Animal Conflict

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Pregnant warthog holding its own against a leopard for ten minutes. It survived due to a hyena's presence.

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I'm kinda of iffy about the photo above. According to the trapper he/she didn't intend for the two animals to fight and separated them quickly:

Wow! I was not expecting that. Above is one of my very best photos that I've taken during my time as a wildlife control operator. I didn't mean for it to happen, and I'd never pit wild animals against each other for sport, particularly after growing up watching my sisters share a bedroom. Seriously. I'm kind to animals. But in the above case, I ran out of traps to use before I could travel to my wildlife relocation point. In such cases, I carefully transfer one animal to a cage with another. They always get along fine. I've never seen a fight. They usually just sit there. They are far more concerned for their own safety than to worry about another animal. I've put raccoons with raccoons, opossums with possums, squirrels with armadillos, alligators with mice (kidding), and I've never seen so much as a tooth bared, let alone a real scuffle, but these two were out for blood!

I think it was the possum's doing. They are usually very docile animals. I pick them up all the time (from the non-pointy end) and they are usually chill. If anything, when they feel threatened, they either gape their mouths all slack-jawed yokel like, or faint out of fear (play possum). But not old Pete here! He lunged for all he was worth! I have a camera with me at all times, and the instant I saw menace (immediately), I grabbed the camera and took the above photo. I'm glad I didn't get the photo of what happened .02 seconds after this flash, because it wasn't pretty.

Suffice to say, I immediately called the fight and threw a metal divider between the animals, and ushered the angry challenger back into his own cage, and left the job one free cage of what I wanted. Animal safety first - if I didn't want to protect them, I wouldn't bother to trap them in humane cage traps and relocate them to safe and suitable environments. I guess the fight ended a draw, or undecided, but I really was amazed to see an opossum not only hold his own like that, but go for it! In fact, if I had to pick a winner, I'd go with the possum. No no, I forgot what me mum told me, neither is the winner, everyone loses in a fight.

But if anyone is not comfortable with it I can remove it.

www.aaanimalcontrol.com/blog/raccoonfightopossum.html

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Possible raccoon predations on cats.





www.bear-tracker.com/raccoonpredationoncats.html

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Thx for posting the croc video almost taking the large buffalo. This kinda settles a debate between Black Ice and me back at CF. I guess crocs can take prey similar in size to themselves after all.

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Golden Eagle vs Bobcat
www.liveleak.com/view?i=a80_1323776051

Some real hop right their from the Bobcat & a lucky Eagle to get away unscathed (or did it?..it appears to have a limp of some sort on it's flight down?)!

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Jul 31, 2013 4:30:51 GMT 5 221extra said:

Golden Eagle vs Bobcat
www.liveleak.com/view?i=a80_1323776051

Some real hop right their from the Bobcat & a lucky Eagle to get away unscathed (or did it?..it appears to have a limp of some sort on it's flight down?)!

That seemingly is all there is to that interaction. I've searched extensively for the full story and nothing else ever came up. I'm guessing the eagle either repelled the cat by giving it a nip or the eagle was killed (it did look like it had a injury)

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What argument? I don't remember any argument between us on crocodiles.

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