A Michael Broad Blog
G.B. Schaller in his book The Serengeti Lion (1972) examined several hundred lion kills and only on 13 occasions did he record lions covering the remains of their prey animals. The problem for lions is that over much of their African range the landscape is very open and scavengers are very numerous which discourages …
Lions are quite capable swimmers. Judging by the video on this page, sometimes, they don’t want to get wet! This majestic lion needs to get across a small patch of water and is reluctant to get more than his feet wet. He gingerly walks into the pond. It’s quite amusing and quite telling at …
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 …
