A Michael Broad Blog
Which big cats eat fish? The big cats are the tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard. They will all eat fish when necessary but they won’t be a preferred prey item, far from it. This is because they’re too small and other prey items are easier to hunt. Tigers will kill any animal that puts …
Do lions eat birds? Lions will eat pretty well anything and have been recorded eating ‘almost every imaginable land mammal and even a few aquatic ones…’. This huge range of prey includes birds when they are available and there is an interesting story online today in The Guardian which supports the fact that lions …
How come lions don’t eat hyenas after killing them? Some asked this and all the answers that I have seen assume that the question is correctly stated by which I mean they have presumed that lions don’t eat hyenas. But who said that? It is not necessarily true and if there is some truth …
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 …
Wildebeest (on the right), Africa – lions eat them! – photo by Martin_Heigan In answer to the question, “what do lions eat“, the answer comes with an appreciation of this wild cat’s hunting prowess. Over centuries people have considered the lion at the very top in respect of hunting skills. The lionesses are the …
This is a table showing what I have called the “lion prey profile” from one of the famous national parks of Africa, the Kruger National Park. The sample size is impressively large at 12,313 and the data comes from the best book on wild cats: Wild Cats Of The World Table 55 page 301 …
