American zoologists to count at least 50 lions were injured since 1960, in the fight with porcupines or even killed. The pigs fight back with their Stingers: These are stuck and in the case of the predators, severe inflammation. They are mostly young male lion, the reckless attack on a porcupine. the Clara Hellner
Attacks in the African Savannah, a lion, a porcupine, so this fight ends is usually painful or fatal for the lions. This is the conclusion of researchers at the Roosevelt University in Chicago, and Julian Kerbis Peterhans. The zoologist crawled science literature, newspaper articles, and Youtube Videos from 1960 to 2016, according to Reports on such fights between porcupine and lion, and were found In your Journal of East African History study published in document 50 such cases in which a lion was injured.
as big as a Cocker Spaniel, is the pig of the Predator in particular by up to 30 cm long spines dangerous. Stuck them in the mouth, face, or in the paws of a lion, you can trigger severe inflammation. The predators weakens when hunting. You will lose the infection by their fine sense of smell, or can no longer bite correctly. Hungry, sick, and disoriented, you go and do it in desperation, then, under certain circumstances, to humans, as the researchers found reports from South Africa show.
But why lions come upon the idea of such a dangerous maneuver? Neither man nor porcupine belong to the favored prey of predators, they prefer less spiky foods such as Zebras, antelopes and Buffalos. A lion tries to hunt a porcupine, then it is a sign that his prey options are limited, the researchers write.
Young lions daring
pigs are male, the attacks on sting, the researchers suggest, is one of usually a good Dose of Cockiness of the male Adolescent. Only during an extreme Drought in Kenya, two lions were females to attack a porcupine get carried away, all of the other attacker male lion were, most of them very young. If you are injured by a porcupine, you will be challenged to self: Different from the herds of living females, the young lions lead to a solitary male life. And anyone who draws them after the unsuccessful fight of the spines.
