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Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts
Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts
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Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts
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 (05-15-2020, 10:13 AM)Ashutosh Wrote: Dhole calling for backup @Kabini. I posted this same incident in January at dhole thread. Here is youtube video and description. I agree with youtube description, very smart and calm dhole. "What a sighting! The Black Leopard Safari delivers something quite unexpected: a Tiger chasing an Indian Wild Dog, or Dhole, along the road. This Dhole knew exactly where the line was, and stayed just on its side of it. It was shouting the warning to all the other Dogs in the area, as well as any other living thing that there was a Tiger on the move. It is not easy to find two predators together and interacting, so this was a very special sighting indeed!" 
What happens when 2 giants clash? A couple of rhinos had walked into a pride of lions and its pride male. In this picture, it looks like 2 giants are about to face off in a battle for supremacy! What do you think happened next?
Hint: The lion is about 10 years old and the rhino was about 2. ? Image credit: Brandon Jennings Kariega Game Reserve March 2020  *This image is copyright of its original author Lions of Africa: Carley Crump the young rhino chased the male around for a little bit until it lost interest and both went about their way. ? (05-22-2020, 11:25 AM)bigcatlover Wrote: That is a good one! It´s funny to see how animals so often after accident act like "Nothing happened here, I´m just sitting here and watching birds...". I´m sure, that animals can feel some kind of embarrassment when they stumble etc. And then they try to be like nothing happened, "What? Someone fell, where?" 
It´s said here, that this lion was attacked by a crocodile while swimming in the river. Interesting to see, that even though wounded, it obviously still managed to fight back and get on the shore.
 *This image is copyright of its original author Actually it´s interesting that it looks like to be so, that usually big cats are able to get rid of crocodiles even when attacked in the river. Crocodiles have that famous strong bite, but it for sure isn´t so effective as many think and I don´t think, that crocs can bite so hard when they bite mostly with canines (if crocs can be said to have such). Looks like, that they need to be able to have something so, that almost swallowing and then biting with backside of jaws, there is for sure power at that point. But it´s not easy to get a good bite from the head of a lion, it will fight back. Quote: "This young adult male lion in South Luangwa was attacked by a crocodile in the river where the croc had the advantage and left a serious wound (inflicted about a month prior to this photo). Copyright Bill Given" https://thewildsource.com/lion-attacks-crocodile/ 
Female pantanal Jaguar scaring away Black Headed Vultures from carcass.
credits: Fernando Tortato Southern Pantanal jag scares away 1 black headed vulture from carcass Its really funny the black headed vulture slowly sneaking up to feed on the carcass as the jaguar turns its back  
Mark Dumbleton: " This may not be everyone's cup of tea, but this goes down as the most intense natural event I have ever witnessed. Watching any animal kill another is hectic, but watching a massive male Lion absolutely demolish this Hyena still sends chills down my spine. As I was witnessing this and photographing it, I was shaking, I can't even remember how I felt at the time as it was so intense.
It took a long while for me to calm my nerves, and still to this day I remember the sounds of the Hyena's neck being crushed by the Lion, bones breaking, the expressions of absolute despair in the Hyena, the ruthlessness of the male Lion adamant to inflict as much lethal damage as possible, an event that left me feeling very emotional, something that was very hard to witness. As a photographer I am out in the field to capture nature as it is, I don't interfere, I photograph what I see and let nature do its thing. I'm sure many of you are looking at this image and asking yourself "Why didn't you interfere and help the Hyena?". Well, as much as we could have done something to try save the Hyena, nature follows it's own path and has its own set of agendas, and I feel we need to let nature follow that path without interference, allowing nature to create balance, a reason why life and death is an important part of what nature is. The Hyena was very old, she was frail, slow, and found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Lion's attack was lethal, but he left the Hyena alive. I felt very uneasy while the Hyena was lying, motionless, suffering, gasping for air. I felt a huge sense of relief once the Hyena took her last breath and was finally at rest. I'll never forget that morning. The morning I witnessed nature at her most brutal. Zimanga Private Nature Reserve, South Africa | Nikon D850 | 200-500 f/5.6 @ 320mm | ISO 5000 | f/5.6 | 1/320sec exposure " 
Hyenas belong to the suborder feliformia.
Python Eats Adult "Female" Hyena Watch First-Ever Video of Python Swallowing Hyena : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/...yena-kill/ The rare kill underscores the incredible hunting skills of Africa’s largest snake, the African rock python. An African rock python (Python sebae) swallows a female spotted hyena - Crocuta crocuta (which are usually larger than males) in this footage from Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. Video: Jos Bakker By Michael Greshko March 15, 2017 You could say this snake had the last laugh: Researchers in southwestern Kenya recently stumbled across a 13-foot-long African rock python (Python sebae) that was swallowing a 150-pound hyena whole. Jos Bakker, a Dutch web designer on vacation, first spotted and filmed the rare incident at a swampy roadside in the Masai Mara National Reserve. In short order, Bakker and his tour guide passed word along to scientists at Fisi Camp, the field site of Michigan State University zoologist Kay Holekamp, who has studied Masai Mara’s spotted hyena clans since the 1980s. (Learn more about hyenas' intelligence and complex social lives.) On the evening of March 1, Fisi Camp research assistants Mike Kowalski and Olivia Spagnuolo then went out looking for the snake, skeptical that a python could take down a carnivore as large and as smart as a hyena. “To my knowledge there has been no precedent for this in terms of documentation,” says Kowalski via email. “Large carnivores can certainly interact with large pythons, as their cubs are probably on the menu, but an adult lion or leopard or hyena would likely dispatch the python very quickly.” But the next morning, they discovered what Kowalski described in a Holekamp lab blog post as “a gigantic rock submerged in a swamp”: a sated, swollen rock python that clearly had eaten something large. By comparing Bakker’s footage with the snake before them, Kowalski and Spagnuolo were forced to conclude that the python had, in fact, ambushed the hyena and constricted it before it could get away—likely an epic struggle. Kowalski suspects that the rock python attacked the hyena as it wandered through a drainage area in search of an afternoon resting spot. Fortunately, the python did not snack on one of their research subjects; its prey was likely a newcomer male seeking out a new clan before he met his untimely end. “For the hyena, I would say this rock python had to be perfect,” says Kowalski. “If it did not immediately strike and coil the neck-chest region to immobilize the head, the hyena could've easily crushed the python's skull.” Ambitious Appetites If any snake is going to kill a hyena, it's the rock python: Africa's largest snake, which can get up to 25 feet long and weigh up to 200 pounds, is notoriously aggressive. They're "so mean, they come out of the egg striking," Kenneth Krysko, senior herpetologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, said in a previous interview. In its native habitat, sub-Saharan Africa, the African rock python eats small mammals, antelope, warthog, herons, and other animals. In extraordinarily rare circumstances, the reptiles may even attack, constrict, or attempt to eat people. Pythons and boids are known for their ambitious appetites: Indonesia’s reticulated pythons can take down and eat slow lorises, sun bears, and even adult Sulawesi pigs, which weigh between 90 and 150 pounds. Green anacondas in South America can comfortably eat capybaras, the world’s largest rodents.
Male jag vs Giant Anteater
(06-02-2020, 05:29 PM)Shadow Wrote:(06-02-2020, 04:18 PM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: Male jag vs Giant Anteater Yeah you're right, jaguars better not sleep on those deadly claws, they're extremely careful when preying on these animals. (06-02-2020, 05:33 PM)Dark Jaguar Wrote:(06-02-2020, 05:29 PM)Shadow Wrote:(06-02-2020, 04:18 PM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: Male jag vs Giant Anteater I also think that the awkwardness of the Anteater is a deterrent. I dont think a Jaguar quite realizes where the head/throat is and the tail also throws it off. I'd assume that once a Jaguar becomes accustomed to killing them then they're able to do so more often but I bet it's an individual characteristic. |
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