I believe African painted dogs have the highest hunting success rate on the continent. They’re dogged Pursuits of their prey, not unlike how humans used to hunt, is unmatched by any other wild animal in Africa. I think, actually that tiny little cat, the smallest cat in the world that lives in Africa, that actually has a higher rate now that I think about it it’s like 90% or something crazy.
I’ve seen posts on both of those pop up this month. The painted dogs in the story i mentioned, and i think some center or zoo was promoting the birth of the killer cat, the black-footed cat, though googling it, that’s a 60% success rate. Checking for owls, the 2 studies that popped up first has Snowies around 50% and Screech Owls at 56% on vertabrates and 83% on invertebrates. Take that, black-footed land owl.
I forget if I’ve seen the black-footed cat, but I have seen the dogs a few times. I’m a fan.
I was jogging once, young deerflies were following me, landing on my head constantly, forgot a hat. For like 4 miles, just constant, until I passed a pond, and the dragonflies came out, zipped around me, no more flies.
They are really cool, unfortunately, their whatchacallit, life in the water, they target tadpoles too, which themselves are the greatest destroyer of parasitic insect larvae. They are malicious looking too, they’ve a spear of sorts they impale their victims on. Cool to watch if a bit macabre.
They don’t follow their prey, they anticipate their movements, which is singular as far as we know. Their flying ability is second to none, and their vision incredible, they’ve way more eyes than flies and the like which have hundreds, I forget.
Their sex is weird, they join and fuck in the air. A male that finds a female already fucked will grab her, it has a scoop it uses to remove the semen of the previous male, and then mates, in the air, can’t recall the name for it at the moment.
I believe African painted dogs have the highest hunting success rate on the continent. They’re dogged Pursuits of their prey, not unlike how humans used to hunt, is unmatched by any other wild animal in Africa. I think, actually that tiny little cat, the smallest cat in the world that lives in Africa, that actually has a higher rate now that I think about it it’s like 90% or something crazy.
I’ve seen posts on both of those pop up this month. The painted dogs in the story i mentioned, and i think some center or zoo was promoting the birth of the killer cat, the black-footed cat, though googling it, that’s a 60% success rate. Checking for owls, the 2 studies that popped up first has Snowies around 50% and Screech Owls at 56% on vertabrates and 83% on invertebrates. Take that, black-footed land owl.
I forget if I’ve seen the black-footed cat, but I have seen the dogs a few times. I’m a fan.
Dragonflies are the highest success rate in the animal Kingdom at 95%.
I always forget about them! Go, dragonflies!
I was jogging once, young deerflies were following me, landing on my head constantly, forgot a hat. For like 4 miles, just constant, until I passed a pond, and the dragonflies came out, zipped around me, no more flies.
They are really cool, unfortunately, their whatchacallit, life in the water, they target tadpoles too, which themselves are the greatest destroyer of parasitic insect larvae. They are malicious looking too, they’ve a spear of sorts they impale their victims on. Cool to watch if a bit macabre.
Sounds like I need to do some more learning on dragonflies… 🤔
They don’t follow their prey, they anticipate their movements, which is singular as far as we know. Their flying ability is second to none, and their vision incredible, they’ve way more eyes than flies and the like which have hundreds, I forget.
Their sex is weird, they join and fuck in the air. A male that finds a female already fucked will grab her, it has a scoop it uses to remove the semen of the previous male, and then mates, in the air, can’t recall the name for it at the moment.
Wow, they know how to live a wild and crazy life! I know they can play dead if they don’t want to mate.