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  Leopard Predation Thread
Posted by: Safaricam - 09-06-2014, 07:38 PM - Forum: Leopard - Replies (803)




I was lucky enough while out in the Masai Mara last year to witness a leopard hunt in the region of Intrepids Camp.

We arrived as the female leopard (who I have been since told is called Bahati - meaning Fortune - and daughter of Olive, granddaughter of Bella from Big Cat Diary) had come down from a tree and then emerged from bushes by the track. As you can see from the video above, she rolled in the dust and then appeared to spot gazelle nearby. Instantly her posture changed, she slunk down onto her haunches and crept into the long grass. It was amazing to see how low she could stay, and the stealth with which she moved. As she approached the oblivious gazelle, we watched on from the jeep, and despite standing and looking down at the scene, eventually we lost sight of her too in the grass. Such incredible camouflage when seen in their natural environment!

we waited patiently, holding our breaths, and with my camera trained on the gazelle. Minutes passed but we were all intently waiting and watching. Suddenly, as you see in the video, she exploded out of the grass and around the closest gazelle, who didn't stand a chance, gripping it by the windpipe. Such speed and power was phenomenal to watch - you can see how I jumped on the video!

After it's prey was subdued, Bahati paused to give us a few more photo opportunities and then dragged the gazelle off back to through the bushes. It made me realise how small a leopard is compared to some of the larger cats, as it seemed quite unwieldy for it. We watched it toy with its food in the bushes for a few minutes, and then it disappeared into thick bush (presumably back up a tree again - though sadly I didn't get to witness that). 

The he while event lasted about 15 or 20 minutes I should think, and I barely breathed through all of it. It felt a real privilege to be there to witness such a moment..

Hopefully you can enjoy the video and get a taste of the moment for yourself here:

​https://youtu.be/cljFHUDq8tw


if anyone has further knowledge of the hunting behaviour here I'd love to learn more. Thanks. 

Safaricam

 

 

 
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  Some pictures from my trip's
Posted by: Pantherinae - 09-05-2014, 02:11 AM - Forum: Miscellaneous - Replies (14)
 

Here are some pictures I'll post more could not find them all, The pictures are very bad! 
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  Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts
Posted by: Pantherinae - 09-02-2014, 04:43 AM - Forum: Wild Cats - Replies (1367)
Felines all over The world has competition with other carnivores. All from The famous battles between Lions and Hyenas to The scottish wildcat's competition with The red fox. 
Aswell as their own kind, some leopards and Lions may eat a rival from their own spicies.

Post images, and videos only.
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  Wildlife Photographer Talk
Posted by: sanjay - 09-02-2014, 12:23 AM - Forum: Forum Rules & Announcement - Replies (16)
We are very pleased to announce that we have launched the wildlife photography section for wildlife photographers. http://photos.wildfact.com.

Now any professional wildlife photographer can share his/her photographs of wild animals to world through this.

If you are professional wildlife photographer, please share your images on http://photos.wildfact.com. If not then please tell about it to all wildlife photographers whom you know on real life or on social networks.

Before sharing your photos please read http://photos.wildfact.com/guidelines for posting your images on http://photos.wildfact.com.

Any further suggestion for improvements are most welcome here and this thread is dedicated to http://photos.wildfact.com for any issues.

Please help us to grow.
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  Need help in categorization of wild animals
Posted by: sanjay - 08-30-2014, 01:17 AM - Forum: Forum Rules & Announcement - Replies (6)
I need help from other sincere members for adding category on the website about wildlife photography. This website will be created for wildlife photographers to post their picture of wild animals. Website is under construction and I need help in adding categories. You can take example from http://indianaturewatch.net (INW) . I need something similar but better categorization for wild animals.

Our website will be more modern and good viewable on mobile and computer. Also unlike INW we are allowing whole world's photographer to upload their pictures.

So please help me in categorization of current living wild animals which are photographed by wildlife photographers.

@peter , @GuateGojira , @Apollo , @Roflcopters , @Pckts , @tigerluver , @Richardrli , @Kingtheropod , @Amnon242 , @" TheLioness" , @Vijay Rajan , @vizions , @Pantherinae and others
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  Need Editor for facebook official page to promote wildfact
Posted by: sanjay - 08-30-2014, 01:00 AM - Forum: Forum Rules & Announcement - No Replies
We are planning to spread about wildfact.com to more users, so that we can bring more good and quality members to share and discuss with them. Therefore we are going to target facebook for now later we can add other social media platform.
For this we need your help. If Any of you are interested to be Editor of official page of wildfact.com on facebook, then you are most welcome.

As an editor your job will be posting few of good content (sometime with picture and sometime without picture) 3-4 times a week. You can also use same content which you use to post on wildfact forum. You need to follow and comments on other related pages on wildlife with a link of either our fb page or wildfact.com site. In short you need to promote wildfact on facebook by doing some common activity there.

For this, first you need to like our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/wildfactcommunity) and then either confirm here or PM me , I will add you as Editor of our FB page.

Due to my involvement in creating other part of website i am not getting much time to do so, but FB is important platform, therefore I need your help. specially with those who are very active on facebook.

 
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  Need article or blog written by members for upcoming section of wildfact
Posted by: sanjay - 08-27-2014, 10:05 PM - Forum: Forum Rules & Announcement - Replies (40)
Dear Member,
It's my pleasure to announce that with in couple of week we are launching Blog and Article section on main domain of wildfact.com . It will have new and modern look (Our forum will remain intact)

Now all of you who want to publish their article and write something about any kind of animal, can write on wildfact blog. It will give you a platform to get recognize as an animal expert. Your Article, research or blog on animal can be read and followed by wildfact site visitor. So any of you who want to publish your thoughts on animal can write and article of minimum 200 words.

Requirement-

1. You will need to register again on new section.

2. You should use your original name and photo to be an blog author. (Not necessary, but having this, add value to the article and in your blog).

3. Totally Unique and Hand written article with minimum grammatical error. And in a manner. (just like your read article on other sites).

4. A colored picture related to the subject you are writing on. It will be used as featured image to show at home page and link to your article. should be big in size.

5. Your social link will be needed to make link on the author page (facebook, twitter, etc. Again it is not necessary but it add a value to the article of the author).

6. No prints of book etc. Write all yourself uniquely.



Gear yourself to be animals experts with your blog and article writing on wildfact and get recognize to world.

You can write on any subject that is related to wild animals, Like Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibian, Birds, aquatic animals, Insects, vertebrates, wildlife tour and travel, conservation, wildlife sanctuary, Experience, research, Extinct Animals, Organization and NGOs, Poaching, Wildlife Photography, film-making, career etc.

So start preparing your article and blog from now.

I am waiting for your response in below posts.

Regards
Sanjay

 

 
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  Lion and Crocodile fight
Posted by: Pckts - 08-21-2014, 09:30 PM - Forum: Lion - Replies (19)
A good sized male and two females square off with a crocodile over a elephant carcass, caught in video at Samburu National Reserve, Kenya (August 6, 2014)





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20...d=webmail2
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  Largest Living wild lions ?
Posted by: sanjay - 08-18-2014, 12:42 AM - Forum: Lion - Replies (181)
This thread is created to discuss on largest living wild lions. I am looking other members if they can put some more information on it, because there is no proper data or information on this topic on internet (at least according to my search).

Just Like Kaziranga Tigers are considered to be largest Tiger among all Tiger, I think According to my knowledge Botswana’s Duba lions from Africa are the largest living lion species. They have become strictly Cape Buffalo eaters according to this link

Picture of botswana lion

*This image is copyright of its original author




 
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  Wild animals information on public places also have bad consequences ?
Posted by: sanjay - 08-14-2014, 01:44 AM - Forum: Debate and Discussion about Wild Animals - Replies (10)
This topic has been created to discuss and debate on How the information put on public places like website, facebook, twitter and other famous places are misused by poachers and animal criminals to poach and kills these animals.

I have read some report the information like places, date, increasing number, Latest information in certain places, forest ranger details etc are well followed by Poachers and Animal mafia to know and plan their next victim (tigers, rhinos, lions etc).

So we need to discuss on these issue.

1. How the poachers are one step ahead then the animal conservation programs?

2. How poachers exactly use these animals information on internet and utilize it to kill the wild animals?

3. What should be caution taken while posting information about your photos, videos, research and other details of wild animals ?

4. Did Poachers also concern when the number of animals decrease, because it will effect their business ?

5. What could be solution for this problem and what step should be taken by wildlife photographer, experts, animal sanctuaries, animal conservation programs and wildlife organization ?

Your thoughts and suggestion ?
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