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Rethinking that Leopards can beat Hyenas..can they really?
Topic Started: Aug 23 2014, 12:50 AM (16,250 Views)
RojJones
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Hyenas scavengers, hyenas bite infectious. Leopard can easily kill a hyena.
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RojJones
Aug 24 2014, 02:43 PM
Hyenas scavengers, hyenas bite infectious. Leopard can easily kill a hyena.
In kruger they make kills roughly 45/ 50% of the time, and i believe in another wildlife preserve it's somewhere closer to 80%, so most of the time they are active predators, contrary to popular belief.
I guess you're getting they're mainly scavengers( as i'm guessing that's your argument) from their renowned sense of smell? well, it's true they have a pretty good sense of smell, being able to smell carrion from 3 miles away.

"Infectious bite"? please, explain more on this..

Can you point me to some proof of Leopards 'easily' killing a hyena? Particularly the striped hyena?
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I honestly favorite a hyena against a leopard at equal sizes.

Fun fact though, on average a hyena is bigger than a Savannah leopard they compete with.
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A healthy tom leopard and/or adult male cougar is too much for any hyena or wolf to deal with. They are simply a tier above them in the pecking order.
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Aug 24 2014, 03:02 PM
I honestly favorite a hyena against a leopard at equal sizes.

As if you do......you're just saying that to drum up an argument...
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To be honest, I doubt even Black Ice himself really believes that a wolf/hyena are capable of beating a cougar/leopard one on one.
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Yes they can.
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If leopards were really a tier above hyena there would be evidence to suggest that, rather than the typical older, larger predator dominating the younger smaller one. If experienced and reputable wildlife researchers say hyena worry leopards I'm encouraged to believe them, rather than the opinion of someone on Carnivora. Just saying
Edited by Vita, Aug 24 2014, 06:02 PM.
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Can you point me to some proof of Leopards 'easily' killing a hyena? Particularly the striped hyena?




Other carnivores are also fair game to leopards. While lions may invest a great deal of energy in killing fellow predators, their motivation seems more to eliminate competition than to acquire food, and they frequently leave such kills untouched. Leopards, however, have been recorded killing and eating everything from dwarf mongooses to adult spotted hyenas. One well-observed Ngorongoro Crater leopard killed and ate 11 jackals in less than a month, which suggests that small canids may be preferred prey when abundant, and there is considerable truth in the belief that leopards are partial to dogs. Such unusual preferences may vary from region to region. In arid north-eastern Namibia, researcher Flip Stander discovered adult cheetahs were sometimes killed as prey by leopards, a remarkable occurrence also recently observed by tourists in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa. Yet in the comparitively lush bushveld of northern KwaZulu-Natal, I saw three cases of leopards killing cheetahs and leaving the carcasses untouched. Perhaps where the density of more 'typical' prey species is low - such as in desert regions - leopards cannot afford to be choosy and are more likely to eat the meat of other predators.

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Previously we showed a hyena pirating prey from a leopard. Though the leopard tried to stand its ground, the hyena boldly rushed in to grab the prey. Twice the leopard tried to fend off the thief but in the end the hyena triumphed and carried off the remains of the carcass.

But hyenas do not always walk away unscathed from interactions with leopards. There is one record of a leopard which not only knew the trick of keeping a hyena at bay, but also killed it and it did so not only once, but three times!

But here there's no call for aggression from either side here. The leopard has nothing, except for its peace and quiet, to defend. The hyena won't attack because there is nothing to scavenge. For now the two adversaries will tolerate one another - next time 'round, it might be an altogether different case.

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Paris, Juno 24.-In the Si. Louis Hospital this morning Dr. Clement Roeland, a noted surgeon, sewed up the more than half severed tail of a monster leopard in the Neuilly menageries. The leopard had been in battle, with two hyenas, killing both, but the female hyena before the end canto to her managed to bite through the leopard's tail in the centre.

The big cat was lied down on an operating table, securely muzzled and the, operation was made without the use of anaesthetics. The tall was stitched with thin platinum wire. the bones co-related and the injured section then put in a plaster of Paris cast, beneath which, it is said, the bone and tissue eventually will unite. Dx. Roeland.lwho has admiration for wild animals, has before this operated on a Nubian lion and has given curative electric treatment to a panther.
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Leopard is not strained

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RojJones
Aug 24 2014, 02:43 PM
Hyenas scavengers, hyenas bite infectious. Leopard can easily kill a hyena.
Spotted hyenas are primarily hunters, but will scavenge just like ALL other predators, except cheetahs. This forum is filled with examples of this fact, and you simply can't have missed it. At first I thought your poor English comprehension skills may have been a factor in your ignorance, but you show enough competence to search information favouring your arguments. Ergo, I think the suspicions that you're simply a troll obsessed with baiting hyena fans may be warranted after all.
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Hyenas not kill a baboon. Hyena with domestic dogs and baboons rummage in garbage.

Hyenas kill sick, weak and pregnant animals.

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A wild dog chasing off the hyena. We actually saw this happen three times throughout the trip. AMAZING!

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http://www.maryloujohnsonremax.com/TheFlyingLiger/MalaMala2012/Leopard2012.html

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The next day we witnessed a near replicate performance, only this time involving three male Cheetahs and a fully grown Warthog. These were the same three boys that I had spent many hours with over the previous two years and were the ones that featured in the dramatic images when they “kidnapped” a female and aggressively courted her in trying to ascertain whether she was on heat (see the: Animal Behavior, Mammals, section in the gallery section of www.wildencounters.net).

Anyway, after an extended chase by one of the boys, the Warthog disappeared down a burrow. Again, a long period of digging ensued. Eventually, the Warthog was flushed out. But with its flashing tusks, the Cheetahs struggled to get near its throat. One of them however, had firmly sunk its teeth into the Warthog’s back leg. With the Warthog now partially immobilized, the other two moved in for the kill.

As one climbed onto the Warthog’s back, the other twisted its head underneath the neck before clamping down on the throat. But the skin around a Warthog’s throat is thick and leathery making the process of strangulation difficult for a cat with relatively small jaws.

With its golden eyes blazing and its rump heaving, the Cheetah crunched down with maximum effort. The tables were turning and with the Warthog’s air supply chocked off, death appeared an inevitability.

However, alerted by the Warthog’s desperate squealing, a Spotted Hyena suddenly appeared bounding towards the melee in pursuit of an easy meal. Hyenas are master scavengers and whenever possible will select the most easily captured prey. The crushing power of a Hyena’s jaws surpasses that of any of the other cat family members, including lions, and in a fight, Cheetahs would stand little chance. The three boys quickly took flight leaving the Hyena face to face with a groggy looking Warthog.

However, after the briefest of moments and despite a deep bite wound to one of its upper legs, the Warthog took off at top speed seemingly none the worse for its near death experiencing. Perhaps because it was unaccompanied by other clan members; perhaps because it had recently eaten, the Hyena showed no interest in expending any effort to catch the Warthog and sauntered off in the direction it had come from.

http://www.wildencounters.net/weblog/page/4/
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Lol a hyena scared off 3 cheetahs
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Lioness vs hyena

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