Gallery page 1 (carnivores) Gallery page 2 (carnivores) Gallery page 3 (prey) Gallery page 4 (prey) Gallery page 5 (kills)
Welcome the the Photo Gallery of the Predator Conservation Trust website. Due to the steady increase in the number of photos in the gallery, it has been split into several pages. This page shows photographs of some of the various carnivores, and also some of the areas of Namibia where PCT carries out its work. Other pages show photographs of other carnivores, and a number of the prey species.
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Gallery sections (this page): Lions on a kill, vultures on the carcass, cheetah on a kill
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 3): Bush Buck
Elephants Giraffe
Ground Squirrel Impala
Kudu Ostrich
Oryx Seals Scrub Hare Springbok
Warthog Wildebeest Zebra
Gallery
sections (page 4): Buffalo
Dik Dik
Eland
Gerenuk Hippo
Red Hartebeest Rock Hyrax
Tree Hyrax
Waterbuck
The following photos show a pride of lions feeding on the carcass of a male buffalo which they had just killed. The kill occurred at around 9pm and the buffalo was quickly overpowered and killed. The pride then spent several hours feeding on the carcass.
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The following morning, at around 6am, the carcass was considerably smaller and one lioness was still feeding while the rest of the pride lay in the shade under nearby bushes. For the rest of the day the lions remained nearby, occasionally taking it in turns to feed from the carcass and to chase away the waiting vultures who kept trying to sneak up to the carcass for a quick meal before the lions noticed them.
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The following day, the lions eventually decided to leave the carcass for the vultures. At this point a large number of vultures stopped their impatient squabbling and descended on the carcass and began feeding (and fighting over the best bits).
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The following day, after the vultures had finished with the carcass and a hyena had dragged it for 50 metres and eaten some of it, there was not a great deal left of the carcass. Within a few weeks there will be little sign that the carcass had ever existed and provided food for so many animals and birds.
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Three male Cheetahs in the Masaai Mara had just killed a small antelope before these photos were taken, and the kill had been dragged into thick bushes to prevent vultures spotting the carcass and attracting larger predators such as Lion or Hyena which might steal the cheetahs meal.
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These photos show a group of Jackals feeding on a Wildebeest carcass. It had presumably died from natural causes or from colliding with a tourist vehicle. There were not other carnivores around, but around four hours later after the Jackals had eaten most of the carcass, two male lions found the carcass and stole it from the Jackals to eat themselves. At any one time there were no more than four jackals on the carcass but there were others sitting or lying at a distance waiting for their chance. On several occasions one jackal disappeared from sight as it crawled inside the carcass.
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These photos show lions feeding on a rhino carcass. The Rhino had died of Anthrax at the edge of a waterhole, and Etosha park staff dragged it away from the water into an open area and removed the horns (policy - to avoid tempting poachers into the park). The lions were observed feeding on it for almost a week without them managing to eat much of the carcass as the rhinos skin is so tough even lions with their teeth and claws find it very hard to get through. In their attempts to tear their way into the carcass, they did manage to turn the carcass around through 180 degrees - quite a feat when the black rhino weights almost 1000Kg !
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These photos were taken just after a lioness stalked and killed an Oryx at the Okaukuejo waterhole in Etosha National Park, Namibia. A video clip of the stalk/kill is available in the video section of this website. After killing the Oryx at the waterhole, the lioness carried/dragged the carcass around 50-100 metres before eating it in privacy.
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