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A dramatic lion kill
Posted on 4 August, 2014 by Guest Blogger  in Animal Encounters
Posted: August 4, 2014
 
Written by: Claudia Hopf
When I was recently in Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve I was lucky to see a lion kill, close up and from the very start.
We came upon a pride of lions sitting under a tree; there were four adult lionesses with eight youngsters. They started to get up and move in the direction of a buffalo herd.

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However the buffaloes stood strong like a wall and the one lion jumped up on a tree as if to distract them.

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While the buffalo were distracted the other lions found a weak buffalo and started to bite at its legs while one lion jumped at its neck.

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I will never forget the cry of the buffalo and the fierceness of the lions as both animals were intertwined in a life and death struggle.

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Eventually the buffalo fell down and the lions all quickly descended on it, bringing a quick death.

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Exhausted the lions lay down to enjoy their meal and after “dinner” they lay around, barely moving with their full stomachs.

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The next day the male lions had arrived to finish off what was left of the carcass and one female nursed the wounds that she herself had got from the ordeal.

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