Predators’ most impressive prey items

[Ceratodromeus]

Unfortunately photobucket took a giant F

So, i'll be reposting some of my accounts from pages prior and deleting the old posts

Here is individual predation of water buffalo by ora

First here's a badly wounded ~320kg female water buffalo whose achilles tendons were lacerated, the animal was in such bad condition that it had to be killed.





From Auffenberg's book

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Impressive constrictor predatory feats documented in Gerard wood's 1983 "Guiness book of animal facts and feats"

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Now this is pretty cool-- an eyewitness account of a single african wild dog taking down a sable antelope bull



from the book
African nature notes and reminiscences

by Selous, Frederick Courteney(1908)

[Ceratodromeus]

Horned frogs are neat

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Emphasis mine



Reference

Antwi, Raymond Agyepong, et al. "Predation on Kob (Kobus kob) by the African rock python (Python sebae) at Shai Hills Resource Reserve, Ghana." Herpetology Notes 12 (2019): 1181-1183.

[Ceratodromeus]

one of the more notable python predatory feats

[Revenant7451]

Here is some brown bear impressive feat accounts

From Ursus Arctos 1758

In rare cases, brown bears are capable of killing bulls of the largest ungulates in regions they inhabit, reportedly including moose, muskox, wild yak (Bos mutus) and both American and European bison (Bison bison and B. bonasus). Remarkably, such attacks are sometimes carried out by bears [/b]that were not particularly large, including interior sow grizzlies or small-bodied bears from the Central Arctic, and some exceptional ungulates taken may be up to two to three times the weight of the attacking bear.Persson, I. L. (1998). Brown bear Ursus arctos predation upon adult moose Alces alces in Scandinavia: a study at two levels of scale. Cand. scient. thesis. However, most of the bears who took adult moose in east-central Alaska and Scandinavia were large, mature males.

The Link

www.gbif.org/species/113276597

So smaller brown bears can kill the bulls of muskox. european bison, moose, wild yak and american bison

These bulls

[Revenant7451]

An account where an adult male black killed two adult bull elks

From

Predation by black bear on mature male elk



www.jstor.org/stable/1378446?cookieSet=1&seq=1

Two bull elks are pretty impressive kills for a black bear

This is a bull elk

[Revenant7451]

Now the lion

Amazing photos of a lion killing a giraffe

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A single young lion killed an adult bull giraffe

"We have seen lions bring down different prey species from A to Z – from aardvark, antelopes, elands ostrich, wildebeest to zebras. But two days ago it was a different story. A lone male lion jumped on the back of a mature male giraffe, devoured the tendons and was dragged on for over 500 meters before finally succeeding in bringing it down. This was an act that surprised us all and we were left speechless at how a lone lion could perform this amazing feat!"





The link

web.archive.org/web/20170823112815/http://lionguardians.org/lone-lion-kills-a-giraffe/

The average weight is 1,192 kg (2,628 lb) for an adult male and 828 kg (1,825 lb) for an adult female with maximum weights of 1,930 kg (4,250 lb) and 1,180 kg (2,600 lb) having been recorded for males and females, respectively. Despite its long neck and legs, the giraffe's body is relatively short.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe

A young male lion killed an animal weighing over a ton

[Revenant7451]

Feb 6, 2020 3:58:25 GMT 5 Ceratodromeus said:

Now this is pretty cool-- an eyewitness account of a single african wild dog taking down a sable antelope bull



from the book
African nature notes and reminiscences

by Selous, Frederick Courteney(1908)

Very impressive

This is a sable antelope bull




The sable antelope is sexually dimorphic, with the male heavier and about one-fifth taller than the female.[10] The head-and-body length is typically between 190 and 255 cm (75 and 100 in).[11] Males reach about 117–140 cm (46–55 in) at the shoulder, while females are slightly shorter. Males typically weigh 235 kg (518 lb) and females 220 kg (490 lb).[12] The tail is 40–75 cm (16–30 in) long, with a tuft at the end.[10][11]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sable_antelope

[dinosauria101]

The famous account of a Nile croc killing a black rhino, solo: pp.userapi.com/c841136/v841136238/3c557/Jv6xJaJD2xY.jpg

[Revenant7451]

Do you think a saltwater crocodile kill a an adult white rhino

[dinosauria101]

Maybe, but it would be rare.