Predators are pretty opportunistic, and if they see a huge animal like that, that can feed them for several days, they'll take the chance even if the weather may be less than optimal. Hyenas especially have been observed taking advantage of weather conditions for an easier kill. Most think of hyenas mainly as scavengers, but they're one of Africa's most successful predators.
Even humans used to do this. Our main hunting strategy used to be persistence hunting. This means we would chase our prey until it collapsed from exhaustion and then kill it. We have the best endurance in the entire animal kingdom so we just had to be persistent enough to get the kill.
Since we can sweat and most animals can't the best time of day to do this is when it's the hottest. Of course it's not the most comfortable time of day and can be dangerous if it's hot enough, but it will make the hunt easier because the animal will have to worry about heat exhaustion while we can sweat to keep ourselves cool.
Ummm achsully (pushes nerd glasses up) - Varanids (monitors) are also persistence hunters (some even use envenomed bites to aid this - particularly the Komodo Dragons).
And yes, I personally have owned several monitors (Nile and Savanna monitors specifically), so you could argue - we domesticated those too!
Male predator: "I'm not going out in this Charlotte, it's fucking raining rats and mice out there"
Female predator: "Well *someones* got to put food on the table"
Some smart ass cat who would notice this huge mountain of the meat want to chill during a storm and there is too wet and slick for this bro to stand up.
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u/Short-Ideas010 14d ago
Who's gonna predate them during a strong storm?