Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve, Even tigers, which like all cats except lions are solitary creatures, do take down very young elephants singlehandedly from time to time - so lions would find it much easier, working as a pride. I remember seeing a Nat Geo film on a pride attacking and taking down a adolescent elephant. But I would guess it is extremely rare except in parts of Botswana, probably initially triggered by brutal drought and hence a paucity of other prey. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Sue Pearce wrote: > > > Elephants are indeed one of the animals that lions avoid conflict with, > but not always. On one of her past safaris, my wife saw the results but not > the actual act. There is one pride of lions in far south Africa that > habitually kill and eat elephants. It is supposed to be the only known > pride > that can successfully do this. It requires seventeen (SEVENTEEN!) lions > working together, presumably in harmony, to accomplish this. We can guess > that they learned this skill over generations, and it is passed down from > mother to daughter. > > incredible... > non urban legend or reality ? > I wonder if they do this by default, or they resort to it in dire times, > > Steve > > > > Bill Pearce > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >