The Great Apes

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(02-22-2020, 09:41 PM)ragelion Wrote: Gorilla killing a leopard

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This picture is interesting because all reliable sources (people like Baumgartel, Schaller and some other people researching gorillas) have found out only cases in which leopards have killed gorillas and also several silverbacks. This picture looks like something in fictive books like Tarzan, which don´t need to be realistic. Gorillas are known to be afraid of leopards because leopard is only natural predator of gorilla in those areas where gorillas live. Only in one case it´s observed a fight between silverback gorilla and a leopard so, that both died to injuries. In all other known confrontations leopards killed gorillas.

But of course people can draw pictures in order to show how things would happen in their imagination, that is what artistic freedom is all about, I guess. But if someone would find a real case like this, that would be something new. Reply