Trapped Coyote Is Eaten By Mountain Lion

One of my trapping friends shared these photos with me from last week. In an area where he has had good success trapping coyotes on private land to keep them out of livestock, he came upon this scene:

Looks like the coyote literally ripped off its own leg . . . . maybe. Because as he approaches the body, my friend sees this:

The coyote has been eaten, and judging by the tracks, it was a mountain lion! So did the coyote ripped its leg off, and THEN get eaten by the lion? Or was this just the scene of one helluva violent struggle?

A return to the site the following day shows that the lion came back to finish the job, and now the hunt is on for the lion . . . .

Happy Hunting!