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Post by Venomous Dragon on Sept 23, 2014 4:56:31 GMT 5
I continue to hold my original position on the subject aswell.
Much like a human kick it can potentially break something but the vast majority of the time it serves as a painful blow.
Still more than enough to keep flanking enemies away though.
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Post by spinosaurus1 on Oct 26, 2014 6:24:43 GMT 5
this buffalo has both its feet and its face messed up from an attacking komodo dragon
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Dec 1, 2014 11:28:18 GMT 5
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Dec 14, 2014 3:14:07 GMT 5
 No details but that's a huge rabbit. |
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Post by theropod on Dec 14, 2014 8:21:20 GMT 5
No details but that's a huge rabbit. Rather a small varanid and forced perspective. |
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Dec 14, 2014 12:29:21 GMT 5
No details but that's a huge rabbit. Rather a small varanid and forced perspective. I accounted for the forced perspective, and that looks to be a lace monitor so it's either not fully grown or that's a big rabbitn |
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Post by creature386 on Dec 14, 2014 13:34:40 GMT 5
It doesn't matter so much anyway, the prey:predator ratio is huge.
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Post by coherentsheaf on Dec 14, 2014 17:55:55 GMT 5
Do we know that this is predation?
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Post by Vodmeister on Dec 14, 2014 21:01:32 GMT 5
Do we know that this is predation? An assumption based on the fact that a predator animal has its jaws wrapped around the neck of a prey animal. Of course, it could have easily been the varanid scavenging on a rabbit carcass. One picture doesn't tell us anything, unless Venomous Dragon knows something about the account that we don't? |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 14, 2014 21:32:17 GMT 5
I don't know about you guys but both ideas sound just as parsimonious as each other IMHO.
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Post by theropod on Dec 14, 2014 21:48:48 GMT 5
Well, a throat hold does look a lot like predation, supposedly if it was scavenging the animal would go for the belly. Also the hare looks uninjured otherwise.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Dec 15, 2014 0:43:13 GMT 5
Do we know that this is predation? An assumption based on the fact that a predator animal has its jaws wrapped around the neck of a prey animal. Of course, it could have easily been the varanid scavenging on a rabbit carcass. One picture doesn't tell us anything, unless Venomous Dragon knows something about the account that we don't? I do not, for now all we can do is assume one way or the other. |
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Post by creature386 on Dec 15, 2014 0:53:37 GMT 5
Well, a throat hold does look a lot like predation, supposedly if it was scavenging the animal would go for the belly. Also the hare looks uninjured otherwise. A throat hold can be useful for dragging a carcass. And the cause of death doesn't have to be violent, there are various ways how an animal could have died and still look like that. Who knows if it died through a disease? |
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Dec 15, 2014 1:06:43 GMT 5
Rabbit predation by large Australian varanids is far from uncommon anyway   Here is another account of feline predation  |
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Dec 15, 2014 1:11:16 GMT 5
Well, a throat hold does look a lot like predation, supposedly if it was scavenging the animal would go for the belly. Also the hare looks uninjured otherwise. A throat hold can be useful for dragging a carcass. And the cause of death doesn't have to be violent, there are various ways how an animal could have died and still look like that. Who knows if it died through a disease? I know of no accounts of varanids moving carcasses |
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