Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

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About #280: Several authors, among them the famous Dereck and Beverly Joubert, told than the rivalry between lions and hyenas is fiercer in Botswana than everywhere else... See the "Eternal enemies" (documentary video), "lions of Savuti, hunting with the moon" (book)... In the Savuti for exemple, the big preys are scarcer than in Tanzania for example, the lions take risks by daring to take on elephants, hippopotamus and buffalos much more often than everywhere else in their other habitats of the Africa continent. If the preys are more difficult to bring down, the fights to keep them are fiercer, because the hyenas dare to be more audacious to appropriate them... Reply