Nat Geo Lions
Now one might ask himself what National Geographic lions are, so let me explain. In general lions sleep for an average of between 20 and 22 hours a day. But if you watch National Geographic it looks like all they do the whole day and night is hunt. This morning we almost had that!
Leonard and I had a group that really wanted to see some lions up close, so naturally when one of the other rangers found three lionesses we responded. The sighting was absolutely brilliant, they were right next to the road in an area where the grass was burnt away completely with nice green shoots starting to pop out. They came out and walk down the road, then one saw a warthog running across the road and set after it.
She eventually ended up chasing it across the road right in front of us, the second female chasing close behind. As is more common with lions than any other big predator, they missed. Then the one behind us started chasing a wildebeest, but she also missed. Then crazy enough another ranger found two more wildebeest further up the road stalking wildebeest. There was so much going on that no-one actually knew where to go! Eventually one of the wildebeest thought something out of place and gave an alarm call, which of course got all the wildebeests’ attention, enabling them to escape the stalking lionesses.
We spent a good hour and a half in the sighting, unfortunately without seeing a kill, but we still got a lot of excitement and a sighting that none of us will forget soon.
Ranger Neill
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