或许会有人觉得楼上这些新闻性质的记录说服力还欠佳,好,那么接下来来看科考记录和一些专家对待斑鬣狗和豹子的看法。
卢克亨特的The Quintessential Cat
Other carnivores are also fair game to leopards. While lions may invest a great deal of energy in killing fellow predators, their motivation seems more to eliminate competition than to acquire food, and they frequently leave such kills untouched. Leopards, however, have been recorded killing and eating everything from dwarf mongooses to adult spotted hyaenas. One well-observed Ngorongoro Crater leopard killed and ate 11 jackals in less than a month, which suggests that small canids may be preferred prey when abundant, and there is considerable truth in the belief that leopards are partial to dogs. Such unusual preferences may vary from region to region. In arid north-eastern Namibia, researcher Flip Stander discovered adult cheetahs were sometimes killed as prey by leopards, a remarkable occurrence also recently observed by tourists in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa. Yet in the comparitively lush bushveld of northern KwaZulu-Natal, I saw three cases of leopards killing cheetahs and leaving the carcasses untouched. Perhaps where the density of more 'typical' prey species is low - such as in desert regions - leopards cannot afford to be choosy and are more likely to eat the meat of other predators.
这里提到了豹子会杀死而且吃掉成年斑鬣狗。而且说狮子对和豹子对待其他掠食者的态度非常不同。狮子似乎只是消除竞争对手,很少去吃那些其他食肉动物,而豹子的心思并不是这么单纯。