Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

[Rishi]

(05-23-2018, 08:15 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: Yes Leopards are ferocious animals and I have seen them put on impressive displays of defense against lionesses. Lions have tendency of not killing leopards when they corner them.. even male lions sometimes let's the leopard live, it's strange (I think a tiger would kill a leopard 100 out of a 100 times).

Not much is known about leopards & tigers.

We have tons of footage of leopard taking a refugee on trees, but only two cases of what happens when they fail to do so in time... Once is where Sariska tigress kills what seems like a young male leopard. Another is this old one (At the very end, from 8:50):

The male seemed cautious.

Just because leopards prefer to run for their dear lives, people seem to underestimate the extent can they go to hold on to said dear lives when cornered! That's probably the reason... Reply