Lion pictures and videos

[Shadow]

(03-16-2019, 09:56 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Shadow :

But don't let us forget that many accounts about lions fighting each other relates some fights able to last several hours (an entire night...). A bloody brawl (as we can see in your video at #1115) and then a lull moment and they begin to fight again... And so on. On youtube we only see some short episodes. Often too the strongest one is able to harass, to exhaust the weakest one. That is the fights for a territory supremacy in general. In your video, that was only a fight because of lioness (lionesses), perhaps two these two males were sharing and reigning over the same territory. That is a bloody skirmish, but that's all !

Very often lions look like us, being able to seriously fight each other because of a female... Being a sociable big cat, they fight for two distinct (visible) main reasons: territory and females. As concerns the   other felids, being solitary, the fights because of territory include the access of the females in question, i.e.  living on the territory which the males are fighting for.

Yes, many different kind of confrontations and in different circumstances the one getting upper hand doesn´t let injured one to flee. My point to put that one video was just to put one video to show what it is when neither one is willing to give up without a real fight first :) So many videos shared lately where situation is, that much less is enough to get the upper hand and that of course isn´t the case always, being "the one" is quite brutal "business" in the world of big cats. Reply