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

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@Pckts 

My point was to show that leopards can kill just as big prey as cougars.

Edit:

I just reread this:

Quote:In  RNP  86.4%  of  scat  samples  (N  =  214) contained  hair  from  medium  to  large  mammal prey  (axis  deer,  water  buffalo,  wild  boar  and sambar)  consistent  with  previous  observations here  (Amerasinghe  et  al.  1990;  Amerasinghe  & Ekanayake  1992).  Leopards  tend  to  prefer  prey between  10–40  kg  with  the  strongest  preference for animals 23–25 kg (Hayward et al. 2006). Young axis deer fit this size (Table 1) but overall axis deer are  taken  in  proportion  to  their  availability  in RNP.  Conversely  sambar,  the  largest  deer available  here,  seem  to  be  selected  by  leopards. Seidensticker  (1976)  found  leopards  selecting  for smaller  age/sex  classes  of  sambar  in  Royal Chitwan  National  Park,  Nepal,  however  in  RNP 75% (N  =  4) of  sambar  carcasses  detected were  of adult  males  (215  kg,  Santiapillai  et  al.  1981). 

Ruhana National Park or RNP is in Sri Lanka (no Tigers). That is why Leopards could more frequently kill Sambar Stags

On the other hand, Leopards practically won't touch such large animals in Tiger habitat (Royal Chitwan national Park), as stated by Seidensticker.

So you actually proved my point.

Anyway, can we just form a truce over this. Reply