What do Big Cats Eat? (All 5 Big Cat Diets)
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Explore 6 fascinating studies on the diet of big cats. The studies included range from a 2016 meta-analysis on the entire range of the jaguar to more local studies on lions in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park and a study on Amur tigers on the Russian-Chinese border.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:14 Snow Leopard
07:35 Siberian Tiger
10:59 Bengal Tiger
13:36 Lion
21:27 Leopard
27:20 Jaguar
Creative Commons Attribution
Asian Badger Meles leucurus x 2 - Mikhail Golomysov
The studies included in the video are listed below. Thank you to the authors for publishing under the Creative Commons licence.
Prey Preferences of the Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia): Regional Diet Specificity Holds Global Significance for Conservation
PLOS One | Lyngdoh et al. 2014
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
Prey selection of Amur tigers in relation to the spatiotemporal overlap with prey across the Sino–Russian border
BioOne/Wildlife Biology | Dou et al. 2019
https://bioone.org/journals/wildlife-...
Factors associated with co-occurrence of large carnivores in a human-dominated landscape
Biodiversity and Conservation | Lamichhane et al. 2019
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Seasonal Diet and Prey Preference of the African Lion in a Waterhole-Driven Semi-Arid Savanna
PLOS One | Davidson et al. 2013
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
Aspects of the ecology and the behaviour of the Leopard Panthera pardus in the Kalahari desert
Koedoe | Bothma & le Riche 1984
Prey Preferences of the Jaguar Panthera onca Reflect the Post-Pleistocene Demise of Large Prey
Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution | Hayward et al. 2016
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/...
Editorial Attribution
Large-eared Pika (Ochotona macrotis) - Vincent Legrand / shutterstock.com
Media Attribution
Unless stated above, all still images are used under license from Shutterstock.com.
Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are additional sources used to create the video.
Siberian Tiger Weight
nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/tiger
Male Lion Weight
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/lion-fact-sheet/
Leopard Weight
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/leopard-fact-sheet/
animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/leopard
Asiatic Wild Ass
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/pe...
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