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08-29-2018, 08:26 PM( This post was last modified: 08-29-2018, 09:03 PM by Rishi )
Many other cases of inter-specific competition involving lions have also been recorded. Along the Lower Sabi Road a lioness was seen chasing a hyaena for almost 100 yards before catching it and proceeding to devour it. The hyaena was pursued for no apparent reason — there being no kill, nor was it worrying the lion. Although hyaenas are often killed by lions when mobbing a feeding pride they are rarely eaten in such situations. Several years ago a cheetah was cornered by two lionesses along the Nahpe Road and severely mauled before it managed to escape.
During the period under discussion lions were reported to have killed 39 hyaenas, 6 leopards, 2 cheetahs, 12 iackals, 2 civet cats, 2 honey badgers, 1 caracal and two crocodiles. Many of these victims were partially eaten.
Since the proclamation in 1898 of the original Sabi Reserve however, only about a dozen cases of man-eating have been recorded in the area that comprises the present Kruger Park.
I would like to find information from credible sources about leopard predation on predators or leopard other predators interaction. Leopard often kills other predators. I liked the information about tiger bear interaction in Russia. It's bad that in Africa there are no good Russian wildlife researchers or another.
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