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Giraffes can kick lions hard enough to kill them, or at least injure them enough to prevent lions from returning to effective hunting before starving to death.
by KMag 5y ago
Giraffes can kick lions hard enough to kill them, or at least injure them enough to prevent lions from returning to effective hunting before starving to death.
In my very limited experience (4 or 5 day safari in Kruger), Giraffes are pretty shy, but you really want to avoid startling them or otherwise putting them in a situation where they feel a need to defend themselves or their young.
- lumberingjack 5y agoYeah but everyone thinks that lions are badass but they fail like 77% of their hunts so they're more like huge failures.
- dotancohen 5y agoTo be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, but I fail much more than 77% of the time. Probably most men do.
- OJFord 5y agoBut perhaps not when we actually depended on it, and had all the practice/experience that goes with that.
- KMag 5y ago> To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, Well, you don't know what you're missing, and it might be part of your problem. Just say'n.
- dotancohen 5y ago:)
- inglor_cz 5y agoYou are also probably hunting alone. Lions cooperate.
- dotancohen 5y agoDo you have plans for this evening?
- inglor_cz 5y agoToo hot here right now. Funnily enough, I am a Leo.
- ashtonkem 5y agoThat’s a pretty ridiculous way to measure predator success. Hunting is a high risk high reward endeavor; a predator can fail to kill in most hunts and still be a very successful species. For the record, it’s estimated that American deer hunters have a success rate between 6-13%, depending on the method and state. So lions are apparently more consistently successful hunters than humans with guns.