Out of the 30-40 account's I know of tiger's killing lion's are 80% of male tiger's killing female lion's and the other 20% were not contender lion's as in not 6-12 year's old or had battle mane's, here's what would be considered a battle mane.Īgain I dont think a tiger could ever kill a lion with a battle mane, even lion's who both have battle mane's, only kill each other threw hour's and hour's of brutally inflicting numerous wound's to other part's of un-protected body. To my knowledge I never heard of an account of a tiger killing a lion with a battle mane, a battle mane title was given to Barbary lion's for there mane's that covered most of there body's from there head all the way down to there belly's. Ken spiro mentioned lions also fought giant crocidiles an the lion won, due to crocidiles being cold blooded, if the croc dosent dispose the lion in the first 8 minutes it would most likely surcumb to over heating, which then the lion toys with the croc with great agility dissasembling him piece by piece, which there are many statues of lions killing crocidiles in the town of Baglug which is in italy, near the coliseum. Notes are presented on the lion's behaviour in hunting elephants and the evolutionary significance of this. Lions prey on elephants since the density of conventional ungulate prey is reduced as a result of an annual migration, and artificial water provisioning has prompted an increasingly sedentary population of elephants. It is suggested that this weaned, maternally less dependent age class, may be more vulnerable to lion predation. Seven of eight elephants killed were between four and 11 years old, as deduced from molar teeth ageing, and this age group represented over half the kills recorded by Joubert ( 2006 ). A pride of 30 lions killed one elephant every three days. An opportunity to document this phenomenon was made possible with infrared viewing and filming equipment. Botswana's Savuti lions, however, switch to preying on elephants during the late dry season (August-November), and the frequency of this has increased in the last two decades (1985≢005). Filmed in Botswana, from about 10 feet away from the lion. The majority of Hippo / predator interaction is from Hippo defending their territories from roaming predators. That said there is a pride of Lions in northern Botswana that used to prey on Hippo regularly. It seems they are now tunring to the Hippos since there is not much else to hunt.īesides isolated cases of Hippo predation by Lions their main threat is from humans. This is the fourth Hippo we have seen recently killed by the five. This time they went upto the carcass and drove away the one that was watching over it, and drove them away including Notch.Īfter this drama which lasted half of the morning, the Buffaloes gave up and left the lions to continue with feast. The Buffaloes left breifely before coming back and started chasing the lions again around. Tehy soon picked teh scent of the lions and they started charing at two males that were sleeping in the bush, driving them away from the vicinity of the carcass, although Notch was spared since he was a bit further. While watching this, some four Buffalo bulls came towards the carcass. I found them this morning feeding ont he hippo, thouhg Notch himself had already eaten and was sleeping in teh shade about a hundred metres fro teh carcass.Īs the morning sun started getting hot, the lions left the carcass one by one untill only one was left and this one decided to guard the carcass from teh Hyaenas that were waiting around. The five male lions coalition (Notch & sons) killed a Hippo near Rekero last night. Not far from this pride another pride in Linyanti Botswana specializes in killing Hippo. Lion's are strong enough to kill animal's that's pass the 5,000 pound range an even as high as 20,000 pound's. So a tiger wont fair to well in the same territory as a lion, by showing dominance and claiming territory if a tiger was to roar in an area habitated by lion's, they would alert the whole pride, an as you can see a single lion has already killed tiger's hundred's of time's but by a direct call out to a territorial display of dominace lion's in coalition's would rip the tiger into shred's the only chance for the tiger would be to run, which if the whole pride see's him even that would be hard. Again lion's usually live in coalition's like these.
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