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I will concentrate on the Barioth Subspecies now as I think it has the best possibilities to kill a (Rust) Duramboros:

It's not that the Barioth Subspecies would just jump on it. It attacks from such height that there is a great power behind it. If aimed well it could easily throw a Rust Duramboros on its side and injure it probably quite badly. So it cannot really do something against it as it happens suddenly and be already a few seconds later on the ground.

Yeah, the humps are mostly fat but there is a big blood vessel in each as you can see in the Monster Ecology Books on a certain picture. If the predator can manage to hit one of these blood vessels open there is a great chance of resulting Duramboros' death in blood loss.

When this doesn't get achieved but it still has injured the Rust Duramboros that much that it might bleed to death over time it depends on what the Barioth Subspecies does. Will it stay away or even fly away to observe it and wait for it to die or further attack and risk its life? The first option is surely the safest but also much a game of hazard as it needs to weigh if the injury is fatal or not. The second option is when Rust Duramboros is surely not injured enough or Barioth Subspecies is really starving and sees the last chance in this.

Another option would be fleeing when it failed injuring it and searching another prey. A further one would be pretending to leave and attack some time later again in a hit-and-run manner.

Possibly two or more Barioth Subspecies could team up in a distracting and attack from behind tactic like wolves do but when they fight bears. This would be the easiest way but also very dangerous.

In the end hunting Duramboros would be only an option when food is scarce, the predator is starving or as a smart group hunt. The probability would surely still be low but Barioth Subspecies is for me the best suited monster of hunting on (Rust) Duramboros.