Lions botch the hunt: Video
Published by Wildcaster 1 year, 11 months ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, conservation, documentary, ecotraining, education, experience, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, hunting, lions, malilangwe, marabou stork, mashable, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photos, podcasting, polls, predators, teach, video, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, youtube, zimbabwe.Thank goodness lions find it difficult to coordinate their hunts. Otherwise they would have wiped out every prey species that dared venture into their territory. But thankfully they so often just don’t get it right.
A sudden storm hit us at midday as the heavens opened and for 20 minutes it poured. Just as soon as it arrived, it was gone.
The cool weather after the rain had the lions hunting in the early afternoon.
One lioness was really keen and seeing a small herd of zebra on Banyini open area, homed in on them. The rest of the pride hung back a little and Nduna, the pride male, bided his time waiting for the girls to bring home dinner.
And then somewhere along the line, the 3 year old male lost himself in all the goings on.
Just when the female was closing in on the zebra, this male came strolling across the open area calling and looking for the pride.
Well that sent the alarm calls flying all across Banyini and every animal across the open area was fully aware of the lions and their intentions. Their cover was blown and the hunt abandoned.
The lions regrouped and spent the rest of the day lying up at Banyini pan, back into their lethargic state.
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i see on this wildcast that the young male ruined the hunt. at what age do the males learn to be sansitive about what they do on the hunt? and when they are forced to leave the pride do they become efficient at all when it comes to hunting?
Yeah when are the young males kicked out of the pride? Or arent they? Isnt it just like the males to sit back and let the ladies do all the work! And then instead of working with the system they not only dont help but the work against the system!! Oh for the males! Too bad we need them around, LOL.
When male lions are kicked out the pride by the dominant pride males, anywhere from 3 to 4 years, they have to hunt for themselves and do become very proficient hunters. They may join other nomadic males and together they are very successful. but it’s not just the males or even young lions that botch up the hunt. They all seem to be quite good at it. Especially when they split up when hunting and then trying to find the others. Then not realising at the time that the others are still hunting.
Hey Paige. What would you do without them males around?? Of course we’re needed.
Oh Kim of course we need you guys!!! :>) And we want you to, most of the time!! Most of you feel the same way about us as well right? Again just having a little fun! Woman are just as guilty we just dont ususlly admit it. Especially to the men. You just need to post the other half causing the problem so the men get their fair share to make fun of us! LOL!!! Do you start the night shooting this week? And will we see any night videos? Have a great week!
Cheers, Paige
PS whens your next trip to the states?
Kim I posted before I read the lasted video post. How has the night filming been going? Is it alot harder or is it just another phase in the process? Oh those yougsters! What next! LOL!
Cheers
Awesome footage, thanks for sharing, Have the lions gotten use to you or are you more further back than we see, you look very close, especially with the older male. That was awesome footage
… and the young lion says, “Good grief Kim! I’m just a kid. Did you have to show the whole world that I screwed up? I feel like the football player who carried the ball into the opponent’s end zone.”
The lions are already fairly relaxed around the vehicle AND I’ve got a BIG lens. All helps. But when we start working with them full time on the hunt at night they’ll get so much more relaxed.
We haven’t started filming at night as Barend isn’t back. He had vehicle problems but should be back soon. I’ve filmed at night for 18 years, so very used to it and find it at times easier as I have light where, when and how i want it. I’m not dependent on the weather for good light. I will be posting videos from our nightly escapades.