A bit less than two years ago we published a video of a lion kill on our reserve that we were lucky enough to get brilliant footage of. Well, that video kind of went viral! Of all our videos posted on Youtube, this one turned out to be by far the most successful. About 100-200 people see the video on a daily basis, on average, so that’s brilliant stuff.
The video has now been seen by 100,000 people! New record! For all those who haven’t seen this spectacular lion kill yet, here it is:
What is unusual here is that it is the male lion teaching the youngsters how to hunt. That is not really observed in nature, so this male lion has a very soft side to himself. He always was (and still is), very close to his offspring. Maybe it is because he was still very young as a father, or maybe it is because he doesn’t have too much competition. And another fact: dad taught them well, the two girls that are fully grown now, have become prolific warthog hunters. It is their favorite thing, still now.
That said, we have also seen giraffes killed by them, so their range of hunting and killing skills is very, very wide.
