Figure 1.
Variation in selectivity (Jacobs' index) for encounters with moving lions, hunts by lions, and kills by lions for the eight most abundant potential prey species in Addo Elephant National Park from December 2003 until November 2005.
Overall Jacobs' index values for each species come from the published literature [1]. Jacobs' index values for each species in Addo were calculated using the mean abundance and total number of kills recorded.
Figure 2.
Hunting success (number of kills observed divided by the total number of hunts observed) of lions in Addo Elephant National Park overall, and for the four species that were most frequently observed being hunted.
Table 1.
Summary of the response of lions to each facet of the predatory behavioural sequence for preferred, non-preferred and avoided prey in Addo Elephant National Park.