Can a Lone Male Lion have a successful predation on a Adult Bull Buffalo?

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(02-16-2020, 01:17 AM)TigerJaguar Wrote: Another driver told ours that a lion had just killed a buffalo . We raced over , there were no other minivans . The young male lion was still panting . Only a male lion can bring down an adult buffalo alone 
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Male lions make significant contributions [b]by slaughtering big but relatively slow-moving animals, such as buffalo (Syncerus caffer), weighing up to four times their own [/b]
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Kruger male lions obtain most of their food by killing it themselves, and male and female lions in Kruger tend to kill different types of prey. [b]Males kill mainly buffalo[/b]
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You give here examples for it, that lions hunt cape buffalos in general. This thread is then again about it, that if and how often lone male lions kill buffalo bulls. That really isn´t something anyone could expect to see often. Even though I don´t see it impossible, it´s far from easy and there isn´t too much room for mistakes for a lion. We all know, that lions hunt cape buffalos in general but that isn´t the thing in this thread. Reply