Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

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(09-08-2020, 12:51 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: @Balam @Rage2277 @Shadow Quite naturally, because of this case, I wondered what could be the case in the savannahs of Africa, and this video does not necessarily show a warthog doing exactly the same thing to a lion, but it's probably the best thing that I could find which comes close to that case:

All predators have bad days. There was just posted in lion predation thread a case in which a wildebeest and a lion encountered and that lion really failed big time. It seemed to get out of the situation unharmed, but it was a close call. Was it inexperience or sloppiness or whatever, who knows. But that kind of mistakes or accidents can be sometimes the difference between life and death.

As it can be seen with this latest case here, many kind of speculations and opinions. What is the truth, who knows, but there we have a dead tiger and a dead wild boar. Many things could have lead to the situation seen in photos and one is, no matter what people say or think, that they fought and injured each others so badly that both died. I´ve seen way more odd things than it, which have looked like impossible to be true, but nevertheless they have been true. But from available photos alone it´s quite impossible to say anything certain really, imo. If it´s as told in media, then it´s truly a rare case.

Overall I don´t be too surprised to see cases in which big cats die sometimes in situations in which they normally don´t. They are flesh and blood just like all mammals and sometimes, so to say, shit happens even to the apex predators. It would be interesting to know more. But it seems to be so, that when these things happen reporters don´t follow up too much, if more accurate information later from veterinarians etc. 

Personally I think, that this latest case is either a fight as told or then case of poisoning. Especially the carcass of the tiger seemed to be in really bad shape, which looks a bit odd. Reply