(02-13-2020, 11:25 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: I was thinking it would be interesting to see which predation feats by felines members here find most impressive(must have video or Photo evidence) for lions it’s also important that you can assure the lion made the kill by him/her self. 
I’ll start with the tiger: 

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Munna with a huge gaur bull kill. 

Hope this can be an interesting thread full of impressive feats by different cats.

(02-16-2020, 06:25 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(02-13-2020, 11:25 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: I was thinking it would be interesting to see which predation feats by felines members here find most impressive(must have video or Photo evidence) for lions it’s also important that you can assure the lion made the kill by him/her self. 
I’ll start with the tiger: 

*This image is copyright of its original author

Munna with a huge gaur bull kill. 

Hope this can be an interesting thread full of impressive feats by different cats.

You mention lions specifically, but same goes with all, don´t you think? If there is just a photo of some big cat eating a carcass, there should be also something to assure, that it was killed by that big cat. Like with this gaur, is there some description from people who observed, that tiger killed this gaur alone? We know, that time to time a family group of tigers can also hunt together in order to take down really dangerous prey. And sometimes some big animals could have died by natural causes. We have seen elephant and rhino carcasses for instance eaten by predators, which didn´t kill them.

So maybe in this thread should be only photos which have some story to tell what happened. Dead gaur bull doesn´t mean automatically, that it was killed by a tiger after all. If we demand more for some accounts than from some others, it´s not too objective.

(02-16-2020, 08:09 PM)Pantherinae Wrote:

(02-16-2020, 06:25 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(02-13-2020, 11:25 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: I was thinking it would be interesting to see which predation feats by felines members here find most impressive(must have video or Photo evidence) for lions it’s also important that you can assure the lion made the kill by him/her self. 
I’ll start with the tiger: 

*This image is copyright of its original author

Munna with a huge gaur bull kill. 

Hope this can be an interesting thread full of impressive feats by different cats.

You mention lions specifically, but same goes with all, don´t you think? If there is just a photo of some big cat eating a carcass, there should be also something to assure, that it was killed by that big cat. Like with this gaur, is there some description from people who observed, that tiger killed this gaur alone? We know, that time to time a family group of tigers can also hunt together in order to take down really dangerous prey. And sometimes some big animals could have died by natural causes. We have seen elephant and rhino carcasses for instance eaten by predators, which didn´t kill them.

So maybe in this thread should be only photos which have some story to tell what happened. Dead gaur bull doesn´t mean automatically, that it was killed by a tiger after all. If we demand more for some accounts than from some others, it´s not too objective.

Lions are social cats so it’s a little different to  tigers, jaguars and leopards that are solatary hunters, when there is a case with family groups of tigers hunting its usually a female with large cubs I doubt tigers actually knows the skill of team work to bring down larger prey and it probably only happens as I said when a tigress has large cubs or during mating season, I can’t see them gathering specifically to go out and hunt together. The tiger with the gaur is called "Munna" and he killed that gaur bull alone. 
Here is another case of him with a bull gaur kill.

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But yes I should have added a source to the kill, but those pictures are so well known in this comunity that I didn’t think of it. My bad :) 
But yes an account of the kill should be added as I did with the lioness on the cape buffalo bull and the leopard with the blue wildebeest. 
Or you can add a picture or video of the kill :)

(02-16-2020, 08:27 PM)Pckts Wrote: I have the same stance for Tigers and Gaurs as I do for Lions and Capes and that is that no way can either take on a Big alpha head to head alone.
Their only hope is an extended fight over hours and most likely hamstringing, even exhausting the bull would take multiple attackers since it's much easier to focus on one than many.