The lion kill rate varies so much that there is no standard or average. My source tells me that the reported kill rate ‘of individual lions varies from a low of ten to twelve prey per year to a high of forty-seven. To try and work out a standard success rate across all lion …
This post is specifically about the act of killing a prey animal. I am not going to discuss the predation process as a whole i.e. the stalking and attacking elements of the kill. This is about how a lion might kill the animal that they have caught and the type of killing bite employed …
Lions are the least active of all cats, domestic and wild. That might be a measure of laziness or it might be a measure of their effectiveness in hunting. To be ‘lazy’ means to be unwilling to work or use energy. But if there is no need to work or use energy because the …
Yes, lions do sometimes lose some of their teeth as this excellent photograph by Ernest Porter shows. It was taken in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. This male has lost his lower incisor teeth bar one and he has broken off one of this canine teeth on his lower jaw. There are three …
We can see that by hunting in packs the females achieve a better kill rate but the challenge is demanding and only about one in four hunts produces a result (20%-25%).
The hunting success rate of the lion in Africa is very variable and there is no standard but varies from a low of ten to twelve prey per year to a high of forty-seven. As food is shared with the pride their success rate is generally higher than for other cats.
A lioness successfully attacks, captures, kills and eats a stork. Location: Maasai Mara, Kenya Photographer: Jorge Alesanco – he is the owner of safari park Cheetah Tented Camp in Maasai Mara Lioness’s name: Zama The lioness has cubs and she was hunting to sustain herself to be able to feed them. She stalked the …
The pictures are stunning and sad. They are by Wim Van der Heever. Awesome work. The lionesses attacked a female buffalo and her calf. She was outnumbered by the lions and the outcome looked poor. A raging male buffalo stepped in to save her and the calf. Wim, 43, said: “The bull came and …
