Intraspecific Conflicts - Lions [Wild]

[Shadow]

I put this here, even though old clip. Reason is, that this is one is one of the very few if not only video in which can be seen how powerful swipe hits other lion quite perfectly. With force and effect usually not seen. In countless of videos tigers and lions are swiping each others with no effect, even though it´s often claimed, that they can crush skulls of cows etc. with single paw swipe. Usually it´s not the force of the swipe, which makes any real effect really unless claws hit the right spot.

This video then again show, that when swiper has good balance and can concentrate weight and force behind swipe, it can have effect. When looking at how more dominant lion (obviously) swipes the other one down at approximately 1:06-1:10 it can be said, that fight was over just like that even though there was some minor action also after it. I think, that other lion learned respect and fast when finding itself on ground in split second. Was it a lucky shot or something this more dominant lion had learned to do, who knows, but it still show what kind of force there is and can be, when everything is spot on. I bet, that some smaller animal would have been rolling over for several meters from that swipe and maybe deadly injured just like that.

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