Lion Predation

[Pantherinae]

Hello @Shadow I know you are doing some Research about big cat predation on rhino. I have one here where two male lions have killed an adult female white rhino. We don’t know the health or age of the rhino. I think it can as the guide says happen a miracle once in a blue moon, but the lions where two individuals. I do not belive a lone lion could have done it. Rhinos imo are far too formidable animals, but anyways here isn’t the link and story.... :) 

Two male lions with their rhino kill

We also spotted a male lion in the tall grass and as we approached, we realized that two brothers had managed to kill a fully grown female rhino. Our guide, Pule, was beside himself because he didn't think that a pair of relatively inexperienced lions (they know all the lions in the reserve by name) could take down a rhino, but as he said, "Miracles do happen".  

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