Lion Predation

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(04-27-2020, 01:43 AM)OncaAtrox Wrote: I'm not sure how much these juvenile elephants weighted, but clearly over a ton, and the single lions were able to bring them down by themselves on each video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp9EC4tS-Q0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0TfkBlzk7A

Watching the videos I see that those juveniles do not seems to weight over 1000 kg, they definitelly weigh less, between 800 - 900 kg at the most. Also, it will be interesting to see if the elephants will be actually killed by the male lions without the presence of the other pride member, expecially in the second video. I know that the calfs were bring down in both cases, but it is not quite sure if they could kill it, again the second video created me the dobth.

In the second video there is a comment: "Hi Cynthia, thanks for sharing your experience. We spoke to Calvet and the actual kill only took a bit longer than the length of the video. He also said this time of the year it is also the time when the genetically weak and the sick are eliminated from the herd. In Hwange even elephants go through a natural culling process from lions, shortage of food, hyenas and disease."

Interesting events, thank you for sharing them. Reply