Lion Predation

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Three lions, looks like two lionesses and a young male take down a bull eland.  "In the middle of the road, we saw two lionesses and one young lion fiercely gripping the eland," they explained. An adult eland bull can weigh over 900 kilograms (1,984 lbs) and it took the big cats 15 minutes to ground the buck, and another 20 to dispatch their prey.
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Male lion takes down bull eland alone

A mammoth effort from one of our coalition male Lions, Shadow, who has managed to bring down a huge Eland bull. He has been on the kill for the last few days with hundreds of kilograms of meat at his paws. We estimate shadow to be around 220-230kg’s but that is tiny compared to the possible 700 – 800 Kg Eland bull  We cannot imagine he can eat anymore without his stomach bursting, but tonight he gave it five minutes.

It was a nice change to see him active instead of sleeping with a full tummy. He has done well to keep other scavengers off so far to have this feast all to himself – we wonder for how long…

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Two males with eland kill, not sure if both were invovled.

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Male lion looking at his freshly killed eland

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