African Leopards

[Sanju]

@Jimmy 
In south India, Tigers mostly eat, Chital, Muntjac, Blackbuck and wild boar not always sambar, water buffaloes but they are pretty good sized tigers still. So, if they don't hunt big prey that doesn't mean they should be small. The article is of BBC. 

It is because of absence of Competition for thousands of years in the island made their prey availability ample and some of them became Giants like Ivan. It can be due to Island gigantism in which the size of an animal isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to its mainland relatives. Island gigantism is one aspect of the more general "island effect" or "Foster's rule", which posits that when mainland animals colonize islands, small species tend to evolve larger bodies, and large species tend to evolve smaller bodies.

So this meso predator is the apex predator of that ecosystem niche.

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The large Haast's eagle and moa from New Zealand (both extinct) Reply