Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

[Pantherinae]

(05-25-2018, 05:59 AM)Shir Babr Wrote:

(05-24-2018, 11:08 PM)Pantherinae Wrote: That is a Lechwe/red waterbuck. And it's a male who can be twice the size (120 kg) of a male impala (60 kg). 

You don't think an animal who weighs 86 kg's can grow 14 kg's heavier in a different place?

A guy who lives where I have my cabin hunts foxes around usually 5-8 kg, some very large males 10 kg's, but one day he captured a fox on 13,7 kgs. That's almost twice the weight of the average foxes he hunted.

1.-120 kg antelopes aren't that big compared to adult lioness.
2.-You got a point there, but they should be rare though. 14 kg might not sound as much, but is almost 20% more.
3.- I HATE hunters. You should beat him up or mess with him, I heard nordic countries have a really laughable penal system anyway, especially if you claim you're a minority

An adult lioness is usually between 120-180 kg, so I guess they are that big comapared to an adult lioness.. remember an animal at around 120 kg with so thin legs are very big animals. even an Impala is surprisingly big up close. 

Yes but perhaps hyenas in the Okavango grows larger than others? Who knows? They do certainly look bigger than elsewhere and have an attitude I've never seen with hyenas, maybe they do have a higher average weight and thus have a higher maximum weight as well. I have no idea, I just speculate as we do with lions and tigers. 

I hate trophy hunting and killing for the heck of it, but in Norway we sadly kill almost all the big endangered species of predators (bear, wolf, Lynx and wolverines) we do only have a couple hundred of them all species combined. 
This means foxes thrive and does basically have no natural predators, so they will wipe out all other smaller competitors (marten, stoat, weasel, ferret etc) and even hare, roe deer and many vulnerable bird species will struggle because the foxes kills everything. So you need to hunt foxes to get stability in the ecosystem. So I guess if want to beat up someone you should go to the politicians and stop them from killing all the big carnivores, but then I think you'd get it bad, regardless of how "laughable" the penal system is...  
so the best thing is probably to protest peacefully.., Reply