[KMag]

Giraffes can kick lions hard enough to kill them, or at least injure them enough to prevent lions from returning to effective hunting before starving to death.

In my very limited experience (4 or 5 day safari in Kruger), Giraffes are pretty shy, but you really want to avoid startling them or otherwise putting them in a situation where they feel a need to defend themselves or their young.

[lumberingjack]

Yeah but everyone thinks that lions are badass but they fail like 77% of their hunts so they're more like huge failures.

[dotancohen]

To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, but I fail much more than 77% of the time. Probably most men do.

[KMag]

> To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat,

Well, you don't know what you're missing, and it might be part of your problem. Just say'n.

[dotancohen]

:)

[OJFord]

But perhaps not when we actually depended on it, and had all the practice/experience that goes with that.

[inglor_cz]

You are also probably hunting alone. Lions cooperate.

[dotancohen]

Do you have plans for this evening?

[inglor_cz]

Too hot here right now.

Funnily enough, I am a Leo.

[ashtonkem]

That’s a pretty ridiculous way to measure predator success. Hunting is a high risk high reward endeavor; a predator can fail to kill in most hunts and still be a very successful species.

For the record, it’s estimated that American deer hunters have a success rate between 6-13%, depending on the method and state. So lions are apparently more consistently successful hunters than humans with guns.