Lioness out of action, cubs play: Video
Published by Wildcaster 9 months, 3 weeks ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, conservation, documentary, ecotraining, education, eland, endangered species, experience, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, hunting, IUCN Red List, lions, malilangwe, mashable, narrowcasting, night, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photos, podcasting, predators, teach, video, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, zimbabwe..Manyari’s injuries look worse by the day.
I’ve underestimated the extent of Manyari’s injuries. Each day when I get back and look at the footage I’ve shot I get a closer look at her injuries and I get to see it from many different angles. And everyday the extent of the injury looks worse. She’s not only lost a lot of muscle on her chest but that which is left is sliced through the middle.
Is this what is causing her all the pain? Or have her ribs or internal organs been damaged?
My feelings of her surviving seem to change every day. One day I’m confident she’s going to make it and the next day I’m just not sure. And right now my feelings aren’t very good.
She spent the whole night resting where we’d left her in the morning. Her cubs spent the night with her again. Soon they were entertaining themselves playing and chewing on twigs. Although they are good hunters and often help in bringing down prey they still haven’t got what it takes to lead a hunt and the courage to follow through with the attack. They need guidance, and for some time to come, they’re not going to get it from their mother.
The site they chose to spend the night was right on the ‘highway’ leading to Lojaan dam. Not a good plan as right through the night they, and us, were hassled by herds of elephant and a black rhino cow and calf. She was keen to charge not knowing which way was the best way out of there. Luckily she found the right gap and they disappeared.
It was only at sunrise that Manyari very slowly got on the move. Her cubs followed as she moved north east deeper into the hills where she ended up resting atop.
Mandlovu and the herd made their appearance moving through the hills too but they soon lost me when I wasn’t able to traverse an almost sheer cliff they descended down.
Yesterday was another of management burns some of which carried on into the night providing us with our own fireworks entertainment.
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Sure hate to see her in such pain and slowly starving. She needs to have the wounds sutured and antibiotics as well as a good meal. I am sure other lions have had massive injuries since time began, but it is hard to see it here in real time. Hate to see animals suffer.
so sad to see the lioness in so much pain, will the cubs try to hunt for themselves? and what will she eat if she cant hunt
Once she joins up with the pride they’ll be hunting and she can feed with them. She’s now walking okay that she could keep up with the pride when she finds them.