Tortoise baffles lions: Video
Published by Wildcaster 9 months, 2 weeks ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, bush knowledge, conservation, documentary, ecotraining, education, experience, experience adventure, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, kill, lions, malilangwe, mashable, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photos, podcasting, predators, teach, video, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, youtube, zimbabwe.New Years day. Hmmm…..not much happened today. I worked on recovering.
It was only shortly before sunset that I got out with the girls and even that didn’t last as Lindy soon got us stuck in some heavy mud. While she wandered around looking for logs to put under the tyres I was hard at work digging us out.
We were just out in time to watch the most beautiful sunset of the year! Bandam pan.
This clip of the lions trying their luck with the tortoise was from yesterday. Finding the lions early in the afternoon they were chewing on this tortoise and continued to do so for several hours with little success.
They just can’t open their jaws wide enough. Also the shell being hard, rounded and smooth meant they just couldn’t get any traction on it as they took turns trying their luck. Eventually they gave up leaving the tortoise with a gaping hole in its shell but with all its organs still in tact. So there is a chance it could survive.
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Hi Kim,
Wow! Was amazed tortoise didn’t have some punctures too. You say you’ve seen them survive with holes in their shell, does the shell grow back any?
b.
Hi Kim,
The turtle must have given the lions a good jaw workout!
I am also interested to find out about the shell, I guess as long as no foreign things land inside and no sunlight or water filters in, it should be fine? Although that could prove unavoidable……Please correct my theory.
Cheers!
Ivanova
The shell i had seen had grown over.