Animal Aggression/Hostility and Animal Behavior

[Intemporal_Reverie]

Have you ever witnessed an animal... attack, maim, or kill another animal in real time? Use this thread to share your personal account of animal aggression and hostility.

I will begin with what I saw about one year ago.

I once witnessed a hawk kill a dove, and at the very same time, the massive hawk was being attacked by two mocking birds. (They orbited the hawk basically screaming) The hawk, was so proudly still standing tall with it's bloodied and broken prey beneath it, and all the while, the mocking birds orbited the massive hawk to little effect. The hawk could not care less, at that moment at least... It was interesting to witness. The hawk eventually abandoned it's prey. I guess because the mocking birds annoyed it to the point where the hawk had little choice but to flee and leave behind it's dead trophy.

Nature will always be beautiful no matter what it does. It's a chaotic beauty and always will be...

 

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What I have seen:
A dog attack a crippled cat that couldn't get up and run away. Carried him about a hundred feet and dropped him. My cat. Got him back.

A pair of coyotes chasing a rodent through the woods. Leaping. Bounding. They looked so playful.

Cats killing mice.

People butchering goats. I didn't watch the shooting part.

When possum got in the chicken coop and was eating a chicken alive (Possums are better scavengers than killers. If you don't move and you're the right size, possum will bite you....to death.) I urged the person with the gun to shoot it twice. I wanted the possum dead, not hurt.