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leopard · 07-09-2018, 07:51 PM

sanjay · 07-18-2018, 09:54 PM

Five cheetah and one leopard, A close interaction

AlexE · 07-22-2018, 10:15 PM

An adult tiger has been killed in a fight with a wild boar in Balaghat district, taking the toll of big cat deaths to nine in four months.

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/now-wild-boars-kill-tiger/articleshow/63590359.cms

AlexE · 07-22-2018, 11:00 PM

Protecting your horses
Dogs are not a deterrent for leopards. In fact, they are preferred prey. A leopard will easily kill a large dog such as a Rottweiler or Boerboel and carry it away. Another indicator of a leopard in the area is when many dogs go missing within a relatively short time.

Young animals are most at risk of predation, but horses are seldom taken if they run in a herd as an adult stallion or large mares will attack a leopard that approaches the herd, especially when there are foals. They will also see off packs of dogs. A single mare and foal are more at risk, especially just after foaling, and should rather be kept in a stable or close to the homestead.

http://www.farmersweekly.co.za/animals/h...-leopards/

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http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogI...88BF132BB8

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Human-carnivore conflicts over livestock depredation are increasingly common, yet little is understood about the role of husbandry in conflict mitigation. As shepherds and guarding dogs are most commonly used to curb carnivore attacks on grazing livestock, evaluation and improvement of these practices becomes an important task. We addressed this issue by studying individual leopard (Panthera pardus) attacks o sheep and goats in 34 villages near Golestan National Park, Iran. We obtained and analyzed data on 39 attacks, which included a total loss of 31 sheep and 36 goats in 17 villages. We applied non-parametric testing, Poisson Generalized Linear Modelling (GLM) and model selection to assess how numbers of sheep and goats killed per attack are associated with the presence and absence of shepherds and dogs during attacks, depredation in previous years, villages, seasons, ethnic groups, numbers of sheep and goats kept in villages, and distances from villages to the nearest protected areas. We found that 95.5% of losses were inflicted in forests when sheep and goats were accompanied by shepherds (92.5% of losses) and dogs (77.6%). Leopards tended to kill more sheep and goats per attack (surplus killing) when dogs were absent in villages distant from protected areas, but still inflicted most losses when dogs were present, mainly in villages near protected areas. No other variables affected numbers of sheep and goats killed per attack. These results indicate that local husbandry practices are ineffectual and the mere presence of shepherds and guarding dogs is not enough to secure protection. Shepherds witnessed leopard attacks, but could not deter them while dogs did not exhibit guarding behavior and were sometimes killed by leopards. In an attempt to make practical, low-cost and socially acceptable improvements in local husbandry, we suggest that dogs are raised to create a strong social bond with livestock, shepherds use only best available dogs, small flocks are aggregated into larger ones and available shepherds herd these larger flocks together. Use of deterrents and avoidance of areas close to Golestan and in central, core areas of neighboring protected areas is also essential to keep losses down.

https://peerj.com/articles/3049.pdf

AlexE · 07-23-2018, 12:57 AM

I'm sure that only lucky moments in Youtube, videos for naive crowds.

Why leopards do not kill hyenas, wild dogs. This information is private?

During vast amounts of time in the wild and a lot of field studies on wolves and lynxes in Belarus only lynxes killed by lynxes (males killed by other males and kits killed by males) were found. We never found any lynx (kits or adult) killed by wolves.

In contrast, we found several wolf pups of various age and pregnant wolves killed by lynx:

8 wolf pups of 2-11 months old and 2 heavily pregnant female wolves that were killed by lynxes (1997-2015, Naliboki Forest and Paazierre Forest);
one more pregnant female wolf was killed by either lynx or wolf (more likely to say that lynx, Naliboki Forest, May 2017);

at least, two wolf litters up two one month old were killed by lynxes (Naliboki Forest, April-May, 2016 and 2017),
two more litters – very plausible;

one wolf litter of 2-3 months old and their small mother were very plausibly killed by lynx (Naliboki Forest, June-July 2016);

adult male wolf plausibly died being wounded after a fight with a male lynx (Naliboki Forest, April 2017).

https://sidorovich.blog/2017/09/06/wolves-and-lynxes/

Pckts · 07-24-2018, 08:45 PM

Lioness Takes a Beating by Wild Dogs to Save Her Cub

July 24, 2018

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While the lioness was surrounded by the wild dogs, and the wild dogs' focus was on her, it is almost like she was shouting "go go, run" to her cub, who fled to safety!

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Whilst out on a safari drive in the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, Shalin Fernando (33) captured this interesting interaction between a lioness and her cub being interrogated by a pack of wild dogs. Wild dogs can be very intimidating when many are gathered together and, like hyena, have no fear in taking on the bigger lion species.

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Shalin told LatestSightings.com: “We spent about half an hour with a beautiful lioness and her cub when we then moved on looking for wild dogs. Later we came back to the same site after hearing that there were wild dogs chasing some impalas. When arriving on the scene the wild dogs came upon the female lioness and her cub and began threatening them."

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"I was speechless and worried for the lioness and her cub. According to our guide, all of her previous cubs didn’t survive. The dogs kept on trying to attack, but later on, they gave up and moved on. The lioness and her cub were safe.

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"The next day we saw the wild dog pack again. One of the dogs had been bitten and it was limping around."

"This was a one of a kind experience for me.”

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Video here https://www.latestsightings.com/single-p...ve-Her-Cub

AlexE · 07-26-2018, 11:07 PM

Lioness doesn't protect his cub.

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AlexE · 07-29-2018, 01:36 AM

Сat's claws mortal wounds.

A young male leopard hunts, stalks and kills a warthog

This time the two wild dogs were no match for the leopard and the fight only lasted a few seconds.

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Lioness kills zebra

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Wolverine · 07-29-2018, 10:50 AM

Russian TV chanell announces that one of the Persian leopards released near Sochi in 2016 has killed a local timber wolf, no images are provided:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGDlmsv6n10

Situation is interesting. If reintroduction of Persian leopards in Caucasus Biosphere reserve continue to be successful probably between the cats and local grey wolves will start some kind of competition who is gonna be the apex predator in the area. Situation reminds Yellowstone in early 90's, but in opposite fashion - then wolves were reintroduced in cougar's habitat, now the canids are presented and cats are coming second.
Its true that in Iran there are places where two species coexist since long ago but Iranian wolves belong to smaller tropical subspecie - C. palipes, in same time timber wolves from Western Caucasus mountains belong to Northern, larger subspecie and during the harsh winters make quite serious wolf packs. In same time they are smaller than Yelowstone wolves belonging to largest non-Arctic wolf subspesie in the planet - McKanzie Valley wolf. So I think that Persian leopards in Russian Caucasus are in bit better position than cougars in Yellowstone in terms of competition with the timber wolves.

From opposite part of Russia - Far East also came information about killing of timber wolf, this time from tiger:

https://xakac.info/news/73739

2 years old male Amur Saihan who earlier went through rehabilitation has killed a timber wolf in Jewish Autonomus Region north of Amur river. No images or details are provided. Saihan is known for his shy, timid character.

leopard · 07-29-2018, 05:06 PM

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Rage2277 · 07-29-2018, 08:58 PM

idk..looks like the work of another lion and if it was indeed a leopard doubt it survived

Rage2277 · 07-29-2018, 09:13 PM

tigress and leopard interaction in kabini

AlexE · 07-30-2018, 03:26 PM

Persian leopard and grey wolf on the same trail in central Iran

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AlexE · 07-30-2018, 04:13 PM

Hyena intimidated by caracal:
https://www.arkive.org/caracal/caracal-c...eo-11.html

Example of real fight:

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Pckts · 07-30-2018, 09:39 PM

(07-30-2018, 04:13 PM)AlexE Wrote: Example of real fight:

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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.

Hyena runs female leopard off

Rosh Kumar
Attacking ... Leopard Just Run Away From Hyena ....

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Leopard making a Warthog kill only to be run off by a Hyena.

I'm not just posting Hyena defeating Leopard because I think they are superior, I don't. Trust me, I argued your side quite often, @Pantherinae and my self had many debates about this, but my attitude changed the more I learned and then seeing them in person, once we remove our bias intention, you see that these predators have no singular rule, one isn't superior to the other, there is no rule in nature.

Just to show that I'm not just about Hyena defeating Leopard, here's a large male Leopard standing his ground against 2 Hyena.

Incredible!!! Leopard and hyenas fighting over kudu kill. Leopard kept trying to get close later they all got hot and leopard went up & down a tree while hyenas wandered off towards water.

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