Lion Predation

[Pantherinae]

(07-21-2019, 02:33 PM)Shadow Wrote: This is about lioness killing alone bull cape buffalo, which I mentioned in thread "Lion directory" posting #245 and now @Djumafan had noticed update, which he posted in thread "Lions of Sabi Sands" posting #1993". 

This is from same blog, which djumafan used, but I decided to put it here too, because this isn´t something we hear or see too often. Lioness killing an adult bull cape buffalo alone. More information is still coming some day next week, but even with current information this is an impressive kill. Tsalala seems to be one special lioness.

Quote:
"The hot topic this week was of course the Tsalala female taking down a buffalo by herself. And no, it wasn’t a calf that she isolated form a herd, it was a big bull. The lioness is certainly not the biggest we’ve ever seen at Londolozi, maybe topping the scales at 130kg, if that, and the bull probably weighed well in excess of 600kg, so it was no mean feat. When one also considers that the Ntsevu pride of 6 adult females are starting to develop a reputation amongst the guides here for not being good buffalo hunters, so little success have they met with of late, it just makes the Tsalala lioness that much more impressive as an individual."

https://blog.londolozi.com/2019/07/19/th...tures-396/

Addition: When biggest cape buffalos are known to weight even up to almost 1000 kg, I think that 600 kg estimation about big bull can be considered realistic and conservative.

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Wow this was impressive. I have never heard about a lone lioness killing a buffalo bull. Reply