Aged Beef......

[Brent Sinclair]

This is one of our collared females scavenging on an old deer quarter used for bait to capture wolverine photos on a remote camera that is also in our study area.
We caught a young male about 12 miles form this old female and it was scavenging on a dead yearling herford carcass that the landowner hauled off to shoot wolves off of....the young male returned to the carcass 9 days after we treed and collared him... We will be able to look at every site these two lions have over the next 2 years...a good bit of information on how much they really scavenge.
There is plenty for them to kill, deer, elk,moose, small game of all sorts and plenty of it.
Some of my big toms I have caught were started form a carcass where the land owner called me after he saw the cat feeding on it.

I think lions scavenge when ever the opportunity is there for a free meal....
Good Hunting

[Azlongears]

That is one STOUT looking female!!! She would scare off most toms down here in the desert!! ha ha. Cool pic!!

[nmplott]

I think lions scavenge when ever the opportunity is there for a free meal....
Good Hunting

Sounds like some friends of mine

[sourdough]

Carrion is the term used for the meat that the animal eat when scavenging. I have been able to successfully train pups off of dead animals that a few lions frequented (did they kill the animal or scavenge not sure) but I have never seen a bobcat scavenge.

Bobcats scavenge as well; I have seen more cases of bobcats claiming dead animals that they have not killed than the number of animals I have seen lions claim. I think that it is because a lion is able to get off with the animal and hide it, as the bobcat is unable to. I have seen animals covered that looked to be the work of a lion but end up being bobcat I have seen several road-killed deer covered on the roadside. I have found domestic sheep that had just died completely covered and I also witnessed a bobcat scavenging off a coyote carcass so they do scavenge as I believe all wild predatory animals do a free meal is a free meal.

sourdough

[nmplott]

I did not say they didn't just never seen it. I would have loved to see it, to understand more on the bobcat

[houndnem]

I scared a lion off a kill that it had just made while coyote hunting. of coarse I had no dogs with me and it was late afternoon. I came back at first light dumped the dogs and within minutes had a tree. I was very surprised to see it was a tom bobcat and not the lion that I scared off. that lion never came back, but I scored a hell of a big bobcat off his kill.