Lion Predation

[Styx38]

(03-30-2019, 12:46 AM)Spalea Wrote:

(03-29-2019, 10:41 PM)Styx38 Wrote:

(03-29-2019, 09:03 AM)Spalea Wrote:

(03-29-2019, 08:02 AM)Styx38 Wrote:

(03-29-2019, 12:34 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Styx38 

About #611: hell of a performance ! This lioness kills lonely a subadult giraffe, weighing, from its look, between 800 and 1000 kilos, that is to say 6 times its own weight...

The giraffe seemed to be a full grown adult.

No, a full adult giraffe has a more developed stature: longer and broader neck, stronger morphology.

Look at these ones and compare:

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-big-her...fe#pid2638

Actually, the giraffe seems to be an adult female:

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https://focusedcollection.com/171713550/stock-photo-male-female-giraffes-natural-reserve.html

OK, let us consider the giraffes on the first photo of the #615:

The biggest one have its horns (also called ossicones...) far broader and its snout is clearly less slim. The biggest giraffe is an adult definitely, and the smallest giraffe a juvenile female, clearly slimer. And look at the biggest giraffe's coat: far darker...

And now look at the giraffe that was killed by the lioness (#611): this giraffe has the same characteristics and the same juvenile morphology than the smallest one on your first photo at #615:
light coat, slim snout and small horns.

Thus, the lionness killed a juvenile, or subadult giraffe.

Nope, it's an adult female giraffe. Juveniles are too small, and would have been easily taken down by a Lion.

Edit:

This Giraffe Cow has the same proportion as the Giraffe killed by the lion:

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