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United Kingdom Spalea Offline
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@Pckts :

About #471: You said: "You've gotten me on an Earless kick @Spalea

I am not sure to understand you well (my english language comprehension level isn't famous). I would be remiss of me if, because of me, you started to denigrate Earless. I don't know this male lion well. I was just, by seeing him on photos, a little bit impressed. IMO, bodily spaking, Earless is among lions a little bit like waghdoh would be among the tigers: a famous representant of the specy. But Earless is a lion, and in this respect, his behaviour can often seem paradoxal, and, - let us say downright ! -, sometimes looks nothing like royalty.

Don't be embarrassed because of me.
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Male lion takes down juvenile rhino. Cannot do a throat kill, starts to eat it alive. Lioness and cub join after.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-w...hino-kill/
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that was brutal to watch but i guess its the law of the jungle, big meal for the family!
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(01-30-2018, 05:03 AM)TheLioness Wrote: Male lion takes down juvenile rhino. Cannot do a throat kill, starts to eat it alive. Lioness and cub join after.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-w...hino-kill/

That rhino was poached prior to this if I remember correctly.
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This is a newer incident 2016, it is believed that it was initially taken down by the lions. Poachers usually kill the rhino once the horn is taken. In the video the horn is still there.
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Which part of the video do you see a horn?

"This particular incident has also received attention for reasons other than the lions' unusual prey choice. Given the scale of South Africa's poaching problem (which has its epicentre in the Kruger park), the event has also sparked questions about what happened to the rhino's horn, given its potential for attracting opportunistic poachers.

While there has been no confirmation on the horn's exact whereabouts, SANParks, the body that manages South Africa's national parks, explains it was likely taken by park staff. "I have no information on this incident," SANParks' William Mabasa told News24. "But [because] it happens to be closer to [a] tourist road, chances are that rangers would have been alerted and they would have removed the horns."   
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Lions have killed rhinos before. This is another case.

Here is the horn.

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Could be it’s lower horn, odd to see the juvenile rhino unable to move with no noticeable wounds to its limbs and a lion licking/eating its face first. The horns were obviously missing at some point as per the account. I’d guess it was shot and the poachers were forced to abandon the dying rhino early due to guard presence. Purely speculation but it’s obvious something is fishy with this account.
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Whatever the case is, there is a horn and I see no bullet wound. I highly doubt it was poachers. We can't see the back end of the rhino, where it could  have been attacked at. The bottom horn is longer than the second horn. Why would a poacher take the smaller one. I'm not sure why you think this lion didn't take down the rhino.
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Here this should clear this up.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=17s&v=Z9xUIDwj3xw

Additionally, we were on an early morning safari drive with Nik from Wildlife Safaris on Tuesday morning, 26 April around
6:30am. We were staying in Skukuza, He had heard from a staff member that there were a few lions around, and unfortunately I
cannot remember exactly where we found them. When we arrived, the lion was busy trying to kill the rhino. We were told that
10 minutes prior, the lion had jumped on the back of the rhino. He continued for about 20 minutes, and just as we were about to leave, the male lion rested and his lady lion and their cub came into the picture. The lioness continued trying to kill
the rhino, with the cub playing around in the background.- video owner - Eric Knopp
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( This post was last modified: 01-30-2018, 09:17 AM by Pckts )

Poachers chain saw entire facial areas, not just one horn at a time, it’s gruesome. My skepticism has to do with the missing horn, odd circumstance and precarious position of the rhino. Poaching is not something taken lightly and cover ups occur albeit they are rare. He also mentions the Rhino May have been injured prior https://africageographic.com/blog/video-...n-a-rhino/

I think you misunderstand my skepticism though, I’m not questioning whether lions are capable of taking Rhino, I’m questioning this one instance of it.
I’m probably just misinterpreting the article...
Let’s leave it at that.
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(01-30-2018, 04:35 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Pckts :

About #471: You said: "You've gotten me on an Earless kick @Spalea

I am not sure to understand you well (my english language comprehension level isn't famous). I would be remiss of me if, because of me, you started to denigrate Earless. I don't know this male lion well. I was just, by seeing him on photos, a little bit impressed. IMO, bodily spaking, Earless is among lions a little bit like waghdoh would be among the tigers: a famous representant of the specy. But Earless is a lion, and in this respect, his behaviour can often seem paradoxal, and, - let us say downright ! -, sometimes looks  nothing like royalty.

Don't be embarrassed because of me.

It just means that you’ve peeked my interest in that particular Lion. I agree with you, he has a charisma about him.
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( This post was last modified: 01-30-2018, 08:54 PM by TheLioness )

I posted the original YouTube video where they said that he attaked it and took it down after a half hour. They say it may have been injured, because lions taking down rhinos are rare. However that's speculation. Let's leave it alone, a male lion took down the rhino, it has it's horns, they aren't missing. They are  wondering what will happen to the horns after the lions are done eating it.

Let's move on shall we.


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