Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

[Pckts]

Mmari James
Sadly news about this young male leopard around seronera area to be killed with lion pride on 29Th of August.

Her mama was rise him for hard time against predators but accidental this male cub was walking and meet with this pride and no way to escape.
Nature take place.

So sad, tears couldn't stop

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[leopard]

Very short interaction of a leopard stalking and then chasing a hyena. Hosana is really a special and unique leopard! I recommend checking him out via safariLIVE and blogs!

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[leopard]

(09-05-2018, 11:40 PM)Pckts Wrote: Mmari James
Sadly news about this young male leopard around seronera area to be killed with lion pride on 29Th of August.

Her mama was rise him for hard time against predators but accidental this male cub was walking and meet with this pride and no way to escape.
Nature take place.

So sad, tears couldn't stop

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Poor young. Just at the wrong place and the wrong time. This happens though when an adult male one gets caught:

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[leopard]

Not sure if posted before.

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[leopard]

(09-05-2018, 12:12 AM)AlexE Wrote:

(09-04-2018, 11:58 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Pckts:

#470: And the hyena's face was pawed by the leopard it chased away from its false kill...

As for the first video, in front of a young leopard, the dog barked, but the tail constantly between its legs.

Hyena defeat leopard like this dog. .. Selected unusual moments. I overestimated hyena. Even a adult female leopard will kill any hyena.

Despite being biased, it really depends which situation they're in. Female leopards will never take on a hyena in wildlife (except in some situations, protecting her cubs etc). Sure, they can win against a hyena but I'd say it's 50/50. 

Although even male leopards 'flee' (they just don't take any risks as a solitary animal), I favour a male leopard against a hyena.

Now big territorial male leopards will usually stand their ground against any hyena, even when he's outnumbered 2 to 1, sometimes even 3 to 1. There's enough evidence in this thread. And I favour an alpha male against any hyena, even the matriarch stands no chance against a 80kg-90kg male leopard.

I just don't agree with the part where you claim that a "female leopard will kill any hyena". Hyena's are tough animals, they're like mini tanks to me, able to bear incoming attacks from even lions. Reply

[Spalea]

@leopard :

About #481: The video you posted is an extract of a National Geography documentary "Tjololo un leopard dans la nuit"... From Kim Wolhuter.

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If you want to see (french version) :

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5xrur

And from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjololo

As for #482: me too, I favor a big male leopard against any spotted hyena, without forgetting it cannot afford to be wounded. Thus,  sometimes... Reply

[Rishi]

This is interesting...

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Huge wild dog population cited as reason for tigers avoiding Kawal Tiger Reserve

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Surplus tigers from around Toshiba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra might be avoiding Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR), spread over four northern most districts in Telangana, due to the ecological imbalance caused by a huge population of Indian wild dogs, also known as dholes!

The number of wild dogs, has increased from 30 in 2014 and 249 currently in KTR's Jannaram Forest Division alone, as per the preliminary estimates of the 2018 wildlife census.

Jannaram Division in Mancherial district has an area of about 270 km² of the total 890 km² of KTR and is central to any tiger movement from TATR or Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yavatmal district, also of Maharashtra.
The last a tiger was seen in KTR was in 2015 and presumably the population of wild dogs experienced a quantum jump around the same time. While these co- predators of tigers exist in packs of 10 or 12 individuals, bigger packs consist of even 40 of them and such packs deter tigers from inhabiting the place, according to Jannaram Forest Divisional Officer K. Ravinder.

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/fig13_275649466

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"We know for sure that tigers are coming here in August but are perhaps returning in October-November. Tigers do not like to stay at places where the number of dholes is huge, gaining the potential to kill the big cat," the Forest official opined.
"Such a situation exists even in Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra," revealed Sarosh Lodhi, a well known conservationist and wildlife photographer from Nagpur. "Tigers are eluding the sanctuary since the population of wild dogs has gone up or it could even be vice versa," he opined while underscoring the need for a deeper study into the phenomenon at KTR.

"The population of leopards in Jannaram divsion has also gone up from 4 in 2014 to 20 this year besides that of herbivores going up from a cumulative of 500 to about 2,600," Mr. Ravinder quoted statistics. He apparently wanted to drive home the point that the herbivore prey base, comprising of gaur (increased from 29 to about 60), spotted deer (from 200 to about 800), nilgai (200 to about 700), sambhar (from 50 to about 200), black buck (from 10 to about 70) and chausingha (from 25 to about 70), has become conducive in quantum for a good tiger population to survive here.

The Jannaram Forest official claims that the herbivore population in his Division has gone up despite the presence of large number of wild dogs thanks to 'smart' management of the facility as well as that of grass lands.

"We have developed grass lands or fodder plots in about 450 hectare, restricted movement of cattle to allotted pastures besides daily monitoring activities of known criminals," he disclosed of the activities contending that all hope of a tiger arriving in KTR was not lost yet. Reply

[Spalea]

@Rishi :

About #484: weird to see that the tigers number is decreasing when the tiger's potential preys number is increasing ! The dholes and the leopards are taking advantage of that but not the tigers ?

Perhaps, the 89 km2-square-park are too small for tigers ? Reply

[Rishi]

(09-08-2018, 05:49 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Rishi :

About #484: weird to see that the tigers number is decreasing when the tiger's potential preys number is increasing ! The dholes and the leopards are taking advantage of that but not the tigers ?

Perhaps, the 89 km2-square-park are too small for tigers ?

It was a typo... Kawal TR is 890 km². With buffer about 2000 km². (Source) Reply

[Spalea]

(09-08-2018, 06:29 PM)Rishi Wrote:

(09-08-2018, 05:49 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Rishi :

About #484: weird to see that the tigers number is decreasing when the tiger's potential preys number is increasing ! The dholes and the leopards are taking advantage of that but not the tigers ?

Perhaps, the 89 km2-square-park are too small for tigers ?

It was a typo... Kawal TR is 890 km².

Ah sorry ! What a scatterbrained am I... So, all the more inexplicable ! Reply

[Pckts]

(09-08-2018, 04:40 PM)Rishi Wrote: This is interesting...

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Huge wild dog population cited as reason for tigers avoiding Kawal Tiger Reserve

©Dinesh Kumble.

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Surplus tigers from around Toshiba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra might be avoiding Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR), spread over four northern most districts in Telangana, due to the ecological imbalance caused by a huge population of Indian wild dogs, also known as dholes!

The number of wild dogs, has increased from 30 in 2014 and 249 currently in KTR's Jannaram Forest Division alone, as per the preliminary estimates of the 2018 wildlife census.

Jannaram Division in Mancherial district has an area of about 270 km² of the total 890 km² of KTR and is central to any tiger movement from TATR or Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Yavatmal district, also of Maharashtra.
The last a tiger was seen in KTR was in 2015 and presumably the population of wild dogs experienced a quantum jump around the same time. While these co- predators of tigers exist in packs of 10 or 12 individuals, bigger packs consist of even 40 of them and such packs deter tigers from inhabiting the place, according to Jannaram Forest Divisional Officer K. Ravinder.

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/fig13_275649466

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"We know for sure that tigers are coming here in August but are perhaps returning in October-November. Tigers do not like to stay at places where the number of dholes is huge, gaining the potential to kill the big cat," the Forest official opined.
"Such a situation exists even in Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra," revealed Sarosh Lodhi, a well known conservationist and wildlife photographer from Nagpur. "Tigers are eluding the sanctuary since the population of wild dogs has gone up or it could even be vice versa," he opined while underscoring the need for a deeper study into the phenomenon at KTR.

"The population of leopards in Jannaram divsion has also gone up from 4 in 2014 to 20 this year besides that of herbivores going up from a cumulative of 500 to about 2,600," Mr. Ravinder quoted statistics. He apparently wanted to drive home the point that the herbivore prey base, comprising of gaur (increased from 29 to about 60), spotted deer (from 200 to about 800), nilgai (200 to about 700), sambhar (from 50 to about 200), black buck (from 10 to about 70) and chausingha (from 25 to about 70), has become conducive in quantum for a good tiger population to survive here.

The Jannaram Forest official claims that the herbivore population in his Division has gone up despite the presence of large number of wild dogs thanks to 'smart' management of the facility as well as that of grass lands.

"We have developed grass lands or fodder plots in about 450 hectare, restricted movement of cattle to allotted pastures besides daily monitoring activities of known criminals," he disclosed of the activities contending that all hope of a tiger arriving in KTR was not lost yet.

I would bet the reason Dhole are able to thrive is because of the lack of Tiger presence, it's just like Lions to Wild Dogs IMO. Wild dogs don't thrive when Lion numbers are high and I assume it's the same relationship for Dhole to Tigers. Dhole can harass Tigers but they certainly aren't a real threat to any adults, I know of a few claims but I have seen no real evidence that would say otherwise while I have seen quite a bit of evidence supporting the Tiger eradicating Dhole. Reply

[leopard]

(08-17-2018, 01:07 AM)Pckts Wrote: Kanwar Deep Juneja
This also happens in the world of wildlife...

Do you think the leopard escaped or not??? There's a whole series... will be posting this soon..
From South Luangwa, Nsefu Sector, Zambia

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Other picture. Really stupid that he spreads them in different posts, rather than uploading all of them together. He sounds vague, I have no idea wether the leopard died or not.

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 Leopards Of Sabi Sands - Hukumuri - Sabi Sand - Posted 19 Sep 2018
Image by Jackie Badenhorst Wildlife Photography. Reply

[bigcatlover]

In areas where leopards and clouded leopard are sympatric such as in Thailand, it would be intresting to see any info of about interactions between clouded leopards and leopard. Reply

[leopard]

I don't remember who posted the stuff about National Geographic and others lying etc but this is actually a proof that they might. Take a look at the original encounter and the 'edited one'.

They used the original one to make the viewer believe it got mauled to death. Reply