Lions of Timbavati

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(02-04-2016, 11:46 PM)LionKiss Wrote: @Apollo,
how can a private reserve feed lions more than they can take from the wild by hunting?
make hunting for them easier by killing buffalos and have the meal ready for the lions?

He is saying that the reserve attracts visitors by saying "our lions are the largest" which is what the tour guide said, but you hear that from lots of places, India and Africa included. I'm numb to a photographer or guide saying this location or that location has the largest cats they have seen. The fact is, unless you have gone throughout africa and india, seen tons of cats from all areas, you can't say that. And even if you have, its so hard to tell the difference between a 200kg cat or a 250kg cat and so on that its purely speculation until you put them on a scale or you take down their measurements.

Remember, a wild lion goes through the struggles of being "wild"
prey migrates in and out, droughts and storms, etc. There is a reason why mortality rate in the wild is soo high for any big cat.
I don't think a private reserve offers easier "killing" but what it will do is offer protection to the cat and the prey the cat hunts, in turn, it allows these animals to still show their true capabilities. The struggle is making the corridors from reserve to reserve protected so that the bloodline doesn't get muddied and new individuals are allowed to set up territories elsewhere and disperse their genes. Reply