Tiger Predation

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(04-18-2020, 03:55 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-18-2020, 01:06 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: Guate, this is fantastic work once again! You desereve more than just a "like" as this is absolutly fantastic. 

I must request to have this done with prey of lions, jaguars and leopards as well. Again brilliant!

Thank you for your words my friend, I really appreciate it.

About the prey of lions, I allready have the data of the zebras, wildebeest and African buffalo, but I lack that of the other prey. I will like to found which are the main preys of the lion in Africa (not India), is they are less than 9 (for space issues) will be perfect!

For jaguars it will be a little more dificuld, as data from animals in America is scanty, but I can tell you that the only impresive herbivores (in size) in the habitat of the jaguar are the tapir, the pecari and some deer species (just two surpass the 100 kg), all the others are very small, well if you think that a capibara is small.

For leopards I think that it will be redundant, as they predate in the same prey of tigers and lions, with the only diference that they choose young specimens.


Let's see what I can do, but if someone can help me at least founding the main prey of lions and jaguars, it will be perfect.

Hi Guate, excellent work as always.

For jaguars you should factor in Zebu cattle as part of their diets in places like Pantanal and Llanos, we have records of females predating on Brahman bull as an example, like this one

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Bull Brahman appears to be the largest species registered that jaguars have preyed upon and are a major portion of their diets in these wetlands, but we also have photographic data of a Colombian jaguaress in Llanos who killed a 70 kg anaconda

As well as data of predation on black caiman:

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The one measured black caiman killed by a jaguar was 3.8 meters in length

In June 1999, we found a male M. niger 3.8 m TL that apparently had recently been killed by a jaguar. Based on the paw marks around the site, the caiman had been attacked by the jaguar while on a thick mat of floating vegetation in a canal located along the margin of Lago Mamiraua ´

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232691313_Depredation_by_Jaguars_on_Caimans_and_Importance_of_Reptiles_in_the_Diet_of_Jaguar Reply