Felids Interactions - Intraspecific Conflicts

[Pantherinae]

for a cat attacking a bear is not the same as fighting a bigger cat , for sure cat's will usually never die for the cubs they will take big risks to protect their cubs, but like you will never see a cheetah attacking a lion. attacking other types of animals is different. a feral cat attacking a lynx or cougar will never happen, but cat's will attack large dog and even like the caracal mother up against 3 hyenas, but if a leopard had appeared she would flee herself.   

a leopard getting this close to a male lion is by far the most impressive thing I've ever seen a mother cat have done, if she had gone on the physically she would go into a sure death, a 40 kg female leopard against a 200 kg lion, it's madness and the leopards amazing agility added with her mother instinct saved the cub. a lioness would most likely have caught her. Reply