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Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts
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Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts
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A stalemate between the 2 until a 2nd Hyena shows up...
Here you can see a 3 part series of a Male Leopard making a Warthog kill while the Hyena eats the Warthog from behind, practically consuming the whole thing before the Leopard is able to feed. The major difference between the two species is perfectly shown here. One holds tight trying to suffocate while the other uses it's immense jaws to feed rapidly and easily cut through flesh. Big cats have to use their bites and caninesto suffocate first and their incisors are secondary while it's the opposite for Hyena. Part 1  Trevor Carnaby, a field guide who's worked in a few different game reserves in southern Africa states the following in his book. “Spotted hyaenas are the largest hyaenas and, on average, second only to the lion in weight (the largest leopard males can be heavier). The fact that they are often sociable also makes them formidable. Wild dogs, though, through better coordination and organisation as a pack unit, will often put hyaenas to flight. Although leopard will not go out of their way to attack solitary hyaena, lone spotties are wary of them (particularly large leopard males).” Luke Hunter has studied African wild cats for over 2 decades and can be considered a leading authority on big cats. In Mammals of Africa 2013, his observations on the scavenging behaviour of leopards are noted as follows. “Scavenging occurs; males sometimes usurp kills from females (GA Balme pers. Obs.) and Leopards appropriate kills from competitively inferior carnivores such as Cheetahs, lone Spotted Hyaenas and jackals (Hunter 1998a, LTB Hunter pers. Obs.).” But hyenas do not always walk away unscathed from interactions with leopards. There is one record of a leopard which not only knew the trick of keeping a hyena at bay, but also killed it and it did so not only once, but three times! Other carnivores are also fair game to leopards. While lions may invest a great deal of energy in killing fellow predators, their motivation seems more to eliminate competition than to acquire food, and they frequently leave such kills untouched. Leopards, however, have been recorded killing and eating everything from dwarf mongooses to adult spotted hyaenas. Eyewitness account: We left at 05h00 and after deciding who was going where we were off. I went along the cut line to check if there were any lion tracks. Before I got very far, Alistair called us to come and see what he had found.....When we got close all we heard was a massive noise, hyenas howling and leopards growling. When I finally moved into the sighting it was amazing; there were 3 hyenas that were being slapped around by a big male leopard, the one we call Sand River. The hyenas were trying to steal what we then thought was the leopard's kill, a small impala. They attacked from all sides and he was thrashing them one by one ......the one hyena had no ear and most of his nose was torn off. The others were also in pretty bad shape. In amongst all the fighting they finally got away with the kill. We thought it was all over when another big older male leopard arrived. He had heard all the commotion and came to inspect what was going on. Once realising he was not tough enough to fight all the hyenas he also ran off, leaving the original leopard to contemplate the loss of his impala. Female leopard & hyena  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
The few lions that remained at the carcass were soon outnumbered, as 60 hyenas gathered and ripped the carcass to shreds, consuming all remaining meat. At one stage the brazen and confident hyenas set off in pursuit of one lion and her cubs, but full bellies and the return of a few more lions halted that charge. During the melee, Siena (a lioness famous for killing hyenas) made a comeback attempt, giving a few retreating hyenas a fright as she bowled them over. In the end though, full bellies won the day, and each protagonist retreated to safety. Unrelated.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Two cheetahs chasing hyenas
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These three young cheetah males are actually very powerful, hunt together, take advantage of any kind of possible prey.
In this case, one of them caught an isolated young gnu, just after the rain at the end of the afternoon. What happened seemed quite normal: They need to kill the prey (quite commonly by strangling it) and start eating (young and sensitive minds may not appreciate a quite gory natural scene of such a raw dinner). Since the cheetahs are not very powerful animals (they are fast but slender predators), they keep checking around them because once they are disturbed by other predators (usually hyenas) they leave the scene and do not return. The two hyenas we see in the third photo did know about this kind of natural rule. They were arriving quite certain that they could easily grab the carcass and eat the kill so easily won. Unfortunately, these three cheetahs are definitely not playing by the book. As soon as the hyenas appear, one of them did not merely leave the kill, but ran to the hyenas and started chasing one of them, kicking it. This led to a very unusual sight: Three hyenas, totally disoriented, lying low and whining a few feet from the carcass they could see, they could smell, but were not allowed to taste. https://www.ylovebigcats.com/en/2008/12/01/the-cheetahs-dinner/  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Wolf/jackal is leopard prey like a impala
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Zoo leopard fights like a pit bull against a 2 hyenas
Paris, June 24.—In the St. Louis Hospital this morning Dr. Clement Roeland, a noted surgeon, sewed up the more than half severed tail of a monster leopard in the Neuilly menageries. The leopard had been in battle, with two hyenas, killing both, but the female hyena before the end came to her managed to bite through the leopard's tail in the centre. The big cat was lied down on an operating table, securely muzzled and the operation was made without the use of anaesthetics. The tail was stitched with thin platinum wire, the bones co-related and the injured section then put in a plaster of Paris cast, beneath which, it is said, the bone and tissue eventually will unite. Dr. Roeland, who has admiration for wild animals, has before this operated on a Nubian lion and has given curative electric treatment to a panther.  AlexE Wrote:Hyena survived. "Now i know that the injured hyena stronger than lion"... Recently your posts have been starting to have a versus-y flavour to them as far as hyena & leopards are concerned. Because you are good poster who does well researched contribution, i took the effort to edit them all. This time. We understand your stance on the matter. You can convey it without trying to get the rest of the world to agree with you. Accounts of field-guides & researchers are fine, but when you're making a point try to be neutral about it. Better even, if you just present the observations & let people draw their own conclusion. For example, you'd shared a video of baboon chasing off a hyena in post #395...But this was just as easy to find. (08-03-2018, 10:22 AM)Rishi Wrote:AlexE Wrote:Hyena survived. "Now i know that the injured hyena stronger than lion"... You misunderstand me. These videos show that fight and chase / is not the same / are different. I said that adult leopard will kill a hyena (if it's a fight). I have my own opinion. Pckts: Attacking ... Leopard Just Run Away From Hyena .... (It doesn't mean anything to me)  *This image is copyright of its original author Coyote stronger than bear?  *This image is copyright of its original author
(08-03-2018, 07:16 AM)Shir Babr Wrote:(08-02-2018, 09:14 PM)AlexE Wrote: Pckts: "You've posted this numerous times and it's also been posted here numerous times, you know that the Hyena actually survived this encounter believe it or not." Wild dog are a lucky dog like a hyena (Leopard attack hyena, there are only photos.) I'm against disinformation. Most internet people is trolls or stupid people. Nothing better than disinformation. |
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