Lion predation on the African Black Rhinoceros

[Spalea]

Approximative translation:

"Does it happens that some lions attack an adult rhino ? Oskar Baumann, explorer who has discovered in the fantastic Ngorongoro crater in 1892, thought that a great male lion he found near a rhino's corpse, had also killed him. But we can also think that the animal was already dead from any other way, and that Simba took over his remains (hide, skin).On the other hand, the sweedish naturalist Wahlberg has effectively seen an attack of a rhino by several lions. The fight was terrible and the big beast was finally killed by the big cats. A Wahlberg's compatriot ,C.J. Anderson shooted at a rhino: a couple of lions attacked him immediately; despite his serious wounds, he succeeded getting rid of felids, but was killed next morningby the hunter.

A fight between two male lions and an almost adult rhino has recently occured in the immediate vicinity of the Old Tukailodge in the Amboseli park.The keeper, the major W.H.M Taberer, knew this rhino very well and believed that he got on with the pride of lions, which inhabited his territory, very well. Moreover, sometimes he saw him litteraly surrounded by the big cats, near a water source. In Npvember 1937, during a period when the Old Tukai district was very low in prey, Taberer heard an acute groan. Gone with his land rover, their headlights revealed/showed him a nightmare scene: the poor rhino of the lodge had been litterally throwed by two male lions which, lying on him, "searched through" him with their teeth and claws. The major managed to hunt the two crooks, but had to admit that he was unable to do something for the rhino. One of his front paw was broken and he had nothing to do but putting an end to his suffering by killing him. Tomorrow morning, the whole pride gathered together around the corpse. For once, the male lions, usually so lazy, have got a good meal for the lionesses and cubs."

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