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| Agressive interactions between baboons & leopards; originally posted by Gato Gordo | |
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| Taipan | Jan 9 2012, 08:58 PM Post #1 |
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| Taipan | Jan 9 2012, 08:59 PM Post #2 |
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| Taipan | Jan 9 2012, 09:00 PM Post #3 |
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Does this seem a bit like BS to you? When danger is sensed, such as an approaching leopard, the three big bucks will raise the alarm. At once, the whole troop submits 100%, and the females grab the babies and young and run to the center of the troop. The younger bucks gather around the females and their young and display attack gestures outward. The two or three big buck leaders move around the perimeter of the troop, back and forth, watching for the leopard. The troop will not panic or run away. Now, a smart leopard, though he may consider baboon a delicacy, will not proceed to attack. But, if the leopard advances, the three big bucks, with several younger bucks following, will charge the leopard, and they will tear the leopard to shreds-- literally. Baboons are much smaller than leopards, but the effect of baboon rage is stupefying to the leopard. Game hunters have reported finding the scene afterward, and all that was left was mouthful sized pieces of leopard in all directions. The baboons tore the leopard to bits using their powerful mouths. Virtually NO other member of the ape family conducts business in this manner. http://www.balaams-ass.com/yarn/baboons.htm Leopard kills baboon in broad daylight August 10, 2008 I had an incredible leopard sighting on a game drive yesterday morning. We were driving along quietly when suddenly all hell broke loose in a Tamarind tree near the road. There was a huge troop of baboons surrounding the tree and they were going wild. As we approached the tree we saw a small female leopard descend with a large baboon clamped in it’s mouth! The rest of the troop surrounded it and were screaming and barking furiously. The racket was incredible. The leopard paid no attention to them though and took its time dragging the dead baboon toward some nearby combretum thickets. Eventually it reached the thickets and disappeared from view. As soon as the baboons had lost sight of it they went very quiet and began their normal behaviour of feeding and grooming again… The leopard had obviously been hiding in the Tamarind tree and when the baboons came to feed on the fruit she had taken the opportunity to grab one of them. I doubt that it was an intentional ambush but this is possible. It was a very brave thing to do though as the leopard could easily have been overwhelmed and injured or possibly even killed by the baboons. Generally leopards fear baboons and usually kill them at night so that they can easily get away from the rest of the troop. She must have been very hungry. ![]() http://livingluangwa.com/2008/08/10/leopard-kills-baboon-in-broad-daylight/ |
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| Canidae | Feb 23 2013, 08:58 PM Post #4 |
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"Leopards are sometimes killed by their prey. Marais (1939) described how two large male baboons killed a leopard they had previously injured, but one of the baboons was also killed. A seriously wounded leopard and another one that had been disembowelled were once found beside the carcasses of baboons in KNP (Stevenson-Hamilton 1947) Another leopard was seriously mauled by a baboon along the lower Sabie Road (Pienaar 1969). Pienaar also reported that leopards try to take baboons from troops during broad daylight could be severely mauled or torn apart by large male baboons. Once when I approached a trap containing a leopard, a troop of highly excited baboons ran away from the trap. The condition of the nearby vegetation and the highly agitated state of the leopard indicated the baboons had been harassing the captured leopard. On occasions the alarm calls of nearby baboons informed me a leopard had been captured in a nearby trap." From 'The African Leopard : Behaviour and Ecology of a Solitary Felid' by Theodore Bailey. The account itself from Stevenson-Hamilton's 'Wildlife in South Africa'; "Not long ago a leopard was found by the carcass of a dead baboon. It charged the ranger at sight, and was afterwards discovered to have been so desperatley injured by baboons' teeth - the loins torn open and the intestines protruding - that it must have soon died. It had been much too sick to touch the dead baboon." Olive Baboons in Lake Nakuru, Kenya; |
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| Mauro20 | Feb 23 2013, 10:00 PM Post #5 |
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I posted it earlier in "Video & Image Gallery": |
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| Canidae | Jun 27 2013, 04:53 AM Post #6 |
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To start, Manics orginally posted this but I thought it also belonged in this thread. Unusually high predation on chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) by female leopards (Panthera pardus) in the Waterberg Mountains, South Africa. Jooste E, Pitman RT, van Hoven W, Swanepoel LH. "Leopards do not preferentially favour baboons as prey, but they are considered the primary predators of baboons across Africa. Even in areas where baboons are abundant, their contribution to leopard diet seldom exceeds 5% of biomass. It is suggested that the extreme aggressiveness of baboons, group vigilance and their high mobility when escaping may limit leopard predation. Male baboons are particularly aggressive, and retaliation often leads to the death of the leopard. However, evidence suggests that leopards may learn to catch and kill certain dangerous prey. This study reports predation on chacma baboons by 3 female leopards on a private game reserve in the Waterberg Mountains of South Africa. Potential leopard feeding sites were identified using global positioning system (GPS) location clusters obtained from GPS collars. Over a 5-month period, we investigated 200 potential leopard feeding sites and located 96 leopard feeding/kill sites. Baboons constituted 18.7% of the leopards' biomass intake. The majority of baboons preyed upon were adults and 70% of the kills were diurnal. In terms of the measured variables, there were no significant differences in the way the leopards preyed upon baboons, compared to the rest of the prey species." ======= In the Cape Area of South Africa 221extra posted this: "From data collected in the Cederberg and Gouritz region, it is clear that baboons are seldom eaten (<4% % in a diet study). These would most likely have been opportunistic, or by an individual who has developed a preference for this dangerous meal. Generally, it is something of a myth that baboons are a leopard's favourite prey item. Certainly the Cape leopards, with their small builds, would have a tough time taking on a troop of baboons! That said some individuals do kills baboons, such as one of the Gouritz leopards." http://capeleopard.org.za/about-us/faq#baboons "Because of the tracking collar that was fitted to BM5 it is now possible to track his movements. The Cape Leopard Trust was able to pinpoint a baboon kill made by BM5. Leopards do not kill baboons frequently so this was an exciting find!" ======= This is from Baboon Ecology by Stuart A. Altmann and concerns Yellow Baboons in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. "(ii) a leopard - one of a pair - that killed an adult male and a large juvenile male." "Once, an animal quickly indentified as a cheetah, but more likely a leopard, sprang from undergrowth into the group, at the edge of waterhole KB-1. The baboons sprang away, then turned on the leopard, barking loudly as several members of the group ran at the leopard. The vocalisations were recorded. While details are difficult to note while recording, we did notice at one moment, the dominant male was closest to the leopard. Faced with this mass attack, the leopard turned and ran into the catchment basin of the waterhole. Afterwards, we noticed several wounds on the baboobs. Adult male whitetip had blood on his mouth. Th subadult male had cuts on the midcallosity and the left hip. A juvenile-2 male had a long cut down the right forearm and on the right hindleg. He began to limp about 3 weeks later, favouring the right arm, but later recovered. Another time when a 'cheetah' (leopard?) jumped at a vervet on an Azima bush, adult male and female baboons, some with infants clinging o their bellies, ran at the cat barking loudly. The cat quickly vanished." ... "In addition, we found a lioness eating an adult male baboon, and a striped hyaena (Hyaena hyaena) carrying half an adult male baboon in its mouth; neither of these baboons was from the Main Group." Whilst an adult male Yellow Baboon would certainly be killed by a Striped Hyaena, how much they hunt/kill vs. scavenging is still somewhat unknown but it is more scavenging with oppurtunistic predation - the hyaena may have partly eaten the baboon before caching it somewhere. Though another possibility is the hyaena appropriated the kill from a leopard as they have been recorded to do too in Africa whose was the original killer as Leopards are often the most severe baboon predators and were in this study. |
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| HugeHyena | Sep 1 2015, 12:39 AM Post #7 |
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![]() We reported last month that the guides suspected that Slender, the resident female leopard around Kings Pool, might be nursing a cub. And as announced on the Wilderness Safaris Facebook page – she has not just one cub, BUT TWO! She first kept them in the hollow of a jackalberry tree, not far from camp. She then moved them further south into the thick mopane woodland for safety. She’s been seen hunting on a few occasions, including successfully taking down baboons – on one morning they witnessed her killing two! She was also seen sharing one of these baboon kills with a male leopard – a big but quite shy male, suspected to be the father of the two cubs. They should be about a month old by now. Another female leopard, named the Calcrete Female, was also seen hunting – what a remarkable sighting it was! One of our guides, Moses, and his guests were lucky enough to see the entire kill – from her stalking a large troop of baboons, setting her eyes on a big male and starting the chase, and then finally killing him, dragging him quite a distance and then pulling him up into a tree – a performance of incredible strength, the size of the male baboon almost being the same as this female leopard! http://www.wilderness-safaris.com/blog/posts/kings-pool-camp-june-2015 |
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| pckts | Sep 11 2015, 04:09 AM Post #8 |
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Great find, Thanks for sharing. |
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| Ceratodromeus | Mar 5 2017, 12:13 PM Post #9 |
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Leopard and baboons standoff at AAC![]() "A rare encounter between a big cat and a troop of angry baboons during the recent African Amateur Championship at Leopard Creek Golf Estate on Wednesday left Trevor Saulez with a unique experience that he will never forget. Baboons are not exactly the most peaceful monkeys on the planet. With their bad attitudes, razor-sharp canines and their fearsome faces, baboons are among the most aggressive in the animal kingdom but they don’t get nearly as much attention as the graceful feline predators like lions and leopards. On Wednesday, during the second round of the international championship, Saulez got an eyeful of that frightening aggression when he inadvertently stumbled upon a mob of angry baboons defending their territory against a lone male leopard. ‘I was walking with my son Matt and his playing partners and as they were walking to the 11th tee, I started down towards the green,” said Saulez. “I went down the hill and I was just crossing the creek in the dip when I heard a huge commotion. The grass is pretty long in that area and at first I could just hear, but as I cleared the grass, I watched this fuming mad troop of baboons attacking a leopard at the green.” The altercation caused a slight delay in play and left Saulez with an everlasting memory of having witnessed something quite extraordinary. “First it was the unbelievable racket they all made,” Saulez said. “The leopard’s growls cut to the bone and the baboons went ballistic; it was the most angry, most violent noise I’d ever heard. Next thing, it was just bared teeth and fur flying as the baboons set upon the leopard. I was about 40 metres away and scared as hell, but I was so mesmerized that I just couldn’t look away.” The standoff lasted less than a minute and ended with the leopard taking cover in a tree. “I think there were about 10 baboons, but it could well have been more, and there was this one huge male leading the troop,” said Saulez. “They went all out for the leopard. He growled at first and tried to stand his ground, but when the big baboon came straight for him with the rest on his heels, the leopard high-tailed it up a tree. “The baboons mauled around the bottom and carried on screaming, but they left a few minutes later. I know leopards hunt baboons but to see the leopard on the receiving end of that attack was something else. We all know that we spot wildlife at Leopard Creek and we’ve seen a lot of it being televised during the Alfred Dunhill Championship, but I never expected to see an altercation like in the middle of a golf championship.” Saulez said he thought about peeking up in the tree after the baboons left the scene. “It was a very brief thought, but that leopard would have been pretty irritated, so I stayed put and waited for the players,” he said. “They heard the commotion on the tee box, but couldn’t see anything from their viewpoint. Play was only delayed for a minute of two, then it was business as usual, but I must admit, I replayed that scene in my head a 100 times as we finished the last seven holes.” " http://www.supersport.com/golf/amateur-golf/news/170304/Leopard_and_baboons_standoff_at_AAC |
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