Dead Baby Lion
Category: Mammals | Date: Mar 30 2009 | By: tumaren
Today Rangers Kichine and Kitilla found the below dead Lion cub stashed in a tree. Lion tracks were all over the base of the tree but it was obvious that no lion would have been able to stow the dead cub way up in the thin branches. The consensus on the ground is that a new Male Lion is in town who killed this young and that in the night a Leopard came to claim the cub and try to stow it for later. Even this seems like abnormal behavior on a Leopard’s part, also quite risky as the lions like this area and would love nothing more than killing a Leopard. Possibly in the middle of the night when the Leopard was feeling more brazen he was able to take the kill when the Lions were sleeping off a bit. Then in the morning when the lions realized what the Leopard intended they slept beneath the tree to prevent his return (there were no Leopard tracks to be seen as they were covered by Lion tracks that flushed just in front of our rangers). I have left the camera trap at the tree for the night to see who returns to the scene of the crime.
Tags: African Lion, Big Cat Conservation, Leo, lion conservation
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7 Responses to “Dead Baby Lion”
Dana-Phoenix Arizona, on 30 Mar 2009
Poor little cub. With the downward decline of the lion population in Kenya, you need as many of these little ones to survive. Rest in peace little Simba!
paula, on 30 Mar 2009
Awwww. poor thing! Why would the rest of the lions be prowling at the base of the tree?
Annie, on 30 Mar 2009
How awful…….that poor little thing! Each one is a precious life lost! RIP
tumaren, on 31 Mar 2009
I imagine that the remainder of the pride caught wind of the fact that the baby had been killed and was stashed in the tree. We think that they wanted to defend the remains.
When we spoke to Kerry’s father last night though he said that the Leopard could easily have killed the young lion if given the right opportunity. Another scenario was that the baby had developed a disease and that he had been abandoned when the Leopard got him.
sauwah, on 01 Apr 2009
maybe as you said the death could have been caused by a new male. has rain in your area lately?
Nature, on 01 Apr 2009
it is actually snowing up here today.. but poor little lion what can we do to prevent this from happening again?
Claudia Williams, on 16 Apr 2009
Poor little guy, Rest in Peace Thank U Cher 4 pointing out this story on care2. Your friend Claudia Williams. Peace & Love 2 U All.
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