Animal Conflict

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If a horse/zebra stood its ground I think it could do that against an average wolf or leopard/cougar.

Video quality is low but at 0:36 I think you can see a bunch of blood on the sheeps head so it probably got kicked on the dome or stomped at some point.

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African rock python vs spotted hyena. Four years old but amazingly never heard of this incident until now.

After a tip-off from a benevolent group of tourists and their driver, we were informed that a massive 4m rock python had dispatched a hyena and was currently consuming it. We were originally very skeptical that snake of any magnitude would target large carnivores capable of retaliating and causing significant bodily harm to said snake, like a spotted hyena. A valuable friend of any scientist is skepticism, but thorough investigation is also a powerful ally. When anxiously questioned for the location of this predator cataclysm, we were directed to a bridge over a swampy culvert on the border of Happy Zebra and North territories – probably the last place we were hoping this hypothetical event would’ve taken place as now there was an even higher probability that one of our beloved fisi had been dispatched. Unfortunately, by the time we obtained this intel, it was too late to gallivant around the Mara which had received a true walloping of precipitation that night. Olivia and I reasoned that a snake with a 68kg hyena bolus in tow would not be making it very far, so we elected to delay our desperate foray until the morning to allow the accumulated water to drain. Eventually, the rock python was located, resembling, as its namesake implies: a gigantic rock submerged in a swamp.

Through cross-references of the video footage above, the discovery of a large rock python at the described location, and the condition of the snake – we concluded that this behemoth rock python did in fact kill and consume an adult spotted hyena. It took several nerve-racking hours of feverishly searching the binders of our three clans and recently missing hyenas, but we successfully established that this hyena was not one of our own and was likely an immigrant male looking for a new clan. This individual was likely ambushed and strangled to death as he or she wandered through the swampy culvert or neighboring drainage pipes looking for a cool place to sack out for the afternoon, as hyenas are wont to do. Nevertheless, it is an incredibly impressive kill for this python. This snake obviously knew what it was doing as it is one thing to successfully bite an adult hyena, and another to successfully bite, strangle cut off circulation, and come out of the fight unscathed. One false strike and that hyena could have easily turned around and crushed the python’s skull. Now that the rock python has successfully swallowed the hyena, it will likely lie motionless in a warm, safe place nearby for a couple of months. It will digest the hyena in totality and given a kill of this magnitude it will not need to eat for several months after. Well here’s to another fascinating struggle for life and death in the Mara. Always remember, if a terrible B-movie appears on the SyFy channel in a couple of years from now titled something like Mega Python vs. Super Hyena...you heard it here first!

msuhyenas.blogspot.com/2017/03/python-vs-hyena-battle-to-death.html

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Camel overpowering horse:

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House cats go lion on a dog:

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www.reddit.com/r/Crazy****ingVideos/comments/o1mp17/hawk_trying_to_take_down_a_rabbit/

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Ballzy lizard attacks much bigger snake

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Leopard cat ambushes crane:

www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/comments/pjkft0/a_leopard_cat_ambushes_a_redcrowned_crane/

Chicken kills rat

www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/comments/phvm3a/rat_vs_chicken/

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Thought that duck was a goner when the mink dragged it up to the grass. Wonder why the duck only chose to paddle away instead of flying, though. Too exhausted by the struggle, maybe?

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