Felines Hunting

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(09-08-2014, 01:57 AM)'Pantherinae' Wrote: A leopard dragning an adult zebra, wildebeest up a tree? No way, that's a myth! 
Leopards can hardly drag it's own Body weight up, I have seen large male leopards fail dragning up a half eaten warthog and impala up a tree, but still that's amazing! 
Also I have never seen a leopard even atempt attacking a zebra, I have once seen it kill a quite large wildebeest, but a big male leopard beeing chased away by a mother wildebeest when she defended her calf. I think a male leopard would beat a cougar even if The cougar had a weight advantage, but a leopard is adpted to be 2nd in The food change almost anywhere it lives (Lions, tigers, hyenas, bears etc), and has probably been adpted to kill smaller prey it can drag up a tree before it get's stolen, by hyenas or Lions! I have seen leopards kill kudu's, but from what I have seen on all The multiple videos, it's mostly warthog's small to medium sized gazzeles, and antilopes. 
A cougar killing a adult elk stag, who is bigger than a wildebeest is quite impressive! And when hunting Maybe The cougars bigger size plays a bigger factor. 
 

 

I never meant they haul adult Wildabeast and Zebra up trees, meant they kill them plus haul prey twice their body weight up trees as well.


They kill adult Wildabeast and Zebra, both equally as large as a elk. They haul prey almost twice their body weight up trees.
If a cougar were strong enough to haul prey up trees, they would. They compete against equally as formidable foes, Grizzlies, black bears, Wolf packs etc. Their carcasses are stolen from them same as a leopard.
When comparing them to each other, the facts are this
Leopards have much larger muscles in their fore and rear quarters,
longer claws and fangs, much larger skulls with more muscles mass and a higher bite force.
They weigh almost the same, cougars may weigh slightly more, but we are talking about 10-20 pounds, yet even with this weight advantage, they are far less muscular. Cougars are a larger framed cat with longer and thinner limbs. 

 This is a old debate, I have researched it many times. Leopards are the better weaponized cat, plain and simply.  Reply