The island has a herd of about 600 Cape buffalo, and a pride of ten lions. One of the places I visited is Duba Plains, an island in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Of course, a sample size of three is too small to make a firm conclusion. Presumably right favoring lions would approach prey preferentially from the right, leading to more right side injuries. Each of the lionesses had lost their right eye, which suggests to me that lions might be right handed-technically this is called laterality. I also saw a lioness which had lost her eye in the last couple days-the socket was still oozing blood. The eye was still swollen, giving her a demonic look, a bit like villains in Japanese Anime. In another area we saw a lioness dubbed "Evil Eye" who had a similar but much more recent eye problem. One, which the guides call Silver Eye is the most aggressive hunter in her pride. I saw three lionesses that had each lost an eye. They must kill most of the prey, which is very dangerous work. In short, they have the lifestyle of pimps.įemales, on the other hand are sleek efficient hunters. In between territory fights they are bad tempered and terrorize the females in their pride. This is serious business most male lions die in such fights.
The main danger males face is fighting off other males that want to take over their pride and territory. The females on the other hand do all of the really hard work-killing the majority of prey, which the males then appropriate for themselves. Male lions sleep an average 20 hours per day.
#Lion elephant predators full
Their lives are full of violence, exploitation and sex-in other words just like human royalty through much of history. Male lions really look the part of the "king of beasts". Males never do-they disperse and become nomadic, looking for a pride where they can challenge the dominant male and take over. Upon reaching adulthood female cubs may stay with the pride. Males tend to come and go-the typical time frame for them dominating a pride is just 3 to 4 years. Lionesses are the backbone of the pride-they stay together for many years.
There are also one or more males, usually a coalition of two brothers, but sometimes unrelated lions. A pride is a set of females, often but not always sisters, along with their cubs and subadult cubs.
Lions are the only truly social cat, living in groups called prides. It's a rare occurance though as easier meals are usually available.īut would it really be logical to consider an adult female elephant as prey for a lion if attacks against them are so rare? I have read before that in times of food scarcity, lions have been known to attack and even consume other predators like leopards, cheetahs and even hyenas, yet nobody normally considers them prey for a lion right? Why shouldn't the same logic apply for an adult female elephant, or rhinos and hippos for that matter? Not attacking you or anything, just interested in discussion.One of the focal points, if you pardon the pun, of my recent trip to Botswana was lions, Africa's magnificent predators. Do you have any video or article examples of this? Would that mean then that, in your view, fully grown bull elephants would have no natural predators? I have heard of one instance of the savuti pride taking down a bull elephant, but that bull was injured from a fight with another bull and was already dying IIRC. Yeah I don't think there are any instances. I'm unaware of any instances of lion prides taking down adult, male elephants
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