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~~Styx38~~ · 07-19-2022, 03:28 AM

A Leopard managed to hoist a calf up a tree in Southern India.

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'In a bizarre incident, a leopard caught a calf and hung it from a tree at a rubber plantation near Athirappilly in Kerala on Saturday.

The leopard, who wandered into the plantation, caught the two-year-old calf, which belonged to Chandran Puthenpurayil, and climbed up the 12-feet tree to devour it.

However, locals came running after hearing the cry of the calf, and the leopard fled the spot leaving the calf hanging from the tree. Forest guards and a veterinary doctor reached the spot soon after, and the calf was treated for injures.

Leopard attacks happen often in the area, and two calves were killed in recent months.'

https://newsable.asianetnews.com/kerala/...-calf-tree

The source said this calf is alive, but there was a peer reviewed study that mentioned about this incident, and the calf was already killed.

The calf could have possibly been different from the live one that was photographed?

"In Athirapilly forest range, a killed calf was cached on the branch of a rubber tree, and similar mode of feeding was noticed."

source: Govind, Suresh K., and Eluvathingal Antony Jayson. "Human-Leopard Conflict on The Kerala-Tamil Nadu Border, Southern India." Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (JBNHS) 118 (2021).

~~Styx38~~ · 07-22-2022, 12:16 PM

Here are some cases of Leopards boldly attacking juvenile Ungulates in front of their mothers.

A Leopard caught a Nilgai Calf.

The Nilgai mother gives chase, with the Leopard briefly lifting the calf into a tree.

Eventually, the Leopard runs off with the small Antelope.

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source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTV6B5Qcg8

A Leopard catches a Sambar fawn.

The mother tries to beat the Leopard with its hooves, but the Leopard is not deterred from killing the fawn.

For some odd reason, the Leopard runs away as if something spooked the Pantherine.

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source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LWSgi05mWUU

~~Styx38~~ · 07-24-2022, 01:41 AM

A couple more Leopard tree caches in Indian Forests.

Here is Flora, a Jhalana Leopard, with a kill in a tree.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CJa9v2Vjmoa/

A Leopard managed to hoist a dog high up in a palm tree, which seems to be an odd place to store a kill.

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uxFcPyGDnPU

~~Luipaard~~ · 07-29-2022, 12:44 PM

Shujaa with a young wildebeest kill

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https://www.facebook.com/dickson.lenkoko.9/posts/1185999638849657

~~Styx38~~ · 07-30-2022, 12:44 PM

(07-15-2022, 03:14 AM)Luipaard Wrote: The debate wasn't about the accessibility of trees to stash a kill. It was about which subspecies lives a more arboreal lifestyle. This can't be figured out despite Africa having more acess to trees which are perfect to stash a kill. India has accessible trees as well and indeed less prominent but that doesn't mean Indian leopards live a less arboreal lifestyle. Again they spend a big part of their time in trees. They've been known to mate and fight in trees. In India they consider it rare to spot a leopard on the ground (crossing a road, drinking, ...) because they're usually found in trees. This is why territorial males patrolling are often called bold. In Jhalana Safari Park it's much more common to spot a leopard and that's not because the area lacks trees (you've posted a leopard from Jhalana in a tree as well) but because they're on top of the food chain.

Want to point out that Sri Lankan Leopards are the next arboreal subspecies after the Indian Leopard.

They can cache kills at a comparable rate to Indian Leopards, at least in Yala National Park.

"Tree caching of kills was uncommon (13.7%, N = 51)."

"Of all kills, 13.7% were secured in trees"

Kittle, Andrew M., Anjali C. Watson, and T. Saminda P. Fernando. "The ecology and behaviour of a protected area Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) population." Tropical Ecology 58.1 (2017): 71-86.

The only other way would be to see how often they eat primates, though that also depends on the abundance of monkeys in the area.

A Leopard catches a young Langur in a small tree in Yala.