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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 29 2012, 07:14 PM (6,819 Views) | |
| MightyKharza | Jun 29 2012, 07:14 PM Post #1 |
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Post all your big cat vs wild pig interactions here. I've always found these matchups to be among the most entertaining. Pigs are just tough enough to make the interactions more interesting and lengthy than those with deer/gazelle, but are small enough to be killed quickly enough before you begin feeling sorry for them (as is the case with buffalos and hippos, etc.) 16 month old tigress vs Indian wild boar Lionesses vs warthog (oh well, Hakuna Matata!) |
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| Taipan | Jun 29 2012, 11:14 PM Post #2 |
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| Ursus arctos | Jul 1 2012, 12:36 AM Post #3 |
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For warthog videos especially I often have to turn the sound off. Re: video Taipan posted. Cool to see a big cat tackle a boar head on. |
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| chui | Jul 1 2012, 07:03 AM Post #4 |
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Young male leopard taking on and killing a warthog.  Leopard and bushpig.  The overly muscular necks of male leopards likely assist in wrestling tough prey like warthogs and bushpigs.  Impressive kills.   I think predation on suids by male leopards is likely a major contributor to the particularly pronounced sexual dimorphism in the species. Edited by chui, Mar 23 2017, 08:53 PM.
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| k9boy | Jul 1 2012, 07:10 AM Post #5 |
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I agree chui, watch this video, the leopard holds the warthog using his powerful neck. |
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| Ophiophagy | Jul 1 2012, 11:53 AM Post #6 |
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the one the tiger killed was such a monster |
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| MightyKharza | May 30 2013, 09:03 PM Post #7 |
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A long, drawn out video, but worth a watch to see just how messed up the warthog's face is at the end. My personal favourite. Watch through till the end. |
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| Canidae | May 30 2013, 09:38 PM Post #8 |
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I'm sure Big Cat Diary viewers will remember this dramatis escape! ^ Very cool, dramatic hunt. ^ Quite a lot of these seem to be from Kruger / South Africa. This kill was reported by Ted Bailey in his study there, commited by big male 23: "I once followed the tracks of a warthog in a muddy road to where adult M23 was lying in grass 70 cm high. The signs of a struggle indicated the warthog walked within 3 m of the hidden leopard before the leopard attacked and killed it." Naturally he also reported it is a risky buisness: ""Warthogs can also injure leopards and are probably capable of killing leopards. One leopard that attacked a large male warthog in the park was seriously injured (Pienaar 1969) and Stevenson Hamilton (1947) saw a female warthog with young attack and tree a large male leopard. Wild bush pigs in India will also attack and tree leopards (Turnbull Kemp 1967) as will other ungulates." However he also had this to say about large / unusual prey killing, which is why it seems to be older and by default more experienced individuals that take such impressive prey, and often the same cats : "The occasional killing of large prey by leopards probably attests to the leopard's strength and ability to kill such prey rather than its prey preferences. The ability to kill large prey undoubtedly comes with repeated attempts, large prey abundance, and age and experience of the individual leopard." Predation on warthogs is especially interesting due to the method used, a bite to the sternum / chest area. But it is just chewing up that area so that the warthog dies of bloodloss from enormous tissue and blood vessel damage, or is it as some tour guides say the leopard actually attempting to reach the internal organs to kill it? Anyone know of any report in scientific lit or prevalent sighting that could shed some light on the specifics of such behaviour? If this is suid vs. felid maybe Gato could also add the data of Lynx / Wild Boar hunts. |
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| bernardcalzaghe | May 31 2013, 07:46 AM Post #9 |
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meh.. don't like watching those kind of vids. |
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| MightyKharza | Feb 10 2014, 09:52 PM Post #10 |
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Here's a longer version of the famous 16 month old tigress video: Edited by MightyKharza, Feb 10 2014, 09:58 PM.
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| chui | Sep 22 2016, 09:02 PM Post #11 |
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Power and grit. |
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| MightyKharza | Dec 21 2016, 09:28 PM Post #12 |
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| Cape Leopard | Dec 22 2016, 12:34 AM Post #13 |
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Florida Panthers preying on feral pigs: 
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| SquamataOrthoptera | Jan 23 2017, 10:55 AM Post #14 |
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A Warthog gores and kills a Lioness Group of Wild Boar kills a Leopard.  Warthog escapes from Leopard. 
Edited by SquamataOrthoptera, Jan 23 2017, 11:11 AM.
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| MightyKharza | Mar 13 2017, 07:13 AM Post #15 |
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