Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/18

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Subject: [Leica] lions and elephants
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:32:16 -0800
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On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Sue Pearce wrote:

> Elephants are indeed one of the animals that lions avoid conflict with, 
> but not always. On one of her past safaris, my wife saw the results but 
> not the actual act. There is one pride of lions in far south Africa that 
> habitually kill and eat elephants. It is supposed to be the only known 
> pride that can successfully do this. It requires seventeen (SEVENTEEN!) 
> lions working together, presumably in harmony, to accomplish this. We can 
> guess that they learned this skill over generations, and it is passed down 
> from mother to daughter.

incredible...
non urban legend or reality  ?
I wonder if they do this by default, or they resort to it in dire times,

Steve
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> Bill Pearce 
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