Lion Predation

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Some Amazing predation information

The largest prey were constituted by adult male giraffe, weighing around 1200 kg, approximately 10 times the mass of the predator. Species under 20 kg in mass, i.e. 15% of predator body mass, contributed little to the prey base for lions, due probably to their agility.

Studies elsewhere show buffalo to be numerically the predominant prey of lion in Chobe National Park in Botswana (Viljoen 1993), Kafue National Park in Zambia (Mitchell et al. 1965) and Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania (Schaller 1972). Hayward & Kerley (2005) found that lion selected prey species preferentially within a mass range of 190–550 kg, but made no adjustment for the under‐recording of smaller prey species. Over half of the giraffe and two‐thirds of the buffalo killed by lion were adult animals in the Mala Mala Reserve adjoining Kruger (Radloff & du Toit 2004). A substantial fraction of the adult buffalo falling prey to lions are killed by male lions hunting independently of female prides (Funston et al. 1998, 2001; Radloff & du Toit 2004). In northern Botswana, lions hunting in groups of around 10 killed young elephants weighing up to 2500 kg in body mass, more than 10 times the mass of a male lion (Joubert 2006).
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01314.x

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