Crocodile and Big cats Interaction

[Gkumar]

(04-03-2020, 01:51 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(04-03-2020, 01:22 PM)Gkumar Wrote:

(04-03-2020, 11:29 AM)Shadow Wrote:

(04-03-2020, 07:11 AM)Gkumar Wrote: A lioness apparently killed by a crocodile, even though it seems actual killing was not captured as you can see white patches on lioness body which means she was dead for a while.
Watch @13:32

Nice find! I have been looking for footage like this (very much looking like authentic and not some edited rubbish). In this it can be clearly seen, that it´s a lion which that crocodile rolls in the water, even though young lioness. Deep enough water and big crocodile there is not something big cats can take lightly, even though in this case too male did go and take over that carcass. Thanks for sharing this one, very interesting in more than one way! I had never before seen any clip showing that a lion actually get killed by a croc. And of course this leaves for some people possibility to say, that kill wasn´t seen... but I don´t think that croc would roll over already dead animal like it does in this clip. So I take this as (finally) one for crocs.

I think lioness was already killed by the crocodile when the filmmakers came across the scene and the crocs were just feeding on the carcass, thats why the crocs are performing death roll to tear the meat.Imagine the filmmakers would have been extremely lucky to capture the actual killing and also the white patches on the skin, tail of the lioness not thrashing around during the struggle(death roll) would indicate that the animal was already dead when the filmmakers filmed it.

At that point, when they managed to film it, it for sure was drowned. But not for a long time though, that could have been some last rolls when croc still wants to be sure, that no fight there anymore. If it would have started to tear flesh, then more likely it would have changed bite a bit to be able to tear off limbs. Anyway in this case it looks very clear, that crocodile made that kill and it´s very rare to see. 

Some people for sure say, that they shot that lion and threw to the river etc. Still even though big cats usually seem to handle crocodiles very well, it´s just common sense to understand, that big crocodiles are dangerous especially when water is deep and big cats can´t walk/wade. I believe, that this was authentic situation even though they couldn´t film whole situation.

I agree with you on most part, except that the lioness was dead for long time when it was filmed.
To make my point clear i took a screenshot at the time of death roll.As you can see the face of lioness has white patches all over indicating that the animal had been dead for some time.

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