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| Spotted Hyena / Leopard Account compilation; Including the full story behind the 'Leopard kill' image! | |
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| FelinePowah | Jun 25 2013, 06:07 PM Post #121 |
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Tugwaan Male Steals Kill and Evades Hyena James Siwela and I came across fresh male leopard pug marks in the soft dust alongside a dry river bed. We slowly followed the tracks down the road and soon heard the rasping call of a leopard a short distance from us. We rushed back to the vehicle and excitedly explained to the guests that the leopard that we were following was only a short distance from us and that we should find it shortly. Back in the vehicle we carried on down the road and found what we had been looking for. Casually walking down the road was the Tugwaan male calling and scent marking on his northern territorial boundry Five minutes after finding the leopard we heard a warthog distress call in the distance. The leopard pricked his ears forward in interest and suddenly darted down the road towards the noise. In a flash of rosettes he sprinted towards the thicket line with us on his tail trying to see what he was charging towards. To our amazement we saw a hyena beginning to feed on a large warthog sow. The leopard rushed in without a thought, chased off the hyena and grabbed hold of the warthogs throat to begin dragging it down towards a large ravine about 100 metres away. As the Tugwaan male had the carcass in his jaws the hyena made several attempts to steal back his meal. I have never seen such bravado from a leopard as every time the hyena made a lunge for the kill, the leopard would charge towards the hyena fangs flashing and the most guttural growl, and then sprint back to his kill, standing over in snarling with pure aggression and strength. While all of this was happening, the Maxabeni female appeared and began to follow the procession. We worked out that she must have made the kill and the hyena robbed her only to lose it to the tugwaan male! The Tugwaan male picked up his won quarry and made for the thicket line passing through a small ravine. As he passed through the ravine he scared a bushbuck ewe out of a thicket. Little did we know what was about to happen next! The hyena followed through the ravine and came across the bushbucks tiny lamb hiding in a thicket. The hyena snatched it up in its jaws and tore off through the bush with the tiny animal. The Tugwaan male eventually made it to the base of a large weeping boer bean tree and pulled the carcass of the warthog in to the shade of the large tree. He was absolutely exhausted from the whole event to he lay up in the shade straddling the carcass and attempting to catch his breath. No more the five minutes later we saw in the distance the familiar lope of the spotted hyena with a slightly larger belly. The hyena sniffed the air and yet again picked up the scent of the leopard and the carcass and rushed in trying to steal back the meat. The Tugwaan male was having none of it and grabbed the carcass once more and dashed up the tree only to fall out. Again the hyena rushed in and again the leopard attemped to hoist the kill, only to fall out of the tree. The third attempt from the hyena saw the Tugwaan male give up on hoisting and decided to charge after the hyena, sending him scuttling off into the bush. The leoard had finally got his message across and lay up in the shade resting and feeding for the better part of the day. http://blog.londolozi.com/2012/09/tugwaan-male-steals-kill-and-evades-hyena/ |
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| Canidae | Dec 15 2013, 03:52 AM Post #122 |
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Hyaenas and Leopards in East Africa - Some accounts and thoughts. Starting with Kruuk's observations, originally uploaded by Reddhole : ![]() And some of my personnal thoughts on interactions between the two: Whilst East Africa is an area of high hyaena study (Kay Holekamp's project, Hans Kruuk, etc) Leopard / Hyaena accounts are relatively infrequent. This is for various reasons I.M.O, the first being food. A lot of interactions take place over kills and in east Africa leopards take smaller prey. George Schaller reported mainly Tommie gazelles taken in his study 'The Serengeti Lion'. Whilst a lot of other and larger ungulates were also taken these were considerably more infrequent. From Hamilton's (1976, 1981) studies he found in scats 35% contained rodent, 27% bird, 27% small antelope, 18% arthropod, 10% hare, 16% hyrax, only 12% large antelope, most of which were the kills found or seen. Of these, the antelope killed were 11 Impala, 4 bushbuck, 3 dik dik, 2 grey duiker, 2 lesser kudu and 1 waterbuck. Other large prey items were a baby giraffe and a warthog. (Interesting also 2 lion cubs.) Small prey can be killed and consumed quickly and quietly and treed very easily, making it unlikely a hyaena would ever know or make it there in time. Secondly the two have different habitats in the more varied areas of East Africa. Leopards directly prefer gallery forests, woodland and riparian forests (Schaller, 'The Serengeti Lion'.) whereas hyaenas prefer the open plains. Whilst obviously this isn't totally exclusive and the two areas and species overlap the greater preference reduces encounter chance. Jonathon Kingdon concludes : "In the more open habitats they are limited by the presence of other predators and scavengers. Furthermore it is not uncommon for leopards themselves to become the prey of men, lions and hyaenas as well as competing for the same food supply. A relatively slow pace and lack of stamina limit leopards in their relations with these three major enemies." East African Mammals Volume 3. A - Carnivores Edited by Canidae, Dec 16 2013, 04:56 AM.
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| chui | Mar 10 2014, 05:55 AM Post #123 |
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Canidae, I believe Hamilton's study on leopards was from the Tsavo region which is comparatively barren and is not representative of many prey rich regions of East Africa where leopards prey on larger animals. East Africa in general has widely variable terrain and environments from semi-desert to thick rain forest and this needs to be borne in mind. Regarding leopard hyena interactions from East Africa, Jonathan Scott who's spent many years observing big cats in Kenya's Masai Mara writes in his book that while females will rarely stand their ground against lone spotted hyenas, adult male leopards are fully capable and willing to do so. With that being said I do remember one instance from The Big Cat Diary where a male leopard had his kill stolen by a lone hyena. However, this leopard had a broken jaw. A very interesting interaction between a male leopard and 5 hyenas, recently photographed in the Masai Mara, Kenya. ![]() ![]() http://blog.africageographic.com/africa-geographic-blog/wildlife/leopard-and-hyena-share-a-meal/ http://www.governorscamp.com/blog/leopard-hyena-eating-together |
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| 1977marc | Mar 10 2014, 08:26 AM Post #124 |
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Hi chui , amazing find. Never seen a leopard hold his ground against that many hyeana, s |
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| Bandog | Mar 10 2014, 08:32 AM Post #125 |
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Male leopards are very confident animals, extremely impressive to see it ignore them like that. Thanks for posting. |
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| Kurtz | Apr 6 2014, 11:28 PM Post #126 |
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amazing find chui Edited by Kurtz, Apr 6 2014, 11:28 PM.
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| Kurtz | Apr 7 2014, 10:16 PM Post #127 |
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The leopard was Mvula, the dominant male who controls eleven square kilometers. That morning he had taken down a waterbuck, but a hyena took his kill away from him. Mvula went after the hyena and recaptured his waterbuck, something that normally a leopard doesn’t do, but it showed Mvula’s dominance of his world. ![]() http://safaritalk.net/topic/12164-the-thrill-of-the-hunt-in-klaserie-timbavati-and-sabi-sands/page-4 Edited by Kurtz, Apr 7 2014, 10:16 PM.
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| 1977marc | Apr 8 2014, 07:13 PM Post #128 |
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do not f... with Mvula, a 190 pound leopard...ha ha |
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| ManEater | May 9 2014, 04:54 AM Post #129 |
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| 1977marc | May 9 2014, 04:49 PM Post #130 |
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wow nice picture maneater. A hyena has a big heart. I would litter my pants if I was in his situation |
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| ManEater | May 24 2014, 01:40 AM Post #131 |
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Young male leopard and 2 hyenas:![]() ![]() http://krugernationalparksafaris.blogspot.fr/2013/03/one-brave-leopard-by-chad-cocking-in.html http://krugernationalparksafaris.blogspot.fr/2013/03/one-brave-leopard-by-chad-cocking-in_8.html Edited by ManEater, May 24 2014, 01:41 AM.
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| Bandog | Dec 20 2014, 12:13 PM Post #132 |
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Here's a cool compilation video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UKg9ewl3FK0 |
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| Taipan | Jun 3 2016, 06:02 PM Post #133 |
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Hyenas kill a leopard Posted on 19 August, 2014 by Guest Blogger in Animal Encounters — 13 Comments Posted: August 19, 2014 So this is something I have never seen before. I felt very intrigued and horrified at the same time. I was in the Timbavati Private Game Reserve and this is what I gathered was happening from what I heard on the radio: There was a battle between two of the top predators with casualties on both sides. A young male leopard killed a young hyena and took it up a marula tree. For some reason the leopard then came down the tree to face off against two fully grown hyenas. The rest of the clan soon joined them and attacked the leopard; grabbing it by the tail and dragging it through the bush. It all ended with they hyenas ripping the leopard to shreds. I arrived at the grisly scene at the point where the hyenas were eating the leopard. - See more at: http://africageographic.com/blog/hyenas-kill-a-leopard/#sthash.mqdQBnEE.dpuf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://africageographic.com/blog/hyenas-kill-a-leopard/ |
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| Kurtz | Jun 3 2016, 08:48 PM Post #134 |
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Hyena vs Leopard: Our ‘National Geographic’ Moment We eventually tracked the Gowrie male and found him sitting in a tree next to a warthog he’d hauled up there for safekeeping. After climbing down from his perch to relax, full-bellied, beside the vehicle, he would occasionally glance up to make sure his kill was still secure. His concern seemed fully justified when a hyena appeared behind all of us from among the trees, presumably hoping to sneak off with the remains of the warthog. All of a sudden, we felt as though one of our first ever game drives had erupted into a scene from a National Geographic special they’d likely take years to capture on film. ![]() .. Don expertly manoeuvred us right in front of the fray as Gowrie defended his breakfast from the hyena who perhaps had misjudged Gowrie’s size or his stomach for a fight. Plenty of snarling, baring of teeth and swatting ensued as the hyena quickly realised his error and escaped, while Gowrie scrambled back up to the relative calm of the tree branches. It was an incredible experience that we were all amazed at having had the good fortune to witness. While this was almost certainly the most sensational experience of our visit (the fact that I’m not entirely sure indicates how lucky we were during our stay), we got to spend quite a bit more time with Gowrie and many other animals over the next few days as Londolozi, Lucky and Don helped serve up fantastic sighting after fantastic sighting. Quite honestly, we would have been content to take in the scenery and spot a few creatures from any distance, but I suppose the bush had other plans for our brief visit. I guess it’s true that ‘you never know’ – but sometimes that works in your favour. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Incidentally, we never did feel like we were able to thank Don, Lucky and the rest of the Londolozi team (I would be remiss not to mention how well looked after we were by Graeme, Jabs and everyone else back at camp) sufficiently for a very special honeymoon visit… so I guess we’ll just have to return as soon as we can and give it another shot.” http://blog.londolozi.com/2015/06/hyena-vs-leopard-our-national-geographic-moment/ Edited by Kurtz, Jun 3 2016, 08:48 PM.
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| Kurtz | Jul 5 2016, 10:21 PM Post #135 |
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an aggressive female leopard protecting her cub |
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