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

[Dr Panthera]

(10-22-2015, 10:20 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(10-22-2015, 09:46 AM)Dr Panthera Wrote: The predation prowess of both lions and tigers is best exemplified by their predation on large bovids and megafauna while these events remain rare, and target younger animals with solitary lions or tigers we still all have our hearts beat twice as fast when we see or read about a Sumatran tigress taking down a Banteng cow , or Indochinese Tigers in Thailand killing adult gaur, banteng, and water buffalo ( Smichaoren ) or lion prides who practically eat nothing but giraffe or Buffalo in several African areas, or the pride that Derek Joubert witnessed killing a six ton bull elephant in Botswana .
We know that tigers and lions are intelligent calculating predators that ruled their domains through brains before brawn and they will not take stupid risks with dangerous prey but sometimes it is a mixture of luck, opportunity, brute, force, intelligence, perseverance, team work, experience, and courage and we witness the impossible!
I am in awe of these creatures that I named two of my sons Leo and Tiger

Great to see you here too @Dr Panthera. Just a side note, the only full grow 6 ton bull elephant killed by lions in Botswana was very weak and unable to stand up, so the lions did not "hunt" him, they just ate him practically alive. So I don't think this is a example of great skills, but just an opportunistic behavior, like sharks eating a whale carcass in the sea. The largest elephant killed by lions in that area, as far I remember, was a large female of probably 3-4 tons, still a great feat.

I am fully agree that great cats are intelligent creatures, they are not searching the "Best fight", they calculate the risks and will choose the best available prey and some times, they challenge the largest bovids because is economically good (more food for less energy).

Yes Gojira he was injured by another bull , they still killed him versus scavenging his dead carcass but I would have bet on him repelling the attack if he was healthy, he remains none the less the biggest killed prey of big cats and the same pride killed several healthy adult female elephants and more sub adults in the mid nineties, but I still think that if you gave these lions herds of wildebeest,zebra, and buffalo they would have ignored the elephants
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