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Gaur kills leopard near Coonoor
According to forest sources, the female gaur reportedly impaled the male leopard by pushing its horns into the big cat's stomach, which led to the leopard's death.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author COIMBATORE: The carcass of a three-year-old male leopard and a female gaur was found near Periya Karumbalam in Coonoor in the Nilgiris district on Monday. According to forest sources, the female gaur reportedly impaled the male leopard by pushing its horns into the big cat's stomach, which led to the leopard's death. It is suspected that the incident could have happened when one of the gaurs in the herd attacked the leopard. "During the postmortem examination, we have found that the leopard stomach had gaur meat. We suspect that one of the gaurs in the herd could have attacked the leopard when the big cat was consuming a female gaur which gave birth a month ago," said K.Saravanakumar Assistant Conservator of forest Nilgiris Forest Division. An autopsy was carried out by the Animal Husbandry department veterinarian Rajan of Thalakuntha and Kannan of Ketti. While the leopard was burnt as per the NTCA guideline in the presence of WWF an NGO and village administrative office (VAO) and the gaur was buried nearby. https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/...81920.html A female gaur and a male leopard were found dead near Periya Karumbalam on Selas road in Coonoor on Monday. Forest department officials believe that the leopard had hunted the female gaur, which was pregnant and had killed the animal, but was attacked by a herd of gaur of which a female was a part of and had killed the leopard. Postmortem A postmortem was conducted on the carcasses of the two animals. K. Saravanakumar, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Nilgiris division, said that a postmortem had revealed that the leopard had suffered fractured ribs, while its stomach contained gaur meat, indicating the animal had killed and eating the gaur but was then attacked by another large animal or group of animals, leading to its death. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coi...322531.ece Female gaur killed by the leopard:  *This image is copyright of its original author https://simplicity.in/coimbatore/english...ar-Coonoor 
Black servals are so cute. You learn that servals eat some elephant's dung...
All ends up fine... 
That video is so interesting…at times it really does look like the lionesses are defending the leopard from the male lion! Could he have been from a different pride, perhaps?
 (08-27-2021, 12:43 PM)LandSeaLion Wrote: That video is so interesting…at times it really does look like the lionesses are defending the leopard from the male lion! Could he have been from a different pride, perhaps? It is indeed interesting (and rare). I too think the males are from a different pride as the other male was scent marking. Perhaps the lionesses caught the leopard and the two males just jumped into the scene. I think they're 'defending' the leopard because they caught it and don't want to lose it to the males for some reason. First time I see a male lion attack a leopard multiple times as well. 
Cheetah interaction with african wild dog.
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I love the contrasting colours of the two cats in this photo.
https://www.imgur.com/gallery/ZRgRQ “Photographed by Chandrabhal Singh, India The leopard after having been cornered and the tigress ceasing the escape, both settled down for some time. The tigress was snoozing down below the tree, while the leopard trying to overcome the nightmare it had just bumped into. While the tigress snoozed, the leopard also took a breather, unaware of what would happen next. Those who are regular to Ranthambhore would agree, how difficult it becomes when something like this is happening by the roadside and you have over capacity vehicles, manoeuvring a bit becomes a challenge. Anyway, after a while, the tigress got up and started moving towards the tree on which the leopard was perched. It was tensed as one could make out from the the face of the poor leopard. Interesting to watch the leopard trying to intimidate the tigress. He continued snarling as the the tigress advanced toward the tree. Boiling point had come for all present there. The Tigress, the Leopard, The Filmakers, Photographers and everyone else present there. The tigress, with a burst and in a single leap, reached, where the leopard was feeling secured. In a blink of eye, leopard was on top the tree, holding by the topmost twig shivering. For tigress, it was done. She came down. A lesson was taught. Fear was instilled in the lesser beast. Job done. Time to sleep and she retired 10 meter by the tree for the afternoon. Finally, after great contemplation and courage, the leopard rushed for its life in safety of the forest thickets.”  *This image is copyright of its original author
Female leopard with serval kill
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Mother cheetah protecting her cubs from a male lion in Masai Mara
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