Leopard Predation Thread

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@Pckts

I understand that Leopards have great capabilities within their subspecies. I just wanted to find Leopards preying on horses to prove wikipedia wrong.

Also, I posted the Snow Leopard with the Zaniskari horse kill. Zaniskaris are around the same weight of light riding horses and approx. 10x bigger than the Snow Leopard.

Anyway, here is the closest thing I could find of African Leopards killing horses:

Quote:What are the perceived problem predators? Hyenas were thought to prey mostly on cattle (33% of reported kills presumed to be due to hyenas) and donkeys (40%), jackals were implicated most often for goat (69%) and sheep (68%)kills, leopards for horses (50%)

Source: "Cost of carnivore coexistence on communal and resettled land in Namibia" by Niki Rust and Laurie Marker

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247668488_Cost_of_carnivore_coexistence_on_communal_and_resettled_land_in_Namibia

I am only unsure if these were adult horses or foals killed by the Leopard. Reply