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| Hyena knocks leopard off its kill | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 24 2013, 11:42 PM (3,271 Views) | |
| Vita | Apr 24 2013, 11:42 PM Post #1 |
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| ManEater | Apr 25 2013, 12:51 AM Post #2 |
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Looks like a leopardess. |
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| mharper14 | Apr 25 2013, 01:46 AM Post #3 |
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it is a leopardess, no question, its got some courage tho to carry on attacking |
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| Vita | Apr 25 2013, 02:41 AM Post #4 |
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I've seen young male leopards around that size. How can it be a female for sure? |
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| Cat | Apr 25 2013, 03:20 AM Post #5 |
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Any weight estimates for the two animals? The hyena is clearly bigger, but how much? After seeing so many episodes of hyenas dominating pards, I'm not so confident anymore that at parity the cat would win. And if it is smaller the odds are clearly against it. |
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| k9boy | Apr 25 2013, 03:35 AM Post #6 |
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Look how the hyena charges, it puts its head down like a bull. |
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| Sicilianu | Apr 25 2013, 03:38 AM Post #7 |
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It is a smart tactic. The hyena is protecting its face while still being able still keeping the head close to bite. It is especially in position to get a leopard limb. If that were to happen, even if the leopard won the fight, it would most likely die. The leopard was smaller, but it also did not care enough to really fight back. One meal is not worth not being unable to obtain other meals. Either way, a leopard being head-butted by a hyena is priceless.
Edited by Sicilianu, Apr 25 2013, 03:42 AM.
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| skarface | Apr 25 2013, 04:15 AM Post #8 |
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I think it is a young or not very big male leopard, by looking at its loose neck and belly skin. And a big hyena. |
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| chui | Apr 25 2013, 06:14 AM Post #9 |
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If not a female it is at best a subadult male leopard (2-3 years old). Definitely not an adult male which would not be so much smaller than a hyena. Mature male leopards are fairly easy to identify they are characterized by big masculine looking heads, thick necks with a pronounced dewlap, and overall muscular appearance. See this paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0035209 . Good effort by the little leopard BTW. Edited by chui, Apr 25 2013, 06:15 AM.
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| Full Throttle | Apr 25 2013, 06:23 AM Post #10 |
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Yeah the leopard is probably a female or sub adult, definitely not a prime male, and the hyena dominated the encounter, i love how it just flew at the leopard, then shrugged it off. |
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| ImperialDino | Apr 25 2013, 10:46 PM Post #11 |
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Another loss for the slapping leopard. |
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| manics | Apr 30 2013, 09:04 AM Post #12 |
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Here is a dominant male leopards reaction to a hyena. To be fair the hyena may be a smaller indivdual than the one posted in first video. Edited by manics, Apr 30 2013, 09:09 AM.
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| Bandog | May 1 2013, 10:17 AM Post #13 |
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Everything else is just a dog.
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He is a BIG BOY. Look at him haul that warthog around. |
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| 1977marc | May 2 2013, 06:36 AM Post #14 |
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That is Shorty, Bicycle Crossing male...around 75 kg..he is a big boy indeed with a fighting temper There are enough video's of him Fighting even bigger leopards..Camp Pan male and Emsagwen male. The first one he lost, the seccond one was en tie... |
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| TIKI | May 2 2013, 07:58 AM Post #15 |
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Everyone knows Hyenas are the weakest predators of them all. |
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