Lion Predation

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(04-30-2019, 11:38 AM)Sanju Wrote:

While two male giraffes fight over a female, the Baobab pride plans an attack. They are determined, so few play the role of "chasers" and drive him towards "stalkers" who ambush. As, that fails, they coordinately chase it by shifting positions and job of chasing one after other when predecessor individual tires - similar to AWD but not that efficient and long distance chase downs. Still that strategy didn't pay off. Poor giraffes has no vocalization which are lost during prolonged neck evolution.

Giraffe is really a magnificent animal, and so very capable to fight back. Whenever lions are able to take down one, it is really an achievement. When watching for instance in youtube all those videos about spectacular and successful hunts it is easy to forget, that success rates of big cats aren´t so impressive :) Tigers have about 5-10% and lions something like 20% if I remember right but I guess, that when lion hunts alone, quite same as what tigers have. Giraffe is without a doub´t an animal which takes overall success rate down and big time :) Reply