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Hunting success rate: 60%
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Leeuwen
Lions are the archetypal apex predator, but their hunting success rate strongly depends on the number of lions involved – a single lion hunting in daylight has a success rate of 17-19 per cent, but this increases for those hunting as a group to 30 per cent. Of 1,300 hunts observed in the Serengeti, nearly half involved only one animal, 20 per cent involved two and the rest a group of (normally) between three and eight individuals.
Tijgers
Based on observations made in Kanha National Park in India, US field biologist George Schaller reckoned tigers were successful only 5 per cent of the time, while tiger conservationist Valmik Thapar estimates 10 per cent. But studies of Amur tigers in Russia’s Far East, reconstructing predation events from tracks in the snow, give kill rates of a 38 per cent when hunting red deer to 54 per cent for wild boar.
Hunting success rate: 60%
Ter vergelijking:
Leeuwen
Lions are the archetypal apex predator, but their hunting success rate strongly depends on the number of lions involved – a single lion hunting in daylight has a success rate of 17-19 per cent, but this increases for those hunting as a group to 30 per cent. Of 1,300 hunts observed in the Serengeti, nearly half involved only one animal, 20 per cent involved two and the rest a group of (normally) between three and eight individuals.
Tijgers
Based on observations made in Kanha National Park in India, US field biologist George Schaller reckoned tigers were successful only 5 per cent of the time, while tiger conservationist Valmik Thapar estimates 10 per cent. But studies of Amur tigers in Russia’s Far East, reconstructing predation events from tracks in the snow, give kill rates of a 38 per cent when hunting red deer to 54 per cent for wild boar.
