FIGHTS IN THE BUSH

TERRITORIAL FIGHTS

In some of the Bovids its just a test of strength because power is shared



This is mostly common in animals like antelopes, and cats as well as even our domestic dogs, especially in Africa. Males clash defending their own territories or home ranges whilst other animals do so challenging those in which are already dominant in the territory. In Impalas to be specific, this normally happen during the mating season. Dominant males will lead and mate over thirty females and before and during this period they will be challenged by other males to take over the herd of females. Lives or horns cans be lost sometime but in may cases the challenger or the challenged will flee away for dear life.

THE HUNTER GETS HUNTED

Have you heard of the Hunter getting hunted and wondered if it can be possibly true. Probably the answer is yes, but if you close your eyes right now and imagine those predators of the African wild, you will surely find none that can be seriously hunted down by its prey and that is normal thought. Thoughts like the leopard ca never be hunted by its Impala prey or the Lion by what it eats. The picture above is totally true, the lion up on the small Sausage tree was not planted on there by the use of modern computer technology but rather something that actually happened.

Its a situation whereby a lion spots one Buffalo grazing and thinks that it will be a very easy to kill because its a one on one battle. Then a few minutes later only to find itself surrounded by lion hating horns and the hunter resorts to becoming a temporary climber for a very good reason. This lion stayed here for up to forty five minutes, nearly an hour even when the last Buffalo was gone, just t make sure that he was not going to land for a big surprise.  l

THE ADVANTAGES OF COOPERATIVE HUNTING



In most cases cooperative hunting has more advantages and less disadvantages. The only bad thing about is when we watch the victim being eaten alive, seeing them die because of excess loss of blood and extreme shock as they see they bodies being torn apart by the ferocious predator.

The African Wild dogs for example are successful hunters based on their number and strategies they use to bring down their prey. They have the ability to rundown their prey over long distances and sometimes they eat them alive.

In the scenarios I have seen, its seldom that they often loose they quarry due to its defence because of their number, and the way the case their prey.

My grandfather once told me that among every pack, there are breeders, which is the alpha male and female, the trackers and chasers(those who will always at the far front of all the pack when they are chasing). This is very all very true because i have seen it happen. I watched the same pack chasing many times and the same dogs will be in the front even when they are following fresh spoors/tracks of their prey.

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