Leopard Predation Thread

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Two Onagers or Asiatic Wild Asses that were killed by a Leopard.

One is an adult female, and the other might be a subadult, although it is mistranslated on google as "Zebra Butter"

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*This image is copyright of its original author

*This image is copyright of its original author

"Leopard hunts a female zebra and a zebra butter in Turan National Park;

Iran Environmental and Wildlife Watch News Agency (iew): A few days ago, environmentalists from Turan National Park patrol discovered a carcass of a female zebra near a watercourse.

The following day, bananas were again found around the same site with a carcass of a zebra butter, possibly the same butter as the matter that had been hunted the day before, Turan's biosphere reserve chief said.



Ahmad Radman said:The effects of leopard teeth on the neck, the type of carcasses, footprints and other evidence indicated that both animals were hunted by the leopard.

The following night, the bananas observed the leopard on the zebra carcass and feeding while patrolling in the same area.
but were unable to photograph because of the darkness of the night.

The leopard ate more than the zebra butter and ate a small amount of zebra carcass ."


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