Comments by "Sam O" (@samo6083) on "Latest Sightings" channel.

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  3.  @broadbandislife  Yh I can't find the source, it's been a while since I seen it and plus YouTube deletes links anyways. But I'll explain it. There was a place in Africa that had wild dogs eradicated during the civil war and the only major predator left were lions. The effects were terrible for the environment. The prey species had lost their fear even with the lions there. The explanation from the researchers were that the prey would just avoid heavy covered areas to avoid lions and even if they didn't with around a 30% success rate the prey usually has the advantage anyways. So essentially the prey losing their fear means they roam into human areas, overgraze and stay in one area for too long meaning the land cannot recover properly. To solve the problem they brought the dogs in and seen an immediate change in their behaviour. The overgrazing stopped because the herds were constantly on the move to get away from the dogs. Dogs are nomadic meaning they have no set home and constantly go after the prey herds whereas lions just sit and wait. Another reason for the added fear was with lions you just avoid long grass or stay in the open where you can spot them. With dogs it doesn't matter if you spot them first or not, they'll run you down. Also with an almost 100% success rate, the fact they hunt twice a day (some three times) it all means the pack is killing much more and with great efficency. They say impala usually make sounds to alert the heard when they see predators but with dogs they don't do this, they just run when they see dogs due to extreme fear and self-preservation. So their natural behaviour came back with the return of the dogs
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  8.  @broadbandislife  Below are two studies, the researchers who studied it and what year they studied it. The numbers there can't and have never been achieved by any other large predator in Africa under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES... I gave 2 sources that done their studies 18 years apart, which automatically trumps your single Wikipedia source who you haven't stated who did the studies and when 😂😂😂😂 but even if you cab provide that Information that's one source vs my 2 making my points more credible😏 "the dogs captured at least one prey animal on 92 \%of 24 morn ing hunts and 81% of 16 evening hunts, or 88% of hunts overall (Fuller and Kat, 1990)." "Schaller (1972) reported that 95% of 65 morning hunts and 81% of 47 evening hunts, or 89% of hunts overall, were successful." Now below is a person who studied the pack sizes and their effects on their hunting success rate. The more dogs were in the pack the higher succes rate. FitzGibbon (1993) observed hunting groups of 1-3 dogs (success 24%), 4 dogs (73%), As we know they are endangered and pack sizes are at an all time low compared to 2 centuries ago when their pack size were 300+ . The rest of the predators cant even match their succes at their lowest point 😂😂😂😂So their succes rate is the highest on the savanna at their weakest state, that's food for thought. So this whole thing of their kills being taken is only a recent phenomenon due to humans weakening their true power. No animal is pushing 300 dogs of a kill, lions and hyenas would've been subordinates to packs of that size 🙃
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