Gallery page one (carnivores) Gallery page two (Carnivores) Gallery page three (prey) Gallery page four (prey) Gallery page 5 (kills)
Welcome the the Prey species Photo Gallery page of the Predator Conservation Trust website. The gallery is intended to show photographs of some of the various species that are preyed on by carnivores.
Clicking on any of the small images will open a larger version in a new window. To close the new window, simply click on the image.
Gallery sections (this page): Bush Buck
Elephants Giraffe
Ground Squirrel Impala
Kudu Ostrich
Oryx Puku Seals Scrub Hare Springbok
Warthog Wildebeest Zebra
Gallery sections (page 1): Cheetah cubs
Cheetah running Cheetah Spotted Hyena
Brown Hyena Lion Leopard
Wild Dog
Gallery sections (page 2): Banded
Mongoose Bat
Eared Fox Black
Backed Jackal
Cape Clawless Otter Genet
Caracal
Honey
Badger (Ratel) Tiger
Yellow Mongoose
Kunene Region
Kalahari Game lodge
Gallery
sections (page 4): Buffalo
Dik Dik
Eland
Gerenuk Hippo
Red Hartebeest Rock Hyrax
Tree Hyrax
Waterbuck
Gallery sections (page 5): Lions on a kill
Vultures on a carcass
Cheetah on a kill
On the Namibian coast there are a number of colonies of cape fur seals, including several south of Luderitz, and the popular tourist destination at cape cross, north of Swakopmund. These colonies can contain thousands of seals at any one time, and like any large group of animals this attracts predators. Very young seals are particularly vulnerable as they do not have the ability to move to the water and swim to cool down and are thus vulnerable to heatstroke. Other young seals get trampled by larger adults, meaning there is a regular supply of dead seals which provide a good source of food for the Brown Hyena populations in the area and for Jackals. If no seal carcasses are available to scavenge then predators may attack and kill young seals. The Brown Hyena Research Project studies a number of Brown Hyena clans which prey on seal colonies.
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Elephants in Namibia are not often preyed upon by the large carnivores, but those elephants that die, for example from Anthrax, form a large meal for scavengers such as the spotted hyena or jackals. In Botswana some lions do prey on elephants, hunting them at night when the lions better night vision plus large pride size gives them the advantage over an elephant. The BBC series Planet Earth included footage of this happening.
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These wild pigs are common and are found in much of Namibia and southern Africa.
The two pairs of tusks vary in size and can reach a considerable length. The top
pair is continually honed against the bottom pair which means the tusks are very
sharp which makes them formidable weapons for defence against predators.
They are able to run at up to 55 Kilometres/hour (34 miles/hour), which while
fast, is not fast enough to escape predators such as Cheetah, so they will
attempt to escape by retreating into burrows. The warthog will reverse
into the burrow, allowing it to use its tusks for defence against any predator
that attempts to follow it in. It also allows the warthog to charge out of
the burrow at speed if predators are around - any predator standing in front of
a burrow when an adult warthog charges out risks serious injury from its razor
sharp tusks.
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