Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

[Sanju]

(04-21-2019, 03:40 PM)Rishi Wrote: The same didn't happen between homo sapiens & neanderthals.

Homo sapiens are not just other animals to compare with ...
Humans & any other animal (other than domesticated) ends up in exclusion of the latter and you know why.

(04-21-2019, 03:40 PM)Rishi Wrote: Lions tolerating leopards, or cheetahs, or hyena.

Toleration for what ? It is because there are no territories. They fight and kill each other time to time if they get a chance that's what competition is. Still they living along them because reproduction don't stop.
Will they tolerate other individuals of same species ? NO coz they do have territories and they are territorial animals.
BTW didn't you come across these ?

Coexistence of the tiger and the common leopard

Food Habits of Large Carnivores (Leopard and Lion) in Gir National Park and Sanctuary (GNPS), Gujarat, India

Gir has One of highest leopard concentration as well as lion density and still they live in the same place even having limited prey and intense competition with other carnivores. It's not because they are living in mercy of lions or "tolerance", "truce" or "friendship".

Lions kill leopard cubs and adults sometimes and leopards do the same. Still, they are living with overlapping spatial and temporal dynamics because population is stable and balanced between their birth rate and mortality rate (due to competition with lions or other carnivores, habitat or ecosystem's carrying capacity as well as human factors). That is what predator and communities ecology is as both co-evolved for thousands of years where as others like smilodons or whatever didn't cope up.

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