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Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts
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Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts
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Ah, it was all there in description:
Kerry Balaam, long time Latest Sightings Member who has shared over 1,000 sightings and professional guide that runs Kruger Pride Safaris, watched this exciting scene play itself out over the August long weekend while on a drive with her guests for Kruger Pride Safaris and Birdsong Lodge. Send in your wildlife video here, and earn money: https://www.latestsightings.com/partn... Kerry explained to LatestSightings.com how the leopard found itself stuck in this less-than-ideal situation: “Just after my guests and I left Lower Sabie camp, one of the busiest camps in the Kruger Park, we found a pride of lions.” “The lions started walking and so we were following them. Suddenly, the male lion, the pride leader, ran into the bush and chased this leopard that must have been hiding behind the rocks. Within moments, the whole pride was surrounding the leopard!” As one can tell from the footage, the leopard wasn’t there for a fight. It was acting very submissively. He was lying down, keeping himself small. His head was down and his ears were flat, all techniques to show to the lions that he wanted to survive uninjured and that he wouldn’t attack if they wouldn’t. Another extremely submissive behavior is when the leopard rolled over. That is one of the most vulnerable positions for a cat to be in because the most delicate parts of the body are exposed. He obviously knew he didn’t have a chance against a pride of lions, so he was trying his best to let them know he wasn’t going to cause any trouble if they just let him go. Lions tend to have very short attention spans. It seems as if they just wanted to check if the leopard was going to put a fight, saw that he meant no harm and then they got distracted. While the lions were distracted, the leopard saw the perfect opportunity to escape the danger. It got up, sneaked away and then ran for its life! The lions gave a bit of a chase after the leopard, but then carried on sleeping on the rocks for the rest of the day, as lions do! Kerry, who filmed this whole sighting, told us that this sighting was crazy and she will never forget it!
A bit older, but also interesting incident between lioness and two male leopards.
Headline: Lioness Almost Kills TWO Male Leopards https://blog.londolozi.com/2018/08/25/lioness-almost-kills-two-male-leopards/?utm_source=Youtube&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=en_blog If interested about leopards and lions, that is interesting article to read. In this video part of what happened: Btw, this lioness is maybe the same, which just killed alone adult bull cape buffalo, quite a girl:) In this both leopards after escapes from Tsalala. Here one blog, where is mentioned two leopards, who weren´t so lucky with lions. https://blog.londolozi.com/2017/08/14/farewell-to-the-piva-male/ This was Piva male:  *This image is copyright of its original author Avoca males, these guys don´t seem to like too much leopards.  *This image is copyright of its original author
I think this is first video I saw, Only Lioness dominated the packs of hyena.. No male lion and they were able to chase of big hyena clan
(08-15-2019, 08:09 AM)sanjay Wrote: I think this is first video I saw, Only Lioness dominated the packs of hyena.. No male lion and they were able to chase of big hyena clan One thing about this, now when I remember. Many times people talk about bite strength and how some animal is something special because it can bite so, that bones are crushing. Hyenas are often mentioned as one such species. As all videos about lions and hyenas show, that bite force is quite meaningless in fights. Same as we see for instance when jaguars fight. There are no limbs flying in air bitten off :) When it is mentioned, that some animal can crush bones, like bears, tigers, lions, hyenas and jaguars can, they still need a really good bite to do that. Naturally sometimes for instance lions and tigers bite so, that spine is broken, but that isn´t easy. It demands a really good bite. Here hyenas were able to bite/snap lionesses from behind and what was the result of that "allmighty bite"... like insect annoying lioness, that´s it. Without a doubt a hyena can bite so, that it is painful but as said, easier said than done. When big cat and some smaller animal fight, it is about overall strength, all of them bite with power more than enough, some marginal differences are just what they are, minor and meaningless. And yes, that is my opinion, anyone can again disagree, but as we can see from videos, breaking a bone in fight by biting is rare. And I think, that I´m not only one who has noticed this obvious thing  I don´t mean, that bite force is totally meaningless, but in fights between predators, it just isn´t some "miracle weapon" for some smaller species. I have seen lion break bones of hyena in different ways, but vice versa... hyena is just too small. They as other smaller species need the power of packs/clans, a lot of teeth here and there to make some real effect.
One older case, where lions kill leopard (in text is told about another case too):
https://africageographic.com/blog/9-lions-vs-1-leopard/ "Papa delivered the fatal bite"  *This image is copyright of its original author One more unlucky leopard, just to show that even though they flee often, not all are so lucky.
One more lion-leopard case, which ended sad for leopard, just to show that these happen there even though not so often caught on camera. It is harsh for leopards there, inexperience cost easily everything.
Quote: "For example, lions kill somewhere between 25-55% of cheetah cubs! And you can see here Stan’s photos of lions just killing…and leaving…a leopard." https://blog.snapshotserengeti.org/2012/12/12/lions-hyenas-and-leopards-oh-my/  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
What a photo, that lion can only watch, nothing else to do :)
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One more, there are always exceptions and as mothers of all species often show, they are often ready to even sacrifice themselves if that is what it takes. Very nice to see this kind of outcome from situation, which is like nightmare of leopard.
 *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 More photos and description here: https://omg-daily.com/lion-vs-leopard/ Maybe some get déjà vu from Star Wars: It´s over! I have the high ground! :) 
Tigerwalah
Magnificent shot of tigress Maya from Tadoba chasing down a dhole from across the waterhole. Great work done by @sandesh.guru.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Does anyone know from which movie or documentary this is? I don´t recall and it would be interesting to know and then find more information. There might be many opinions, but I am interested to know from where this clip is from.
 (07-14-2019, 06:27 PM)Pckts Wrote: Big male Tiger chasing a Wild Dog Pack. Blown up shot from this Account  *This image is copyright of its original author
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