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| Big territorial male leopards; Only territorial male leopards starting 60 kilograms and over | |
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| Kurtz | Sep 4 2012, 03:08 AM Post #106 |
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| Canidae | Sep 4 2012, 09:13 PM Post #107 |
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I posted that a while ago, but guess you must have missed it.  Camp Pan continues to steal kills, this one from the Maxabene female :  "The Camp Pan Male moves the remains of an impala to a more comfortable feeding position in a marula tree. He had actually stolen this kill from the Maxabene female. As Camp Pan is roughly twice her size and weight, she had no choice but relinquish her hard-earned meal to him." But tell me Kurtz, what do you think of this total monster of a Leopard, eyeing up his likely prey?   http://blog.londolozi.com/2012/08/the-week-in-better-pictures-2/ |
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| Kurtz | Sep 5 2012, 03:08 AM Post #108 |
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Thank you Canidae. Scavenging from the short tail male is impressive, one the most impressive think i've seen. Short tail is powerful male old and very territorial. Campan is very very old... Edited by Kurtz, Sep 5 2012, 03:12 AM.
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| Kurtz | Sep 5 2012, 03:21 AM Post #109 |
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again difference in size btw male and female: MVULA and KARULA |
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| chui | Sep 6 2012, 03:58 AM Post #110 |
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The Sandriver male is another fine specimen personifying what a male leopard is. The return of the King "A lone silhouette silently padded towards us. The backlight from the second vehicle cast an eerie glow around a muscular physique and sand puffed up from under powerful paws as they glided down the road. Sandriver was back. Over a year ago, this mighty specimen was dethroned as the king of the entirety of Sabi Sabi by a younger male we have come to know as Xihangalas; but times have changed. Xihanagalas has not been much over the past few months and news of his absenteeism has been quick to reach the former ruler. No longer did the breeze from the east carry with it the familiar scent and territorial calls of his old adversary as it had done before. The door had been opened and the old warrior did not need a second invite to walk through it. His posture and attitude said it all. Fearless of any foe that he might meet as he moved deeper into his old territory, stopping to call and scent mark every few hundred meters, there was no doubt that he was making a play for his old domain. The lonely life of a leopard is harsh but Sandriver walked with a confidence that comes from self reliance and he looked good with it. Full belly and velveteen coat left no doubt that he was still at the top of his game, regardless of his one handicap. His blind, opaque right eye glowed like mercury as the powerful spotlight rays glinted off it, a daily reminder of the titanic battle that waged against his younger conqueror all those months ago. The metallic quality, coupled with the aura of authority oozing from him made think of the Terminator movies – a lone warrior whose indestructibility meant that, regardless of superficial injury, he was as efficient a killing machine as ever."    
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| ManEater | Sep 6 2012, 09:13 AM Post #111 |
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Fantastic muscle, we can clearly see them thanks to the lighting sunset. |
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| Kurtz | Sep 6 2012, 08:32 PM Post #112 |
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Fantastic Pics Chui some of best pics i've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is what we think when we think to a large territorial leopard! But a younger, yet smaller and not yet shaped like sandriver male leopard? what is capable to do? |
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| Kurtz | Sep 10 2012, 12:03 AM Post #113 |
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after 4 years old getting bigger and new shape for a male leopard becoming now territorial: Dayone male at idube-leopard hills  You can see the post above with maxabene male leopard vs warthog not yet territorial not yet 4 yrs old: Not very big head, not yet the chest in evidence, not yet the overdeveloped neck; Dayone an average territorial male now at 5 yrs old, territorial, with a big head and big neck with a little dewlap and overall filled out Edited by Kurtz, Sep 10 2012, 12:07 AM.
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| Kurtz | Sep 10 2012, 12:17 AM Post #114 |
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Again dayone male 
Edited by Kurtz, Sep 10 2012, 12:19 AM.
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| Kurtz | Sep 11 2012, 07:36 AM Post #115 |
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The Tugwaan(Short Tail or bicycle crossing male @ mm) male leopard steals a warthog from a lone hyena at Londolozi Game Reserve, bordering the Kruger National Park in South Africa... Moments later the hyena returns and he challenges it and then attempts to hoist the carcass. Fantastic performance |
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| Gregoire | Sep 11 2012, 05:27 PM Post #116 |
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supercat! |
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| Kurtz | Sep 11 2012, 08:51 PM Post #117 |
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The full story: Tugwaan Male Steals Kill and Evades Hyena by Lucien Beaumont on September 11, 2012 in Guest's Footage,Leopards of Londolozi,Wildlife Diary 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. The Tugwaan Male Leopard approaches the stolen carcass, clearly with the intent to take it from the hyena. 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 Maxabeni Female Leopard after losing her warthog to a hyena. 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. In an attempt to avert the kill being stolen back, the Tugwaan male drags the stolen warthog to a nearby tree. The Tugwaan Male chased the hyena away from kill in a burst of speed and aggression. 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. Just before reaching the tree, he stops to feed and see the hyena approaching. 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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| 1977marc | Sep 11 2012, 08:57 PM Post #118 |
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Interesting stuff!! The impressive Sandriver male lost his fight to Xihangalas. For you to know :Xihangalas is Shorty, aka bicyclecrossing male,Tugwaan Male ( all the same leopard). Then you see Xihangalas (shorty), loosing a fight the the king The Camp Pan Male I think the only leopard in this area who could beat Camp Pan and would dare to fight him is Tyson ( I think the most agressive Tom Leopard in the area and also huge, in the video posted by Kurtz the Ranger estimates him 85-90kg Edited by 1977marc, Sep 11 2012, 09:01 PM.
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| Kurtz | Sep 11 2012, 09:07 PM Post #119 |
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And Mvula killed Jordaan male.. an epic battle without some pics  Tyson is the strongest male in Kruger, Dudley male had a bad encounter with him, his lips aren' t the same.. This is the kingdom of Tyson but for how much time? Phisycally i don't see other males for the future like tyson, he is too much we have ta wai a couple of generations of leopards...while tyson next year become very old and he will be the same leopard today? Edited by Kurtz, Sep 11 2012, 09:09 PM.
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| 1977marc | Sep 12 2012, 09:12 AM Post #120 |
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here some more pics of the impressive sand river male ( ranger estimates him to be 75kg, he look even bigger to me. He lost his eye to Shorty, who recently lost a fight to the Camp Pan male)      and a video mating Edited by 1977marc, Sep 12 2012, 09:39 AM.
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