Lion Eats Camera Trap
Category: Mammals | Date: Oct 14 2009 | By: tumaren
When Tumaren Rangers, Nuno, longamon and Kichine heard that 8 of the neighbors cows had been killed by lions after they had been left out for the night, they rushed to the scene to place a cameratrap on the carcasses. When they returned in the morning they could see by the tracks that a Lion had returned and fed then paced all about where the cameratrap had been. Yet, tho and behold, the cameratrap was gone! They suspected foul play but could see no sign of human tracks. They decided to follow the lionesses tracks instead. Over the course of half a kilometer they followed her tracks until they came upon the rather bruised camertrap with a whole through its glass. The lioness at this point let out a growl from adjacent bush and the Rangers left. Later ranger Kichine while walking in the same area found why this lioness has been so faithful to this little patch of bush - she has 3 kittens! We have spoken now to all our rangers, congratulating them firstly on their discovery and asking them to leave this area alone for several more months until our lioness and her young move on. The following is a picture of mumma lioness minutes before she took the camera and then a picture of the camera itself with bite marks and a damaged glass.
Tags: African Lion, laikipia conservation, Lion, lion conservation
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4 Responses to “Lion Eats Camera Trap”
Pirjo,Finland, on 14 Oct 2009
Are you able to fix the cameratrap or did the lioness finish it for good? Lions seem to be very curious about cameras, because I remember hearing these kind of things happening also before.
Alayne Cotterill, on 17 Oct 2009
Curiosity kills the camera trap not the cat! Are the livestock losses to lions common next to you? How regularly do you get to hear about them?
See you soon,
Alayne.
sauwah, on 18 Nov 2009
why did the owners of the cows let their precious cows be out at night on their own? they were asking for it as they say. faults belong to the people instead of the lions or the lioness. how can a meat eater resist moving meals go by. I sure hope the rangers did gave the owners some stern leisure and gave them ways to prevent further loss on both lions and livestock. and please keep track of this mother lioness and cubs and update us.
tumaren, on 19 Nov 2009
Sauwah,
I can’t honestly remember why the neighbors had so many cows out for the night. Often times the lions here will charge the boma (enclosure) where the livestock sleeps. They will try to get the animals to stampede out into the night where they will fall easy prey. Camels usually resist the temptation to run but cows will often jump the fence and take off in many different directions. I imagine that this is what happened.
cheers, james
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