behind the big cat's and bear's, who is the top predator?

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(10-25-2015, 11:20 PM)Dr Panthera Wrote: Sorry about the low quality  I had it photographed by my son from the book and sent to me,but clearly this juvenile elephant is still a large prey, according to Shrader et al. An adult elephant will have a shoulder height of over 220 cms, sub-adults from the eruption of tusks to adulthood ( ages 4 to 20) will have a shoulder height of 150 to 220 cms and weigh between 800 and 3200 kg 

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Great picture, thank for it.

To be sincere, this young elephant doesn't look of more than 700 - 900 kg, let out a figure of 2,000 kg. Ross probably made a gross estimation here.

Sorry for disturb you, but I will like to make just one final question, there is evidence if this lion was alone? I mean, other lions could be out of the picture, and the young elephant could be killed by the lion groups and latter claimed for the male, like they normally do. Could you post the description of this particular hunt in the book?

For advance, thanks for your data, it is really good to see someone that actually contribute with all here. Reply