On one of the old versions of this website, there was a page with the title „Lions Fight”. Even today there are still people visiting that page. Reason for me now to incorporate this topic in this blog. Quite some time ago, in 2005, I was on safari in the South African Kruger Park. We then experienced the probably most spectacular event of our lives: two groups of lions fighting for a dead giraffe. I took some pictures (with my first SLR-camera, I now wish I had had the one I have now), but my then thirteen year old daughter managed to make a short movie with a small point and shoot camera (in our car there was a man with a high quality video camera. Just five minutes before the thrilling lions fight, he ran out of power … lesson for everybody, always carry enough spare batteries!). The movie was put on YouTube, and is now approaching a milestone: almost 100.000 views. This is the movie, when you click on „read more”, you’ll see the pictures.



1. Lion eating, lioness on guard



2. Eating makes thirsty



3. Resting after the meal




3. These girls did not belong to the group



4. but they nevertheless tried to invite themselves for a meal



5. When they came too close, it seemed that almost from behind every tree a lion jumped in to defend the prey, it must have been twenty of them



6. The intruders had no alternative but running away

Tags: wildlife, lion, fight