out after the departing elephant,
“Just because you don’t know the answer, you don’t have to get so upset about it!”
